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Green Party or Parties Update
by dave | Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:01pm
7th Ward alderman candidate Tim Kaminski (G) filed his committee on Monday. His treasurer is blogger Umar Lee, who has an interesting interview with his candidate.
Also on Monday, 9th Ward alderman candidate Eugene Frison (G) filed a committee, a Jan. Limited Activity report, and an Exemption
Statement/Committee Termination.
The Candidate List at Board of Election Commissioners says 15th Ward alderman candidate Mary Jo Maroney (G) did not meet the residency requirement. In order to run for alderman, you need 3 years as a City resident and 1 year as a resident of the ward you're
running in. It's possible she did not even meet the ward residency.
According to SOS filings, Mahoney is treasurer/director for Missouri Green Party Inc. She used a UCity address in the Aug. 2007 annual report and City 15th Ward address in the Sept. 2008 report. According to MEC filings, she is also treasurer for MO Green Party Inc, a political party committee. She first appeared as treasurer in the April 2007 report, using a UCity address and continued to do so for the July and Oct. reports. The Jan. 2008 report, received by MEC on March 14th, is when she began using the 15th Ward address for MEC filings. Jan. 1st of this year is when she filed or attempted to file as a candidate for alderman.
Jan. 21st of this year, she faxed the committee's April, July, and Oct. 2008 reports to MEC. The last report filed by the PAC other than Limited Activity was on Oct. 24, 2004: $125 receipts, $533.80 expenses, $1,000 contrib, $66.20 in-kind contrib, $37.84 on hand. The group received $1,129.57 from "Missouri Green Party Inc (federal account)", according to the previous report. Expenses were advertising direct expenditures for 15th Dist. State Senate candidate Lydia Lewis and 91st Dist. State Rep. candidate David Henry. The $1,000 went to the Public Administrator campaign of the late Wille Marshall.
Green Party is a fictitious name registered with SOS in 2000 by the aforementioned Missouri Green Party Inc. Green Party Central Committee City of St. Louis is a party committee which last filed other than Limited Activity in Jan. 2004, reporting a miscellaneous receipt of eleven cents and $32.08 on hand.
Then there's mayoral candidate Don DeVivo's party of one committees. Green Party Central Committee, City of St. Louis and Green Party St. Louis City Central Committee are his fictitious name registrations. He owns 100% of both. His signed affirmations are dated Jan. 14th but the SOS says they were filed the previous day. Green Party St. Louis City Central Committee is also a nonprofit incorporated by Devivo on Jan. 14th. The filing says there are no members. With all this attention to state paperwork, you would have thought DeVivo would have filed his campaign committee with MEC by now.
If you're wondering what's up with all the committees, and what's been covered here is not the complete list, you might take a look at this week's story in Suburban Journal on the Green Party and mayoral primary between Elston McCowan and DeVivo. Some might, however, take issue with the closing party spin characterizing Ralph Nadar's 2% in the 2000 election as a success.
Comments
I've never been to one but i can only imagine the kinds of party supplies they have at these partys
Your right oracle, no where did I read that money was missing. Maybe I should of wrote the comment different. Sorry I'm new to all this blogging, posting, and speaking my mind. About a week ago I read the minutes for the green party, emails, and thoughts posted at http://www.indymedia.org/es/2004/02/850240.shtml
When reading the minutes it seems something was going on with the money. But, if he wasn't removed for money missing, why was he removed? Along with Kim Jayne, who I'm thinking used to be married to him. The other guy I can not say anything of because I have no idea who he is. After everyone went to Two Rivers Greens and then he's off again by himself to plot and scheme. Don may of keep the green party going, but only for his own personal reasons and greed. He is perfect for politics...he tells people what they want to hear while he's picking their pocket for his own agenda.
liljazz's comment, "when [DeVivo] was the treasurer of the Gateway Green Alliance, [he] was ran [sic] out because of the money not being right. Seems like when he's involved in something money comes up missing..hmmm." is not accurate.
I was treasurer of the Missouri Green Party at the time that happened, and I was involved in getting the books transferred over from DeVivo to his replacement, Jason Murphy. No money was missing. None.
DeVivo was removed as treasurer in February, 2004, at the same time both GGA co coordinators (Kim Jayne and David Sladky) and Secretary Lydia Lewis were removed in a coup. The bylaws curiously provided that an election of officers could take place at any time. When DeVivo and the co coordinators questioned financial requests from a powerful member, that member organized a surprise new election at which the officers who weren't playing along were replaced by that member's allies. Shortly thereafter, the removed officers and many of their supporters (including myself) left the GGA, formed Two Rivers Greens, and affiliated with the Progressive Party of Missouri. DeVivo subsequently left Two Rivers Greens, but continued to be a candidate on the Green Party ticket for several elections, including the current one. After the Green Party ran no candidates in the 2007 city elections, DeVivo's 2008 candidacy for City Treasurer is the only reason the Green Party retained its ballot status in the city. (It hasn't run candidates statewide since 2002.)
