On July 24, the Arkansas Green Party held its state nominating convention. Jim Lendall is the party’s nominee for Governor. If he gets 3% in November 2010, the party will enjoy qualified status automatically for 2012. Lendall will be the only person on the ballot for Governor, other than the Democratic and Republican nominees.
Lendall has served in the state legislature in the past. In 1988 he was elected as an independent, and later he was elected as a Democrat. He was also the Green Party nominee for Governor in 2006. He polled 1.63% that year, but that was a four-candidate race, with independent gubernatorial candidate Rod Bryan polling 2.04%.
The party also nominated John Gray for U.S. Senate. He has been campaigning for that office for several months. Also, it nominated candidates for U.S. House in the 1st, 2nd and 4th districts, for three state legislative races, and for two partisan county offices. One of the partisan county offices is Saline County Collector. The Green nominee, Joy Ballard, will be the only candidate on the November ballot for that office, although four write-in candidates are running.
Uh, but no candidates for Auditor, Treasurer, or Attorney General? (ones with no Republican running, therefore guaranteeing them enough of a percentage to qualify) If so, then bad play. Gotta take the layups.
Rebecca is candidate for ATTY General.
The Greens shoudl’ve taken advantage and put Rebekah Kennedy who ran in 2008 for the U.S. Senate seat and got 20.6 in a 2-way race. They should’ve also nominated candidates for the other statewide races, especially if some have only one party running). Does anybody know who the Greens nominated for the 1st, 2nd and 4th Congressional Districts? Remember, they got 20.6% in the U.S. Senate race and almost 15% of the total U.S. Congress vote in AR.
Green Party Candidates
(I apologize for the lack of caps)
u.s.senate-john gray
congress-district 1-ken adler
congress district 2-lewis kennedy
congress district 4-joshua drake
governor- jim lendall
secretary of state- david orr
attorney general- rebekah kennedy
state auditor- mary willis
state treasurer- bobby tullis
state senate district 18- greg slocum
state rep. district 33- conrad harvin
state rep. district 90- mark swaney
saline county collector- joy ballard
johnson county coronor- ray wood
endorsements…
howard smith- west memphis city council
jacob hollaway- jonesboro city council