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Article: Green Party revival. (New Mexico)
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- The Progressive
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- May 1, 1995
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The past year has been a heady time for the fledgling New Mexico Green Party. In March 1994, the Greens succeeded in landing a seat on the City Council for Cris Moore, a twenty-five-year-old mathematician at the Santa Fe Institute and a Green activist. The Greens also helped get Debbie Jaramillo, a former Rainbow Coalition activist, elected mayor. Jaramillo went on to appoint gay-rights advocate Patti Bushee to her vacated city-council seat. As a result, Santa Fe has "the most radical city council in recent memory," according to the Santa Fe Reporter.
The realtors, developers, and hoteliers, who over the last decade have transformed Santa Fe into a chic mecca for the ...