If you say no, the twoparty system is not working, your line is going to be 202 7488001. If you are unsure what you still want to talk about this issue, your number is going to be 202 7488002. You can alwaysd text us your opinion at 202 7488003. Keep in mind, we are always reading on social media, on. Witter, and cspan we are going to have live on the two current thirdParty Candidates running for president. Coming up at 8 00 we are going to hear from Green Party Candidate Howie Hawkins. Coming up at 9 15, the jorgensenn nominee jo will discuss her platform and strategy for this years election. If you want to hear directly from those candidates, keep watching the show. First, we want to hear from you about the twoparty system in the United States. Do you think the political system is working . There is a story from cnn that talked about this earlier this year. Even if they are down on the independent candidates being presented, nearly 40 of americans think a third local party is needed
You are running for president this year. Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Howie well we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected people to their 35 bundestag, their congress, and around the world people said maybe we should do that. So we met in 1984 in st. Paul, meeting wend said cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. He did not do an active campaign, but he got on 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. We have been here 35 years and we currently have 129 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, that is more than any independent Progressive Party has had since you have to go back to the heyday of t
Good morning. Guest good morning. Host you are part of the original u. S. Green party and you are running for president. Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Guest we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected 35 people to their bundestag, their congress, and people around the world said maybe we should do that. We met in 1984 in st. Paul, minnesota and said, we cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. We got on over 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. We have been here 35 years and currently have 129 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, more than any independent Progressive Party has. You have to go
Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Guest we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected 19 people to their bundestag, their congress, and people around the world said maybe we in 1984 inhat we met st. Paul, minnesota and said, we cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. We got on over 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. Andave been here 35 years currently have 100 29 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, more than any independent Progressive Party has. You have to go back to the heyday of the socialist party before the 1940s. What has changed as we have a lot of ballot lines running local candidate,
A massive thing. I want to first off thank all of who voted for us. It is not a small thing. I personally thank you for your trust, and how he is probably going to reiterate that. This is a platform i want you to know that i support with my whole soul. I also want to say thank you to the socialist party of the usa for helping to make the red queen alliance that we talk talked of so many years ago, we are now seeing it. Ready amazing. I want to thank our brilliant andrea, andager thank my wonderful assistant, you, huged huge thank big up to all of our folks on our campaign team. Yall are amazing, yall are hustlers. Thank yall for making for all that you have done so that this campaign has gotten to this point. I want to think all of you who have showed up for us in various different ways. Whether it was supporting with money, whether it was kind words and good thoughts. Thank you to the volunteers that have made this campaign the topic of conversation in places where it wasnt happening.