{ "title": "Green_Party_of_California", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_California", "summary": "The Green Party of California (GPCA) is a California political party. The party is led by a coordinating committee, and decisions are ultimately made by general assemblies. The GPCA is affiliated with the Green Party of the United States (GPUS).\nAs of February 10, 2023, there are 97,253 people registered to vote with Green party-preference, 0.44%, the sixth-largest. As of January 2022, there are twenty-nine California Green elected officials, including two elected-mayors and three in municipal councils.", "content": [ { "section_title": "History", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "On February 4, 1990 Greens gathered at California State University, Sacramento, authored bylaws, founded the GPCA, and started a voter registration drive", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The GPCA adopted the leaf-G logo which cartoonist Harry Driggs designed for the Green Party of San Francisco in the 1980s and which represents the letter G of the party name as a leaf", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[a]", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] } ], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Qualifying for elections", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "On January 2, 1990, a month before foundation, Kent Smith sent notice to the secretary of state that the GPCA intends to qualify for the June 2, 1992 primary elections", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At that time, there were 420 people registered to vote with Green preference and, to obtain this qualification, the party needed to have registrations of at least one percent of the vote in the previous gubernatorial general election, [b] on December 31, 1991, the 154th day before the election", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[c] Following the 1990 election, this amounted to 78,992 people", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "For the voter registration drive, the GPCA had two full-time fundraisers and hired Joe Louis Hoffman as full-time organizer", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "By November 11, 1991, the party had 50,000 people registered with GPCA preference", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Late that November, the party received financial support and was able to pay people for obtaining registrations on a per-registration basis", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "By 1992, the party registered over 100,000 people with GPCA preference and thereby qualified, which it since has done continuously", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "GPCA members used the election qualification to run for offices, each facing the none of the above vote option, and all but one advanced to the general", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Roger Donaldson ran for state assembly district 53, later decided against it, and sent out a letter urging voters to vote for none of the above instead of him", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The party did not have candidates for the presidential, nor the senatorial races", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Party registrations were down to 91,342 people on October 4, 1993", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "They must have still been at least 78,992 people on January 4, 1994, for the party was qualified for the June 7, 1994 primary elections.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The 1994 gubernatorial general election was the party\u2019s first opportunity to earn qualification through electoral result", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "If the party had a candidate running for a statewide-elected office that received at least two percent of the vote, the party would maintain qualification until the next gubernatorial primary, that is if registrations stayed at least one fifteenth of one percent (0.067%) of the statewide total", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "[c] The GPCA did indeed have a party member, Margaret Garcia, who received 3.8% of the vote in the secretary of state election, 315,079 votes, well over the two percent threshold", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "8,900,593 people voted in the 1994 general election, raising the amount of registrations that could qualify a party to 89,006 people", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The GPCA did not have this amount on October 24, 1995, to qualify for the March 26, 1996 primary election in this way", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Had Garcia not received the total that she did, the GPCA would have lost its qualification.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In 1995, GPCA leaders, including Mike Feinstein, offered Ralph Nader the party\u2019s qualification, which Nader accepted, to become the first person to use the GPCA\u2019s qualification in a presidential election", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Margaret Garcia criticized this, saying \u201cHow ironic that a party espousing \u2018future focus\u2019 and long term planning is using Nader as a quick fix for our dwindling numbers.\u201d", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The GPCA finally met the registrations requirement in September 1996, and had 95,080 people registered with Green preference on October 7", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The party has met the registration requirements since", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The party has also had further electoral results that could maintain the party\u2019s qualification, in every election since first qualifying.", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Electoral milestones", "section_content": [], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Top-two primaries", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "The GPCA opposed the June 8, 2010 primary election\u2019s Proposition 14, which would remove access to the general elections from political parties, limiting access to the two candidates that received the most votes in a nonpartisan blanket primary, for California offices, i.e", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "not for the presidential race, nor local races", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The proposition passed, faced court challenges, and survived those.