Green Party of Arkansas held its nominating convention today and its nominees
are:

Rebekah Kennedy – U.S. Senate

Deb McFarland - 2nd Congressional District

Joshua Drake - 4th Congressional District

Abel Tomlinson - 3rd Congressional District

Conrad Harvin - State Rep. District 33

Richard Carroll - State Rep. District 39

Gene Mason - State Rep. District 42

Brian Barnett - State Rep. District 50

Mary Boley – State Rep. District 68

Wendy Crow - State Rep. District 90

Chicot County Assessor - Elizabeth McCoy

Pulaski County JP District 6 - Wainnette Copass

Sebastian County JP District 4 - Richard Suits

Bernard Sulliban was also recognized. He is a Green Party member running for a
non-partisan position on the Fayetteville City Council.

More information about the candidates will be available on the ArkGreens.org web
site within the next two weeks.

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here's a historical context of third party electoral politics from Richard Winger of Ballot Access News

Arkansas Greens Nominate Record Number of Candidates
June 21st, 2008

On June 21, the Arkansas Green Party held its final nominating convention. This year, the party will have a candidate for U.S. Senate, for three of the four U.S. House seats, and six for the State House of Representatives.

All of the Congressional candidates will be in two-person races. In other words, all the Congressional races in Arkansas this year will be between an incumbent and a Green Party nominee (except that the incumbent in the First District is unopposed).

Although that is not a huge number of candidates, it sets records in Arkansas. The number of U.S. House candidates is the greatest number for any party in Arkansas (other than the Democratic and Republican Parties) since 1894, when the Peoples Party also had three U.S. House candidates. The number of legislative candidates is the greatest number for a minor party since the 1910’s. The previous post-World War II record for the number of legislative candidates in Arkansas by a minor party had been four candidates, nominated by the American Party in 1970.

Unfortunately, the Arkansas Green Party was unable to find a nominee for the State House, District 39, where the only candidate is Democrat Dwayne Dobbins, who had resigned after a sexual harassment scandal in 2005.

UPDATE: at the last minute, the party did find a candidate to run for that seat. He is Richard Carroll, a 51-year old boiler maker for Union Pacific. Thanks to independentpoliticalreport for this news.