This year, for us, is all about Lisa Savage

Steven Welzer
1 min readOct 13, 2020

For all the complaints about the Green Party (the Democrats say we make too much of an impact so we should cease and desist, the left says we don’t make enough of an impact so a new more-mass-based party needs to be formed), nonetheless we do continue to offer choices and set precedents.

Caught between Trump and Covid, our presidential campaign this year is a bust. But we have a great candidate and campaign in a Ranked Choice Voting race in Maine.

Thursday night (10/15) watch Lisa Savage debate the establishment candidates in the US Senate race:

https://www.facebook.com/events/836442540458567/

Lisa is polling over 5%. Not only that, her popularity will likely draw out a larger-than-usual progressive vote in general. When those people rank Lisa #1 and the Democrat (Sara Gideon) #2, the extra votes will probably result in a victory for Gideon (and therefore a shift of a Senate seat from Republican to Democrat).

Sounds to me like win-win-win. Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtdVSiVgDQc&feature=youtu.be

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Steven Welzer

The editor of Green Horizon Magazine, Steve has been a movement activist for many years (he was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review”).