The Roxie Theatre in San Francisco's Mission District was filled to capacity. The question on most people's mind was how the election loss of the Republicans would translate into political action and how the Democrats could be made responsible.
An hour before the event was to begin a line started forming at the doors of the historic old Roxie Theatre in San Francisco's Mission District. It was the end of December 2006, on the verge of the sea change in Congress. The question on most people's mind was how the election victory of the Democrats would translate into political action.
Who was better suited to analyze the situation than Ralph Nader, long associated with the Green Party and electoral politics. Public Citizen, founded by Nader in 1971, is credited with helping to pass the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act and prompting the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. In part TWO you will hear form the Greens at the event: The biggest victory of the California Green Party is that of Gayle McLaughlin. She is now the major of Richmond, the largest US city with a green major. And she won that seat even though she was outspent 4 to 1 by the incumbent major who was supported by the Chevron Corporation. Her victory gave the Greens 19 wins during 2006, and they now hold 50 elected offices in the state of CA. Ross Mirkarimi, founder of the California Green Party, is currently the District 5 member of the S.F. Board of Supervisors. Matt Gonzales almost became the first Green major of San Francisco in 2003. In one of the most inspiring political campaigns thousands, many of them young, participated personally in a grass roots, multicultural effort to spread Green issues, register voters and have him elected major of San Francisco. He lost to Gavin Newsom by only 14.217 votes - and that difference, many believe was, paid for by personal visits to SF by Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson and Joe Lieberman. Recorded December 28, 2006
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