From the February 17, 2010 broadcast of Chicago Tonight on WTTW Channel 11, featuring Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for Governor; LeAlan Jones, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator; and Tom Tresser, Green Party candidate for Cook County Board President will be on air. Click here to see the interview.

Meet Rich, LeAlan, and Tom on March 6

Join Rich, LeAlan, Tom and more on Saturday, March 6. The annual Cook County Green Party membership meeting, to which all Greens throughout the county are invited, will be held in the afternoon. That night at 6:00, come to the Logan Square neighborhood and a meet-and-greet fundraiser at Quencher's, 2401 N. Western Ave. in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times' Carol Marin: "Discontented voters could go Green"

http://www.suntimes.com/news/marin/2046192,CST-EDT-carol14.article

Green Congressional Candidates Roger K. Davis and Dan Kairis visit Prophetstown

On February 9, Green Party candidates for U.S. Congress Roger K. Davis (17th) and Dan Kairis (14th) visited Prophetstown, in Whiteside County in northwestern Illinois, to listen to the concerns of the union employees of Tyco Flow Control. Tyco Flow Control has a plant in Prophetstown, and even though this plant has the highest productivity rate than any other Tyco plant in the United States, the higher administration wants to shut the plant down and move sections of the plant to Texas, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. Why? Because Tyco will receive a tax break, plus state aid. Nearly 30 union members where in attendance as well as the union local board, plus the mayor of Prophetstown, Steve Swanson, who extended his endorsement to Roger.

THANK YOU to all the Green Voters!

There were nearly twice as many Green voters for this primary as the previous primary!  All of our candidates appreaciate your votes and support!  It will be our privilege to work with all of you for a successful November election.  Please contact any of the candidates below or the state party and offer your assistance.  Again, thank you for your votes and help. 

Statewide Candidates

U.S. Senator - LeAlan M. Jones
Governor - Rich Whitney
Lieutenant Governor - Don W. Crawford
Attorney General - David F. Black
Comptroller - R. Erika Schafer
Treasurer - Scott K. Summers
Secretary of State - Adrian Frost

Congressional Candidates

1st Congress - Jeff Adams
3rd Congress - Laurel Lambert Schmidt
4th Congress - Robert J. Burns
5th Congress - Matt Reichel
7th Congress - Kip Robbins
8th Congress - Bill Scheurer
9th Congress - Simon Ribeiro
12th Congress - Rodger Jennings
14th Congress - Daniel J. Kairis
16th Congress - Terry G. Campbell
17th Congress - Roger K. Davis
18th Congress - Sheldon Schafer

Legislative Candidates

39th State Rep - Jeremy Karpen
47th State Rep - Bob Mueller
68th State Rep - Gerry Woods
69th State Rep - Dan Lindsey
79th State Rep - George Ochsenfeld
105th State Rep - Vince LaMie
115th State Rep - Charlie Howe

County Candidates

Cook County Assessor - Robert C. Grota
Cook County Board President - Thomas Tresser
Cook County Commissioner, District 01 - Ronald Lawless
Cook County Commissioner, District 02 - Michael Smith
Cook County Commissioner, District 04 - Joseph A. Barton
Cook County Commissioner, District 07 - Paloma Andrade
Cook County Commissioner, District 09 - Brock Merck
Cook County Commissioner, District 13 - George E. Milkowski
Cook County, Metropolitan Water Rec District - Diana Horton
Cook County, Metropolitan Water Rec District - Nadine Bopp
Cook County, Metropolitan Water Rec District - Jack Ailey
Cook County Sheriff - Marshall Lewis
Lake County Board, District 08 - Kevin Gartley
McHenry County Board, District 05 - Frank Wedig
McHenry County Sheriff - Gus Philpott

If you have any questions about this list, or if you are seeking contact information for a candidate, please contact Phil Huckelberry, Illinois Green Party Chair, or Patrick Kelly, Illinois Green Party Media Coordinator, at phil.huckelberry at ilgp.org or patrick.kelly at ilgp.org.

Rich Whitney's Response to Citizens United V. FEC. Court Ruling

Carbondale, IL- Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney issued the following statement in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission:

In a transparently political decision, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its own recent precedent yesterday and paid tribute to the giant corporate interests that already wield tremendous power over our political process and political speech. Drawing upon a much older precedent – the legal fiction of corporate “personhood” that it created in 1886 – the Court determined that these contrived “rights” trump the public interest in having genuinely representative government.

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