The Green Party made a strong showing in city council races across the US on Election Day, November 3, 2009.

Greens now make up a majority on the Fairfax Town Council in Marin County, California, where first-place finisher Pam Hartwell-Herrero joins incumbents Lew Tremaine and Larry Bragman. Fairfax becomes the fourth municipality in the US to have a Green majority, following Arcata and Sebastopol in California and New Paltz in New York.

Long time party member Geroge Gluck has entered the special election to replace Don Praisner in the Montgomery County Council's 4th District. The Democratic and Republican primaries will be on April 21 and the general election will be on May 19.

We have an incredible opportunity.

Congressional elections for the 2nd District in New Orleans , LA will take place Dec 6th and Malik Rahim, founder of Common Ground Relief, is running in for Congress. Malik's Democratic opponent, incumbent William Jefferson was indicted earlier this year for corruption. We have the chance to put a Green in Congress who will stand up for people over profits.

There will be a showing of "American Blackout" hosted by Bruce Backer on Sunday Sept 21 at 7724 Maple Avenue #13, Takoma Park, MD 20912

The state CC is finalizing the procedures for our primary which will be held sometime in March. The assembly will be held either in April or May, depending on when we can secure the space at Towson that we had last year.

There are two people who have registered for the 8th Congressional District; Brian Crider, votecrider.com and Gordon Clark (webpage pending). They will be attending the local meeting in Gaithersburg tomorrow, so make an effort to come out.

On November 6, the voters of Aspen, Colorado, voted to use Instant-Runoff Voting for city elections. The vote was 608 to 186 No.

The blog Annapolis Capital Punishment takes note of the fact that the Greens showed "surprising strength" in yesterday's Baltimore City elections.

Though the Democrats swept the elections, Bill and Maria got the strongest second place finishes. In fact their combined vote total was greater than the seven Republicans who ran.

Next up is Karen Jennings' race in a special election to fill and Annapolis alderman seat.

Dan Robinson has won his race to be a Takoma Park town councilman. Dan has been active in his ward for years so his victory was not a surprise. Dan is our first elected Green in Montgomery County.

Congratulations to Dan!