[GPSCC-chat] Updated Draft Ageneda For Jan 5th GPSCC Monthly Meeting

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GREEN  PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY 
Draft  Agenda for Monthly General Membership Meeting January 5,  2011 
San  Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose,  CA 
(Near  7th and San Fernando) 
6:30  pm – Eat and chat 
7:30  pm – Begin meeting 
Select  Facilitator, Notetaker, Timekeeper, and Vibeswatcher(s), Select 
Agenda Preparer  for next meeting; Affirm or modify draft agenda (5 Minutes)   
Introductions  and Announcements (10 Minutes) 
Treasurer’s  Report and presentation of 2011 GPSCC projected budget – Jim 
Doyle (15 minutes)   
General  discussion of goals for 2011 – County Council Members (30  
minutes) 
Issues  include:  Role(s) of County Council  (see Bylaws excerpt below); 
General Meetings scheduling; Speakers at meetings;  Recruiting candidates for 
the 2012 elections (see copy of Wes Rolley email  below) 
Report  on what are current policies for use of GPSCC email list – Tian (5  
minutes) 
Need  to recruit new regional Coordinating Council member and alternate (10 
 minutes) 
Presentation  of expected 2011 tabling events; Report on status of tabling 
materials and  supplies  -- Jim Doyle (15  Minutes) 
Review  of draft banks and credit cards bookmarks – Spencer (5  minutes) 
Revisit  question of hosting 2012 GPUS Presidential Nominating Convention – 
Warner (10  Minutes) 
Proposal  re GPSCC campaign re banks – Spencer (15 minutes) – See text 
following draft  agenda for further details 
(2  Hours Estimated Cumulative Times.  Goal:  Adjourn by 9:30  pm) 
Tabling Events  Addenda – Needed for each item (not necessarily all at this 
 meeting): 
Confirm date and  location; Approval of fee payment (as applicable); 
Designation of coordinator(s)  and other volunteers 

No  Tabling Events Reported As Of Preparation of This Agenda 
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[From  GPSCC Bylaws] ARTICLE 2 COUNTY COUNCIL  
2.1  Purposes  
2.1.1  The County Council will fulfill the legal requirement for a liaison 
between the  California Green Party and Santa Clara County officials. As 
used in these  Bylaws, the term "County Council" shall have the same meaning as 
the term  "Central Committee" as that term is used by the Office of the 
Registrar of  Voters for Santa Clara County, California.  
2.1.2  The Council shall select a secretary and a treasurer from among its 
members, or  may ratify the selection of these officers made at a General 
County Meeting. The  Council and/or its officers will be responsible for 
complying with the financial  reporting requirements of the Fair Political  
Practices  Commission (FPPC). The Council or its officers shall be 
responsible for  obtaining an FPPC number for financial reporting. The Council may 
create such  committees or initiate such inquiries as it considers necessary 
and appropriate  to perform its collective  
responsibilities  as described in these Bylaws.  
2.1.3  Internal to the Green Party, the Council's primary duties include 
serving as a  coordinating or steering committee to:  
a) Facilitate  communications between Green Party members within the  
county, at  county meetings, and between locals within the county.  
b) Facilitate  communications between the county Green Party and the State 
Green Party.   
c) Assist Green  Party involvement in elections in the county (including  
recruiting,  advising and assisting Green Party candidates, co-ordinating   
voter  registration efforts and tabling, and supporting ballot issues   
effecting issues  of concern to the state or county Green Party).  
d) Enhance  communications between the county Green Party and other Green   
Parties and/or  other local organizations which support the principals and  
 
objectives set  forth in the Green Party Platform.  
e) Oversee and  assist the work of committees formed by the Council, or  
outside the  Council by the Party's members, to help carry out the above   
duties, or other  duties considered necessary that are not in conflict with 
 
