The Colorado Green Party, a ballot-qualified party, nominated only one statewide candidate this year, for Secretary of State. He recently withdrew from the race. He said he didn’t want to injure the chances of the Democratic nominee for that office, since the Democrats favors Instant-Runoff Voting and the Republican nominee for that office is opposed to it.
The Colorado Green Party’s ballot status will not be threatened, just because it has no statewide nominees this year. The party has 4,789 registered voters. A party may remain ballot-qualified in Colorado if it has 1,000 registered voters.
Colorado parties that are still on the ballot for a statewide race are the Libertarian and Constitution Parties.
Man is that a crock!
The Green Party needs candidates on the ballot in every race!
I agree.
We need to jetison lesser evilism into the past if we’re going to move forward.
It’s a betrayal to all of the volunteers who fought to get you on the ballot and took abuse doing so.
Alot of Democrats (and Republicans) “support” Instant-Run Off voting, but how many of them from McCain to Dean actually *fight* for it?
Him staying in that race regardless of the results of the election would do more to push for IRV than wimping out.
The Green Party, I believe, needs to come to grips with whether they even want to be a political party in the first place. If the only time they’ll ever seriously contest a race is if they won’t damage the chances of a Democrat, then they’re better off shutting down the party, and going back to being a lobbying/activist group like they used to be.
Thats incorrect!! According to the colorado green parties own web site there are still several green candidates running in colorado. Where do you get your information from? Is this an attempt to sabotage the greens?
“Statewide” means a race that is on the ballot across the entire state. The Colorado Greens have no statewide nominees. They have nominees in some district races (US House and state legislature) and county office.
Another Green candidate quits race in Colorado, Eric Rachel for state Senate District 7:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5032161,00.html