GREEN PARTY IS THE ONLY GROWING POLITICAL PARTY
For immediate release
Tuesday, January 6, 2003
Contacts: Orval Osborne, SLO GREEN Party, 545-9838,
oosborne@fix.net
GREEN PARTY IS THE ONLY GROWING POLITICAL PARTY
SLO County statistics show that the GREEN party
is the only political party to gain registered voters. According
to the election office the local GREENS have grown to 2,527, up
65% since the first Nader campaign in 1996.
The non-partisan Ballot Access News confirms this
trend to be true nationally as well. All other parties lost members
over the last two years, ranging from an 18% loss for the Reform
Party to a small .03% loss for the Republican Party. By contrast,
the GREEN Party gained a whopping 27.7% in the same time period
nationwide. The only other registration category to gain was unaffiliated
voters, or "Decline to state", which grew by 6.7%.
"These statistics show that among political
parties, only the Green Party speaks to the great disaffection
that so many Americans have with big money politics as usual,"
said U.S. Green Party Political Coordinator Dean Myerson. "While
disenchantment and cynicism drive citizens to the unaffiliated
category or even out of the voting booth, only the Green Party
is flourishing."
Since the 2000 election, the Green Party has been
recognized by the Federal Election Commission as a National Committee,
it's highest level of recognition. Last year the party ran nearly
500 candidates nation-wide, almost twice its previous high. These
include 15 candidates for governor and many more for House, Senate,
State legislatures, and over 200 for local office.
The Green Party of the United States presently
has 152 of its members in local offices around the country. Here,
Greens have been elected to the City Councils of Morro Bay and
San Luis Obispo, and appointed to the Planning Commissions of
the County, San Luis Obispo, and Arroyo Grande.
SLO Green Party
P.O. Box 13244
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
To contact the SLO GREEN Party: 805/545-9838 or
visit http://slo.greens.org/
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