Dr. Edward Shadid, 43, a spinal surgeon, was elected to the city council of Oklahoma City on April 5, 2011. The election was non-partisan. He had run for the legislature as a Green Party nominee in 2010, and had polled 10.5% in a race against a Democrat and a Republican. Because the Green Party has never been on the ballot, he was on the 2010 ballot as an independent.
Here is a news story about his winning a seat on the city council last month. Several hundred thousand dollars in independent expenditures were spent against him, but he still won the April run-off with 62% of the vote. UPDATE: he is a registered Independent, according to the Oklahoma County Election Board. the newspaper story is incorrect when it says he is a Democrat. Neither he, nor anyone else in Oklahoma, is permitted to be registered “Green”.
Stalinist nature of Green party revealed:
http://fourthcheckraise.blogspot.com/2011/05/voting-with-both-their-hands-and-feet.html
“I was going through the Finnish Green party political platform for the recent election in which they got happily crushed. It first said that everyone must be free and equal regardless of their immigration status, and then a moment later it said that immigrant ghettos should not form but every area should have an equal mix of native Finns and immigrants. Of course, such a procrustean goal could ever possibly be achieved only by Stalin-level restrictions on the freedom of people to move and live where they want. Especially now that white flight, the concept so new that the Finnish language still doesn’t even have a proper term for it, was recently big news in Finland with the reports that Finns, especially those with small children, are leaving certain neighbourhoods of Helsinki in droves, for reasons that we can only speculate about.”
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I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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