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "After Proposition 14\u2019s implementation, three election cycles concluded without any Green candidates advancing from \u201ctop-two\u201d primaries", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Then, the 2018 US House elections saw three Green Party candidates advance to the general elections", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Laura Wells ran in the House district CA-13 election, advanced from a six-candidate primary, and received 34,257 votes in the general election, 11.6%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Kenneth Mejia ran in the House district CA-34 election, advanced from a three-candidate primary, and received 41,711 votes in the general election, 27.5%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "And Rodolfo Cortes-Barragan ran in the House district CA-40 election, advanced from the primary, and received 27,511 votes in the general election, 22.7%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Each faced off against California Democratic Party (CDP) incumbent opponents in the general elections.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In 2020, Margaret Villa became the fourth Green candidate to advance from a top-two primary when she ran in the California State Assembly District 58 election, and she then received 41,100 votes in the general election, 25.1%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In 2022, Michael Kerr became the fifth when he ran in the US House of Representatives District CA-10 election, and he then received 52,965 votes in the general election, 21.1%", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] } ] }, { "section_title": "Platform", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "The GPCA espouses green politics and the Ten Key Values of ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy, social justice, nonviolence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, and sustainability", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Organization", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "The key values of social justice, grassroots democracy, decentralization, respect for diversity, feminism, and personal and global responsibility influence the GPCA\u2019s structure of party membership being inclusive of California residents who are disenfranchised by the state in California or the US, [d] party decisions being determined by general assemblies, limiting the role of its coordinating committees, entrusting its power to autonomous Green parties, composing coordinating committees through yearly, staggered-term elections of six women and six of any gender, and affiliating with the GPUS", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The GPCA elects delegates to the Green National Convention (GNC) proportionally, rejecting the feature of artificial disproportionality resulting from, in examples, the general ticket or district elections", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[e]", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The party\u2019s most recent general assembly was held by video teleconference on November 12, 2022", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "As of January 13, 2023, Laura Wells and David Cobb are the party\u2019s official spokespeople; the party\u2019s treasurer is Justin Richardson; and Jared Laiti is the GPCA liaison to the secretary of state", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The GPCA has a reference page of local-Green parties at www.cagreens.org/county-parties.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] } ], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Membership", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "As of February 10, 2023, there are 97,253 people registered to vote with GPCA preference, 0.44%, the sixth-largest", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The three counties in which the party has the most people registered are Los Angeles (24,829), San Diego (7,911), and Alameda counties (5,611)", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The counties in which the party has the highest percentages of the county\u2019s registrations are Humboldt (1.68%), Mendocino (1.51%), and Trinity counties (1.03%)", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "During the 2016 presidential election, GPCA registrations dropped 30%, from nearly 110,000 to 77,868", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Party spokesperson Mike Feinstein attributed the drop to outreach from the Sanders campaign, citing mailers sent to Greens", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Thousands of California Greens decided to support Sanders\u2019 endeavor for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party of the United States of America (DPUSA) through voting, which, as there was a semi-closed election, necessitated reregistration either with CDP preference, or with no party preference (NPP), and then, requesting a crossover ballot", "refs": [ "https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/report-registration" ] }, { "sentence": "Gayle McLaughlin, who had won mayoral election as a Green, reregistered with NPP to vote for Sanders", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) saw a similar registration drop-off", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The lowest point for the GPCA was around California\u2019s primary elections in June, and by the end of the general election, the GPCA\u2019s registrations rose back to 94,647 people, and the PFP rose back to original levels, also", "refs": [ "https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/report-registration" ] }, { "sentence": "Jill Stein 2016 campaign staffer Bruce Dixon hypothesized that Sanders \u201caims to tie up activist energies and resources till the summer of 2016 when the only remaining choice will be the usual lesser of two evils.\u201d Dixon determined that Sanders was acting as a sheepdog candidate in favor of party politics within certain parties, the DPUSA in this case, despite the parties being opposed to the candidate\u2019s cause, and that dissuades people from politics outside of those parties", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "These directives result in a lack of parties and electoral wins of candidates that would advance the sheepdog\u2019s stated politics", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "They also result in captive constituencies that feel compelled to support candidates that they deem the lessers of two evils", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Sheepdogs may advocate their strategy before exiting the electoral contest, which could occur because of disqualification, including unsuccessful primary elections, or retraction of candidacy, as was advocated by Sanders before his 2016 disqualification", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] } ], "subsections": [] } ] }, { "section_title": "Current elected officials", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "As of January 2022, there are twenty-nine California Green elected officials, including two elected-mayors and three in municipal councils", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Mayoral offices", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "As