From mfeinstein at feinstein.org Wed Jul 8 16:28:17 2015 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 16:28:17 -0700 Subject: [officeholders] GPCA 2016 U.S. Senate endorsement process References: Message-ID: <17DF7B82-B7BC-42DB-A561-A7A029DEC4F6@feinstein.org> http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2016/us-senate-endorsement-process One of California's two U.S. Senate seats will be up for election in 2016 - that of retiring Barbara Boxer. There will be a U.S. Senate primary election June 7, 2016. The Green Party of California will conduct an endorsement process between October 5 and November 22, 2015, to determine whether it will endorse a candidate in that race. Any registered Green Party member is eligible to apply for consideration, by filling out the questionnaire below and emailing it to applications at cagreens.org. To ensure consideration, it is recommended that applicants send in their questionnaire by August 31, so that they can be reviewed by the GPCA's Campaigns and Candidates Working Group, which then places them before the GPCA's Standing General Assembly. At its June 27-28, 2015 General Assembly, the GPCA passed the following proposal: "The GPCA General Assembly declares as a goal for the GPCA in 2016 that there is an endorsed GPCA candidate for U.S. Senate, that the endorsement process be open to all California Greens who submit a completed questionnaire (per below), that the endorsement discussion/vote begin on October 5 and conclude on November 22, that notification of the process to apply for endorsement shall be emailed to all GPCA members for whom the party has on hand, and that the goals would include - Coordination on gathering of the 10,000 needed nomination signatures, in-lieu of filing fees - Being reflective of the GPCA platform and the Ten Key Values - Increasing Green voter registration - Coordination on message with down ticket candidates - Inspiring more Greens to run for all levels of elected office - Identify party members and other registered voters who will commit in advance to sign and/or circulate nomination papers for these candidates GPCA 2016 U.S. Senate Endorsement Questionnaire: 1. Why are you running for U.S. Senate as a Green? 2. What are your key platform issues? What are the most important issues facing California and the nation? What solutions do you offer? 3. How will your campaign build the Green Party of California? What are your campaign goals? 4. What parts of the GPCA platform do you feel most closely aligned with? What parts do you disagree with, if any? Are there parts you would improve upon and how? 5. What in your background qualifies you to be a credible candidate? What assets would you bring to your campaign, in addition to those already existing within the Green Party? 6. What are some of the key organizations and/or constituencies that you plan to outreach to and what is your relationship (if any) to them? 7. Have you filed as a campaign committee with the Federal Elections Commission and if so, what is your campaign ID#. Do you have campaign bank account and treasurer? A campaign website? 8. Do believe that an independent party like the Greens can succeed in the US? How would you define such success? How can it happen? 9. How will you collaborate with other Greens running for other office, including on issues, messaging and organizing? 10. Why are you a Green? References: 1) Key 2016 deadlines include: Signatures In Lieu of Filing Fee Period for Voter-Nominated Offices January 1 - February 25, 2016; Candidate Statement Period for Voter Information Guide (U.S. Senate) January 28 - February 17, 2016; and Declaration of Candidacy and Nomination Paper Period for Voter-Nominated Offices February 15 - March 11, 2016. 2) Previous California Green candidates for U.S. Senate: 2010: Duane Roberts, 6th/6 candidates 128,510 votes 1.2% 2006: Todd Chretien, 3rd/6 candidates 147,074 votes 1.8% 2000: Medea Benjamin, 3rd/7 candidates 326,828 3.1% 1994: Barbara Blong, 6th/6 candidates 140,567 1.65% _______________________________________________ From mfeinstein at feinstein.org Thu Jul 9 09:49:42 2015 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:49:42 -0700 Subject: [officeholders] VIDEO: How to govern as a Green: Social justice in education w/Green school boardmembers Jose Lara and Sean Reagan References: Message-ID: VIDEO: How to govern as a Green: social justice in education w/Green school boardmembers Jose Lara and Sean Reagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Or8tfx3amc ? 1:04:58 Green Party school board members Jose Lara (Pico Rivera) and Sean Reagan (Norwalk-La Mirada) speak about what its like to govern as a Green in office, speaking about issues of social justice in education, ethnic studies, reforming Prop 13 and more. