>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>> The Green Party is running 435 candidates for 74 types of offices in
>> 40 states in 2004. Out of 435, 57 are running for seats in the US
>> House of Representatives, and 7, the US Senate. Green candidates for
>> Congressional races are found in 21 states: Alaska, California,
>> Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan,
>> Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon,
>> Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont,
>> Washington, and Wisconsin.
>>
>
>that is cheerful information.
More reason for cheer: there are over 500,000 elected officials in the U.S., and 85,000 governmental units. There are plenty of better places to start than the very top.
Doug