The Oregon Progressive Party is a political party in the
U.S. state of
Oregon. Originally called the Oregon Peace Party, it was accepted as the sixth minor statewide political party in Oregon on August 22, 2008. This allowed the party to nominate
Ralph Nader as its candidate in the
2008 U.S. presidential election
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from ...
. In September 2009, the party changed its name to the Oregon Progressive Party, to "more accurately reflects the party's positions" on issues besides peace, including "social justice, consumer advocacy,
environmental protection, and
worker's rights."
Membership
Following the renaming of the party to the Oregon Progressive Party in September 2009, membership in the Oregon Peace Party ceased to exist by Oregon law. Party leaders encouraged its former members to register with the renamed Oregon Progressive Party.
[ During May 2010 the party had 391 members and in June 2010 the number had grown to 817 members.
]
Political positions
The progressive party is for economic and environmental justice, and grassroots democracy. They are also proponents of raising the state minimum wage to $18 an hour or more. In 2019, the OPP was part of a statewide coalition that sought to "create a nonpartisan citizens panel to handle redistricting for congressional and legislative seats in Oregon following the 2020 census."
Candidates
2010
The Progressive Party nominated a slate of candidates for the 2010 general election, including one Democrat, Peter DeFazio (a 12-term member of Congress from Oregon's 4th Congressional District). Among the other candidates nominated were former Democratic state senator and 2004 Socialist Party USA presidential candidate Walt Brown, It did not nominate a candidate for Governor.
Presidential ticket
Gubernatorial election results
See also
* Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2008
The 2008 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney began on February 24, 2008. He announced his intent to run as an independent candidate, on NBC's ''Meet The Press''.
It was Nader's fifth campaign; ...
* Pacific Green Party, nominated Nader for Oregon ballot in 2000
* Ballot access
* Politics of Oregon
Like many other U.S. states, the politics of Oregon largely concerns regional issues. Oregon leans Democratic as a state, with both U.S. senators from the Democratic party, as well as four out of Oregon's five U.S. Representatives. The Democratic ...
Footnotes
External links
Oregon Progressive Party
(official website)
Progressive
Progressive may refer to:
Politics
* Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform
** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context
* Progressive realism, an American foreign policy par ...
Oregon
2007 establishments in Oregon
Progressive parties in the United States
Political parties established in 2007
Political parties in the United States
State and local socialist parties in the United States
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