Green Party Locals in Colorado

• Arapahoe Green Party
  Recognized by the GPCO in 2005.
  Website: http://www.metrodenvergreens.org/ Contact: Tom Kelly

• Boulder County Green Party - The Boulder County Green Party was formed in 1988 and is very active today. Link: Boulder County . Contact: Judith Mohling (303) 447-9635

• Denver Green Party - Covering the counties of Denver and Douglas. As a growing chapter working to capitalize on the vast number of public offices available in the metropolitan area, we are recruiting local Greens to complete our ranks and eventually sprout independent chapters in each county. Link:Denver Green Party. Contact: Claire Ryder, Chair

• Adams/Jefferson County Green Party - The Jefferson County Green Party was officially added as a local chapter on April 24, 2004 at the Colorado State Green Party meeting held in Fort Collins.
  In 2006 JCGP officially changed its name to Adams/Jefferson County Green Party.
  Jefferson county is made up of a variety of sub-communities including cities, unincorporated housing areas, rural farms, mountain towns, and pine forests. Our main goals include:

  1) increase the number of registered Green Party voters in Jefferson County,
  2) grow the number of active local participants--especially in terms of females and minorities,
  3) run viable candidates for elected offices,
  4) put Green Party members onto county and municipal boards, and
  5) develop leverage in handling county issues.
  Link: Adams/Jefferson Greens; Contact: Dave Chandler

• Greeley Green Party - The Greeley Green Party (GGP) was officially added as a local chapter April 24, 2004. Previously the University of Northern Colorado Green Party, the GGP is composed mostly of college students. The GGP hopes to branch out to Weld County community members while maintaining a strong presence at UNC. Contacts: e-mail- greeleygreenparty@hotmail.com Chairperson- Jason Rosenholtz-Witt - 970-352-1885

• Mesa County Green Party - The Mesa County Green Party has been active since 1999. Our local aims are the protection of the wilderness area, which is so much a part of the beauty of Mesa County, and to improve the quality of life of our local citizens in the Grand Junction area. In moving toward these goals, some members of the Mesa County Green Party are involved in a "living wage campaign". Contact: Charlie Blount

• Pikes Peak/ El Paso Greens
  -This local is reorganizing. For more information contact Gary del Valle, (719) 260-7386

• Poudre Valley Greens - One of the oldest Green Party locals in Colorado, we work on city, county and state electoral races as well as local issues like transit, renewable energy and protecting the Poudre River. There are more registered Green Party voters here in Larimer County than any other county in Colorado except Boulder and Denver.Contact: Contact: Jerry Gerber at 407-9691 or go to our website at www.pvgreens.org.

• Royal Gorge Greens -The Royal Gorge Greens (RG Greens) formed a local chapter of the Colorado Green Party in Fremont County during June, 2002. We were formally accepted on June 22, 2002. We feel we are a pioneering effort in this largely rural county. The RG Greens plan to make our presence known along the Arkansas River from Penrose to Howard so progressive individuals will know they are not alone!
  Currently we are in the process of merging with Chaffee County to form the Upper Arlansas Valley Green party, a two-county "local". Contact: Charlie Green.

• San Miguel Greens - Formed by County Commissioner Art Goodtimes when he switched parties in 1998, the year the Green Party of Colorado achieved ballot status. The chapter ran Martin Thomas as a write-in for Telluride Town Council in the spring of 2000, garnering over 100 votes but losing. In the fall of 2000 Art won a landslide re-election campaign as a Green and currently serves on the three- person board. In 2001 the chapter endorsed Ernest "Ike" Eich, IV, and Hilary White for the same position. Hilary won, coming in 3rd out of 9 for the 4 open seats, and currently serves on the 7-person board. Ike came in 8th. In 2002, the chapter endorsed D. Oak Smith for the County Clerk position, but he was unsuccessful. Contact: John Wontrobski.

• Southwest Colorado Greens - Began meeting just before the November, 2000 elections and became a local of the GPCO in September, 2001. While open to anyone in the far southwest corner of Colorado, geographic factors focus activity in Montezuma and Dolores counties. Contact: Graham Johnson, P.O. Box 1744, Cortez, CO 81321,(970)565-8283

• Green Party of Summit County - Green candidate and TV personality Jeffrey Bergeron won a four-year term to the Breckenridge Town Council in April 2004, while Jim Lamb served a four year term on the Breckenridge Town Council as an elected Green from 2000 to 2004. Green candidate for County Commissioner, District 1, Justin McCarthy did well in November 2002 earning a respectable 37 percent of the votes. Green Party of Summit County's Co-Chair Tom Castrigno ran a great campaign for County Commissioner, District 2, on the November 2004 ballot. The chapter has been very active on local issues, successfully opposing cyanide open pit mining in 2004 and organizing the successful ballot initiative in 2002 which stopped a golf course from going in on the Frisco Peninsula. Link: Green Party of Summit County. Contact: Doug Malkan.

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HISTORY OF THE GREEN PARTY Of COLORADO

- and information on starting new chapters -

The Green Party of Colorado was formed in 1992.  As Greens grew and evolved to include electoral politics in our repertoire of activism, the need for a state party became apparent. With our ballot status in 1998, our growth has taken off as progressives in Colorado see the Green Party as a practical avenue for their political activism.

Local chapters are the core of Green Politics. We spend most of our efforts in our own communities, building the experience and credibility that makes us a realistic option come election time. This Green Synergy between consistent issue-based activism between elections, and running candidates to take advantage of that credibility, is unique to the Green Party, and a big part of Green Party growth in Colorado and elsewhere.

If you wish to form a local, please read the bylaws and procedures and guidelines (available at the bottom of the Home page), then send a letter indicating your agreement with Section 3.2, a copy of your bylaws, and request an agenda item to affiliate at the next state meeting.