[Sosfbay-discuss] delegates to national convention

[Jim Doyle]

This from the Gren Party contacts list.
Jim Doyle

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE
This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. 
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   Dear Greens,
   The deadline to sign up for selection as an official California delegate
to the Green Party's 2008 national Presidential nominating convention is
rapidly approaching.
                      *** DUE DATE ***
By December 7, all Presidential candidates and county parties must submit
their slates to the Delegate Selection Committee, at:  
gpca-dsc at cagreens.org <mailto:gpca-dsc at cagreens.org>
                  *** DELEGATE ALLOTMENTS ***
   California will likely be alloted about 170 delegates to the 2008
convention.  The number of delegates that should come from each active
California county is therefore approximately one and a half to two and a
half times the usual number of delegates alloted to your county for state
plenary meetings.  So, if your county receives 3 delegates to the state
plenary, about 5 to 8 convention delegates should hail from your county next
year.
       Since first priority for delegate selection is given to the 
Presidential
candidates' delegate slates, some (or even most) of your county's allotment
may be filled by Green Party members from your county asking to be on the
candidates' delegate slates.
     Delegates are chosen from candidate slates in proportion to the 
percentage
of the vote received by each candidate in the California Green Party 
primary.
So if Candidate X wins 50% of the primary vote on February 5, half of 
California's delegates are chosen from X's delegate slate. County slates 
are a backup for
the candidate slates -- to fill convention delegate seats when 
candidates have
provided insufficient names to cover the percentage of delegates they have
won in the primary.
                 *** RECRUITING DELEGATES ***
   You can help the GPCA Delegate Selection Committee achieve the formidable
task of balancing the representation of the primary vote with county
representation, diversity and gender balance by recruiting delegates for
your county slate and by helping to connect prospective delegates in your
county with the candidate of their preference. (Please see details below.)

   To help you recruit delegates, we've written a sample email below that
you can forward to your listserves and email lists.  (Please add any other
contact info. for your county party though, if needed).  PLEASE SEND OUT
THIS EMAIL RIGHT AWAY (or your own version of it) so that the Greens in your
county can have at least 5 or 6 days to decide about becoming a delegate!
Also, we strongly encourage you to make phone calls to the Greens in your
county who will most likely be interested in attending!

   Please help California send a full delegation to next year's national
Green Party convention!  Please circulate the email below right away (and
also make phone calls) -- in order to try and meet (or exceed!) your
county's "delegate goal", per the above!
      Thank you in advance for helping us recruit California delegates 
to next
year's national convention!
                          Sincerely,
                          Delegate Selection Committee
                          Green Party of California
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    PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR LOCAL LISTS
     [Subject line:     ASAP!:  Can you be a California Green delegate 
to next
      summer's Chicago national convention of the Green Party?!   ]
     Dear Greens,
   This coming February's California Green Party ballot is currently
scheduled to feature seven Presidential candidates. 

Following the official February election results, an allocation of national
convention delegates for each candidate will be made (in proportion to
the number of February votes that the candidates receive) -- for California
Green delegates to attend the July 10 through July 13 Green Party national
convention in Chicago, Illinois. 

    According to rules passed by the Green Party of California state 
plenary
meeting (also known as the "general assembly" meeting), this coming
December 7, 2007 is the deadline for Presidential candidates, and also
for Green Party of California county groups, to submit the names of
California Greens to attend next summer's national convention
in Chicago.

   Therefore, if you would like to represent a particular Green Party
Presidential candidate, PLEASE CONTACT THEIR CAMPAIGN
IMMEDIATELY (as listed below), as most campaigns want to start finalizing
their delegate slates starting on approximately Tuesday, December 4! 

(Note: you can only be on one candidate's slate and you will generally be
expected to support that candidate unless and until that candidate is 
eliminated
from the running).

    In addition, everyone (including "candidate delegates") can also be a
"county delegate".  (This is recommended, since those candidates who do not
have enough of their own delegates will then draw from the county-delegate
pool to fill out their lists). 
    To be a "county delegate", please contact your local county Green 
Party RIGHT AWAY -- by replying to this message!
   If you're not absolutely sure at this point whether you'll be able to
attend, but you are interested in attending, please contact the campaign of
your choice and/or your county Green Party and just let them know about your
situation.  That way you'll be prioritized now, so that you'll have a much
better chance of being a delegate should everything work out for you 
next year!

   Please help the Green Party of California send a full delegation to next
year's Green Party national convention in Chicago!  Please volunteer to be a
delegate -- now!
                          Sincerely,
                          Delegate Selection Committee
                          Green Party of California
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