2001 Winter / Spring

Impressive ballot drive and tough campaign to protect it put Texas Greens on political map

January 31, 2001 admin Comments 0 Comment

by David Pollard, Arlington (TX) Texas State Green executive committee member Volume 5, Issue 1 Winter / Spring 2001 Of all the successful ballot drives in 2000, perhaps the most impressive – and significant – was that of the Green Party of Texas, which qualified by overcoming one of the nation’s most difficult ballot-access hurdles. Texas Greens collected more than 76,000 signatures in just 75 days, with a grassroots effort earning national political acclaim. The drive qualified both Nader/LaDuke and…

Nader campaign breaks ballot-access barriers

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Tens of thousands of volunteers, nine lawsuits part of nationwide ballot access drive by Stacy Malkan Volume 5, Issue 1 Winter / Spring 2001 In the face of draconian ballot access laws written by Democrats and Republicans, the Nader/ LaDuke campaign achieved a major victoryin 2000 by qualifying for the ballot in 43 states and the District of Columbia. In doing so, they gathered more than half a million signature, collected overwhelmingly by volunteers In state after state, thousands of…