But the Greens aren't going away. Greens were organized in St. Louis for ten years before their successful effort to get Nader and other Greens on the Missouri ballot, and the 2000 campaign was just the start. In spite of loss of statewide ballot status, the 2000 election brought some Green success. In many respects its first-time effort was much more productive than other more established parties. Five district candidates, including St. Louisans Mary Auer , Patricia Turek , Jason Toon and Frank Eller, Jr. , won Green Party ballot status for their districts.
Party is focused on progressive principles.
The Greens are a progressive ideologically based party, in contrast to the increasingly indistinguishable Democrats and Republicans, who have degenerated into competing clusters of special interests. Many regard the Green Party as what the Democrats used to be before selling out to Big Business. These ideals have inspired these political stands and direct action by Missouri Greens. Uncompromisingly progressive policies for economics, taxation, environmental protection, civil rights, abortion rights. Greens favor enactment and implementation of living wage legislation, support universal single-payer health care, and oppose corporate welfare schemes like the proposed public subsidies for the St. Louis Cardinals.