Major Events That Received Press Coverage
The Oklahoma Greens conducted protests in 2000 against Ralph Nader's exclusion from the state's Presidential ballots.
In 2002 the party circulated a candidate questionnaire to all of the statewide candidates for Oklahoma political office that year. Following the election a controversy arose over candidate Brad Henry's statements regarding the death penalty, in which the governor denied that he had authorized his statement in favor of a death penalty moratorium to the Green Party. (This was discussed by several statewide media outlets.)
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