[GPSCC-chat] Moving Meeting to 2nd Thur? (was Re: [GPSCC] Updated Draft Ageneda For Jan GPSCC Monthly Meeting)
jamboi
jamboi at greens.org
Fri Dec 24 18:25:51 PST 2010
i'm still hoping we can pick a better day *instead of* first Wed for our
General Meeting. how about 2nd Thursday? if not that then how about 2nd
Wed? Those seem to be the top runners so far.
Green is Go!
Drew
> 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
> ###
> [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)
> ****************************************************************************
> *
> 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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