The Green Party of Delaware County, Pennsylvania is committed to fostering progressive policies locally and supporting the efforts of Greens in neighboring counties, throughout the state and the nation. We endorse the Ten Key Values as ratified at the Green Party Convention in Denver, CO, June 2000 and the notion that democracy requires full participation on the part of the citizenry.
We invite anyone who shares our concern about the corrosive effect of corporate money on society and the political process, who seeks to protect our environment from careless development and harmful technologies, who wishes to help create a more just society and who recognizes the importance of solidarity in the face of concentrated power and wealth to join with us as we instill these values at the grass roots and beyond.
SWARTHMORE, PA. The Delaware County Green Party is hosting a "meet the candidates" event on Saturday, October 22, from 10:30 to noon at Umoja Park, near the intersection of Yale and Rutgers Avenues in Swarthmore. The public is invited to learn more about the Green Party, and its candidates in the November 8 general election: Robert Small, a candidate for election judge in the Western Precinct of Swarthmore, and Mary Gay Scanlon, a candidate for Region 3 of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board. The event will include a continental breakfast, pumpkin patch and children’s activities.
Robert Small is a long-time grass roots activist and the founder/president of Poets and Prophets, which presents monthly Readings at Harvest Bookstore in Media (610-328-POET). He can be reached at campaign_rsmall@earthlink.net.
Mary Gay Scanlon, a public interest attorney from Swarthmore, was an attorney with the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania for 8 years, and is a long-time volunteer in the WSSD schools and community. She advocates the use of long-term planning and innovative cost-cutting measures to control taxes, the development of alternative (non-tax) revenue to support school programs, and improved communication with the community in order to increase accountability and support for the schools. She believes these activities are crucial as the district embarks on a new middle school construction project. Ms. Scanlon, a registered Democrat, also won the Republican primary in WSSD’s Region 3 (Swarthmore and Rutledge) in May.
The Delaware County Green Party endorses the Green Party’s Ten Key Values, and the belief that democracy requires full participation on the part of the citizenry. These Key values include support for grassroots democracy; social justice; diversity; sustainability and gender equity.