Don De Vivo
Greeting everyone,
It is time I put my 2 cents into the arena. The new free and Independent Green Party Central Committee will not, nor ever be affiliated with the Greens/GreenPartyUSA. This fake Green Party was put in place in order to confuse and undermine the Third party movement in specific Red States, using St. Louis County political operatives to undermined efforts in the city. In realty the takeover of the Green Party Central Committee was a master stroke of luck, the city now has a free and independent PAC that can rebuild and reform the current city government. We should also add, provide leadership for the activist community which has let us all down. My recent filings were forced on the Green Party by Henry Robertson, He has been fired as the treasurer of the Green Party Central Committee yet refused to turn over the books and the 30 dollars or so still in the account. It took a great effort to form a PAC alone, and at my expense. All the filing fees were put into the Pac and the committee has been registerd, The Gateway Green Alliance a non-profit completely controlled by St Louis County political operatives paid for most of this elections candidates for the Green Party. I stand with a few friends in the way of these carpetbaggers. The question becomes does the rest of the city think it is time to send these people packing back to the county?
The plan for the Green Party central Committee will be If we are lucky, and some support comes to join the real Green Party. The Green Party of the United States.
Now for the Wellston Loop Commercial District, My board of Directors are the property owners in the commercial district. we reserve the right to own and develop, free from the threat of Eminent Domain from any Alderman of any party. I have successfully and alone beat all attempts at stealing my property for private development, many others in St. Louis city have failed. I can now bring an a political party front and center in the attempt to end Eminent Domain Abuse in St. Louis City. Eminent Domain is the root cause of the land-banking of 5,000 properties, the beginning and end of the Lead exposure for children, and of course the murder rate created by destroying the social fabric of the North side neighborhoods. The entire team four plan is now moving south in the new 20th, and our board of alderman knows it. This city government is incapable of stopping or fixing this North-side destructive force from developing in South St. Louis. I offer to St. Louis what this city has been lacking, political leadership.
For the person above who raked me over the coals, this is for you. I doubt if you own property or have any idea what it takes to own property in a targeted neighborhood in the city. You show a lack of understanding the rights property owners have in this country, and how the board of alderman has trampled on those rights. It is my job for the next four years to lay out a legislative and political agenda of reform for our city government. Thanks to clowns like you I may yet fail, then again you will probably vote for Slay regardless.
Typically clownish move by the Green Party with the Maloney candidacy. Then again, when you are trying to run the city from the county, it can be hard to keep the city rules straight.
Say what you want about DeVivo, but if he had not filed and won election as the only LEGAL member of the Central Committee, I doubt that the anemic Green Party would have seen any filings for alderman or a spirited mayoral campaign. The dysfunctional Greens only get interested in candidates when they can fight each other. I suppose that there are enough of them to keep the game going, but at some point I hope they go away.
Don Devivo is a fraud and a leach to the Wellston community. He has had many fictitious name registrations and always owns 100%. And lets not forget all the other non-profits he has to run money threw like recently the Wellston Loop Community Development Corporation and in the past MLK-West Business Association . Don't forget about five years ago when he was the treasurer of the Gateway Green Alliance, and was ran out because of the money not being right. Seems like when he's involved in something money comes up missing..hmmm. This will not be the last time we hear about him either. He planned to jump on this after McCowan filed so he didn't have to pay the fee and he plans to stir up the upcoming Alderman race. Lets just pray that more people catch on to Don's evil ways before he corrupts any other communitites.
thanks Oracle. I've fixed it.
Another typo I missed: The removed candidate was Mary Jo Maroney (not Mahoney).
The 2004 state senate candidate referenced is Lydia Lewis (not Davis), who was also the Progressive Party candidate for US Senate in 2006.
The "Green Party" has ballot status only in the City of St. Louis. It is not affiliated with the Green Party of the United States. It is affiliated instead with Greens/Green Party USA, a national organization that terminated its federal electoral activities a few years ago after most of its national treasury had been drained by FEC fines for noncompliance.
The "Progressive Party" is affiliated with the Green Party of the United States, but it has ballot status only in a few rural counties where its 2006 candidate for state auditor polled more than 2%. (The candidate, Terry Bunker, actually polled 32.6% in his native Worth County, finishing ahead of Republican Sandra Thomas and only 4 points behind Democrat Susan Montee, but he only got 1% statewide.)
Don DeVivo is not a dues-paying member of either party, but he chairs the Green Party city committee by virtue of being the only person to file for committee person in the Green Party in 2008. According to MEC and FEC records, that committee's treasurer remains Henry Robertson, staff attorney for Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, a member of the Missouri Green Party who was the party's 24th Ward committeeman until he failed either to file for reelection or write himself in.