> banner in 1996. The New York State Green party had two different vice
> presidential candidates; one group hates the other group, and I can't
> remember why.
Yeah, they're pretty fractious, it seems -- on the national listserv I'm on, the New Yorkers just went on and on and one with their petty infighting, it darn near killed the list. Cameron Spitzer, the techie who runs the thing, says there's going to be a new, resurrected list pretty soon, where this stuff won't be allowed to happen.
> I stopped following the Greens after 1996 - what's been happening since?
Dunno about the rest of the country, but the Greens continue to grow strongly in Cali, Orgzone and New Mexico. Here in OR, the latest news is that a big section of the Socialist Party decided to join the Pacific Party (recently renamed, for purposes of clarity, the Pacific Greens Party), and local chapters seems to be forming at a nice pace around the state. Also, the first third party candidate to win a seat in the California Assembly since 1917 was a Green -- Audie Bock. She gave a recent speech worth checking out, which I put on my website over at:
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dredmond/bocktalk.html
One hopes this is the beginning of something really big.
-- Dennis