The Green Party of Texas announces that 18 candidates have filed to run for nomination by the Green Party in 2010 for a variety of state, district and county offices.

Thomas Muhammad, Co-chair of GPTX, spoke on the quality of the candidates as a whole. "The Green Party of Texas is extremely excited about the wonderful slate of candidates who've put themselves up for our 2010 election cycle. We look forward to an aggressive campaign through the June convention. We will then work with our final slate to run hard as our party moves to break the dominating two-party system in our state. This is the type of work our party was created for, so we say to all Greens and to Texans one and all who love true democracy let the campaign season begin!"

The full slate of candidates and offices sought:

Bart Boyce      Governor
Deb Shafto      Governor
Herb Gonzales, Jr      Lieutenant Governor
Edward Lindsay      Comptroller of Public Accounts
Art Browning      Railroad Commissioner
Jim Howe      US Congress, District 11
Ed Scharf      US Congress, District 23
Paul Cardwell      State Board of Education, District 9
Ryan Seward      State Representative, District 94
Joel West      State Representative, District 144
Don Cook      County Clerk, Harris County
Roger Baker      County Clerk, Travis County
Earl Lyons      County Clerk, Bexar County
kat swift      County Commissioner, Pct 2, Bexar County
Chuck Robinson      Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, Bexar County
Joy Vidheecharoen-Glatz      Justice of the Peace, Pct 3, Dallas County
Jeffrey Dale Glatz      County Surveyor, Dallas County
Esther Choi      County Clerk, Dallas County

Green Party precinct conventions will kick off election events at 7 PM on March 9, 2010, across the state.

In order to obtain a ballot line in the November election, the number of participants at precinct conventions can be supplemented by petition signers requesting Green Party ballot status. Petitions will be circulated for a 75 day period starting on March 10, the day after the precinct conventions. The number signing or attending precinct conventions must total at least one percent of the total number of votes received by all candidates for governor in the most recent gubernatorial general election, around 44,000 voters.

"This is a TALL order, but we're Texans and we're up to the challenge!" is the enthusiastic endorsement of Co-chair Christine Morshedi.

Update:
George Reiter has withdrawn his application to run for US Congress in District 9, due to a conflict with serving on the national board of the Pacifica Foundation.
J D Porter has withdrawn from seeking the position of State Board of Education, District 10.
Phil Snyder has withdrawn from seeking the position of State Board of Education, District 4.