Member, Maine House of Representatives 2002-2006

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Public Financing
Third Party Participation
Universal / Single Payer Health Care

Bio
John Eder is an activist and American politician from the state of Maine. Eder lives in Portland and is a member of the Maine Green Independent Party, the Maine affiliate of the national Green Party. He has served in the Maine House of Representatives as the legislature's first member of the Green Party for two terms and was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2004. Until his defeat in 2006, Eder was one of only a handful of independent or third-party state legislators in the country and was the highest-ranking elected Green official in the United States.

John travels the country speaking to groups about public financing and grassroots electoral organizing.* He introduced legislation to end the war in Iraq in the Maine legislature. As a Maine State Representative John introduced legislation for single payer health care and was an organizer in a successful effort to put the citizens of Portland, Maine on record as being in support of single payer health care.

*John's talk at our national student conference was the highlight of the weekend. The 160 college students in attendance really learned so much." Joan D. Mandle, Ph.D., Executive Director, Democracy Matters [Democracy matters organizes college students to advance campaign finance reform]

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