[Sosfbay-discuss] Proposition Trivia Questions

[alexcathy at aol.com]

>does show the change from Feb. 2005 to Sep. 2005.
>The GPCA decrease was 6%.  The GPSCC decrease was 15%.
>And clearly this can not be explained by people switching
>to vote for Dean or Kucinich.
>I would certainly like to hear a discussion of why this is happening.


I think it is one of those classic cases of "What came first? The 
chicken or the egg?"

What comes first?  Green board members, coucil members, mayors, and 
legisaltors; or strong Green Party organization?

Look at the registration figures by county.  In Humboldt County it's 
5%.  In Mendocino County it's close to 5%.  There are also several 
prominent elected Greens there, including the Mayor of Arcadia in 
Humboldt County.  Elect people to office and activists think "Wow!  
These guys are serious!  If I wanna be part of the action I need to 
register Green!"  The way things are around here if you really wanna be 
part of the action most people think they have to register Democratic.  
Even now after Arnold's crashing defeat in Tuesday's Special Election 
all the the goddamn pundits and bloggers, even the "Lefty" ones, are 
all buzzing over the question "What will THE DEMOCRATS do now?"  Even 
progressives who say it was great that Prop 77 was defeated, but that 
we really do need real reform are saying "Well, now the Democrats and 
the Republicans need to go back to the drawing board."  I actually read 
an article that QUOTED Peter Camejo's analysis of California's fiscal 
problems without ever suggesting that Mr. Camejo just might be a good 
governor.  On some of the Black-oriented web sites i still see 
"nationalist" fantasies about the "solution" to inner-city problems 
will be in reach as soon as we reach the Nirvana of "Black Unity" and 
everybody is all excited about old Ron Dellums running for mayor of 
Oakland.  None dare say that it is pathetic that the Black Democrats in 
Oakland are so bad off they gotta turn to a 70-year old guy to step out 
of retirement.

I saw one blogger who proposed that the "Dream Team" for taking out 
Schwarzenegger next year would be Phil Angelides and Warren Beatty!

Please!

I, for one, do not want to go from "The Terminator" to "Bulworth".  
Besides, Democrats and Republicans are just never going to fix our 
problem.  The very process of organizing in accordance with Green 
principles is part of the solution to the problems created by 
organizing politics in accordance with the cynical and corrupt 
"principles" of Republicans and Democrats.

By the way, I saw a press release issued by the California Green Party 
claiming that as of Tuesday, we have 66 elected Greens in California.

Doggone it!  Something is happening!  California is ready for a Green 
Revolution, but we need good local candidates and the Campaigns & 
Candidates Working Group needs to figure out more ways to help those 
candidates raise a little money and run campaigns to win.  It's a 
little embarassing that we don't have any elected Greens in Santa Clara 
County.  My God there are just soooooo many issues.


Alex Walker