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GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
www.cagreens.org
Monday, March 7, 2005
Contact: Sara Amir, spokesperson 310.270.7106 saraamir@earthlink.net
Kevin McKeown, spokesperson 310.393.3639 kevin@mckeown.net
Beth Moore Haines, spokesperson 530.277.0610 beth@ncws.com
SACRAMENTO, Ca. (March 7, 2005) - Green Party
candidates are in three elections statewide this Tuesday - in
Sacramento, Arcata and Pasadena - and they are poised to win two of them
outright, and qualify for a runoff in another.
In Arcata, Greg Allen is one of the favorites in a
nine-person field to win the City Council seat narrowly denied him in
November when he was edged out by fellow Green Paul Pitino. A victory by
Allen would give Greens four members of the five-person council.
And, in Pasadena, Green Victor Gonzalez is locked in
a two-candidate race for the Pasadena School Board. Gonzalez is a
teacher and literacy expert with the Los Angeles Unified School
District.
Finally, in Sacramento Tuesday, Pat Driscoll will be
the uncontested Green Party victor in a Special Primary Election to pick
the candidates for a Special Election Runoff May 3 to replace the late
Rep. Robert Matsui in the 5th CD.
The favorite in the 12-person race is Doris Matsui,
the wife of the Robert Matsui, who had just won his 14th term in
Congress in 2004 before dying January 1. She could negate a runoff by
collecting more than 50 percent of the vote Tuesday. However, Driscoll
and other anti-war candidates have joined forces and hope to force the
runoff - despite Matsui's early lead and nearly $1 million in mostly PAC
contributions.
In all, 67 Greens now hold public office in
California. There are four Green Party mayors, and 12 Greens on city
councils or boards of supervisors. Greens hold the majority on city
councils in Sebastopol and Arcata.
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