NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mark J. Green

Mark J. Green (b. March 15, 1945) is a public interest author and lawyer and a retired Democratic politician who lives in New York City. He is probably best known for several high profile but unsuccessful campaigns in New York City and state, most notable of which was his run as the 2001 Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York against Republican novice Michael Bloomberg. He has written several books, including Who Runs Congress? (1972) and Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy (2002). He has collaborated on published works several times with consumer advocate Ralph Nader. He was a regular guest on the show Crossfire on CNN, and also appears on the show Firing Line on PBS and Inside City Hall on NY1, usually representing the liberal point of view. Image File history File linksMetadata NewMarkGreen. ... Image File history File linksMetadata NewMarkGreen. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Public interest is a term used to denote political movements and organizations that are in the public interest—supporting general public and civic causes, in opposition of private and corporate ones (particularistic goals). ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... English barrister 16th century painting of a civil law notary, by Flemish painter Quentin Massys. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ... For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ... Michael Rubens Mike Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is a prominent American businessman, the founder of Bloomberg L.P., and the current Mayor of the City of New York. ... Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney and political activist. ... December 6, 2004 edition of Crossfire. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Firing Line (1966-1999) was a public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... NY1 (pronounced New York One) is a twenty-four hour news channel available exclusively to cable television customers within the five boroughs of New York City and nearby Bergen County, New Jersey. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of...

Early life

Green was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Great Neck South High School in Great Neck, New York, in 1963 [1]; from Cornell University in 1967; and from Harvard Law School in 1970, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... William A. Shine, Great Neck South High School also known as GNSHS is a public high school located in Great Neck, New York, United States, as part of the Great Neck School District. ... Great Neck is a village located in Nassau County, New York in the USA, on the North Shore of Long Island. ... Cornell redirects here. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...

Green has been married to Deni Frand, a former director of the New York City office of liberal interest group People for the American Way, since 1977. They have two children, Jenya and Jonah. Green's brother is the wealthy, influential real estate developer Stephen L. Green. People for the American Way (PFAW) is a prominent liberal advocacy organization in the United States, founded by television producer Norman Lear in 1980. ... A real estate developer (American English) or property developer (British English) makes improvements of some kind to real property, thereby increasing its value. ...

Political career

During the 1970s, Green worked as one of "Nader's Raiders" at Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, including working on a suit against the administration of Richard M. Nixon. In 1981, he founded the New Democracy Project, a public policy institute in New York City, which he ran for several years. During the 1984 presidential election, he served as chief speechwriter for Democratic candidate Senator Gary Hart, who ran second in the primary. Green's first run for office came in 1986 when he ran as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate seat from New York held by Alfonse D'Amato, who defeated Green and won re-election. Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney and political activist. ... Public Citizen is a U.S. non-governmental organization, founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 and based in Washington, DC. Its activities span across a diverse range of issues, including energy policy, trade policy, campaign finance reform and accountability, consumer protection, medical malpractice, and public health. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 â€“ April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a problem. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Gary Hart Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Hartpence on November 28, 1936) is a politician and lawyer from the state of Colorado. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Alfonse Martello DAmato (born August 1, 1937) is a former New York politician. ...

From 1990 to 1993, he served as Consumer Affairs Commissioner of New York City. He was elected the first Public Advocate of New York City in 1993 and was re-elected in 1997. In that office, Green led investigations of HMOs, hospitals, and nursing homes which led to fines by the New York State Attorney General. A 1994 investigation on the Bell Regulations ("Libby Zion Law") -- limiting resident working hours and requiring physician supervision -- and follow-up study prompted the New York State Department of Health to crack down on violating hospitals. This article is about the year. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Public Advocate of New York is an independently elected citywide official, next in line to the Mayor, who is an ombuds[wo]man meant to cut through government red tape. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a type of Managed Care Organization (MCO) that provides a form of health insurance coverage in the United States that is fulfilled through hospitals, doctors, and other providers with which the HMO has a contract. ... See also Attorney General. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

One of Mark Green's most high profile accomplishments as Public Advocate was a lawsuit against the unpunished racial profiling in Rudy Giuliani's police force. As Green told The Gotham Gazette, "I sued Mayor Giuliani because he was in deep denial about racial profiling and police misconduct that went unpunished. I won my lawsuit, I released an investigation showing a pattern of unpunished misconduct ... [and] the rate that police with substantiated complaints are punished went from 25 percent, up to 75 percent." Green was one of the first politicians to draw attention to this problem, and for this and other accomplishments in this area he was, until 2001, one of the most popular white politicians among New York City African Americans. Racial profiling is inclusion of race in the profile of a persons considered likely to commit a particular crime or type of crime (see Offender Profiling). ... Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, (born May 28, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American politician and attorney, best known for his service as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994, through December 31, 2001. ... Police misconduct refers to brutality, corruption or other objectionable actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...

Green ran for the U.S. Senate again in 1998, when D'Amato was seeking a fourth term. Green finished third in the Democratic Primary behind the winner, Congressman Charles Schumer, and 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Charles Ellis Chuck Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is a Jewish American politician. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries â€¢ Politics Portal The Vice President of the United States is the first in the presidential line of succession... Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a politician from New York, serving in the United States House of Representatives and who received the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for Vice President of the United States. ...

