Sunday, June
9th, 2002 at about 10:55 AM.
We showed up to let the
Gay Community know that the Green Party is willing to stand up and be
counted.
Not shown here is the bundle of Green Party Candidate newsletters and
the
satchel full of invitations to our Peter Camejo event on June 19th that
we
handed out.
The Santa Clara
and San Mateo County Green
Parties at our first regional
picnik, July 7th, 2002.
It is impossible
to list all the things the
people on the pages you
can get to by clicking these pictures did to get the word out on our
candidates.
You just have to take my word for it that you are looking at real
activists
here. By the way, if you want a copy of the mailer shown above,
email me your postal service
address.
Clicking on the above slogan will
take you to the
pictures I took at
the Peace Demonstration that happened a couple of weeks before the
election.
I am proud to say that there was a link to that page on Peter Camejo's
website
for most of the rest of election season. I probably got more hits on
that
page than any other I have made to date. It was a great thrill.
Jo Chamberlain's race for the 19th
Discrict got
over 10%, a very respectable
showing from my point of view. I personally walked something like a
dozen
precincts for her. I put the Indiana quarter on the map because on
October
19th I gave her an Indiana quarter, since that is the 19th one in the
series.
At that time, she told me she would wear it in her shoe on Election
Day.
Did she actually do it? I don't want to know.
After all that
work we did, Camejo managed to
get 5% of the vote, according
to this chart from the Mercury News that was published the next day. I
remember
being at an election night party and seeing an update on the California
Governor's race on CNN. They had Camejo, Davis, and Simon in the same
size
text, with Camejo's 5% there for all the world to see. He was the only
Green
I know of that made it onto the global stage that night. I was very
proud
of us. Especially Camejo.