Green Party Political Director Brent McMillan is the guest on today’s Green Party Watch Radio. He will be discussing the election results of November 4th, the coming election in New Orleans, and other things as they come up.
Green Party Political Director on Internet radio show
November 9th, 2008 · 27 Comments
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1 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 4:04 pm
What time?
2 Gregg Jocoy // Nov 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm
So sorry paulie. Had problems with the recording so we’re re-recording it at 4:30 PM. If you would like to do so you can call in at (646) 478-3778
3 Gregg Jocoy // Nov 9, 2008 at 5:28 pm
My bad…the first recording went through, I just didn’t realize it until now. You can hear the interview here.
4 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I was out for a walk and tried calling, at one point it said the show would start in 15 min., then 15 min later it said that there were no shows scheduled in the next 24 hr.
5 Gregg Jocoy // Nov 9, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Yeah, I kinda messed it up, but the link is working now, so anyone who cares to do so can listen to the whole hour.
I thought Brent had some interesting observations and covered a number of races across the nation.
We also discussed Malik Rahim’s campaign.
6 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Listening now.
7 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 6:45 pm
So far: also learned that one of the Arkansas US Houses races was the best ever showing for a Green, as well.
8 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Overall US House total for the Greens more than doubled the previous record.
9 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Some discussion of strong state organizations in Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska, working across party lines.
10 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Media bias – esp, Washington Post.
11 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Gordon Clark in MD-8 outraised $ all smaller party congressional candidates in (2nd?) quarter, and outraised the Republican in the race.
However, only got 8%
This seems to be a recurrence where money and other conventional factors don’t always translate into votes.
12 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Malik Rahim in LA-2
Louisiana is the only state where McKinney did better than Nader.
13 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Hoping that Greens from around the country get involved in Rahim’s race since the others are done.
14 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Greens lost a seat in (HI?) that they have held for 16 years because developers spent heavily to defeat them.
15 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Green candidate was not allowed to debate one major party candidate when the other one did not show up.
16 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:24 pm
CT Greens got a college to remove support for a debate because the Greens were not invited.
League of Women Voters is now excluding local Greens from debates, even though in the past they protested against presidential debates being made too exclusive.
17 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Richard Carroll elected to legislature in Arkansas.
Also a Green got 30% in a MN legislative seat, new record for that state.
Green in Chicago got endorsement from both major newspaper, even though there was both a Democrat and Republican in the race.
18 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Ross Mikirami got re-elected to SF board of Supervisors, but a second Green did not get elected as had been hoped.
19 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:45 pm
DC Greens have been effective through coalitions, protests, public testimony, strategic planning, and an annual legislative agenda.
20 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Importance of infrastructure to back up successful candidates.
DC Greens are now the second party, not the third party there.
21 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Importance of policy papers as a bridge between campaigns and legislation.
22 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Window of opportunity now to put forward a message because there will be disappointment with Obama.
23 darolew // Nov 9, 2008 at 9:10 pm
“Louisiana is the only state where McKinney did better than Nader.”
I wonder if Paul had anything to do with that.
24 paulie cannoli // Nov 9, 2008 at 11:56 pm
It probably had more to do with her efforts in investigating the federal mismanagement of Katrina hurricane disaster response.
25 Trent Hill // Nov 10, 2008 at 12:16 am
Neither really. It had much more to do with the fact that McKinney and the Greens have a super-active group here–and Nader doesnt,except on a few campuses.
26 paulie cannoli // Nov 10, 2008 at 12:20 am
What made that Green group super active?
27 Trent Hill // Nov 10, 2008 at 12:25 am
They’ve been active since before Katrina, if that is what you mean. Most were based in New Orleans pre-Katrina but their most active people have since been re-located to Baton Rouge, Houston, and Shreveport. This gave them a statewide network, I suppose. Also, I understand they found a few decent donors about 2 years ago.
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