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1) NEW ZEALAND: GREENS ADAMANT NZ DOES NOT WANT TOUR
2) NEW ZEALAND: MANA CANDIDATE
3) GERMANY: NEW GERMAN LEFT PARTY SUPPLANTS GREENS AS CAMPAIGN HEATS UP
4) MAINE: EX-SPEAKER DEFENDS SUSPENSION OF GREEN PARTY STAFFER LAST YEAR

5) NEW ZEALAND: NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT URGED TO CONSIDER PACIFIC
PASSPORT PROPOSAL
6) ENGLAND: GREENS TO KEEP TRACK OF BIDS FOR LATE LICENCES
7) OKLAHOMA: PARTY LOOKS TO PLACE GREENS ON THE MENU
8) CONNECTICUT: GREEN PARTY HOPEFUL WOULD BE 4TH CANDIDATE IN MAYOR'S
RACE
9) NEW ZEALAND: BLACK CAPS 'MAY BE STRANDED'
10) MAINE: NUMBERS OF GREENS GROWING IN MAINE; THIRD PARTY BOOSTS ROLLS,
BUT LACKS CASH

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1) The New Zealand Herald; July 18, 2005

NEW ZEALAND: GREENS ADAMANT NZ DOES NOT WANT TOUR

The Green Party has rejected the claim of NZ Cricket boss Martin Snedden
that public opinion has swung in behind the tour of Zimbabwe, saying the
mood is the opposite.

Mr Snedden made the comments after a protest march against the tour by
about 1000 people in Auckland on Saturday.

He said the small size of the march was "an indication that the view
taken a few weeks ago by most of the media is not reflective of what the
public think".

Green co-leader Rod Donald said the comments were "misguided".

A TVNZ/Colmar Brunton poll taken on June 30 found 77 per cent of New
Zealanders opposed the tour. Only 14 per cent of those interviewed
thought it should go ahead.

Mr Donald said he believed that opposition to the tour was even stronger
now. The Greens will continue their campaign to prevent the team going,
bringing Judith Todd - the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, the New
Zealand-born former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia - to Wellington
this week to speak with union, church and political leaders.

Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff has conceded the tour is now likely
to go ahead in a fortnight unless safety issues arise.

The International Cricket Council reiterated on Friday that the
Government would have to make the tour illegal to prevent NZ Cricket
suffering multi-million dollar penalties if it cancelled the tour.

The Government has refused to legislate to prevent the team from going,
saying that would be an infringement of civil rights.

"The Green Party's bill has been drafted so that it doesn't prevent
individual Kiwis from travelling to Zimbabwe," Mr Donald said.

"Right-thinking New Zealanders recognise that stopping Mugabe and not
giving him the pleasure of seeing the Black Caps in his country is far
more important than the tour."

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2) The Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand); July 18, 2005

NEW ZEALAND: MANA CANDIDATE

THE Green Party's youngest candidate, Nikki Harvey, 29, will contest
Mana in the general election.

The occupational therapist has worked at Porirua Psychiatric Hospital
and Mana Community Enterprises Vocational Rehabilitation Centre.

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3) Deutsche Presse-Agentur; July 17, 2005

GERMANY: NEW GERMAN LEFT PARTY SUPPLANTS GREENS AS CAMPAIGN HEATS UP

Berlin-- A far-left alliance of dissatisfied Social Democrats and former
East German communists rallied in Berlin Sunday with polls showing their
newly christened Left Party has overtaken the Greens in voter support.

The developments coincided with an unconfirmed report that President
Horst Koehler plans this coming week to dissolve the Bundestag
parliament and call for a general election on September 18.

With just two months to go, opinion surveys showed the Left Party
garnering 10 per cent of the vote, compared to just 7 per cent for the
Greens, junior partners in embattled Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's
fragile centre-left coalition government.

That would make the Left Party the third-strongest political force in
Germany, behind front-runner Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats
(CDU/CSU) at 43 per cent and Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) at 27
per cent.

