It is not cherry-picking.

At the CITY level, for city-level offices,the GP is second. For several
house races it has been second. It is a grass-roots party.

The main problem for higher office is that so far only one Green has been
elected to ANY state legislature in any of the 50 states - over 7000
seats, one Green, in Maine. Everyone is worried about "wasting" a vote,and
so voting for a lot of dead-wood DPers instead, thus guaranteeing that
change will take only that many more years. The GP is grassroots, and
fearful voters keep it to the city level.

I suspect the reason some people may wish to represent the GP as third
even at the city level is that they wish to strip it of power and push a
right-wing agenda, support privatization of parks, etc. The numbers won't
support it.

--David Shove
Roseville



On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Shawn A. Dorisian wrote:

>   People may not all the facts, but overall the Green Party in Minneapolis is 
> till third overall in the vote.  I hope that those who are supporters of the 
> Greens will stop cherry picking, and actually deal with apples as apples and 
> oranges and oranges.
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