2022 Green Convention Info

Harris County Greenfolk and other Progressives who have given up on the Partisan Duopoly:

Please clear your busy social calendars to make room for these important upcoming events:

• Tuesday 8 March, 7-9 pm: Harris County Consolidated Precinct Green Conventions, La Granja Disco y Cantina, 5505 Pinemont Dr. (just east of Antoine Dr. in the Near Northwest)
• Saturday 12 March, 3 pm: Harris County Green Convention, same location
• Saturday 9 April, all day: Green Party of Texas Convention, Kyle TX, actual venue still TBD (delegates may also attend online)

Skip down to the bottom of this entry for a list of important things to remember about attending the conventions.

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Other counties in Texas with Green Party organizations will also hold their precinct and county conventions on those dates, which are specified in the Texas Election Code. Those counties include Collin, Dallas, Denton, Travis, and Tarrant; Bexar may also have one.

Other Houston-metro counties (Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Montgomery)  may have a consolidated county convention in the near future. Watch txgreens,org or Green social media for details.

Why are these conventions so important? you may be asking, along with Why would I want to attend? The 2021 state meetings, held online, were pretty unbearable; the 2020 conventions were considerably less contentious, which bodes well for the conventions this year. The main reason odd-year meetings are such knock-down-drag-outs is that they involve platform and by-law amendments, which tend to bring out shall-we-say strong feelings in attendees.

I'm not exaggerating even a little when I say that healthy attendance at these conventions will not only help shape the future direction of the Green Party in Texas, but will also determine whether there will even be a Green Party in Texas going forward.

Also, if you want to play a role in deciding whether our three statewide candidates will be nominated to appear on the November ballot, you need to be part of the conventions process. Those candidates are:

• Delilah Barrios (Hays County) for Governor (Twitter: @DelilahForTexas)
• Hunter Crow (Tarrant County) for Railroad Commission (Twitter: @CrowRailroad)
• Alfred Molison (Harris County) for Commissioner of the General Land Office (Twitter: @AlfredMolison and @copyhinge1, but he doesn't tweet much)

Important things to remember about these events:

• Anyone wishing to serve as a delegate must not have voted in the 2022 Democratic or Republican primary, and must pledge not to vote in any primary runoffs.
• RSVP to the events on txgreens.org (linked above) if you plan to attend.
• Bring your voter registration card so it can be marked; you should have received your new registration card for 2022-23 in the mail recently.
• Attending the Precinct Convention is not necessarily a prerequisite to being chosen as a delegate to the County Convention; however, in-person attendees will get first dibs.
• Attending the County Convention is a prerequisite for selection as a delegate to the State Convention; Harris County is entitled to as many as 18 delegates at State.