In the five states constituting former communist East Germany, the Left
Party has the support of a whopping 29 per cent of the electorate,
according to an Emnid Institute poll. In the west, support is running at
under 10 per cent -- head-and-head with the Greens in most places.

The new far-left alliance is headed by former Schroeder cabinet member
Oscar Lafontaine and Gregor Gysi, long the most charismatic figure in
the far-leftist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the reconstituted
East German Communist Party. Lafontaine heads the new leftist grouping
called the Labour and Social Election Alternative (WASG).

In Berlin Sunday, the PDS met in a national convention to change the
party's name formally to Linkspartei (Left Party), thus paving the way
for a merger with the WASG under a common campaign banner.

"This is a second beginning for us," 57-year-old Gysi told delegates in
Berlin. "Fifteen years after our first beginning we are now poised to
take on more political power than ever before."

Schroeder, whose Social Democrats are trailing in the public opinion
surveys in the run-up to the planned September general election,
continued to lash out at dissenters in his own party who have gone over
to the new Left Party, as well as at his conservative challenger Merkel.

"I am confident that we can turn this campaign around and emerge
victorious," Schroeder said. "And if the federal president should decide
against calling a new election, then I have every intention of remaining
in office and filling out my full term for another year."

According to an unconfirmed report in Monday's editions of Der Spiegel
news magazine, Koehler viewed Schroeder's remarks as a threat to him.
The magazine said Koehler had told his aides he now had no choice but to
call for a new election in order to prevent political chaos in Germany.

Schroeder decided to push to bring forward the country's election by
one year in the wake of a humiliating defeat for his party last month in
a poll in the SPD's traditional heartland of North Rhine Westphalia.

His foreign minister, meanwhile, issued a blistering attack on the new
Left Party.

"There is absolutely no reason for us to cower in fear or shame,"
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, the Green Party's standard-bearer,
said in published remarks.

"We have an admirable and in fact outstanding record, built in two
decades of hard work in the German Bundestag," said Fischer, who was in
New York over the weekend for deliberations at the United Nations on
Germany's bid to gain a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.

"We have nothing to fear from anybody as we go into an election
campaign from which I am confident we will emerge victorious."

Germany's Greens, facing a strong challenge from the political left for
the first time in their history, held their own party congress last
weekend, hammering out an election platform aimed at defusing the threat
from the left.

Fired on by Fischer, the Greens party congress hammered out leftist and
environmentalist stances in clear demarcation to the new far-left
grouping who are rallying around Lafontaine.

Platform planks included higher taxes on the rich, better day-care
programmes for double-earner families and tax breaks for future-
oriented, environmentally friendly technologies.

But Fischer's remarks come as opinion surveys show that the Left Party
could garner more than 10 per cent in the election. Political analysts
say that would doom any chance of Schroeder's SPD remaining in power
with its junior coalition partners, the Greens.

Analysts predict meanwhile that such a development in the general
election might well result in the formation of a grand coalition headed
by Christian Democrats with Schroeder's SPD as junior members. dpa eg sr

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4) Bangor Daily News; July 16, 2005

MAINE: EX-SPEAKER DEFENDS SUSPENSION OF GREEN PARTY STAFFER LAST YEAR

by A. J. Higgins

AUGUSTA - Former Maine House Speaker Patrick Colwell has defended his
decision to suspend a legislative Green party staffer last year and
denied there was any attempt to tarnish the image of the state's
burgeoning third party just before a statewide election.

Colwell, who now serves as executive director of the Maine Democratic
Party, made his remarks Friday in the aftermath of Tuesday's acquittal
of former Maine Green Independent Party campaign worker Ben Chipman by
a York County Superior Court jury.

The panel deliberated for about an hour before concluding the one-time
legislative aide to Green party state Rep. John Eder of Portland was not
guilty of attempting to influence a voter before a special election last
year.

Eder and other Greens were suspicious of Colwell's decision to suspend
Chipman after Democratic Attorney General Steven Rowe decided to bring
criminal charges against Chipman and three others.

The group was working on a February 2004 special election campaign for
Green party House candidate Dorothy Lafortune of Biddeford.

