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The Green Party of Minnesota hosted a Green Party Presidential Forum on Saturday January 5 in Minneapolis. [46] It was followed by a January 13 presidential debate in San Francisco, co-sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County, the San Francisco Green Party and the National Delegates Committee of the Green Party of California. [47]
The Green Party's membership encompasses the fourth-highest percentage of registered voters in the United States, with a total membership of 234,120. [58] The Green Party has its strongest popular support on the Pacific Coast, Upper Great Lakes, and Northeast, as reflected in the geographical distribution of Green candidates elected. [59]
The Green Party has been active as a third party since the 1980s. The party first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's second presidential run in 2000. Currently, the primary national Green Party organization in the U.S. is the Green Party of the United States, which split from and eclipsed the earlier Greens/Green Party USA.
2018 • Shane Robinson (Maryland) – November 2018, changed party to Green 2017 • Henry John Bear (Maine) – November 2017, changed party to Green 2017 • Ralph Chapman (Maine) – September 2017, changed party to Green 2012 • Fred Smith (Arkansas) – November 2012, elected, general election
Splits from: Socialist Party of America: 1917 1910s Labor Party of the United States: Social democracy [107] Merged into: Farmer–Labor Party: 1919 1920 Proletarian Party of America: Communism [108] Splits from: Socialist Party of America: 1920 1971 Workers Party of America: Communist Party USA: Marxism–Leninism: 1921 1929 American Party ...
Just days before the state board of elections voted on certifying the Green Party, a Democratic law firm submitted several complaints requesting that nearly 400 signatures be deemed invalid.
The new party is being formed by a merger of three political groups that have emerged in recent years as a reaction to America's increasingly polarized and gridlocked political system.
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...