Green Party notes: Texas Greens convention

First, per the TXGP report on presidential voting, it's sad that there is no Travis precinct nor a Dallas one. See below for more.

Second, gag me with a fucking spoon. Hunter Crow is officially in permacandidate territory with his run for State Board of Education District 11, after his 2022 pseudo-Green run for the RRC and 2020 for Tarrant County Community College District board.

Third, I've said elsewhere, but Eddie Espinoza for the RRC is a good candidate. No idea about Robin Lee Vargas. No website. Apparently no Facebook. She does have a "donorbox" to get money. Even less idea about OC Caldwell 1 for SBOE District 10, for whom I don't even get Google hits. Per the Secretary of State website, that's it. Yep, no Greens for statewide office other than Stein and Espinoza. Not even with the Paxton-led sacking of all three GOP incumbents on the Court of Criminal Appeals. Not even with Democrats running an open ConservaDem for Senate in Colin Allred. "Congrats," pre-emptively and in advance, in missing the 2 percent cutoff in November. Best of luck in 2026. (Compare Libertarians, who, while not as strong as a decade ago, are still far stronger than Greens.) 

I know, I know, there's the filing fees. But for Senate? There's nobody with Green interest, or even a non-Conserva version of a Dem willing to be a scalawag? No GP leaning lawyer willing to pony up for a CCA run? 

Two years ago, there were three statewide candidates with no presidential race. This year, just one "organic" statewide candidate plus the presidential race. The two SBOE candidates are also good, as the party needs more candidates in general, but overall? This is backsliding.

Fourth and related? The state party bragging about chapters starting in Travis and Dallas counties. On the latter, there was one there 15-plus years ago when I lived there. For various reasons, it imploded. I think a restart effort was made a few years ago, but that then imploded. (COVID may have been a factor.) Travis? Why Keep Austin Weird hasn't had a Green Party chapter even as Dems have drifted neoliberal for years is beyond me. Denton Greens seemed OK in size for Denton County when I saw Howie there in 2020.

Fifth? Jill Stein got the state Green Party prez nod easily. Jasmine Sherman, about whom I've written briefly before, was second. Jorge Zavala, the other party-certified (not going there, not going there, on "certified") candidate, discussed with Sherman, was third. Must be kind of embarrassing to alleged Green Party co-founder Randy Toler (that's highly disputed, his claim, also at that link) to finish fourth. Side note: David Bruce Collins was a Sherman delegate there, I presume, since he's a Sherman delegate at the national convention.

Had never before heard of this fucking Daví, complete with accent mark, who, born DeShaun Davis, claims to be the "Ävatar of Earth" (with umlaut) and is already in as much of fucking nutbar territory as Zavala. But wait, per his website bio linked there, it gets better:

During the global shutdown and pandemic of 2020, Daví experienced a spiritual transformation where he began developing the ability to communicate with animals.

Oy. Just oy. And per that claim? Join Kinky Friedman in a race for Dogcatcher of Utopia with a skill like that.