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Until recently I was active in Seattle with the Green Party at the local, state, and national levels. Since 1999 I have served as treasurer of ten electoral campaigns, including two for U.S. Senate and one for Congress.
(30 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 30, 2011 The Time to Challenge the Two-Party System
What is needed is a national progressive electoral organization. We therefore call for running a progressive candidate of national stature in next year's Presidential election. This campaign is to run to the end regardless of the effect that it may have on Obama's re-election chances, and it will draw together electoral activists who have finally rejected the Democratic Party as a meaningful "lesser-of-evils" alternative.