[GPSCC-chat] Last Draft Agenda for Jan 6th 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 (5
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)
Proposal to purchase updated CfER proportional rep leaflet – Jim Stauffer
(10 minutes)
Revisit question of hosting 2012 GPUS Presidential Nominating Convention –
Warner (5 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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