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Stein didn't answer the points AOC made, she just went into her own attack. I find it funny calling AOC "idle"...I realize she's focused on the one issue that Stein can hammer in to hurt the Democrats, but the way she phrased it was really stretching things.
So why does Stein only show up during elections to fan flames? This goes to another point I made on a different thread, we need good variety in the down-ballot, so why don't we see more Green and other parties when the grassroots is where things like that start growing the best? I'm not saying they aren't there, but the candidates have never had much support from the bigger organization, and honestly have always lacked credibility when comparing them to the Democrat choice. Mainly because they're usually a one issue campaign and don't have substance on the day-to-day stuff that's needed for locals. Put better people in these positions, they might get votes.
Californians have elected 55 of the 226 office-holding Greens nationwide. Other states with high numbers of Green elected officials include Pennsylvania (31), Wisconsin (23), Massachusetts (18) and Maine (17). Maine has the highest per capita number of Green elected officials in the country and the largest Green registration percentage with more than 29,273 Greens comprising 2.95% of the electorate as of November 2006.[68] Madison, Wisconsin is the city with the most Green elected officials (8), followed by Portland, Maine (7).
He won’t see this because he blocked me, but he’s either intentionally lying or using an inaccurate source. There are currently only 142 Greens in elected office in the US. No federal positions, eight state positions (though most were not elected as Greens), and the rest have been local/municipal elections.
Source - Wikipedia
Wikipedia seems to be using this website for it's source on that, and perplexity gave a quick break down of the positions, which I'd sum up as "City councils, library and school boards and stuffs."
In any case, I'm not sure if gpeletions are owned/affiliated with the green party directly. but yeah. I can't find a single person in the CA state assembly or senate that's not DFL/GOP.
edit: also, looking at wikipedia, it seems that the 8 state holders are all former office holders. There's no currently seated green party members at the state level.
edit 2: gpelections seems to be part of the green party's official set of websites. (if you go to gp.org, which is the green party official site, and click 'officeholders', it takes you to gpelections.org)