On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 bautiste at uswest.net wrote:
>
Just a general comment first. I don't know that it's useful or fair to
suggest that the NM Greens have more political/social integrity than
anyone on this list. The NM Greens are fortunate to live in a state with a
sparse population, not enough protestants to make it worthwhile for the
Christian Coalition to come in, a strong libertarian streak, and
communities of utopian liberal artists from NY and CA. There is also a big
New Agey population (overlaps with previous group to some extent) and the
last two vote green. All of these factors work in favor of the greens.
> Carol Miller--candidate for 3rd CD--runs a health clinic in northern New
> Mexico, a very rural Hispanic poor area. Bob Anderson--candidate for 1st
> CD--has worked in union organizing so long that he puts you folks to shame.
> Hell, he was AT Wounded Knee--on the right side and under fire for the whole
> siege. Of course he actually got dirt under his fingernails working in the
> Pittsburgh steel mills--not from tapping on a keyboard all day.
Yeah, and Cris Moore, the Green on the Santa Fe city council, is a privileged white guy who got his phd in math from Cornell and now plays with complexity theory at the Santa Fe Institute, and makes damn good money doing it. I also recall from my time spent sitting in Green meetings in the Santa Fe Unitarian church basement, that most of the Greens were white, relatively well-off, cultural elites who were part of either the New Age or art communities. This is not to say that Carol or Bob (don't know them) or Cris, (know him) arn't doing good work. I just want to make it clear that the NM Greens are not representative of NM. I did not know a single native new mexican --besides Roberto Mondragon who pulled in a erespectable 12% of the vote for gov. in 1994--who was a member of the Greens, joining shortly before that election.
> If you people didn't spend so much time worrying about revolution in Russia
> or scrying for mystical marks on the entrails of the financial markets, I
> imagine the left would actually look alive in the rest of the country... As
> it is, the only real Leftist organization in the country right now is in New
> Mexico, and it's Green.
>
Oh, please.
Frances