of January 2023, two municipalities have Green elected-mayors:", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Municipal councils", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "As of January 16, 2023, three Greens serve on municipal councils:", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] } ] }, { "section_title": "Election results", "section_content": [], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Presidential", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 1996 presidential election, Ralph Nader went unopposed", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Nader did not receive the Greens/Green Party USA nomination, though, at Green Gathering \u201996, delegates from many states stated support for Nader", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the California general election, Nader received 237,016 votes", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 2000 presidential election, results were affected by California\u2019s blanket primary which the US Supreme Court shortly after ruled unconstitutional in California Democratic Party v", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Jones", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Ralph Nader received a winning 94.4%, and Joel Kovel, the runner-up, received 5.6%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At the GNC, in the presidential nomination election, Nader received a winning 92.5% of the potential votes, and Jello Biafra and Stephen Gaskin, the runners up, received 3.1% each", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the California general election, Nader received 418,707 votes", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 2004 presidential election, Peter Camejo received a winning 75.7%, and David Cobb, the runner-up, received 11.5%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At the GNC, in the presidential nomination election, none of the options received majority support in the first round and, then, Camejo was eliminated because he didn\u2019t give written indication that he would accept the nomination", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the second round, Cobb received a winning 53% of the potential votes, and No Nominee, the runner up option, received 40%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[l] In that vote, the GPCA delegation gave to No Nominee 68.2% of its votes and to Cobb 26.5%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the California general election, Cobb received 40,771 votes, and Ralph Nader, the party-independent write-in candidate that Camejo was running mate to, received 20,714 votes", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 2008 presidential election, Ralph Nader received a winning 60.7%, and Cynthia McKinney, the runner-up, received 26.6%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At the GNC, Nader did not seek the GPUS presidential nomination and, in the presidential nomination election, McKinney received a winning 59.59% of the potential votes, and Nader, as runner up, received 14.48%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[m] In the California general election, McKinney received 38,774 votes, and Nader, on the Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) ballot line, received 108,381 votes", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 2012 presidential election, Jill Stein received a winning 49.4%, and Roseanne Barr, the runner-up, received 39.8%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At the GNC, in the presidential nomination election, Stein received a winning 66.96% of the potential votes, and Barr, as runner up, received 24.91%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the California general election, Stein received 85,638 votes, and Barr, on the PFP ballot line, received 53,824 votes", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 2016 presidential election, Jill Stein received a winning 76.2%, and Darryl Cherney, the runner-up, received 10%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At the GNC, in the presidential nomination election, Stein received a winning 82% of the potential votes, and William Kreml, the runner up, received 6%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[n] In the California general election, Stein received 278,657 votes, more than tripling her 2012 vote", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Stein did the same nationwide, receiving 1,457,218 votes.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the GPCA primary of the 2020 presidential election, Howie Hawkins received a winning 36.2%, and the runner-up received 22.0%", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "At the GNC, in the presidential nomination election, Hawkins received a winning 58.82% of the potential votes, and the runner up received 28.57%", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "[o] In the California general election, Hawkins received 81,029 votes", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Gubernatorial", "section_content": [], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Election qualifying", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "In 2014, to reform the election code due to the consequences of Proposition 14, the California State Legislature changed the criteria by which a party could qualify for elections", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The threshold to qualify based on electoral results is now based on the sum of the votes cast for all of a party\u2019s candidates for a statewide-elected office in the preceding gubernatorial primary election", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "For 2022 elections of statewide executive offices, the GPCA, together with the PFP, undertook a cooperative ballot-access strategy in continuation of the Howie Hawkins 2020 presidential campaign\u2019s attempt for \u201cleft unity\u201d, consisting of endorsing an inter-party slate", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "A success, Greens met the threshold in the four races that the slate endorsed Greens", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Luis J", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Rodriguez was the slate\u2019s gubernatorial candidate, and Heather Collins, another Green, deviated from the slate and also ran in that race, and only together did they receive votes to meet the threshold", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Other Greens that deviated from the slate did not meet the threshold", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Veronika Fimbres in the insurance commissioner election did not meet the threshold", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "James \u201cHenk\u201d Conn and Pamela Elizondo in the US senatorial election did not meet the threshold", "refs": [ "[ERROR 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