these ByLaws;  such as an electoral reform committee, an environmental  
issues  committee, etc.  
2.1.4  The County Council shall act as the designated contact persons for 
the Green  Party of Santa Clara County, and refer interested people to 
persons who may be  designated as spokespeople for the Party at a General County 
Meeting.   
2.1.5  The County Council, by agreement of eighty percent (80%) of its 
members, may  authorize the use of the name of the Green Party of Santa Clara 
County as an  endorser or co-sponsor of an event or public statement 
consistent with the  principals and objectives set forth in the Green Party Platform 
if time issues  make the decision necessary before it can be brought before 
the next general  meeting.  Any such County Council  authorization shall be 
reported to those present at the next monthly  meeting.  [Adopted July 1,  
2003] 
--------  Original Message -------- 
Subject:  [GPCA-MediaComm] Home - California Target Book 
Date:  Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:36:14 -0800 
From:  Wes Rolley  
http://www.californiatargetbook.com/ctb/default/index.cfm 
This  link to the California Target Book web site currently contains  a 
list  of all of the state legislators who will be termed out in 2010.  We 
should  currently be looking for ways to exploit this, especially as  Prop 
14  has kicked in beginning with the special election in for the SD  28 
special  election to be held on Feb 15. 
This  is the list with interesting (to me) opportunities marked with  * 
STATE  SENATE (4 Dem; 2 Rep) 
Joe  Simitian (D-SD11)  * 
Elaine  Alquist (D-SD13) 
Alan  Lowenthal (D-SD27) 
Bob  Dutton (R-SD31) 
Tom  Harman (R-SD35) 
Christine  Kehoe (D-SD39) 
ASSEMBLY  (17 Dem; 5 Rep) 
Jared  Huffman (D-AD6)  * 
Fiona  Ma (D-AD12) 
Sandré  Swanson (D-AD16) 
Cathleen  Galgiani (D-AD17) 
Mary  Hayashi (D-AD18) 
Jim  Beall, Jr. (D-AD24)  * 
Cameron  Smyth (R-AD38) 
Felipe  Fuentes (D-AD39) 
Julia  Brownley (D-AD41) 
Mike  Feuer (D-AD42) 
Anthony  Portantino (D-AD44) 
Gil  Cedillo (D-AD45) 
Mike  Davis (D-AD48) 
Mike  Eng (D-AD49) 
Tony  Mendoza (D-AD56) 
Charles  Calderon (D-AD58) 
Wilma  Amina Carter (D-AD62) 
Paul  Cook (R-AD65) 
Kevin  Jeffries (R-AD66) 
Jim  Silva (R-AD67) 
Jose  Solorio (D-AD69) 
Martin  Garrick (R-AD74) 
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* 
Resolved:  The Green Party of Santa Clara County  will attempt to work  
with  other organizations to build effective united action against major,   
predatory  banks.  Possible coalition members  include organizations  
involved  with people with experience with threatened or actual  
foreclosure  as well as debt counselors encouraging people to end credit   
card  debt and rank and file members of other political  organizations. 
Discussion: 
1.  The actions of predatory banks might be  the single greatest  
"sleeping  giant" among the US electorate during the current Great  
Recession.  The commercial media are complicit in  this:  They'd lose   
advertising  if their news and world views conflicted seriously with  
those  of bank executives who control advertising budgets.  This issue  
could  be large enough to convince a critical mass of the US electorate   
that  the current structure of the US media is potentially the biggest   
threat  to peace and democracy in the world today -- possibly stronger   
regulation  of both the media and the banks -- possibly even antitrust   
action. 
2.  Organizations involved with helping  people with financial  
difficulties  can provide substantive information as well as a source of   
people  who could be activated politically by a platform more rational   
than  that of the Tea Party.  I think they  would eagerly collaborate with  
others  who might help increase the political awareness of the issues   
they  work with every day.  An issue like  this could turn many nonvoters  
in this  group into active Green party members if we could find ways to   
help  build an effective political movement demanding enforcement of   
existing  laws regarding perjury and fraud against bank officers. 
3.  The Peace and Freedom Party seems  farther to the left than  
the  Greens, and I think could be persuaded to join something like this.   
American  Independents might also agree that we need substantive bank   
regulation.  Most Libertarians are probably hopeless  on this issue, but  
we  could be surprised even there. 
4.  I think the vast majority of US citizens registered as either   
Democrat  or Republican would agree with the need to increase banking   
regulation,  not decrease it as the incoming US House majority has  
promised  to do.  This could be the deciding  issue in denying reelection  
to many  incumbents in 2012. 
5.  MoveOn so far appears to have been  thinly disguised shills  
for the  Democrats.  As the Great Recession  continues and deepens, they  
may  switch allegiance, refusing to support Democrats who vote with the   
bankers  and possibly declaring themselves a separate political party or   
even  supporting Greens in some cases. 
6.  If this issue gets serious traction, it  will tarnish all the  
incumbents  who have supported liberalizing banking regulations in the   
past.  That will be a boon for minor parties,  especially the Greens if  
we  exercise leadership on this issue. 


 

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