[GPSCC-chat] Last Draft Agenda for Jan 6th Meeting

[Gerry Gras]

Is that tomorrow or the next day?

It says the 6th in the subject line, and the 5th below.

Gerry


WB4D23 at aol.com wrote:
> *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
>
> ###
>
> [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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