Maine legislators join Green Party
By Deyva Arthur, Green Party of New York State The Party’s commitment to clean money politics and real democracy has been a significant cause of two Maine State Representatives while in office to defect to Green. Henry John Bear and Ralph Chapman both joined the Maine Green Independent Party this fall, making them the highest-ranking elected Green officeholders in the country. “I have joined the Maine Green Independent Party in order to highlight the democracy-diminishing effects of corporate funding influence…