A few Green Party things...

I finally made it to the Los Angeles Greens meeting last night. There is really a great vibe in that group. The LA Greens and other area Greens are going to have a presence at the "Action Day for a Better California" rally next Wednesday organized by the California Teachers Association.

More Green Election News:

From GreensWeek (not yet updated online) comes news that two Greens were elected in Oregon on Tuesday:

OREGON VICTORIES

Pacific Green Party candidate Matt Donohue was elected to the Corvallis (509J) School Board on May 17, defeating rightwing
Republican John Turman (49.67% to 39.18 %) and marking the 4th local victory for the party in Benton County. There are currently two Greens on the Corvallis City Council and one on the Benton County Soil & Water Board. Local Greens note that Donohue and his campaign manager, Corvallis City councilor George Grosch, ran an old-fashioned, shoe-leather, phone-calling grassroots effort.

In Jackson County, Green Party candidate Mat Marr was just elected to Ashland District 5 School Board. Marr, who is 24 years old and considered a rising star in the Green Party, successfully unseated incumbent Chuck Keil, president of the Jackson County Democratic Party Coordinating Committee.

http://www.pacificgreens.org

Congrats!

One of the coolest things on the agenda for the Green Party of California plenary this weekend is a little consent calendar item to support State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica)'s single-payer health care bill (SB840). I don't know what the chances are for this, but this seems like an awesome bill. For more info, check out Health Care for All.