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mfeinstein at feinstein.org Tue Jul 14 10:49:04 2015 From: mfeinstein at feinstein.org (Mike Feinstein) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:49:04 -0700 Subject: [officeholders] Seeking Green officeholder experience for book References: <8790668A-EE43-48DE-AC2C-52F4F98B7C80@feinstein.org> Message-ID: <6DE5127E-58C6-4A4E-986E-2FD63A015B2B@feinstein.org> Dear fellow present and former elected Greens I have accepted an offer to contribute to a book and my chapter is to focus on the following: GREEN GOVERNMENT: What Greens do when they win elections ? Successes of Greens in government ? The Green inside/outside strategy ? Greens in coalition government ? Coordination among communities My entire chapter can only be a max of 1600 words With that in mind, if there is something you have done that you want to share from one of the four categories above, please send a few hundred words to me. If I end up working it into my chapter, I will come back to you with revised text for your review for the part describing your work. I have an end of July deadline for my first draft, so please send me something so I'll know whether to include you and we can go from there. Thanks MIke Feinstein former Green Mayor and City Councilmember Santa Monica, CA From bdelgado62 at gmail.com Tue Jul 14 11:40:01 2015 From: bdelgado62 at gmail.com (Bruce Delgado) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:40:01 -0700 Subject: [officeholders] Seeking Green officeholder experience for book In-Reply-To: <6DE5127E-58C6-4A4E-986E-2FD63A015B2B@feinstein.org> References: <8790668A-EE43-48DE-AC2C-52F4F98B7C80@feinstein.org> <6DE5127E-58C6-4A4E-986E-2FD63A015B2B@feinstein.org> Message-ID: Hi Mike, Here's a summary of my thinking now serving my 4th term as Mayor since 4 years as City Councilmember. My being a member of the Green Party is definitely noticed in the press and in public meetings. I have to downplay it a bit because as a fed employee I can't give even the perception that I am serving a partisan office. Still my Green values and affiliation are well known and I think appreciated by most as being different and well justified. However I must work hard to do all the City business that most cities have AND do green initiatives wherever I can. I am more active a mayor than any other I have observed. It is extremely helpful to have an active wife who supports and participates in this. City of Marina's UGB in 2000 passed when I was elected to City Council. Still Marina has the the only UGB in Monterey County history!My platform then of supporting the UGB and vision for Marina to become a university town laid the foundation for my platforms since. After 2000 election main focus has been to become a university town (next to CSUMB), redevelop blight left on closed Fort Ord Army Base, and to preserve open space threatened by new development. Since 2008 as Mayor I necessarily needed to be fiscally conservative and balance our out-of-balance budget or no funds would be available for green or any discretionary projects. Finally in 2015 we have a balanced budget and are planning for funds to be used on sustainability projects, downtown beautification, and a large new trail and greenway network throughout the City. Important to note that Green mayors may need to spend significant time on budget, personnel, public safety, support of downtown businesses and other issues not directly green related. However, if Green electeds are especially ambitious they can also volunteer to bring green projects to their community quasi outside their role as electeds. My wife and I personally bring green initiatives to City Council and public events (e.g. chicken legalization, reusable bag ordinance, implementation and monitoring of styro ban, waste free events, public art downtown, light rail, roundabouts to replace 4-way intersections). hope this helps, Bruce On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote: > Dear fellow present and former elected Greens > > I have accepted an offer to contribute to a book and my chapter is to > focus on the following: > > GREEN GOVERNMENT: What Greens do when they win elections > > ? Successes of Greens in government > ? The Green inside/outside strategy > ? Greens in coalition government > ? Coordination among communities > > My entire chapter can only be a max of 1600 words > > With that in mind, if there is something you have done that you want to > share from one of the four categories above, please send a few hundred > words to me. If I end up working it into my chapter, I will come back to > you with revised text for your review for the part describing your work. > > I have an end of July deadline for my first draft, so please send me > something so I'll know whether to include you and we can go from there. > > Thanks > > MIke Feinstein > former Green Mayor and City Councilmember > Santa Monica, CA > _______________________________________________ > officeholders mailing list > officeholders at lists.cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/listinfo/officeholders_lists.cagreens.org > -- Bruce (831) 277-7690 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shrinerforsure at gmail.com Tue Jul 14 15:58:26 2015 From: shrinerforsure at gmail.com (Jan Shriner) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:58:26 -0700 Subject: [officeholders] Seeking Green officeholder experience for book In-Reply-To: References: <8790668A-EE43-48DE-AC2C-52F4F98B7C80@feinstein.org> <6DE5127E-58C6-4A4E-986E-2FD63A015B2B@feinstein.org> Message-ID: Although there is much truth told in this communication from marina's green mayor, he is leaving out his campaign funding at 25% or more from Shea homes, Shea properties, and other corporations as well as the campaign funding of the Packard family interested in expanding the service area of a subsidiary of the largest investor owned water purveyor in north