TEXAS 2024 GREEN RESULTS
The Green Party of Texas ran a very small slate of candidates in 2024. Statewide, we had only our presidential ticket of Jill Stein and Rudolph "Butch" Ware, plus Eddie Espinoza, our brave candidate for Railroad Commission. Eddie received the necessary 2% of the vote to guarantee the Green Party's ballot access in Texas for the next 10 years.
President/VP: Jill Stein/Butch Ware, 82,701 votes, 0.73%
Railroad Commission: Eddie Espinoza: 301,793 votes, 2.75%
It's noteworthy that both of these candidacies outpolled their Libertarian Party opponents, just as Stein/Ware drew more votes nationwide than the Libertarian ticket.
GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
I was on the ballot as the Green Party's nominee for US Senator from Texas. This nomination came 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. This led the 2021 State Legislature to amend the ballot access law passed in 2019 to clarify the filing fee provisions.
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. The Harris County Green Party is currently inactive, but that should change soon.
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 Green Party of Texas ran a very small slate of candidates in 2024. Statewide, we had only our presidential ticket of Jill Stein and Rudolph "Butch" Ware, plus Eddie Espinoza, our brave candidate for Railroad Commission. Eddie received the necessary 2% of the vote to guarantee the Green Party's ballot access in Texas for the next 10 years.
President/VP: Jill Stein/Butch Ware, 82,701 votes, 0.73%
Railroad Commission: Eddie Espinoza: 301,793 votes, 2.75%
It's noteworthy that both of these candidacies outpolled their Libertarian Party opponents, just as Stein/Ware drew more votes nationwide than the Libertarian ticket.
GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
I was on the ballot as the Green Party's nominee for US Senator from Texas. This nomination came 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. This led the 2021 State Legislature to amend the ballot access law passed in 2019 to clarify the filing fee provisions.
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. The Harris County Green Party is currently inactive, but that should change soon.
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.