The Green Party of Texas just concluded a packed weekend at the Grey Forest retreat in San Antonio. On Saturday, GPTX held its nominating convention for statewide offices, including the selection delegates to August's Presidential Nominating Convention in Houston. On Sunday, the Party held its annual meeting, at which the delegates assembled elected members to the State Executive Committee and passed a few resolutions regarding policy positions and internal procedures. President of the United States—updated According to Green Party Watch, here is the Texas delegation to the Presidential Nominating Convention: Jill Stein: 15 SKCM Curry: 3 Darryl Cherney: 2 Kent Mesplay: 2 Bill Kreml: 1 The win for Stein continues a nationwide pattern: Among states that have had their primary elections, caucuses, or conventions, Stein has won all of them. Unless something changes radically in the next three months, she will likely be nominated resoundingly on the first ballot in August. State Offices David Wager, longtime treasurer for the Harris County and Texas Greens, reports that all the candidates for the various state offices had their nominations confirmed: Railroad Commissioner: Martina Salinas Supreme Court, place 3: Rodolfo Rivera Muñoz Supreme Court, place 5: Charles Waterbury Supreme Court, place 9: Jim Chisolm Court of Criminal Appeals, place 2: Adam "Bulletproof" King Blackwell Reposa Court of Criminal Appeals, place 5: Judith Sanders-Castro Those were the only candidates who registered to run for those positions. GPTX has a history of fielding only one candidate per office, whose only opposition is None of the Above. Annual Meeting Results
At Sunday's annual meeting, the delegates elected Laura Palmer of Harris County to another two-year term as co-chair. She will continue to serve along with Dallas County's Aaron Renaud, who was elected at last year's meeting. Also elected to the SEC: Secretary: katija assata gruene, formerly known as kat swift (Bexar) Treasurer: David Wager (Harris) Members at-large: Antonio Diaz (Bexar), Wesson Gaige (Denton), Ona Marie Hendricks (Dallas) The following resolutions passed at the meeting:
The last of these resolutions was inspired directly by an occurrence last month. State law called for non-primary parties like the Greens to have their precinct caucuses on a specific date: This year, it was Tuesday 8 March, one week after the Texas Primary. Due to the small number of caucus-goers—even in our largest counties like Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant, Travis, and El Paso—county Green Parties hold their precinct conventions in one central location, rather than in voters' home precincts. Well, on 8 March, Greater Houston had some downpours and high winds that made it dangerous to travel into central Houston from our far-flung suburbs. At the next session of the Legislature in 2017, GPTX will lobby for changes to the State Election Code permitting party organizations to postpone caucuses and conventions. Imagine if one of the major parties could not get together to conduct business on a specified date due to inclement weather. Imagine Republican delegates from Lubbock or Texarkana or McAllen unable to get to Houston because of canceled flights. Do you think the Secretary of State would allow some wiggle room on those convention dates? Pinning Hopes on Martina Now begins the true campaign season in Texas. At the risk of repeating some earlier posts, let's break things down a little.
My sincere hope is that Martina Salinas will rise to this challenge. Even while working full-time, she did some great weekend campaigning in 2014, especially in the Rio Grande Valley. Part of rising to the challenge will be creating a website, through which the voting public can get acquainted with Salinas, and with her positions. At this time, she has...a Facebook page. 20/4/2016 11:14:44
I am glad to see Greens considering "range voting," also known as "score voting." Also its simplified but less accurate variant, "approval voting" is also of interest and just was used by Ohio Green Party: Comments are closed.
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