Green Elected Mayor! And it's a Woman One Too!

It's encouraging that someone other than than a sellout Republicrat gets elected. Especially if it's a Green Party member, and if it's a woman.

Gonzalez said having McLaughlin head a city as ethnically and economically diverse as Richmond will help change the party's image as being an environmental movement that only caters to white voters.

He and other McLaughlin supporters say her campaign theme of economic justice for the poor and fighting crime is a "Green message."

"Issues in Richmond are the bread-and-butter issues of fighting crime and helping create jobs and improving the schools. One's party is less of an issue. It's about solving those issues."

The good thing about politicians like her: They solve problems not maintain them.