>> 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