Arizona Green Party

Arizona Green Party
Chairperson Maritza Broce, Angel Torres
Senate leader None
House leader None
Headquarters P.O. Box 60173, Phoenix, AZ 85082
Ideology Green politics
American Progressivism
Social democracy
National affiliation Green Party
Colors Green
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Website
http://www.azgp.org/
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Activists of the Arizona Green Party collecting signatures for ballot status.

The Green Party of Arizona (AZPG) is the affiliate of the Green Party in the state of Arizona. It was founded by Carolyn Campbell alongside others in the 1990s. The two current co-chairs of the Arizona Green Party are Maritza Broce and Angel Torres.

The Arizona Green Party is best known for its strong stances on environmental protection, which the party was founded upon. Apart from this, the Arizona Green Party identifies with ten key values: grassroots democracy, social justice, ecological wisdom, non-violence, decentralization, feminism and gender equality, community-based economics, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, and future focus and sustainability.[1] Additionally, The Green Party committee openly opposes the militarization of our borders and protests the idea of building a wall between U.S and Mexico, according to the party's official platform committee website. Arizona Green Party stand against free-trade and in support of repealing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Fast Track, and other globalizing trade policies.[2]

In 2016, the Arizona Green Party successfully sued the state of Arizona to ensure their presidential nominee, Jill Stein, was placed on the ballot after the party failed to submit a slate of Presidential electors on time.[3] Jill Stein received a total of 34,345 votes in Arizona, leaving her with 1.3% of the total vote.[4]

Ballot Access

In 2008, the Arizona Green Party gathered enough signatures to gain ballot access.[5] The party had worked with Arizona's ballot access laws, achieving ballot access for the 2000 election cycle, then losing it again in 2004. On March 6, 2008 the Arizona deadline for ballot access, the Arizona Green Party submitted 29,300 signatures on its petition for party recognition. The legal requirement is 20,449. On April 9, 2008 the Arizona Secretary of State, Jan Brewer,[6] announced that the Arizona Green Party had enough valid signatures to be recognized as an official political party. On February 10, The national Green Party’s ballot access committee had appropriated $4,000 to assist the Arizona Green Party's petition effort.[7]

The Arizona Green Party again qualified for the ballot in 2010 on April 15.[8] It needed 20,449 signatures by March 11, 2010, and they tuned in 29,015 signatures to Michele Reagan, the Arizona Secretary of State.[9]

On April 28, 2011, Governor Jan Brewer signed HB 2304, which says that when a new party qualifies, it is entitled to be on the ballot in the next two elections, not just the next election. As a result, the Green Party is now automatically on the ballot for 2012, because it had successfully petitioned in 2010.[10][11]

The green party lost its ballot access after the 2012 election and did not field candidates in 2014. It successfully regained access for 2016 and 2018 as a new political party.[12]

Campaigns

Prominent Green candidates in Arizona have included Vance Hansen, who ran for the US Senate in 2000 and received 108,926 votes.[13] Claudia Ellquist ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004 on a platform largely focused on declaring a moratorium on the death penalty. Dave Croteau ran for mayor of Tucson in 2007 on a platform of relocalization and received over 28% of the vote.[14] The party is also home to noted Tucson area water-access activist John Kromko.

The AZGP also paid to put two statements in an Arizona voter's guide on ballot initiatives and referendums in 2006. One statement opposed Arizona Proposition 107, which bans civil unions, and the second favored Arizona Proposition 202, which proposed to raise the Arizona statewide minimum wage to $6.75/hr.

2016 Primary Election Results

The Arizona Green Party held its primary on March 22, 2016. Jill Stein won with 79.6% of the vote, and the overall number of voters that took place in the primary saw an increase from 561 in 2012 to 817 in 2016.[15] Only two candidates qualified for the primary:[16]

Arizona Green Party presidential primary, March 22, 2016[17]
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates
Jill Stein 609 79.6% 5
Kent Mesplay 139 18.2% 1
Write-in/Blank 17 2.2% -
Total 765 100.00%
County results of the Arizona Green presidential primaries, 2016.
  Jill Stein
  Kent Mesplay
  No votes

Presidential Nominee Results

Year Nominee Votes (Percentage of total state vote)
1996 Ralph Nader 2,062 (0.15%)
2000 Ralph Nader 45,645 (3.00%)
2004 David Cobb (write-in) 138
2008 Cynthia McKinney 3,406 (0.15%)
2012 Jill Stein 7,816 (0.34%)
2016 Jill Stein 34,345 (1.34%)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Green Party of Pima County". www.pimagreens.org. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  2. ↑ "Green Party of the United States - National Committee Voting - Proposal Details". gp.org. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  3. ↑ Services, Howard Fischer, Capitol Media. "Green Party makes it onto Arizona ballot – Arizona Capitol Times". azcapitoltimes.com. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Arizona Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins". Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  5. ↑ Pitzl, Mary Jo (20 April 2008). "Green Party wins ballot status". Arizona Central. Archived from the original on 2008-09-12. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Jan Brewer". Ballotpedia. 2017-02-26.
  7. ↑ "Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » National Green Party Helps Arizona Green Party with Ballot Access". Ballot-access.org. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
  8. ↑ "Arizona Says Green Party Petition is Valid - Ballot Access News". ballot-access.org. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "Arizona Greens Submit 29,015 Signatures for Party Status - Ballot Access News". ballot-access.org. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "May 2011 Ballot Access News Print Edition - Ballot Access News". ballot-access.org. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  11. ↑ "Arizona Secretary of State Confirms that Green Party is On Ballot for 2012 - Ballot Access News". ballot-access.org. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  12. ↑ "The Green Party is back on the ballot". azcentral.com. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  13. ↑ "United States Senate election in Arizona, 2000".
  14. ↑ "Dave Croteau – Green Party Watch". www.greenpartywatch.org. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  15. ↑ "Arizona Green Party Presidential Primary Results". Ballot Access News. 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  16. ↑ "Two Candidates Qualify for Arizona Green Party Presidential Primary; Six Qualify for Democratic Primary". Ballot Access News. 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  17. ↑ "Arizona Green Party Presidential Primary Results". azsos.gov. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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