Arizona Green Party
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The Green Party of Arizona was founded by Carolyn Campbell and others in the 1990s. It has since struggled with Arizona's relatively difficult ballot access laws, achieving ballot access for the 2000 election cycle, then losing it again in 2004. The AZGP currently has an aggressive plan to regain ballot access for the 2008 election cycle.
There are currently two organized county Green Parties in Arizona: Maricopa County and Pima County. Efforts towards organization are occurring in Coconino County and Yavapai County.
Prominent Green candidates in Arizona have included Claudia Ellquist who ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004 on a platform largely focused on declaring a moratorium on the death penalty, and Tom Nolan who was very closely defeated in the 2006 race for Riverside Elementary School Board.
The Arizona Green Party is perhaps best known for its strong stances on immigration. It proposes that the urban walls on the border be dismantled and NAFTA repealed for the sake of the thousands of immigrants who die while trying to cross the border. The AZGP also paid to put two statements in an Arizona voter's guide on ballot initiatives and referenda in 2006. One statement opposed Arizona Proposition 107, which bans civil unions and the second favored Arizona Proposition 202, which raises the Arizona minimum wage to $6.75/hr.
In 2006 the Arizona Green Party and the Pima County Green Party hosted the 2006 annual national meeting of the Green Party of the United States in Tucson, Arizona.
