[Sosfbay-discuss] Changing Registration

[alexcathy at aol.com]

Dear Green Friends,

For the record, I agree 100% with Wes Rolley's analysis.  This is like 
a recurring nightmare.

I love Cindy Sheehan, and her threat to run against DiFi may have 
already had the salutary effect of nudging Feinstein into voting for 
the Alito filibuster, but the idea the Greens would give up their 
registered Green status to cast a primary vote for Cindy is just about 
the dumbest political idea I ever heard in my life.  At least in the 
Howard Dean - Denis Kucinich thing there was the outside chance the 
Demos might actually nominate an antiwar candidate.  The chances they'd 
dump a senior Democratic senators like Feinstein are, let's face it, 
just about zero.  If anyone really wants to make life unhappy for DiFi, 
they'd do much better backing our Green Party candidate in the fall.

This one is a no-brainer.


Alex Walker


-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net>
To: Green Discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Sent: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:34:28 -0800
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Changing Registration

 .  .  .

In the case of Dean and Kucinich, no matter how much closer they were 
to
Green Values than Kerry or Edwards, the impact of a few Greens making
the switch was negligible in the Democratic Party but significant in 
the
Green Party.  It is one of the many reasons that Green Party
registration in California is declining over the last 2 years.

If every Green in California re-registered as DTS and voted for 
Sheehan,
it would be about 2% of the Democratic registration, hardly noticable
against DiFi but the Green Party would not exist any more.  Sheehan is
so tightly connected to Moveon.org that there is almost no chance that
she would support a Green Party candidate after she loses to DiFi, as 
is
inevitable.

.  .  .

----Original Message-----