Chipman said the publicity ensuing from Colwell's press release
regarding his suspension and Rowe's indictments - both of which took
place within a month of the November general election - may have cast a
shadow over several other legislative Green campaigns across the state.

"We certainly believe that the timing of those indictments was no
coincidence and was certainly politically motivated," Chipman said.

The Maine Attorney General's Office has rejected the notion of any
effort to time the development of its case with the pending November
election.

Colwell agreed, saying his decision to suspend Chipman was motivated by
his responsibility to protect the integrity of the institution as the
presiding officer of the House.

"The idea of anyone being a victim here is purely political posturing,"
Colwell said. "There was none of that political gamesmanship that
occurred. We were all very concerned about making sure that the people
of the state of Maine have absolute certainty that when they vote, their
vote counts and that they will not be coerced into voting one way or the
other. He's had his day in court and the jury deemed him innocent. It's
a new day for Mr. Chipman and I wish him well."

Chipman said Friday he hopes to regain his position for Eder at the
State House, but will never accept the suggestion that Maine's
Democratic leaders did not pursue the indictments for the purposes of
embarrassing the Green party.

"The Democratic Attorney General's Office put an awful lot of time and
effort into trying to contact some 200 voters," he said. "I wonder how
much of the taxpayers' money was spent trying to prosecute me as an
innocent person for something I didn't do."

One of Chipman's three associates in the Lafortune campaign, however,
has not fared as well.

According to an Associated Press report, Fred Dolgon of Old Orchard
Beach was found guilty in May of two counts of trying to influence a
voter and acquitted on three others.

Wayne Whitten of Biddeford is awaiting trial on an identical charge,
and Philip Castora of Arundel is scheduled to go to trial in September
on a forgery charge in connection with the same incident.

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5) PacNews (Pacific Island News Service); July 19, 2005

NEW ZEALAND: NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT URGED TO CONSIDER PACIFIC PASSPORT
PROPOSAL

AUCKLAND-- New Zealand's Green Party has urged the government to give
serious consideration to the idea of a "Pacific passport" floated by
visiting French Polynesia President Oscar Temaru.

"This suggestion is a welcome sign that French Polynesia is starting to
see itself as part of the Pacific region, rather than as an outpost of
France," Green Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

"The Government should embrace this friendly overture, and explore with
Mr Temaru how we can free up movement between Pacific nations and create
a stronger Pacific identity. Mr Locke said French Polynesia is not
included in the Pacific Access quotas enjoyed by other Pacific countries
like Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Fiji.

"However, immigration rights are not the main thrust of what Mr Temaru
is proposing. Essentially he is proposing a common travel document,
which leaves people's citizenship intact, but enables them to live and
work in whichever Pacific nation they choose. “Such an arrangement
already exists between Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tokelau
and Niue.

"Recently, Samoan people have been pressing for a similar type of access
to New Zealand, and Mr Temaru is signalling that French Polynesia also
wants to be considered. Both Samoa and French Polynesia have viable
economies, which mean it is unlikely there would be a flood of migrants
from either country. “To prevent freer movement destabilising any of the
poorer island economies, New Zealand should up its development aid, and
include incentives for Pacific peoples who come to NZ for work and
education to take their experience back home. Commendably, most of our
aid does go to the Pacific, but the overall aid budget is still
pitifully low, at 0.27 percent of Gross National Income, when the
international standard is 0.7 percent." Mr Locke said.

Mr Locke said opening up borders in the Pacific region could bring
benefits to both New Zealand and peoples of Pacific islands. “In one
respect, New Zealanders already have a Pacific passport, in that we have
visa-free entry to Pacific Island states. Unfortunately, the reverse
doesn't apply, with Samoans and other Pacific Islanders often finding it
difficult to even get visitor's visas. “Providing Pacific Islanders with
visa-free entry to New Zealand for short stays might be a good place to
start in addressing Mr Temaru's concerns," the Green Party leader said.

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6) UK Newsquest Regional Press - This is Brighton and Hove; July 19,
2005

ENGLAND: GREENS TO KEEP TRACK OF BIDS FOR LATE LICENCES

Green activists are piloting a new service to inform people living near
pubs if the landlord has applied to stay open into the early hours.

The Brighton and Hove Green Party has already put the service into
action in some areas of the city where applications have been made by
pubs in sensitive areas of central Brighton such as residential
neighbourhoods.

Under new regulations licensed premises can apply to stay open for
longer hours and many local pubs have applied to remain open until 2am
and 3am.

Currently premises only have to display a notice of intention to apply
for longer hours in the window and advertise in local newspapers.

The Greens said this level of communication was not effective enough
and residents should be informed of pub and club plans in the same way
they would be informed of any planning applications made in their
neighbourhoods. When planning applications are received notices are
placed on lamp posts and letters sent to nearby homes with details of
the plans.

The Green Party's licensed premises information service works in a
similar way with the party sending residents a letter telling them of
their local pub or club's plans.

Brighton and Hove city councillor Keith Taylor the Green Party's
convenor said: "We've had lots of thank yous and a few moans. It's
important to understand we are simply letting people know what's
happening in their own neighbourhood.

We don't think the Government's consultation guidelines are adequate.

We're not saying any particular application is right or wrong rather
that residents need to know what's going on.

We are in favour of liberalising the licensing laws but extensions
tohours should not unduly disrupt neighbourhoods.

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7) Tulsa World; July 20, 2005

OKLAHOMA: PARTY LOOKS TO PLACE GREENS ON THE MENU

by April Marciszewski

When the Green Party of the United States meets in Tulsa this week,
members hope to offer a new view.

In a state where their party isn't recognized on the ballot, 250 or more
Green Party of the United States members will meet in Tulsa this week
and take on war, nuclear weapons, diversity and peace.

Oklahoma, Louisiana and California applied to host the annual national
meeting; the party's national committee chose Oklahoma, mostly to help
the state chapter grow, said state and national party members.

The 3-year-old Green Party of Oklahoma was accredited by the national
party in May. It has at least 200 Green Party members and potentially
more Green "thinkers and doers" statewide, said Rachel Jackson,
co-chairwoman of the state party.

Party leaders and the Web site www.gp.org say the group stands for
grass-roots interests, for the environment and for social justice, and
stands against violence and democracy supported by corporations. Its Web
site advocates impeaching President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

"We consider ourselves a party for the left out," such as ethnic groups
and low-income people excluded from

politics, said Scott McLarty, Green Party media coordinator.

McLarty hopes the annual meeting, set for Thursday through Sunday at the
University of Tulsa, will show Americans that Green Party groups are
starting throughout the country.

The university does not endorse any political party, representatives
said.

Marc Sanson, a co-chairman of the committee that chose Oklahoma for the
conference location, said the committee liked the idea of the hosts,
Green Party of Oklahoma and Green Country Greens, using local vendors
for such items as food. A fundraising dinner at 7 p.m. Friday at
Woodward Park will include Oklahoma-grown food and will be open to the
public. It will cost $10 a person.

The committee also liked the idea of meeting at a local university in
the "heartland," far from the coasts, where more political activity
usually takes place, Sanson said.

The local Green groups hope to recruit more members and raise interest
enough to get on Oklahoma's ballots, Jackson said.

Oklahomans can't register as Green Party voters and the party can't have
Oklahoma candidates because the party isn't recognized by the state.

For a party to be recognized, it has to get signatures from a number of
people equal to 5 percent of those who voted in the last general
election. Currently, a political party would have to get 73,188
signatures because of the high turnout for last year's presidential
election, said Michael Clingman, state election board secretary.

Most third parties wait until after lower-turnout elections to try to
get on the ballot, he said.

To keep state recognition, a party has to garner 10 percent of the vote
in the next election. Libertarian and Ross Perot's Reform parties have
been recognized in the state at various times, Clingman said.

House Bill 1429, introduced in February, would have made it easier for
third parties to get recognized in Oklahoma, but the bill didn't advance
in the Legislature.

Oklahomans who register for a party other than Republican or Democrat
are considered independent and cannot vote in primary elections without
the permission of one of the two major parties.

