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Eric Fried is a member of the Poudre Valley Green Party in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the state secretary for the Green Party of Colorado. A county building inspector and father of four ("triplets happen!"), he write a weekly politics column for the Fort Collins Now newspaper, where this article was first published.