Green Party’s Screening Questionnaire for Minneapolis Races

 

 1. Please tell us a little about your past experience and how it might qualify you to be a Green Party candidate for the office for which you are now seeking endorsement.

 

2. What do you hope to accomplish by running for this office?

 

3. What are the main three or four issues of your campaign, and which, if elected, would you focus your efforts on when in office?

 

4. The Green Party is based on ten key values: nonviolence, ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy, social justice, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility and future focus (see page 4). Tell us how you will incorporate each of these values in your positions during your campaign and if you are elected. Are there any of these values you do not share? If so, which? Please explain why.

 

5. How would your candidacy and, if elected, your service in office, contribute to the growth of the Green Party of Minnesota?

 

6. Is there anything in the Green Party state platform with which you disagree? If so, what?

 

7. Explain your positions on the following subjects, and be as specific as possible:

 

  - Election reform

 

  - Affordable Housing

 

  - Rent Control and Tenants Rights

 

  - Livable Wage

 

  - Police/Community Relations

 

  - Transportation/City Planning

 

  - Environmental Quality

 

  - Airport Issues

 

  - Crime

 

  - Economic Development

 

  - Civil Rights

 

8. If you discovered a significant budget surplus, what would you advocate the City Council do with the money?

 

9. Are there any issues that are specific to your ward, and if so, what is your position on these?

 

10. If you are endorsed, what, if any, expectations do you have of the Minneapolis/5th District Green Party regarding your campaign, and if elected, your service in office?