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About Owen Broadhurst
Owen R. Broadhurst, 36, of 96 Elbert Rd. in Agawam, was a 2003 Town Council candidate and
has served on Agawam's Community Preservation Committee since April of 2002.
A former Secretary and Communications Director for the Green-Rainbow Party, Mr. Broadhurst was recently seated on the National Committee
for the Green Party of the United States and to this day serves on the Green-Rainbow Party State Committee. He was Town of
Agawam coordinator for both the 2002 gubernatorial campaign of Green-Rainbow Party
candidate Dr. Jill Stein and the 2004 presidential campaign of national Green Party
candidate David Cobb. Mr. Broadhurst was a Green-Rainbow Party delegate to the Green Party's 2004
national nominating convention in Milwaukee.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the Agawam St. Patrick’s Committee both as
its Clerk and public relations chairman; and he has been a long-time civic activist,
serving as Treasurer for the Town of Agawam's Taxpayers for Positive Change political
action committee from 1997 until its dissolution in 1999. Retired after having been
employed nine years as a certified nursing aide, Mr. Broadhurst worked at the Sabis
International Charter School in Springfield as a substitute teacher prior to becoming a full
time caregiver for his late mother. The 1988 Agawam High School graduate earned his
B.A. from Westfield State College, and plans to pursue his Master's in History there.
Active in both the Green-Rainbow Party Lavender Caucus and National Lavender Green
Caucus, Mr. Broadhurst was instrumental in the creation of the Green-Rainbow Party’s Equal Marriage Rights
taskforce, and served as a Steering Committee member for the Northampton Pride March in 1991. A home-owner, Mr. Broadhurst has lived in the Town of Agawam for more than 30 years.
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