I can say from personal experience that the original Greens did have more than their share of bourgeois hippies. Except for a handful of socialists like Hawkins, those were the folks that got the Greens on the ballot in California and elsewhere. Once they got the ballot line, most of the hippies didn't want to run candidates. But for Nader and the socialists, they might never have.
As to the Greens never electing anyone to state office, they elected a candidate to the California State legislature (Audie Bock, I believe was her name). She defeated long time Dem Pol Elihu Harris in a special election in an Alameda County District. Bock proved to be an embarrassment. I don't believe she was even a registered Green when she left office, This was in the early 2000s or late 1990s. The Greens also elected a couple of Greens to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors in the 2000s. One of them, Matt Gonzalez, ran a very strong raise for Mayor. He reached the run off and was defeated by Gavin Newsom (I believe) but ran a respectable race nonetheless. The San Francisco Supervisors and Mayor's offices were officially non partisan but both Gonzalez and the other individual - whose name escapes me were both open in their Green Party membership. None of these individuals were self identified socialists and their politics were largely indistinguishable from the progressive wing of the local Democratic Party but nonetheless the fact remains that in the late 1990s and early 2000s the Green Party could and did win elections. SR > On 09/10/2020 10:17 AM [email protected] wrote: > > > > Smears have been voiced here against the Greens. "Bourgeois > hippies"--Ralph Nader isn't a hippy, though he is (in sharp contrast to > Hawkins) pro-capitalism--a difference that shows signifcant evolution of the > Green Party, which cannot now be considered a capitalist party as M. Lause > demonstrated earlier. "Never elected anyone to office unlike Socialist > Algernative"--the Wikipedia entry on the Green Party lists a significant > number of Greens who have held public office over the years. No disrespect to > Kshama Sawant BTW FYI. > > > _._,_._,_ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1387): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1387 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76751875/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
