The Andrew Miller Show

It's just easier to name the show after myself.  I dive into that along with an example of why this show exists.  

Chris Richardson is the Green Party candidate running to represent California's 6th Congressional District (formerly 7th district but just recently redistricted).  Chris comes from an interesting career of having done significant work for different government agencies and helped start the not-for-profit WorldVistA in 2002.  This episode includes discussion of the following:  environ...

Joanne Kuniansky is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for Governor of New Jersey.  Her labor movement activity includes having walked the Teamsters picket line at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx and joined rallies supporting United Mineworkers currently on strike against Warrior Met Coal in Alabama. Her experience as a worker has spanned from oil refineries, meat packing, and Walm...

Gregg Mele is the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of NJ.  Gregg graduated cum laude from Montclair State and New York University School Law School with his LL.M. In between he earned his MS from Stevens Institute of Technology, an MBA from Baruch College of the City University of New York and his JD from New York Law School.  Unlike many politicians, Gregg campaigned in all 21 c...

Bart Everson is the Green Party candidate running for City Council in New Orleans, LA.  He aims to bring greater visibility to climate issues and highlight the need for action in the face of the climate crisis.  He also wants to improve transportation options in New Orleans and hold Entergy, the energy company for the area, accountable.  Bart works at Xavier University of Louisiana’...

How would you like to decide directly how your taxes are being spent?  It's already going on in thousands of cities throughout the world and dozens of cities around the U.S. and Canada.  It's a chance to shift more power from politicians to the people.  We can all help it expand and grow if more people become aware of it.  This episode's guest is Elizabeth Crews who is with the...

Cam Gordon is up for Re-Election for 2nd Ward Council Member for the City of Minneapolis, MN.  As the one council member who is in the Green Party, he is the Minority Leader.  Furthermore he is also on several committees.  Cam helped found the Minnesota Green Party, and has served on the boards of FairVote Minnesota, Common Cause Minnesota, and Minneapolis Center for Neighborhoods.&...

Same show, new name.  Just me babbling for a few minutes on why I decided to rename it.

Ranked Choice Voting allows you to vote for your favorite candidate while having back up choices in case your top choice doesn't stand a chance at winning.  It already exists in Maine for statewide and Presidential elections, a few other states for local elections and primaries, and there's a movement to spread it further nationwide.  Learn more at rankthevote.us.  This episode's gu...

Loathe and despise the Republican and Democratic parties but want a certain candidate to win one of their nominations?  Or like your party but sometimes want to vote in a different primary?  Want to vote in all elections including primaries without having to be labeled on record as a certain party? Then you need open primaries.  America needs open primaries.  This episode we ta...

What started as a "dumb question" at a school assembly, has found its way into the issues of the day for better or for worse.  

Many progressive ideas that make certain political candidates labeled as radical or out of the mainstream, pass with flying colors all over America when presented as ballot initiatives.  Listen to why that may be and how to continue making progress happen.

Most states that are "solid red" or "solid blue" really have a 60/40 ratio give or take, not including those who don't bother voting because they don't think it will matter anyway since their state always goes a certain way.  Even if it wasn't enough to swing a state, just imagine how much of a difference it can make in these tight presidential races if a few thousand more voters in each stat...

Marcia Squier is the Green Party candidate running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.  A Gen Xer who sees it is time for younger generations to step up and move the country forward instead of backward, she joined the Green Party after experiencing how not so democratic the Democratic Party is especially when it came to Super Delegates and how they ignored the will of the people in her state in...

George Gluck has been active with the Green Party for well over a decade and has ran for office before.  He spent forty years working in Information Technology for the government and private sector, including being an expert in improving effectiveness and operating efficiency of government agencies such as Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA), the Medicare financial system, and t...

Tom Wilda is running to represent Illinois' 5th district in the U.S. House.  The 5th congressional district includes parts of Cook and DuPage counties, along with all or parts of Chicago, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, Franklin Park, Hinsdale, La Grange Park, Norridge, Northlake, River Grove, Schiller Park, and Oakbrook Terrace.  Tom has been part of the Illinois Green Party for years and has y...

David Black is highly educated in the field of political science, has years of experience practicing law for workers, serves on the board of Habitat for Humanity, and has volunteered his time assisting asylum seekers.  David is a long time Green Party activist serving as Party Secretary and as the candidate for Illinois Attorney General in 1996 and 2000.   He is now the 2020 candida...

Joseph Naham is running to represent New York's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House.  Joe is a life long Nassau County Resident, National Delegate (Alt) of the Green Party of the United States, Committee member for the Green Party of New York State, Chairperson of The Green Party of Nassau County, and Co Chair of the Environmental Committee of the Beach to Bay Civic Association (Umbr...

Cassandra is the Green Party candidate running to represent Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District.  She's a lifelong social justice activist, an executive officer in the Windham/ Willimantic NAACP, founder of Willimantic Rainbow Connection, an LGBTQ+ group, currently serves on Windham’s Zoning Board of Appeals, and brings 15 years of public school experience to her political run.  The...

Justin Paglino is an MD, PhD who recently transitioned from science and virology to dedicate more time to political activism. He also teaches and plays the piano and keyboards in a few local bands.  Justin is fighting for Medicare for All, Ranked Choice Voting,  clean energy, foreign policy that seeks peace because war is a horror that must only be a last resort, equal liberties and equa...

Steve is running for Congress in NY's 19th Congressional District as the Green Party candidate.  Steve Greenfield is a veteran volunteer firefighter, a two-term School Board member, an experienced advocate of legislation through many years of service in the Ulster County Volunteer Firefighters Association, the New York State School Boards Association, and as Chair of the New Paltz Central Sch...

Madelyn Hoffman is running for the U.S. Senate representing New Jersey.  She's spent decades showing leadership and hard work with environmental and peace causes along with involvement with the Green Party.  Listen to her on what she'll fight for that her opponents won't.

Daniel T. Kim is running for Freeholder in Bergen County, NJ.  He is on the ballot with the slogan "NOT ME. US"   Daniel Kim has been a resident of Bergen County (Palisades Park, Ridgewood, and Paramus) since 1998. He is a graduate of Emory University with a Bachelor's in Chemistry and Mathematics/Economics and currently working as an technology consultant for a global professi...

Al Granell is a former Councilman in North Arlington, NJ, 2016 Bernie Sanders Delegate, and on the ballot as a Delegate for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary.  We'll dive into what it means to be a Delegate and why voting in the primary still matters.

Justin is running in the 2020 New Jersey Democratic Primary election scheduled for July 7, 2020.  He's running for Union County Freeholder on the Not Me, Us ticket.  Listen to him make the case.