TEXAS 2020 GREEN RESULTS
The State of Texas has nearly finished counting votes in the 2020 general election. There may be some mail-in results yet to be tallied. As of Saturday 7 November, here are the numbers for the eight Greens on Texas ballots:
President/VP, Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker: 33,109, 0.29% in Texas; 331,512, 0.23% nationwide
US Senate, David B. Collins: 81,079, 0.73%
Railroad Commissioner, kat gruene: 128,471, 1.18%
US House 21, Tommy Wakely: 3,517, 0.78%
US House 36, Hal J. RIdley, Jr.: 1,559, 0.52%
State Senate 26, Julián Villarreal: 49,202, 19.97%
State House 92, Brody-Andrew Mulligan: 1,493, 1.94%
State House 119, Antonio Padrón: 809, 1.35%
Arlington City Council District 7, Hunter Crow, 14,955, 14.81%
Full disclosure:
2020 GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
Thank you, delegates to the Green Party of Texas convention, for confirming my nomination on 18 April. This nomination comes with a major asterisk: I submitted my application to run without the $5,000 filing fee (or 5,000 signatures in lieu thereof). A federal lawsuit currently pending may overturn the new filing fee provision. On 15 September 2020, the State Supreme Court reversed an Appeals Court ruling that had knocked a few of our candidates off the ballot. As of now, Tom, kat, and I are back in the running!
I was also the GPTX nominee for US Senate in 2012 and the Harris County Greens' nominee for County Judge in 2014. More importantly, over the past 30-plus years, I have participated in various activities with dozens of groups established to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and environmentally sound policies. Most of my activist work has been within the Green Parties of Texas and Harris County. Currently, I am serving as co-chair of a new organization, Green Party Houston, which focuses on spreading the Green Movement throughout the Houston metropolitan area.
As a practicing Green, I am painfully aware that these ideals of peace, justice, and ecology are connected. We need an intersectional, big-picture approach to retool our society to serve actual humans, not corporate "persons."
The Preamble to the Constitution implies that our government's main purpose is to protect the People from stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, the forces of stupidity and greed have bought the government, and they will not allow our elected representatives to legislate them back into Pandora's box. Perpetual war, gross social injustices, and fossil fuel foolishness continue because they are profitable for the wealthiest 1%. The only way restore power to the People is through revolution, preferably by nonviolent means.
The State of Texas has nearly finished counting votes in the 2020 general election. There may be some mail-in results yet to be tallied. As of Saturday 7 November, here are the numbers for the eight Greens on Texas ballots:
President/VP, Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker: 33,109, 0.29% in Texas; 331,512, 0.23% nationwide
US Senate, David B. Collins: 81,079, 0.73%
Railroad Commissioner, kat gruene: 128,471, 1.18%
US House 21, Tommy Wakely: 3,517, 0.78%
US House 36, Hal J. RIdley, Jr.: 1,559, 0.52%
State Senate 26, Julián Villarreal: 49,202, 19.97%
State House 92, Brody-Andrew Mulligan: 1,493, 1.94%
State House 119, Antonio Padrón: 809, 1.35%
Arlington City Council District 7, Hunter Crow, 14,955, 14.81%
Full disclosure:
- Julián's race had just two candidates, the other being Democratic incumbent José Menéndez.
- Hunter's race in Arlington was a nonpartisan municipal election, as are all municipal elections in Texas (officially).
- The Green candidates did not campaign much this year, mostly because only two of us submitted the filing fees or petition signatures imposed under 2019's HB 2504. COVID-19 also limited our ability to make public appearances. Our presence on the ballot was not assured until 15 September, when the Texas Supreme Court overturned a state appeal court's verdict and found the filing fee provision vague and unenforceable.
2020 GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
Thank you, delegates to the Green Party of Texas convention, for confirming my nomination on 18 April. This nomination comes with a major asterisk: I submitted my application to run without the $5,000 filing fee (or 5,000 signatures in lieu thereof). A federal lawsuit currently pending may overturn the new filing fee provision. On 15 September 2020, the State Supreme Court reversed an Appeals Court ruling that had knocked a few of our candidates off the ballot. As of now, Tom, kat, and I are back in the running!
I was also the GPTX nominee for US Senate in 2012 and the Harris County Greens' nominee for County Judge in 2014. More importantly, over the past 30-plus years, I have participated in various activities with dozens of groups established to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and environmentally sound policies. Most of my activist work has been within the Green Parties of Texas and Harris County. Currently, I am serving as co-chair of a new organization, Green Party Houston, which focuses on spreading the Green Movement throughout the Houston metropolitan area.
As a practicing Green, I am painfully aware that these ideals of peace, justice, and ecology are connected. We need an intersectional, big-picture approach to retool our society to serve actual humans, not corporate "persons."
The Preamble to the Constitution implies that our government's main purpose is to protect the People from stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, the forces of stupidity and greed have bought the government, and they will not allow our elected representatives to legislate them back into Pandora's box. Perpetual war, gross social injustices, and fossil fuel foolishness continue because they are profitable for the wealthiest 1%. The only way restore power to the People is through revolution, preferably by nonviolent means.
AUTHOR
...of three novels: Eastern Daylight—1997, in its original format, as a free online novel! You can also download each chapter as a separate PDF.
Most of the productive or meaningful writing I have done since 2015 has been in my blog.
...of three novels: Eastern Daylight—1997, in its original format, as a free online novel! You can also download each chapter as a separate PDF.
Most of the productive or meaningful writing I have done since 2015 has been in my blog.