"I think Oklahoma is a home of a broader range of thinking than what's
reflected on the ballot with the two parties currently," Jackson, of the
state Green Party, said. "If we're a truly democratic society, we need
to choose representatives that reflect our thinking."

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8) Stamford Advocate: July 22, 2005

CONNECTICUT: GREEN PARTY HOPEFUL WOULD BE 4TH CANDIDATE IN MAYOR'S RACE

by Donna Porstner

STAMFORD -- The Connecticut Green Party plans to put up a mayoral
candidate in November, bringing the total number of people seeking the
city's highest elected office to four.

While the other hopefuls are talking about the rising cost of government
and public education, North Stamford resident and environmentalist Darek
Shapiro said the No. 1 issue facing Stamford is rising energy costs.

"The main issue everybody's discussing is high taxes, but that is not
the problem, that's a symptom of the problem," he said.

If something isn't done to lower energy costs, businesses and
middle-class residents are going to flee and Stamford is "going to be a
bedroom town for high-cost homes," he said.

Shapiro, 52, of Surrey Road, said the way to make the city more
affordable is to reduce energy consumption. He said the solution can be
as simple as replacing traditional light bulbs with more efficient ones.

"I'm a progressive thinker. I'm an idea man. That's how I make a
living," said Shapiro, who specializes in green architecture -- a term
in the industry for designing energy-efficient buildings with renewable
or recycled materials.

Shapiro is the founder of the 2010 Clean Energy Committee, which lobbied
the Board of Representatives to recently pass legislation agreeing to
purchase 20 percent of the municipality's energy from clean sources by
2010.

Since the Green Party did not put up a candidate for Stamford's last
mayoral race in 2001, Shapiro has to petition his way onto the ballot
the same as an unaffiliated candidate. He needs to get 182 signatures
from Stamford voters representing 1 percent of the votes cast during the
last municipal election in 2003, said Pearl Williams, who is in charge
of nominating petitions for the secretary of the state's office in
Hartford.

Shapiro is jointly petitioning along with David Bedell of Glenbrook, a
Green Party member running for constable, the Board of Education and the
Board of Representatives.

While he is putting his name in for all three races, Bedell said he only
plans to run for constable. He plans to be a placeholder and find other
Green Party members to run for those seats.

Bedell, who was a write-in candidate for registrar of voters last year,
is secretary of the Fairfield County Chapter of the Connecticut Green
Party.

Shapiro and Bedell have until the Aug. 10 deadline to file their
nominating petition.

"Our eventual hope is to get someone on every single board," said John
Amarilios of New Canaan, chairman of the Fairfield County Chapter of the
Connecticut Green Party.

The Green Party has elected candidates in Hartford, New Haven and small
towns in the northwestern and northeastern corners of the state but does
not have anyone in office in lower Fairfield County, Amarilios said.

Last fall, Amarilios ran unsuccessfully against incumbent state Sen.
William Nickerson,
R-Greenwich, for the 36th District seat.

"One of the biggest problems we have as a third party is the hurdles we
have to go though to get candidates on the ballot," Amarilios said.

The problem, he said, is that the people who have the power to change
state election law are Democrats and Republicans who have no incentive
to entice competition from minor party candidates and unaffiliated
voters.

Even when petitioning candidates get on the ballot, their names appear
at the bottom under state law. If there is more than one petitioning
candidate, state Elections Officer Arthur Champagne said, "whoever filed
first gets the upper line."

Shapiro is one of two petitioning candidates challenging Democratic
incumbent Dannel Malloy, who has been mayor since 1995. The other is
Achille Fiore, an Oaklawn Avenue resident with no political affiliation.

Malloy's third challenger, Republican Christopher Munger, is a former
FBI agent who lives on Elaine Drive.

Neither Fiore nor the Republicans see Shapiro as a threat.

"My support is growing," Fiore said. "I am not worried about the
competition whatsoever."

Republican Town Committee Chairman Daniel McCabe said odds are slim
Shapiro will take away votes from Munger.

