Which entity did the Green Independent candidate inform he was no longer seeking election in the election in which Incumbent Democratic Governor John Baldacci was term-limited?
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Patrick Quinlan (author) Patrick Quinlan is an American author, political activist, fundraiser, and briefly, a Green Independent candidate for Governor of Maine in the 2010 election. In the fall of 2009, he informed the Maine Ethics Commission that he was no longer seeking election.
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Maine gubernatorial election, 2010 The 2010 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Democratic Governor John Baldacci was term-limited and unable to seek re-election. Primary elections took place on June 8, 2010. The candidates who appeared on the November ballot were (in alphabetical order by last name): Eliot Cutler (Independent), Paul LePage (Republican), Libby Mitchell (Democrat), Shawn Moody (Independent), and Kevin Scott (Independent).
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New Mexico gubernatorial election, 2002 The New Mexico gubernatorial election of 2002 was a race for the Governor of New Mexico. The winner of the election held on November 5, 2002, served from January 1, 2003 until January 1, 2007. Current incumbent, Republican Gary Johnson was term limited. Former U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson won the election. Green Party nominee David Bacon received over 5% of the total vote, including over 11% in Santa Fe County, which was his best showing.
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Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2019 The Kentucky gubernatorial election of 2019 will be conducted to choose a new Governor of Kentucky. Incumbent Republican Governor Matt Bevin is eligible to run for re-election to a second term. Bevin has not announced whether he would run for a second term in office.
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Wisconsin gubernatorial election, 1962 The 1962 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1962. Democrat John W. Reynolds won the election with 51% of the vote, winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin and defeating Republican Philip Kuehn.
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Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2018 The 2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election will take place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Minnesota, concurrently with the election of Minnesota's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various Minnesota and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Governor Mark Dayton is eligible to run for a third term, but has pledged not to do so.
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United States gubernatorial elections, 2020 United States gubernatorial elections will be held on November 3, 2020 in 11 states and two territories. In addition, special elections may take place (depending on state law) if other gubernatorial seats are vacated. The last regular gubernatorial elections for nine of the eleven states took place in 2016. The last gubernatorial elections for New Hampshire and Vermont will have taken place in 2018, as the governors of both states serve two-year terms. All state governors will be eligible for re-election, save for Steve Bullock of Montana, although other governors may choose to retire. The 2020 gubernatorial elections will take place concurrently with several other federal, state, and local elections, including the presidential election.
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Oregon gubernatorial election, 1930 The 1930 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1930 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. The Oregon Republican Party, at the time dominant in Oregon politics, initially nominated George W. Joseph, but the nominee died prior to the general election. Joseph's former law partner Julius Meier entered the race as an independent, and defeated replacement Republican nominee Phil Metschan, Jr., Democrat Ed F. Murphy, and Socialist Albert Scheiff to become the first and only independent politician to be elected Governor of Oregon.
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Green Senatorial Campaign Committee The Green Senatorial Campaign Committee (GSCC) is the Green Party committee for the United States Senate, working to elect Greens to the United States Senate. The GSCC filed with the US Federal Election Commission for official recognition in September 2006, which was received in February 2007. This is the first time a party other than the Democrats or Republicans have had a Senatorial Campaign Committee recognized by the FEC.
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Mississippi gubernatorial election, 1951 The 1951 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1951, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat Fielding L. Wright was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second full term. As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election.
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Kate Brown Katherine Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician who is the 38th and current Governor of Oregon. Brown, a Democrat and an attorney, previously served as Oregon Secretary of State and as majority leader of the Oregon State Senate, where she represented portions of Milwaukie and of Northeast and Southeast Portland.
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Mike Cooney Michael R. "Mike" Cooney (born September 3, 1954) is an American administrator and Democratic Party politician who has served as the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Montana since January 2016. He previously served in the Montana House of Representatives (1977–1981), as the Secretary of State of Montana (1989–2001), in the Montana Senate (2003–2011), as the President of the Montana Senate (2007–2009) and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Montana in 2000.
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Arkansas gubernatorial election, 2010 The 2010 Arkansas gubernatorial election took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Incumbent Governor Mike Beebe, a Democrat, ran for re-election, and faced former State Senator Jim Keet, whom he defeated in a landslide to win a second and final term as governor. As of 2016, this is the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of Arkansas and the last time a Democrat carried every county in Arkansas.
