Greens win 60% of races this year

In late 2006 Brent McMillan, Political Director of GPUS did an analysis of each states history of fielding candidates. He used this information to set up a challenge for each state. Based on the past ability to field candidates what would a field of one thousand candidates look like on a state by state basis. You can find his results at http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml under the heading «1000 Candidate Challenge 2008». This is only a suggested challenge for each state to commit to running candidates to fulfill this challenge. Many states have taken up this challenge though.

On Tuesday April 1st Greens ran for office in Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Greens won 13 of the 22 races run so far this year- that is 60% success rate. There are more to come yet in this cycle. Watch GreenLine for updates.

In Massachusetts:

On March 3, Jill Stein (I) won her re-election to Town Meeting Seat in Lexington, MA

On Tuesday April 1st, Robert Crowner and Vincent O’Conner (I) won their elections for Town Meeting Seat in Amherst, MA.

In Wisconsin:

Robert Browne (I) won his re-election to Douglas County Board of Supervisors, District 2, WI.

David Conley (I) won his re-election to Douglas County Board of Supervisors, District 25, WI.

Greg David (I) won his re-election to Jefferson County Board of Supervisors. District 3, WI.

John Hardin (I) won his re-election to Barron County Board of Supervisors, District 2, WI.

John Hendrick (I) won his re-election to Dane County Board of Supervisors, District 6, WI.

Kathy Kienholz won her election to Polk County Board of Supervisors, District 6, WI.

Wyndham Manning won his election to Dane County Board of Supervisors, District 5, WI.

John Rendall (I) won his re-election to Portage County Board District 19, WI.

Kyle Richmond (I) won his re-election to Dane County Board of Supervisors, District 27, WI.

Barbara Vedder (I) won her re-election to Dane County Board of Supervisors, District 2, WI.