In 1997, the Green Party of New Jersey garnered 11,000 votes with Madelyn Hoffman's campaign for Governor. With these two races and other activities, the Greens have grown from a small group to a party with active chapters in almost every New Jersey county. Green Parties are the fastest growing political movement of the modern era. There are now Green Parties in 74 countries and in 49 states in the United States. Green candidates in the U.S. received more than one million votes in 1996.
Greens are the third largest party in Germany and part of the governing coalition in France.
As we close the chapter on the twentieth century, the bloodiest century in history, we must also turn the page to develop new strategies for building a people's movement. The Green Party is a genuine peoples' party, with a future focus, which is desperately needed at this critical moment. Clean up the nation's largest number of Superfund sites. Make the polluters pay. New Jersey has the fourth highest incidence of breast cancer and the highest mortality rate in the country.