RE: Was A Vote To Recall the PRI a Vote For Vicente Fox?

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Hola Camaradas:

On 12 Oct 2003 at 14:54, Tony Abdo wrote:

From:                        "Tony Abdo" <gojack10@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Similarly, the Texas Greens have pretty much ignored the

> whole GOP

> Congressional District Restructuring shenanigans.     Here,

> they aslo seem

> to have this distant and wrong attitude that this is an

> issue totally

> irrelevant to them.    The public is going to remember these

> things, and the

> chorus of accusations that the Greens will be spoilers in

> 2004 will be even

> more shrill than they were in 2000.    Not an advance in the

> goal of

> fracturing the Two Party System.

I think the Left sometimes forgets how big the US geographically and that political models or events in one region of this empire are not the particularly the same as in Califas or as in Tejas. Much get made about the Greens or ISO or x Left group as if this or that group were strong structurally at all levels of the US when is not.

In the case of the Greens in the Texas, they got more to worry than just public scorn. They have to worry about the fact that at the last gubernatorial election they got beat by the Libertarian Party, got 4th position, and received less than 2%  required to retain ballot status (they got .07% so they lost it). Electoral laws being the way they are (got remember that for almost 90 or so years, Texas was a one party state), the Greens are going to have to go into overdrive to get it the ballot status.

So w/o ballot status, what are they left to do? Well, based on a recent email I got for them: organize the "liberal" wing of the Democrats.

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From:            Steve Agan <stephe-@xxxxxxxxx>;

Subject:         [GPTX-statewide] Green Party of Texas Announcements

To:              GPTX County Chairs <gptx_coun-@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;,

GPTX Listserv <texg-@xxxxxxxxx>;, GPTX Statewide <gptx-@xxxxxxxxxx>;

|from Steve Agan <stephe-@xxxxxxxxx>; via gptx-@xxxxxxxxx, the

GPTX statewide listserver Texas Green Party Supporters,

Here are some announcements about upcoming events and

activities that may be of interest to you . . .

DENNIS KUCINICH IN AUSTIN

Congressman Dennis Kucinich will be in Austin at the

Airport Hilton on Tuesday, October 14th from

1:00-2:30pm as part of a nationwide tour to formally

announce his candidacy for President. The event is

free and open to the public. The airport does charge

a small fee for parking.

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So, I don't think it's much as having ignored it (though there maybe an element to it), but rather there is no organizational structure to deal with such events, i.e., there is not much of a Green Party in Texas to talk about. What we may have then in Texas is what we used to call in Mexico "partidos de membrete" (letterhead parties).

por el socialismo,

Erik Torén