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Gina Raimondo Gina Marie Raimondo (born May 17, 1971) is an American politician, businesswoman, venture capitalist, and the 75th and current governor of Rhode Island. Raimondo, a member of the Democratic Party, is the first woman to serve as governor of Rhode Island. Prior to her election as governor, she served as the general treasurer for Rhode Island and was the second Rhode Island woman to serve as treasurer. She was selected as the Democratic candidate for Rhode Island's governorship in the 2014 election. Raimondo won the election with 41% of the vote, in a three-way race, against the mayor of Cranston, the Republican Allan Fung, and businessman Robert Healey, on November 4, 2014.
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Texas gubernatorial election, 2006 The 2006 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2006 elect the Governor of Texas. The election was a rare four-way race, with incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry running for re-election against Democrat Chris Bell and Independents Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman. Perry was re-elected to a second full term in office, winning 39% of the vote to Bell's 30%, Strayhorn's 18% and Friedman's 12%.
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Vermont gubernatorial election, 1996 The Vermont gubernatorial election of 1996 took place on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democrat Howard Dean ran successfully for re-election to a third full term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Republican candidate John L. Gropper.
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California Gambling Control Commission California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) is the official gambling commission of the state of California. It states its aim is to "foster honest, competitive gambling in California that is free of criminal and corruptive elements." The governor of the commission as of 2012 is Jerry Brown; Judge Eugene Balonon was a former governor of the commission as was Burks Shelton. Shelton was appointed by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004 who was stated to have an aversion to gambling and demanded tighter regulation of populating Indian casinos, declaring that the commission would "yank their licenses for those slot machines" if the casinos were found guilty of misconduct.
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California gubernatorial election, 2014 The 2014 California gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of California, concurrently with elections for the rest of California's executive branch, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
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Green Party of Alaska The Green Party of Alaska is the state party organization for Alaska of the Green Party of the United States of America. Alaska was the first state to gain Green Party ballot access, in 1990, when Jim Sykes ran for governor. Sykes had previously filed a ballot access lawsuit, citing an earlier case, "Vogler v. Miller".
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Ben Westlund Ben Westlund (September 3, 1949 – March 7, 2010) was an American politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A Democrat, he was elected State Treasurer in 2008. Previously, Westlund served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, as a Republican from 1996 to 2006, as an independent from 2006 to 2007, and then as a Democrat. Westlund dropped his Republican party affiliation to run for Governor of Oregon in the 2006 election, but dropped out of the race in August. In December 2006 he became a Democrat. Westlund worked as a business analyst, and ran businesses in mining, ranching, and agriculture.
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Green-Rainbow Party The Green-Rainbow Party is one of twenty-six political designations officially recognized by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The party is a local state affiliate for the wider Green Party of the United States of America. Originally the Massachusetts Green Party, it was formed in 1996 and recognized in 2000. It merged with the Rainbow Coalition Party in 2002 and rebranded as the Green-Rainbow Party. The party has supported candidates on the national level such as Ralph Nader, David Cobb, and Jill Stein. It has also run candidates and pushed for political support at the state and municipal level. As of February 2012 the official party's membership ranks stood at roughly 5,300, which makes up about 0.12% of the Commonwealth's eligible electorate; though the number of votes for party candidates are usually significantly higher attributed to independent voters. Hampshire, Berkshire, and Nantucket counties have the highest per-capita number of Green-Rainbow Party members in ratio to county population.
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BluegrassReport.org BluegrassReport.org is a defunct Democratic Party-oriented political blog that covered Kentucky politics, especially with regard to former Governor Ernie Fletcher (R), as well as state government in general and federal government officeholders representing the state. The blog, which further covered ongoing intra-party operations, political issues and scandals, was started in June 2005 by Democratic consultant Mark Nickolas, former campaign manager for both Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards and U.S. House Rep. Ben Chandler's 2003 gubernatorial campaign and hack journalist. The blog, edited solely by Nickolas for most of its active period, described itself as "An Unfiltered and Candid Look at Politics, Politicians and the Media in Kentucky".