Our Featured Green Candidate this week is Anita Rios! Anita is the Ohio Green Partys candidate for Governor and stands to be the only third-party candidate for Governor on the ballot in November in Ohio. She is the President of the Ohio National Organization for Women and says she is running because the insights of ordinary people are absent in politics. Anita was born and raised in Toledo and grew up as one of eight children of parents who were Mexican American migrant farm workers. Her parents still live in the two-bedroom house where she was raised. Spanish was her first language, but she still managed to get her G.E.D. and graduate from the University of Toledo. A longtime Green Party activist and proponent of one-person-one-vote democracy for all people, Anita was active in the Ohio recount after the November 2004 election, and served as the lead plaintiff in the Rios versus Blackwell lawsuit. That case was filed in Federal District Court in Ohio in December 2004 to try to stop the Electoral College from certifying Ohio’s electoral votes when so much fraud and obstruction had occurred during the 2004 campaign and election in Ohio. Anita serves on the Central Committees for both the Lucas County and Ohio Green Parties and is currently employed as President of the Ohio chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Please LIKE Anitas FB page: Rios For Governor Website: riosforgovernor/meet-anita/ Ohio Green Party: ohiogreens.org/ #VoteGreen2014
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:06:10 +0000
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