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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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travellingcircus@gmail.com [mailto:travellingcircus@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 10, 2014 8:33
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Scott L.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lnc-votes]
[Lnc-business] Why are there two Green Parties?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Their website makes them out to be bigger than they are.
Here is what <a href="http://politics1.com/parties.htm"
title="blocked::http://politics1.com/parties.htm" id=SAWARN1d781a2
original_href="http://politics1.com/parties.htm">http://politics1.com/parties.htm</a>
has to say about them (I emphasized the part about them having chapters only in
three cities): </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.greenparty.org/" title="blocked::http://www.greenparty.org/"
id=SAWARN1d781a2 original_href="http://www.greenparty.org/"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>THE GREENS/GREEN PARTY USA (G/GPUSA)</span></b></a> -
When people talk about "the Green Party" in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>, they are
likely <strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>NOT</span></font></b></strong>
talking about this entity. The G/GPUSA is the older, very much smaller, and
more stridently leftist of the two Green parties. While the GPUSA also
nominated Nader for President back in 2000, Nader rejected the </span></font><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
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The Greens (1980s)"
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The Greens (1980s)"
v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"><![endif]><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>G/GPUSA nomination (while embracing the other Green party, listed
above). Prominent Nader campaign strategist Jim Hightower described the two
Green factions as follows in 2001: "There are two Green party
organizations -- the [Green Party of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>] whose nomination Ralph accepted
and the much smaller one [G/GPUSA] ... on the fringes ... [with] all sorts of
damned-near-communistic ideas." Some in the G/GPUSA protested that
Hightower's comments were a bit unfair -- but read the <a
href="http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html"
title="blocked::http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html" id=SAWARN1d781a2
original_href="http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html">G/GPUSA 2000 Platform</a>
(which remains the current G/GPUSA platform) and decide for yourself. The
G/GPUSA largely emphasizes direct action tactics over traditional electoral
politics. A majorty of the G/GPUSA delegates and large number of party
activists quit the group and bolted to the larger Green Party of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 2001
(forming an informal leftist caucus within the Green Party). The small splinter
group remaining within the G/GPUSA are more dogmatically Marxist.</span></font><font
size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial'> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>The G/GPUSA maintain formal <a
href="http://www.greenparty.org/structure.php"
title="blocked::http://www.greenparty.org/structure.php" id=SAWARN1d781a2
original_href="http://www.greenparty.org/structure.php">local affiliates</a>
only <st1:City w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:City>
and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:City>.</span></b></span></font><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The G/GPUSA has fielded a few state
and federal candidates over the years -- often running them in Green primaries
against candidates affiliated with the larger Green Party of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Related
G/GPUSA links include <a href="http://greens.org/s-r/"
title="blocked::http://greens.org/s-r/" id=SAWARN1d781a2
original_href="http://greens.org/s-r/">Synthesis/Regeneration</a> (party
magazine), and <a href="http://www.greenparty.org/newsletter/"
title="blocked::http://www.greenparty.org/newsletter/" id=SAWARN1d781a2
original_href="http://www.greenparty.org/newsletter/">Green Politics</a>
(quarterly e-newspaper).</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
travellingcircus@gmail.com [mailto:travellingcircus@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 10, 2014 9:29
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Scott L.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lnc-votes]
[Lnc-business] Why are there two Green Parties?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please share what I
actually sent you with LNC. Calling G/GPUSA a national party is a bit of a
stretch. The Nader/Cobb rift in 2004 was IMO a much more significant split in
the Green Party than the G/GPUSA several years earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>paulie<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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