Greens Respond to the State of the Union
The Green Party of the United States is responding to the State of the Union Address this Tuesday. Use the viewer below to watch the proceedings and join in a live chat with Green Party members from across the country.
We Want You To Run For Office!
Maryland Green Party Recruiting Candidates for 2012 and 2014 Races
The Maryland Green Party is looking for strong candidates for U.S.
House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2012. We are also looking
for candidates to begin building campaigns for state and local offices
in 2014. If you subscribe to Green values and are willing to run a
campaign without the assistance of corporations or political action
committees, we want you!
To begin the process,
click here to view and complete our candidate
questionnaire. For more information, email
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Greens, Libertarians Prevail in Circuit Court
Plaintiffs Win Libertarian Party of Maryland and Maryland Green Party v. State Board of Elections
June 22, 2011 - An Anne Arundel County Circuit judge yesterday ruled
yesterday in favor of Maryland's Greens and Libertarians in their
quest to get back on election ballots - determining that failure to
fulfill the controversial middle name requirement is in itself not a
reason to toss a petition signature.
The question now is whether the State Board of Elections will appeal
the ruling. It has about a month to decide. A spokesman for the Office
of the Attorney General, which represents the elections board, said
officials are reviewing their options.
An appeal could eventually land the contentious middle name issue back
before the Court of Appeals - a step the state may or may not want to
take with a far more politically heated petition waiting in the wings.
The Greens and Libertarians sued the State Board of Elections for
invalidating signatures of registered voters. Each had needed to
collect 10,000 valid signatures to remain as official parties in the
state, and each turned in about 16,000 ...(read more here).
