[Sosfbay-discuss] Request for nomination as GPSCC delegate to GPUS prez nominating convention

[WB4D23 at aol.com]

Folks!  The deadline for County GP's to nominate backup  delegates and 
alternates to the GPUS presidential nominating convention  scheduled to be held in 
Chicago, Illinois July 10th-13th is Friday December  7th.  Our GPSCC general 
membership meeting is Thursday December 6th.   Candidates in the February 5th 
GPCA presidential preference Primary Election  have the same deadline to submit 
lists of GPCA registered voters as their  delegates nominees.  To the extent 
candidates do not collectively fill all  delegate and alternate positions, 
County GPs need to have nominated additional  delegates and alternates.  You can 
be on a candidate's list as well as seek  nomination from your County GP.  The 
total delegation is intended to be  geographically balanced, gender balanced, 
diversified, etc.  Although we do  not know the total number of California 
nominating convention delegates, a good  guess is between 150-200 -- so each 
County GP can nominate at least twice its  General Assembly delegates allocation 
(GPSCC 4 x 2 = 8; x2 for alternates =  16).  We can expect that some volunteers 
to be nominating convention  delegates will not actually attend.
 
As a member of the California GPUS National Committee  delegation -- which is 
a two year position separate from being a delegate of the  nominating 
convention -- I am expected to attend the GNC annual meeting... which  will be held 
within the nominating convention schedule (not sure exactly how  this works).  
I would like to make the same trip for both purposes.   For diaclosure 
purposes, I have volunteered to be included in the Kent Mesplay  delegates slate, but 
there is no certainty what percentage of the Primary vote  he or any other 
candidate will receive, and it is the percentage of that vote  that determines 
how many persons from any candidate's slate will be delegates  (or alternates). 
 The California nominating convention delegates are  required to cast votes 
in proportion to the primary election results on the  first ballot of the 
convention regardless of who any individual candidate  supports.
 
PLEASE NOTE:  Registration, travel and lodging costs for  these meetings are 
probably going to be in the $600-$1,000 range.  The  amount of any subsidy 
from the GPCA budget is unknown at this time.  The  GPSCC will need to consider 
at some point whether it wants to contribute to the  expenses of GPSCC members 
who attend the GPUS nominating  convention.
 
Regardless, we need to make our County nominations at the next  meeting.
 
Warner



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