In 2004, Green was the co-chair of the New York wing of Senator John Kerry's failed presidential campaign. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

2001 Race for Mayor

Green ran for Mayor of New York as the Democratic candidate in 2001, but lost to Michael Bloomberg. Green narrowly defeated Fernando Ferrer in the primary, surviving a negative contest that divided the party. For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ... Michael Rubens Mike Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is a prominent American businessman, the founder of Bloomberg L.P., and the current Mayor of the City of New York. ... Fernando Ferrer Fernando James Freddy Ferrer (born April 30, 1950 in the Bronx, New York) was the Borough President of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001, and was a candidate for Mayor of New York in 2001 and the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor in 2005. ...

Green was roundly criticized for the actions of supporters that were construed as racist, involving literature with New York Post caricatures of Ferrer and Al Sharpton distributed in white enclaves of Brooklyn and Staten Island. In the weeks after the Sharpton controversy, Village Voice columnist Peter Noel wrote that "Mark Green ... may have replaced [Giuliani] as the most hated white man in the African American community,"[2] an ironic twist for someone who had been so popular in that community for so long. The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[citation needed] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... Al Sharpton Alfred Charles Al Sharpton Jr. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Staten Island, in yellow, lies to the southwest of the rest of New York City. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ...

Although Green claims to have had nothing to do with the dissemination of the literature, and a recent investigation came to the conclusion that "Mark Green had no knowledge of these events, and that when he learned of them, he repeatedly denounced the distribution of this literature and sought to find out who had engaged in it,"[3] many analysts believe this resentment and Green's failure to deal with the controversy based on his knowledge of the fact coupled with an infamous statement to Ferrer supporters that he did not need them to get elected reduced minority turnout in the general election and helped the Republican candidate win in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

The September 11th attacks occurred on the morning of the Democratic primary and also contributed to Green's loss, since the media barely covered the subsequent general election, and Bloomberg spent $74 million on TV ads and direct mail. The hugely popular "Mayor of America," Rudy Giuliani — who suddenly had an extremely high popularity rating even amongst minorities — stumped for Bloomberg. A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11â€”pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, (born May 28, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American politician and attorney, best known for his service as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994, through December 31, 2001. ...

Additionally, Green made a controversial decision during the primary to support Guiliani's unprecedented attempt to extend his own mayoral term, in the name of the emergency of 9/11. Ferrer opposed Guiliani's ultimately unsuccessful attempt at term self-extension, and was able to accuse Green of being rolled over by Guiliani.

As The Economist wrote, "The billionaire businessman [Bloomberg] is usually seen as one of the post-September 11th winners (if such a word can be so used): he would probably have lost the mayoralty to Mark Green, a leftish Democrat, had the terrorist strike not happened. Yet it is also worth noting that his election probably spared New York city a turbulent period of score-settling over Rudy Giuliani's legacy."[4] The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Ltd edited in London, UK. It has been in continuous publication since September 1843. ...

2006 race for state Attorney General

Green ran in the Democratic primary for New York State Attorney General in 2006. He faced former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, former White House Staff Secretary Sean Patrick Maloney, and former lieutenant governor candidate Charles King in the primary. Other candidates who initially ran but dropped out before the primary include former U.S. Attorney Denise O'Donnell and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. Green did not receive the required 25% at the state Democratic convention to earn a spot on the primary ballot and therefore had to circulate nominating petitions statewide to be on the September ballot. He was required to submit at least 15,000 valid signatures; on July 13, he submitted more than 40,000 signatures. He held several endorsements of note, including former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Sierra Club, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the New York Times, and most recently the New York Daily News. The 2006 New York Attorney General Election will take place on November 7, 2006. ... See also Attorney General. ... The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, often abbreviated HUD, is a Cabinet department of the United States government. ... Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957, in New York City) is the New York State Attorney General-elect. ... Sean Patrick Maloney (born 1967) is a Democratic candidate in the 2006 New York State Attorney General race, in which he is in third place, behind Andrew Cuomo and Mark Green. ... The Lieutenant Governor of New York is the second highest ranking official in state government. ... Charles King is an attorney and politician in New York. ... Denise ODonnell is an attorney and Democratic politician from Buffalo, New York. ... Richard Brodsky (b. ... July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey) was the Mayor of New York City from 1989 through 1993, the first (and, to date, only) African American to hold that office. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Borough President is an elective office in New York City. ... Marty Markowitz is the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City. ... The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known conservationist John Muir, who became its first president. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Daily News Building, Raymond Hood, architect, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. ...

On September 12, 2006, Green lost to Andrew Cuomo in his bid to secure the Democratic nomination to succeed current Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. [5] On the evening the results came in, he vowed to reporters that "I won't be running for office again. But I'll continue to advocate, write and teach."[6] A professor at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs told the New York Times that “there is an element of Green fatigue; he has been a candidate forever. There are certain second and third acts in American politics, but when you’re talking about Act 6 or 7, it’s something different.”[7] Baruch College is a public university and one of the constituent colleges comprising the City University of New York. ...

The Republican candidate against Cuomo was former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who lost to Cuomo in the general election. Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. ... Jeanine Pirro Jeanine Ferris Pirro (born June 2, 1951) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician from the state of New York. ...

State and City Campaign Tickets

1986 NYS Democratic Ticket

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1993 NYC Democratic Ticket

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1997 NYC Democratic Ticket

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2001 NYC Democratic Ticket

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Selected publications

External links

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