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Greens come from many backgrounds. There are more than a few who were, like myself, once Republicans and who left that party... or rather found that the party left them. Right now, having found a political home with the Greens, I want to make sure that the Green Party of California does not leave me. I am too old to go through this again.

Maybe as much to the point as we go through the coming years, is the fact that I was born in the rural mid-west. My parents were very much the products of the Depression and that never left me. My father lost a lot of confidence along with his grocery store in 1930 as banks failed and credit dried up. Maybe I was always between knowing that I had some ability and knowing that failure was always just around the corner.

My mother frequently said that she often never knew where the next meal was coming from but that we never, ever went hungry.

Allergies to farm products (corn, wheat, oats, alfalfa) pushed us out of the midwest to Flagstaff, AZ when Barry Goldwater was a Senator and Stewart Udall was a Congressman, two men who shared an appreciation for our connections with the environment. Maybe that is what pulled me in the Green Party direction.

An interesting sidelight is that while living in Udall's district I went to High School with another future Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt.

Along the way, I went to a small christian college for small Christians, developed an appreciation for those who are seeking the truth about their lives and a distrust for those who say that the truth has been revealed to them.

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