Real leadership & real change for Saint Paul

In 2010, the Green Party of St. Paul decided to organize an effort to run a coordinated, city wide campaign to field candidates across the city of St. Paul. The effort is fueled by the desire to live in a city that can meaningfully address issues in a way that reflects core values that many of our neighbors share: grassroots democracy, social and economic justice, environmental wisdom, and non-violence.

The Green Party of St. Paul worked hard to collect signatures and work with other organizations to pressure the City Council to adopt Ranked Choice Voting. The introduction of Ranked Choice Voting in St. Paul presents a great opportunity to get more people involved, and bring the vision, values and ideas of the Green Party to St. Paul city government.

Without a coordinated effort for change, the city council is apt to keep a majority of incumbents, and St. Paul will continue to lack political will and leadership to take the action that our citizens expect to move our city forward.

To be most effective in a traditionally one-party town, the Green Party created GreenSaintPaul - a coordinated citywide campaign that articulates a clear vision with five core objectives and policies and actions to achieve them

Saint Paul deserves a strong, vibrant and resilient local economy that creates good jobs

• Support locally owned businesses by adopting and implementing favorable regulatory, tax, and policy changes.
• Address the foreclosure crisis in St Paul to help people keep their homes, increase community stability and increase local economic activity.
• Invest in our transit infrastructure to increase access to local businesses and improve the livability of our neighborhoods.

Saint Paul deserves a greener, healthier environment

• Adopt and implement policies that put St. Paul on a path toward carbon neutrality and zero waste to grow a vibrant green economy.
• Create and enforce city-wide development standards that increase sustainability and livability.
• Support urban agriculture and city policies that provide access to healthy, affordable food for all residents

Saint Paul can reduce racial disparities and treat all of its residents with fairness, dignity and respect

• Reduce disparities in employment and economic development by prioritizing city resources to build and support minority and women owned businesses
• Ensure that city investments benefit residents and increase access to city services, green space, libraries and community centers, especially in our underserved communities.
• Strengthen civilian oversight of police and establish effective civilian review of city inspectors to eliminate disparities in corrections and law enforcement.

Saint Paul can tap in to the wisdom and energy of its residents to increase local self determination

• Meaningfully engage and involve neighbors and local organizations to identify and solve the most pressing issues facing our neighborhoods and city.
• Improve and expand our district council system to be a key partner in decision making at the city level.
• Reinvest and recommit to keep recreation centers, parks and libraries open to support community building.

Saint Paul can provide all of our children with a safe, healthy learning environment to achieve academic excellence and build community leadership

• Meaningfully engage our children, parents and community to build support and a shared vision for our schools.
• Provide teachers with resources, training, support and accountability to close the achievement gap and increase the graduation rate for St. Paul’s students of color.
• Provide a nourishing environment at our schools through student empowerment, conflict resolution training, peace studies and connection to local, healthy foods.