Tulsa. The fifth annual state convention was held in Tulsa in 2006. Major business of the convention included the endorsement of the party's first candidate for the State House, James M. Branum who ran to represent State House District #99 in northeast Oklahoma City as an Independent. He was endorsed by the local and state Green parties as their first candidate for public office in Oklahoma. He received 306 votes, or 4.81% of the votes cast in the three-way race. Also in 2006, Bob Waldrop was endorsed by the Oklahoma County Green Party in his non-partisan campaign for Oklahoma City mayor. In 2006, The state party also organized an Earth Day celebration in Muskogee, Oklahoma and called for a boycott of Starbucks in solidarity with the National Lawyers Guild and other groups protesting the firing of workers who were members of the Industrial Workers of the World union. In 2007, the party held its Sixth annual convention in Stroud, Oklahoma at the historic Rock Cafe on old Route 66. The speaker at this convention was Sean Hough, a worker from the Libertarian Party who had come to work with Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform. Also in 2007, the Oklahoma County local chapter endorsed Fannie Bates in her run as a Democrat for Oklahoma County Commissioner. Stroud also hosted the Seventh Annual convention in 2008. The party returned to its birthplace in Norman for its Eighth convention (in 2009). 2010s The Ninth Annual Convention was held in Norman in 2010, where the party endorsed Edward A. Shadid in his unsuccessful race for the Oklahoma State House. The following year, Mr. Shadid won a non-partisan seat on the Oklahoma City Council. The struggle for ballot access reform continued in 2010 with the party receiving some media attention for its cooperative efforts with other third parties to challenge state law. There was no convention held in 2011, but the party held its Tenth annual convention in Stroud in 2012. Also in 2012, the Oklahoma Greens joined with other third parties to launch another round of litigation challenging Oklahoma's restrictive ballot access laws. The Oklahoma Greens were largely inactive during 2013-2015 with no state conventions being held. In 2016, the Green Party of Oklahoma controversially endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nominee for President of the United States but did not endorse any candidate on the Oklahoma general election ballot for President since