The Ecology Party was founded as a Florida party in late 2007, and has a webpage, www.ecologyparty.org, a platform, and state party officers. Ballot Access News had previously assumed, erroneously, that the Ecology Party was created by the 2008 Ralph Nader campaign. BAN regrets that error. The people who founded the Ecology Party had, for the most part, previously been active in another minor party.
The Ecology Party of Florida is now the Florida state unit of the Independence and Ecology Party, which is chaired by Robert Baroody of New Mexico.
Don’t you mean “Independent and Ecology Party”? “Independence and Ecology Party” only gets on hit on google, this entry. If a site dedicated to third parties can’t keep this stuff straight, how are normal people supposed to?
In Florida, it is simply the Ecology Party, but it affiliated nationally with the Independent Parties that Nader has formed on his campaign.
At first I thought the name of the national party is “Independent and Ecology Party” since that would match the names of the various state parties. But I was told I was wrong, that “Independent and Ecology” is bad English, because independent is an adjective and ecology is a noun. So the party nationally is the “Independence and Ecology Party”, even though there is also a completely separate national Independence Party (a coalition of the Independence Parties of Minnesota and New York).
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Do you think Ralph will have the electors he needs for the Florida ballot?