"We're absolutely, totally not worried about him because the Green Party
tends to attract a fringe voter and those people do not vote
Republican," McCabe said. "He will not be a factor in the overall race."

The Green Party has 46 voters registered as members in Stamford,
compared with 21,574 Democrats and 13,964 Republicans. There are 19,744
unaffiliated voters in the city, 251 members of the Independent Party,
46 Libertarians, 10 members of the Connecticut Party, seven members of
the Reform Party and six members of the Concerned Citizens Party.

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9) The Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand); July 23, 2005

NEW ZEALAND: BLACK CAPS 'MAY BE STRANDED'

NEW ZEALAND'S cricketers could be stranded in Zimbabwe because the
country is running out of fuel, the Green Party said last night in a
last-ditch attempt to stop the tour.

The Black Caps are due to start a tour of Zimbabwe early next month, and
the Greens are leading a campaign to stop them going in protest against
President Robert Mugabe's human rights abuses.

The Government has refused to legislate to stop the tour, which would be
the only way for the team to avoid heavy fines imposed by the
International Cricket Council.

Greens co-leader Rod Donald cited British media reports saying fuel
shortages had grounded Air Zimbabwe flights, and the cost of petrol had
rocketed to Z$ 120,000 a litre (NZ$ 16.23).

"If the Black Caps do end up in Zimbabwe, they could find themselves
trying to hitch rides to their games," he said.

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10) Bangor Daily News; July 23, 2005

MAINE: NUMBERS OF GREENS GROWING IN MAINE; THIRD PARTY BOOSTS ROLLS, BUT
LACKS CASH

BANGOR - While the grass might be greener elsewhere, voting lists in
Maine are as Green as they come, according to the most recent voter
registration totals from the Secretary of State's Office.

Statewide figures, released last week, found that as of November 2004
there were 24,155 registered Green Party voters in Maine - the highest
percentage of any state and a 27 percent increase over the Maine party's
January 2004 enrollment.

Matt Tilley, co-chairman of the Maine Green Independent Party, on Friday
was enthusiastic but a bit wary of the new total - a surprising jump of
more than 5,000 registered Greens in less than a year.

"It's remarkable in a way, but we'll take it," said Tilley, of Bangor,
who attributed at least part of the increase to more younger voters
entering the party and some likely duplication among town voting lists.

Tilley also credited the presence of Mainer Pat LaMarche on the national
party's 2004 presidential ticket, even though that ticket received less
than 1 percent of the statewide vote.

"It seems like she raised some interest and enthusiasm," Tilley said of
LaMarche, who is considering a run for governor in 2006.

Nancy Allen, a spokeswoman for the Green Party of the United States, the
national affiliate of the Maine Green Independent Party, offered a more
philosophical reason for the increase.

"It's a negative reaction to major parties," said Allen, who lives in
Castine. "People want a party that represents values."

While Green membership remains a fraction of that of the major parties,
as a percentage, the Maine Greens fared well. As of November 2004, there
were 319,198 Democrats - a 7 percent increase over January 2004 - and
287,452 Republicans, a 5 percent increase.

Independents, or so-called "unenrolled" voters, again composed the
largest group with 393,151 voters - a 7 percent increase.

Maine Greens, at 2.3 percent of the statewide electorate, boasted the
highest percentage of Green voters anywhere in the country.

That distinction, however, is not surprising, Tilley said, considering
Maine's relatively small electorate - only about 1 million people -
particularly compared with places such as California, which has about
158,000 Greens among the state's nearly 17 million registered voters.

Ranked in terms of total Green voters, Maine places third behind
California and New York, the latter of which has about 38,000 Greens.

But even as the Maine Greens appear to increase their rolls, the party
continues its financial struggle, recently finding itself homeless in a
sense. The party already has shut down its Portland office and is in the
process of closing its Augusta office, said Tilley, predicting the move
will save the party about $5,000 a year.

Without a headquarters, the party - which last year operated on about
$15,000 - will hold its meetings at different locations throughout the
state, he said.

"We're going to take the show on the road," Tilley said.

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