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Greens out of gov's race, but still involved

Thursday August 12, 2010 | 03:42 PM

Posted by Matt Wickenheiser mwickenheiser@mainetoday.com

It may be the first election in 16 years without a Green candidate for governor on the ballot, but that doesn’t mean the Maine Green Independent Party won’t have an impact on the race.

Green leadership has met with one candidate – indepedent Eliot Cutler of Cape Elizabeth – and have invited the other four contendors in for sit-downs. The party likely won’t make an endorsement in the race, said Lynne Williams, former chair of the party, but might issue a sort of report card, describing where candidates stand on matters of import to the Greens.

Williams was a candidate for governor, but dropped out of the race in March when she couldn’t get enough signatures to get on the ballot. She’s running for Senate in District 28, which covers the greater Mt. Desert area. And, as former chair of the Green Party in Maine, she’s spearheading the meetings with the gubernatorial candidates.

Cutler’s campaign approached the Greens for a meeting, said Williams. They met this week, and party leadership decided to extend invites to the other candidates, she said. Some of the issues important to the party include tax policies, job creation, single payer health care and industrial wind.

Why won’t the party likely endorse?

“If you want endorsement of the (Maine) Green Party, you become a Green,” said Williams, noting that’s why the state party declined to endorse Ralph Nadar in his last two electoral endeavors.

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