[GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item & comments solicited re. recent MoveOn meetings?

[Spencer Graves]

Dear Caroline, et al.:


       Well said, Caroline.  I also think the Greens should be open to 
endorsing someone like Kucinich if he actually were to get nominated by 
the Democrats.  I think that's exceedingly unlikely.  This reminds me of 
a discussion we had recently to exclude people as delegates who were 
"standing in" for possible candidates who were not registered Green.  I 
can't remember what we decided about that, but the need to build and 
work in coalition is a strong reason NOT to exclude consideration of 
candidates who were not registered Green.


       Best Wishes,

       Spencer


On 7/22/2011 10:57 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> I had a MoveOn phone calling at my house last year. Most of the women 
> were  very surprised to find out I was a Green, but I pointed out that 
> MoveOn was supposed to be a non-partisan, progressive group, and that 
> I was happy to work with other progressive people. I was at a 
> gathering last Saturday where we filled out the four pages of the 
> questionnaire. Not much was said. The gathering was for another 
> purpose. I have no idea what party anybody else belonged to. MoveOn 
> does some great communicating. This can work to our advantage. We can 
> pick and choose which of their projects we get involved with. Being 
> stand-offish is not going to help us build the coalitions we need to 
> become a national force.
> Caroline
>
> --- On *Fri, 7/22/11, Spencer Graves /<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>/* 
> wrote:
>
>
>     From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>     Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item & comments solicited re.
>     recent MoveOn meetings?
>     To: "Valerie D. Face" <vdf at juno.com>
>     Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>     Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 9:34 AM
>
>     Feedback from Greens who attended the most recent MoveOn meetings
>     (July
>     15-17?;  10 minutes)
>
>
>     Discussion of what we as a group might want to do as a result
>     (e.g., ask
>     MoveOn if they want to make this honestly nonpartisan with roles for
>     minor parties or they continue to be a not-so-clandestine effort
>     to sell
>     the Democratic party, whose candidates will continue their previous
>     practices in servicing the bribes from the ultra-wealthy;  10 minutes)
>
>
>     ***NOTE:  Do any of you have comments on this?  Merriam suggested we
>     could discuss this in this email list.
>
>
>            Spencer
>
>
>     On 7/21/2011 3:56 PM, Valerie D. Face wrote:
>     > Hi Gerry,
>     >
>     > Could you let us (the list) know how much time you'd like for
>     this item?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Valerie
>     >
>     >
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>     > ---------- Original Message ----------
>     >
>     > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:09:52 -0700
>     > From: Gerry Gras<gerrygras at earthlink.net
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>     > Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Agenda Item? - CFPA
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>     >
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