America by eliminating a public water agency, the one I am elected to and serve as a volunteer, the one that just created a strategic plan, hired new executive staff, and has been embattled with the American Water corporation since 2011. The controversial service area is the area of the entitled Shea homes. Chicken ordinance is good. Mrs Mayor made a really cute PowerPoint presentation complete with sound effects for the council meetings. She also brought adorable children into the chambers for the plastic bag discussions. Incentive programs or gifts of public funds supported by the Marina Mayor for cinemark should not be left silent in favor of mentioning chicken and bag ordinances. Green is not only defined by small advances of chickens but there needs to be fierce championing of campaign financing and ethical standards in government. This is where Mr & Mrs Marina Mayor align more with local Dems, not conservative dems but aligned with many of our local Dems like Farr, Burnett, and Monning. Popular and moderate as well as democrat rather than deep green. These dems also stand for increasing the size and power of the water corporation and speak about their need to eliminate the public water agency especially in the Shea area. These campaign contributions and recent voting record have left many of us scratching our heads over the wisdom of continuing to support the green mayor. I appreciate that he has responded in this way. Jan shriner Director Marina coast water district On Jul 14, 2015 11:40 AM, "Bruce Delgado" wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Here's a summary of my thinking now serving my 4th term as Mayor since 4 > years as City Councilmember. > > My being a member of the Green Party is definitely noticed in the press > and in public meetings. I have to downplay it a bit because as a fed > employee I can't give even the perception that I am serving a partisan > office. Still my Green values and affiliation are well known and I think > appreciated by most as being different and well justified. However I must > work hard to do all the City business that most cities have AND do green > initiatives wherever I can. I am more active a mayor than any other I have > observed. It is extremely helpful to have an active wife who supports and > participates in this. > > City of Marina's UGB in 2000 passed when I was elected to City > Council. Still Marina has the the only UGB in Monterey County history!My > platform then of supporting the UGB and vision for Marina to become a > university town laid the foundation for my platforms since. > > After 2000 election main focus has been to become a university town (next > to CSUMB), redevelop blight left on closed Fort Ord Army Base, and to > preserve open space threatened by new development. Since 2008 as Mayor I > necessarily needed to be fiscally conservative and balance our > out-of-balance budget or no funds would be available for green or any > discretionary projects. > Finally in 2015 we have a balanced budget and are planning for funds to be > used on sustainability projects, downtown beautification, and a large new > trail and greenway network throughout the City. > > Important to note that Green mayors may need to spend significant time on > budget, personnel, public safety, support of downtown businesses and other > issues not directly green related. However, if Green electeds are > especially ambitious they can also volunteer to bring green projects to > their community quasi outside their role as electeds. My wife and I > personally bring green initiatives to City Council and public events (e.g. > chicken legalization, reusable bag ordinance, implementation and monitoring > of styro ban, waste free events, public art downtown, light rail, > roundabouts to replace 4-way intersections). > > hope this helps, > Bruce > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Mike Feinstein > wrote: > >> Dear fellow present and former elected Greens >> >> I have accepted an offer to contribute to a book and my chapter is to >> focus on the following: >> >> GREEN GOVERNMENT: What Greens do when they win elections >> >> ? Successes of Greens in government >> ? The Green inside/outside strategy >> ? Greens in coalition government >> ? Coordination among communities >> >> My entire chapter can only be a max of 1600 words >> >> With that in mind, if there is something you have done that you want to >> share from one of the four categories above, please send a few hundred >> words to me. If I end up working it into my chapter, I will come back to >> you with revised text for your review for the part describing your work. >> >> I have an end of July deadline for my first draft, so please send me >> something so I'll know whether to include you and we can go from there. >> >> Thanks >> >> MIke Feinstein >> former Green Mayor and City Councilmember >> Santa Monica, CA >> _______________________________________________ >> officeholders mailing list >> officeholders at lists.cagreens.org >> http://lists.cagreens.org/listinfo/officeholders_lists.cagreens.org >> > > > > -- > Bruce > (831) 277-7690 > > > _______________________________________________ > officeholders mailing list > officeholders at lists.cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/listinfo/officeholders_lists.cagreens.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: