From davidquinley at aol.com Tue Nov 2 09:40:55 2010 From: davidquinley at aol.com (Greenartist) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:40:55 -0400 Subject: [Marin-d] Laura Wells Press Concf. 12:30pm> [GPCA-CCWG] Marin County Courthouse - I NEED SOME BUDDIES TODAY! In-Reply-To: <34B0D41B-7B18-4B32-8998-94CCA4A6B91C@yahoo.com> References: <967638.30513.qm@web114705.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><625603DA-6222-4514-8C0F-EA08C17DBE99@feinstein.org><4CCDAE5A.8050604@comcast.net><3AA1A647-CEFF-4A40-9FE9-465E8AC62AA2@feinstein.org> <34B0D41B-7B18-4B32-8998-94CCA4A6B91C@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CD48C3DA69037F-182C-964@webmail-m009.sysops.aol.com> i been pretty sick last few days - but think i can make it = where the press conf. ? -----Original Message----- From: Laura Wells To: Media - Green Party of California Party ; Greens - GPCA CCWG Greens - GPCA CCWG Sent: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 6:58 am Subject: [GPCA-CCWG] Marin County Courthouse - I NEED SOME BUDDIES TODAY! Hello - The D.A.'s office decided not to proceed at this time, but we've put it out that I'll be at the court house at 12:30pm for a press conference and so I will go - see press release below. Sure will be nice to have some folks with me, so please RSVP if you can be there, or if you can help get some buddies there! Good luck to us all! Laura Laura Wells Green Party Candidate for Governor P.O. Box 10727, Oakland, CA 94610 www.LauraWells.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 Contact: Laura Wells 510-504-4254 or Cres Vellucci 916-996-9170 Assignment Desk/Daybook Gubernatorial candidate spends Election Day Tuesday at arraignment; Green Party's Laura Wells fights charges, chooses Matt Gonzalez as her lawyer SAN RAFAEL, CA. ? California gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells of the Green Party will spend her election day Tuesday, Nov. 2 appearing for her arraignment here on misdemeanor trespassing charges for the "crime" of attending a Governor's Debate Oct. 12 at Dominican University. Wells will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. at the MARIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Dept. N at 12:30 p.m. (3501 Civic Center Drive). Her court appearance is at 1 p.m. Wells has retained former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez as her attorney. Wells (www.laurawells.org) was banned from the debate Oct. 12 because only the Democratic and Republican nominees for Governor were allowed to debate. However, when she attempted only to sit in the audience to watch, Wells was hauled away, handcuffed and arrested. In the last few days, nearly 1,000 people have signed a petition asking the Marin County DA office dismiss all charges, and investigate those responsible for her arrest. The petition states: "Laura Wells, the Green candidate for Governor of California, was arrested on Oct. 12, 2010 at the California Governor's Debate. Her arrest is a violation of her civil rights. She had a ticket and the right to attend the debate. We request that you dismiss the criminal charge against Ms. Wells and launch an investigation into why she was arrested." Wells, who garnered more than 400,000 votes when she ran for Controller in 2002 on the Green ticket, is a financial analyst who talks about solutions ? not politics ? to California's budget mess. Among many other solutions to the state's woes, Wells wants to "reform" Prop. 13 so it benefits individuals and small businesses, as was promised, not large corporations. She is promoting the concept of a "State Bank" that would partner with local banks and make loans to residents, including students for college loans and profit California, not private, Wall-Street bailed-out banks. -30- Laura Wells Green Party Candidate for Governor P.O. Box 10727, Oakland, CA 94610 www.LauraWells.org Laura Wells Green Party Candidate for Governor P.O. Box 10727, Oakland, CA 94610 www.LauraWells.org = _______________________________________________ gpca-ccwg mailing list gpca-ccwg at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-ccwg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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GPCA Election Night gatherings sorry out of money - cant get there -----Original Message----- From: Mike Feinstein Cc: Green Party Campaigns & Candidates ; Media Group Green Party Sent: Mon, Nov 1, 2010 9:49 pm Subject: Re: [GPCA-CCWG] You are Invited! GPCA Election Night gatherings There are event pages on Facebook for NorCal http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165868953437655 SoCal http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162216713812078 and announcements for both events have gone out to all members of our FB fan page and FB group _______________________________________________ gpca-ccwg mailing list gpca-ccwg at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-ccwg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidquinley at aol.com Tue Nov 2 17:20:20 2010 From: davidquinley at aol.com (Greenartist) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:20:20 -0400 Subject: [Marin-d] New Marin IJ article on charges against L. Wells Message-ID: <8CD490408E62298-1254-539B@webmail-m004.sysops.aol.com> Green candidate will avoid charges for crashing Dominican debate - Marin marinij.com/ci_16503172 via @marinij = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From david_quinley at yahoo.com Fri Nov 5 12:27:49 2010 From: david_quinley at yahoo.com (david quinley) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Marin-d] Fw:[Green Party CA-CC] Fullerton General Assembly Minutes Message-ID: <524044.63743.qm@web53905.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: County Contacts To: County Contacts Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 7:09:07 PM Subject: [GPCA-CC] [GPCA Official Notice] Fullerton General Assembly Minutes GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. For more information, or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit reply. Follow the contact directions stated in the email. The draft minutes from the Sept. GA in Fullerton have been posted on the archives page: http://www.cagreens.org/plenary/archives/ Common password required. These minutes will be presented for approval at the next state meeting. _______________________________________________ Contacts2006 mailing list Contacts2006 at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/contacts2006 _______________________________________________ gpca-cc mailing list gpca-cc at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-cc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidquinley at aol.com Fri Nov 19 22:53:52 2010 From: davidquinley at aol.com (Greenartist) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:53:52 -0500 Subject: [Marin-d] 12:30pm MILL VALLEY {REDWOODS} Marin Gray Panthers presents Rosalind Peterson of Cal. Sky Watch In-Reply-To: <8CD5696A17E07A4-15D0-6DC6@webmail-m068.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD5696A17E07A4-15D0-6DC6@webmail-m068.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CD5696D3DA48F4-15D0-6DE0@webmail-m068.sysops.aol.com> -----Original Message----- From: Greenartist To: bapd at comcast.net Sent: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 10:52 pm Subject: MILL VALLEY {REDWOODS} Marin Gray Panthers presents Rosalind Peterson of Cal. Sky Watch MILL VALLEY {REDWOODS} Marin Gray Panthers presents Rosalind Peterson of Cal. Sky Watch START DATE: Saturday November 20 TIME: 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM Location Details: (NASA 2005) OUR MEETING ON SPEAKER 1-3 THE REDWOODS, http://www.theredwoods.org 40 CAMINO ALTO, MILL VALLEY, ACTIVITY ROOM 415 453-1550 - 415 491-0113 Event Type: Speaker Contact Name put up by rep.SF northbay to Cal. Green Party Email Address davidquinley [at] aol.com Phone Number 415 479 1888 Home Address 163 merrydale rd. 8 , San Rafael Saturday, November 20, 12:30 - 3:30 PM The Gray Panthers present HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR WEATHER/SKIES... NATURAL OR MAN-MADE? Rosalind Peterson http://www.newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalind8.htm of California Sky Watch http://www.californiaskywatch.com/ and Agriculture Defense Coalition http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/ Ms. Peterson works to educate the public in protecting agriculture crop production from uncontrolled experimental weather modification programs, atmospheric heating and testing programs, and ocean and atmospheric experimental geoengineering programs. Geoengineering schemes and experimental atmospheric programs have unknown synergistic effects that can profoundly affect pollinators, wildlife, agriculture, trees, human health, soils, and our water supplies. NASA research studies show increasingly persistent jet contrails may turn into man-made clouds that are "trapping warmth in the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming... Contrails, especially persistent contrails, represent a human-caused increase in the Earth's cloudiness, and are likely to be affecting climate and ultimately our natural resources..." david quinley on twitter and facebook and is not yet a senior for a few decades yet http://graypanthersmarin.org/ http://twitter.com/davidaquinley/ www.facebook.com/david.quinley/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The New Politics of Ranked-Choice Elections Steven Hill San Francisco Chronicle Monday, November 15, 2010 04:00 AM Jean Quan's riveting victory to become the mayor of Oakland has brought re-newed attention to ranked-choice voting (or instant-runoff voting). San Francisco has used this system, which allows voters to rank their top three candidates, in seven elections since 2004. Oakland, Berkeley and San Leandro used it for the first time this year. Quan became the first Asian American woman elected mayor of a major city by coming from behind to beat the favorite, former state Senate President Pro Tem and powerbroker Don Perata. Some political consultants and insiders seem baffled about how Quan prevailed, but it's not that complicated. It came down to two things that used to be a staple in American politics before our elections became marinated in money: knocking on doors and building coalitions. Quan showed how to win with a new kind of politics that better comports with the diverse society we have become. Voters are increasingly sickened by hack attack campaigns in which opponents spend enough money to feed a third-world country. The recent gubernatorial race in which Meg Whitman spent an astounding $140 million attacking rival Jerry Brown is a classic example. The recent Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, which has turned on the spigot for corporate campaign donations, means that independent expenditures and mudslinging campaigns are bound to increase. So undercutting the impact of such spending disparities is one of ranked-choice voting's most important qualities. It is estimated that Perata and his allies outspent Quan by 5 to 1, but Quan attended far more community meetings, forums and house parties. She told people, "If I'm not your first choice, please make me your second or third choice." She also reached out to her opponents, Rebecca Kaplan especially, saying, "In case I don't win, I think Rebecca should be your second choice." Really simple stuff, but effective: Quan received three times more runoff votes from the supporters of Kaplan, who finished third, than did Perata. That gave Quan her victory. Perata, meanwhile, used the traditional front-runner strategy, spending more money and attacking his opponent. But he couldn't attack all of his opponents, because he needed support from those opponents' voters in order to reach a majority. Post-election, many political consultants have shown they just don't get it. One of Perata's consultants has indicated that they should have attacked not just Quan but Kaplan, too. It hasn't occurred to him that instead of going negative, they should have gone positive. Find common ground, build coalitions - that's the incentive for winning in ranked-choice contests. A similar story also played out in San Leandro's mayoral election and San Francisco's supervisorial Districts Two and 10. In these races, victors also won by building coalitions, coming from behind to win over opponents with more endorsements. In our overly adversarial, winner-take-all society, the incentives of ranked-choice voting to find common ground and build coalitions with ranked ballots is welcomed by most people. But bizarrely, some insiders have tried to call it "gaming the system." Ranked-choice voting is a better fit for our diverse, multi-everything society. Ranked-choice voting allows voters to express the complex racial-ethnic and political allegiances that most of us feel today by allowing voters to rank up to three candidates. Indeed, nearly three-quarters of Oakland voters used all three of their rankings to pick their favorites among the 10 mayoral candidates. Ranked-choice voting also led to much higher voter turnout in Oakland. In the June 2006 mayoral election, 83,000 Oaklanders voted. This year, 119,000 voters participated in the mayoral election, a 43 percent increase. And 99.7 percent cast a valid vote. San Francisco's ranked-choice elections in November also generally have seen higher turnout than the old December runoff elections. A recent court challenge to San Francisco's ranked-choice elections was dismissed, with the federal judge roundly rejecting arguments that ranked-choice voting disenfranchises voters. In 2009, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Minneapolis' ranked-choice system, ruling that "every ballot and every vote is counted by the same rules and standards." As San Francisco girds for its mayoral election next November, we'll see if the old-timers and insiders learn from Oakland. The campaign that grasps the right lessons just might end up as the victor. Steven Hill is author of "10 Steps to Repair American Democracy" ( www.10Steps.net) and the architect of the ranked-choice voting system in the Bay Area. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/14/EDUH1GBFVT.DTL#ixzz15qlnt8vN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidquinley at aol.com Sun Nov 21 19:45:47 2010 From: davidquinley at aol.com (Greenartist) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:45:47 -0500 Subject: [Marin-d] San Rafael Mon. 6:30 PM MarinPJC Election Shakeout (Laura Wells May Be There) Message-ID: <8CD580EE220768A-12D0-E601@webmail-d101.sysops.aol.com> Mon. 6:30 PM Laura Wells says she's try to make it Marin Peace & Justice Coalition www.mpjc.org/ 4th Monday Potluck 2010 Election Shakeout - Next Steps 6:15 pm Potluck 7:15 pm Program Join MPJC in a lively community conversation about the recent elections! The first hour we'll talk about the election results: local,state, and national. What are the progressive perspectives on what happened? The second hour we'll talk about forward strategies to guide us in our activism and organizing together. What are your ideas for our communities and our movements moving forward? Find out about current local campaigns and issues to get involved in! Bring a dish or bring yourself and a friend. For more info: 721-7241 First United Methodist Church of San Rafael 9 Ross Valley Dr. (On the Miracle Mile between San Rafael and San Anselmo, across from Bedrock Music, near Cafe Gratitude) www.facebook.com/david.quinley http://twitter.com/davidaquinley www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000031433391 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidquinley at aol.com Mon Nov 22 09:29:51 2010 From: davidquinley at aol.com (Greenartist) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:29:51 -0500 Subject: [Marin-d] Fwd:Monthly 4th Mon. 7:30pm Cal. Green Party GROW Working Group Phone Meet In-Reply-To: <4CEA14B5.20007@comcast.net> References: <4CE8300F.5090708@cagreens.org> <176847.14667.qm@web56905.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <4CEA14B5.20007@comcast.net> Message-ID: <8CD588200DDBE27-12D0-1755F@webmail-d101.sysops.aol.com> get involved in state newspaper(Green Focus) for party, and help grow -----Original Message----- From: civillib To: gpca-grow at lists.riseup.net Sent: Sun, Nov 21, 2010 10:59 pm Subject: Re: [GROW] Re: A GROW meeting (finally) INFO--> Michael, I'll try to make the call re: Green Focus, and some new developments re: the Sac Greens. Hope everyone is well, Cres On 11/20/2010 1:43 PM, Kendra Gonzales wrote: > I have an event to attend and may be a tad late to the call, but will try > my best to make it. > > > Kendra Gonzales > www.vccool.org > www.cagreens.org/ventura > "All the energy stored in the Earth's reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas > is matched by the energy from 20 days of sunshine" ---Union of Concerned > Scientists > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Michael Borenstein > To: GROW WG > Sent: Sat, November 20, 2010 12:31:11 PM > Subject: [GROW] Re: A GROW meeting (finally) INFO--> > > Our 4th Monday regular call is scheduled at: > > 1-218.486.8700 with access code: 18018 > On: > > Monday, November 22 at 7:30pm > > Some of the subjects that we'll need to consider: > > -Your item or idea if you could please post it to this list. > > - How would we like to manage our upcoming workplan and budget? > > - Thoughts for the upcoming strategy sessions, to include GROW projects of: > -- Registration > -- County development > > - A special Spring edition of Green Focus needs to begin happening > > - Any new or other folks who would like to pick up and start a project, > volunteer to help co-coordinate GROW, or assist in working on ongoing > projects would be ever so welcome. GROW's door is wide open. > > Well folks, if we can get out green teeth into just this much we'll be much the > better for it. A few more folks on the call than the usual suspects would be > useful, > so feel free to join us and contribute what you can, or just listen to what you > will. > > If you're not sure where to fit in, or need an update to what, or what not, has > been going on; please feel free to call me at 530.620.6659. > > Thank you, > Michael B. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're receiving this note because you are subscribed to the GPCA Grassroots Working Group (GROW) mailing list. To post a message, please send to: gpca-grow at lists.riseup.net To unsubscribe, please send to: gpca-grow-unsubscribe at lists.riseup.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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