Green Party of Hawaii
Hawaii affiliate of the Green Party
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The Green Party of Hawai'i (GPH) (Hawaiian: ʻAoʻao ʻōmaʻomaʻo o Hawaiʻi) is the green party organization in the state of Hawaii, and an affiliate organization of the Green Party of the United States.
Budd Dickinson
Green Party of Hawai'i ʻAoʻao ʻōmaʻomaʻo o Hawaiʻi | |
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| Chairperson | Sylvia Litchfield Budd Dickinson |
| Headquarters | Honolulu |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Green Party of the United States |
| Colors | Green |
| Seats in the U.S. Senate | 0 / 2 |
| Seats in the U.S. House | 0 / 2 |
| Hawaii Senate | 0 / 25 |
| Hawaii House of Representatives | 0 / 51 |
| Other elected officials | 0 (February 2024)[update][1] |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
The party's focus includes environmental issues, community-based economics, personal responsibility, diversity, social justice, and non-violence.[2]
History
The Hawaii Green Party first qualified for the ballot in May 1992,[2] one of the earliest state Green Parties to do so; the first was Alaska,[3] followed by California[4] and New Mexico.[5]
In November 1992, Keiko Bonk was elected to a seat on the Hawaii County (Big Island) County Council, the first Green to be elected in a partisan race in the United States. She was re-elected in 1994, but stepped down to run unsuccessfully for Island Mayor in 1996.[2]
In November 1998, Julie Jacobson was elected to Bonk's old seat on the Big Island, which she held upon re-election in 2000. Her campaign for election was managed by Bonk.[6] When she decided not to run in 2002, her husband Bob Jacobson ran and was elected, then re-elected again in 2004 and 2006. Jacobson lost in 2008. No Green Party members have since held elected office in Hawaii.[7]
In 2012, the Green Party of Hawaii was certified to be included on Hawaii partisan election ballots in all races through 2020.[2] The party sued the Chief Election Officer Scott Nago as the state ran out of ballots on election day.[8][9] A decision in the lawsuit was rendered by the Supreme Court of Hawaii on 19 July 2016.[10]
