Greens Elected to Local Offices

April 18, 2007

While the April 17 Consolidated Election is officially nonpartisan, there were six members of the Illinois Green Party on the ballot this Tuesday, three of which were elected: 

ELECTED: ROBERT BRAAM was elected as Trustee of the Manhattan Public Library District, receiving 107 votes as a write-in.

ELECTED: KRIS CAMPBELL won reelection to the Poplar Grove Village Trustee. With 340 votes (20%), Campbell was second in a six-way race for three seats.



ELECTED: CAROL LARSON earned 3,370 votes (53.74%) and was the top vote-getter for three seats on the Oak Lawn-Hometown School Board.



ADRIAN FROST earned 262 votes (11%) and finished fifth in a five-way race for four seats for Plano School Board.

LOUIS MARK received 58 write-in votes for Village President of New Lenox.

JASON WALLACE finished fourth in a five-way reace for three seats on the Heartland Community College Board of Trustees. He earned 5,274 votes and had received the endorsement of the Pantagraph .

Larson and Braam join Campbell, Dale Bowen (Winnebago Public Library Trustee), Jim Long (Kirby Park School Board) and Jon Murray (Mt. Morris Village Trustee) on the list of Illinois Green Party elected officials.  

The Illinois Green Party is a member-based political party based on 10 key values: Grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, non-violence, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, feminism and gender equity, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility and future focus and sustainability. For more information, visit www.ilgp.org.