[Sosfbay-discuss] How Did Party in Berkeley Go? Anybody Get aGood Picture of Deacon Alexander?

Thu Feb 11 01:50:25 PST 2010

If you want to gather signatures for Deacon Alexander or Duane Roberts,
I have the forms. I can email them to you or print them for you, your
choice.

Once it's full, just take it down to the ROV office. They will go over
it and log it into the system.

Donations? I have $10 somebody donated in that cup over there with WORLD
PEACE on it. Hopefully I'll remember to bring it to the next meeting to
put in the hat. I'm hoping they take my word for it I got the money from
a person. But then, he could have been a cleverly disguised cyborg or
something.

Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> Okay, we have four years. I would start tomorrow gathering signatures
> and donations, if I knew
> 1)where to get a signature sheet
> 2)how to file it when it's full
> 3) where to send donations (how do you keep track of them so you can
> prove you have $5 donations and not a couple of corporate donations?)
> I'm up for that kind of action. I'm perfectly happy to be a foot
> soldier. I don't want to take a class in how to run a campaign. I'm
> willing to bet there is somebody out there who can answer my simple
> questions. Well, why don't you?
> Caroline
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> *From:* Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
> *To:* Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> *Sent:* Mon, February 8, 2010 6:41:43 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] How Did Party in Berkeley Go? Anybody
> Get a Good Picture of Deacon Alexander?
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> Brian Good wrote:
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>>    I was disappointed that so many people abused the strategy session to
>> engage in long rambling reminiscences and I fell asleep twice during
>> that. 
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> I did not attend.  The main reason I would have gone would have been
> for the strategy seesion.  Sounds like I did not miss much.
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>> I'd had little sleep the night before, and because my car had
>> broken down on the trip up I stank of antifreeze, so I didn't feel very
>> sociable, and I didn't even think of bringing up my strategy issues:
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>>    1.  A public finance (Prop 15) campaign would be a great organizing
>> vehicle.  If we get just 15,000 $5 donations we get a million dollars to
>> run a professional Secretary of State campaign, just like a real party. 
>> If paid staffers choose to use their pay for political activities these
>> funds could be a real energizer for the party.  Since we have 111,000
>> registered Greens today, if we can't get the 15k donors in four years we
>> should just give up.
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> Or change the org from political party to something else.
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> Good point.
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>>    2.  Campaign Finance reform.  The average congressional rep takes in
>> $1.5 million per election, and according to Lawrence Lessig, spends 40%
>> to 60% of her time raising that money which, because of gerrymandered
>> safe seats, they don't need.  Much of this money goes to the Democratic
>> party, and much is paid to consultants who get enormous sums with little
>> transparency.  Since fundraising success is a factor in gaining
>> committee chairmanships and other perks, Reps have to spend their time
>> as party fundraisers instead of solving our country's problems.  The
>> Dems suck.  We don't.
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> I am not sure what your point is.  I assume that you are trying to
> argue for the need to work on campaign finance reform.  If so,
> I agree.  I expect to be working for Prop 15, and supporting
> the national Fair Elections effort.
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>>    It was great to hear the inspiring story of how in the early days
>> 79,000 people were persuaded to register for a party that didn't yet
>> exist.  During 2003 antiwar demonstrations it was said that people
>> crowded the registration tables four deep to sign up.
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>>    Ray said that continuing to run campaigns where we get 5% of the vote
>> was just guaranteeing that we'll continue to be ineffective.  It seemed
>> that few people wanted to hear that. 
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> I wonder why.
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>> It was nice to see a reunion
>> amongst the old timers, people chattering excitedly.  But it reminded me
>> of 9/11 Truth conventions where people go to have their dissenting
>> beliefs reinforced by like-minded people.  I wonder if there's something
>> cultish about continuing to convince each other that it's enough just to
>> pull in a few thousand votes.  If we are to convince the mainstream that
>> we are a viable alternative instead of a perennial protest vote, we need
>> to convince ourselves of that first.
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> Seems reasonable.
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> Gerry
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>> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org <mailto:sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:40:12 -0500
>> From: alexcathy at aol.com <mailto:alexcathy at aol.com>
>> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] How Did Party in Berkeley Go? Anybody Get a
>> Good Picture of Deacon Alexander?
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>> I'm surprised this e-list isn't crackling with news about the 20th
>> Anniversary party up in Berkeley.
>>
>> How did it go?
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>> B.T.W. did anybody get any good pictures of Deacon Alexander?  I would
>> like to post one on my blog.
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>> Alex
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