Sean Dougherty (CA) and Christina Khalil (NJ) are running this year for US Congress and US Senate respectively

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The Coordinated Campaign Committee of the Green Party is excited to support their campaigns with a grant of $1200 divided equally between them.

Here are a few words from the candidates to introduce themselves.

Introducing Sean Dougherty

I am an engineer and father from Santa Cruz, CA who first became politically engaged during protests against the Iraq War and income inequality sparked by Occupy Wall Street. Now, as a Congressional candidate for CA-19, I’m the only contender demanding an immediate ceasefire to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Willing to advocate principled stances even when unpopular, my platform also calls for urgent climate action, establishing healthcare and housing as rights, taxing billionaires to uplift struggling Americans, creating an economy that serves communities over corporations, and getting money out of politics to restore participatory democracy.

While my independent campaign refuses corporate PAC donations, it still needs grassroots support to spread this visionary message and platform attacking systemic corruption.

Every contribution makes an incredible difference. Please consider donating $50, $25 or whatever is within your means to fuel our people-powered quest today!

Donate to my campaign here

Thank you for your help making the policy shifts our country desperately needs - from the local level up! In solidarity for people and the planet over profit and greed.

Introducing Christina Amira Khalil

Can you help me beat an indicted criminal who happens to be the incumbent?

I’m a social worker who fights for the cases that slip through the cracks. As someone who grew up in the foster care system, I know intimately just how many cracks there are and exactly how to climb over them.

During the COVID pandemic I was working on the front lines in medical facilities and saw how desperately we need a universal healthcare system that cares for all.

I am the only candidate in my race with an understanding of both the monetary system and federal spending. I will apply this knowledge to fund my policies, instead of asking for more of your pocket money.

I am the only pro-Palestinian candidate in my race to have called for a ceasefire AND an immediate end to funding Israel. My heritage is first generation Egyptian Muslim, so for me this issue is personal.

My campaign is staffed by scrappy, unpaid, intelligent, capable and passionate young people. We are completely grassroots and don’t take corporate PAC money. We are so grateful for this grant, but it’s not nearly enough.

We need you.

Please help make our voices heard. 

If you’d like to hear more about me and my policies, you can listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Nc7BFDQqg.

The Green Party of the United States has a line item in its annual budgets for candidate grants such as the $1200 that these two candidates received. Green Party candidates make an application for these grants to the party’s Coordinated Campaign Committee.

In 2023 the Coordinated Campaign Committee (CCC) granted more than $7500 to Green Party candidates at local, state, and Congressional levels, including Seattle City Council candidates who received $600, local candidates in Indiana also received $600, a Wichita Board of Education candidate received $500, and a nine-candidate slate of town candidates in Connecticut received $1800.

Your contribution to either the general funds of the Green Party of the United States or directly to the Coordinated Campaign Committee allows us to support more great candidates like Christina and Sean and others, whose activism and campaigns make positive contributions to challenge and change US politics and governance from Town Hall to Congress.

Thank you for your support!

Green Party of the United States
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