On March 10, Green Party delegates and friends from 12 Pennsylvania counties met online for the Green Party of PA (GPPA) State Committee meeting. 

They had just completed the first GPPA presidential primary, and there were two winners. Jill Stein came in first place, earned 75 percent of the vote and was awarded 10 delegates. Jasmine Sherman came in second place with 19 percent of the vote and earned three delegates. Jorge Zavala and the write-in candidates did not earn any delegates.

 Marci Henzi, a GPPA state committee delegate from Allegheny County, was very pleased. “Jill has proven to be a strong leader—not only through her phenomenal campaign in 2016, but by her presence for the Green Party in the eight intervening years. Her strength and powerful rhetoric continue to inspire new and seasoned voters alike. Jill Stein is a courageous representative of what we value and what we aspire to.”

“Jill Stein has always stood for people, planet and peace over profit. Now, voters who agree with her will have a choice on November 5,” said state committee delegate Christ Robinson, from Philadelphia.

“As a member of Poor People’s Army working with the organized poor every day on the streets in the greater Philly area, I’m thrilled that Jill Stein won the GPPA presidential primary,” said Matthew Pillischer (Montgomery). “Poor and working people don’t have an option that will actually mean something in either corporate party. One party smiles with a peace sign while they stab you in the back, and the other party stabs you in the chest while making fun of you. Neither party works for us. We need to build independent people power from the bottom and look for meaningful ways like this to express that in the limited but important electoral arena.”

The GPPA State Committee also elected by consensus a candidate for U.S. Senate, and Richard Weiss Esq. (Allegheny) for PA Attorney General. Weiss was the Green Party candidate for PA Attorney General in 2020, earning 70,804 votes. 

The Green Party of PA, www.gpofpa.org, is an independent political party that stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. GPPA candidates promote public policy based on the Green Party’s Four Pillars: grassroots democracy, nonviolence, ecological wisdom and social justice/equal opportunity. 

For further information about GPPA, email contact@gpofpa.org. 

Contributed by the Green Party of Pennsylvania.