[GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda Items GPSCC Meeting Thursday October 24th

Sat Oct 19 13:06:33 PDT 2013

 I think, on the whole, this is a good idea, but we need to know whether or not the folks we are cozying up to accept corporate donations.

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 From: Brian <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
To: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>; "WB4D23 at aol.com" <wb4d23 at aol.com> 
Cc: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org> 
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Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda Items GPSCC Meeting Thursday October 24th

"Minor parties"?   Puhleeze!  How about "emerging parties" or "nascent parties"?

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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:58:25 -0700
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
To: WB4D23 at aol.com
CC: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda Items GPSCC Meeting Thursday October 24th

      1.  GPCA Plenary delegate recruitment and selection.  (15-20 minutes?)  

      2.  Green party endorsing candidates for state office. 
      Between November 17 and 24, our delegates to the Standing General
      Assembly (Jim Doyle, Drew Johnson, John Thielking, Betsy and me)
      are supposed to vote on endorsing candidates and issues as
      outlined in an email I sent to this list on Oct. 9, 1:52 AM,
      subj:  "GPCA endorsements for June 2014 primary, Coordinating
      Committee, initiatives".  There will likely be discussion of this
      at the plenary, and we need to instruct our SGA delegates on how
      to vote at our meeting Nov. 24 -- if not earlier.  I suggest we
      have a 10 minute discussion of this at this meeting with a
      tentative decision and instruction to delegates and everyone else
      regarding how to complete this decision process with minimal time
      on Nov. 24.  (Announcement with brief discussion:  5 minutes)  

      3.  Prop 14 has in essence transformed the primary into the
      only election for minor parties.  We can appear on the general
      election ballot only if we come in first or second in the
      primary.  That strongly encourages minor parties to coordinate
      with one another to the maximum extent that their membership will
      allow.  We cannot control which candidates pull papers and file to
      run, but we can control endorsements and recruitment of candidates
      to file papers.  There was discussion of this in the email list of
      the GPCA Standing General Assembly mailto:gpca-votes at cagreens.org.  Sanda Everette indicated there have already been contacts between the statewide Coordinating Committee of the California Greens and representatives of Peace and Freedom and Libertarian parties.  Sanda said, "We were hoping that there could be a full statewide slate with candidates running from the three parties and no one competing with another third party candidate."  

            RESOLUTION:  The Green Party of Santa Clara County
      will attempt to contact other minor parties in Santa Clara County,
      attend their meetings, and invite them to ours for the following
      purposes:  

                  3.1.  The Santa Clara Greens will agree to
      endorse candidates of other minor parties for races where we do
      not have our own candidate.  "Minor parties" in this case will
      refer primarily to the Peace and Freedom and the Libertarian
      parties.  

                  3.2.  The Santa Clara Greens will attempt to
      coordinate with other minor parties to develop joint procedures
      for recruiting candidates to run for offices in a way that can
      maximize our chances of winning.  

            TIME ESTIMATE:  15 minutes?  

      4.  Confirm Green Party December meeting on the 19th
      (announcement with discussion:  5 minutes) 

      5.  PROPOSED:  SCC GREEN BLOG (see my email to this group
      stamped 10/15/2013 10:26 PM, subj:  SCC Green Blog?):  

            PROPOSED:  The Santa Clara Greens will authorize the
      creation of a blog on its web site.  The party will elect at least
      two blog editors.  At least one editor (different from the author)
      must approve any text posted as a blog.  All blogs must be
      consistent with the ten key values and be labeled as the opinion
      of the author and not necessarily a position of the Green Party of
      Santa Clara County.  Also, claims that might be controversial
      should be justified with a footnote giving a reference to an
      appropriate source with not links when appropriate web sites are
      available. 

            TIME ESTIMATE:  10 minutes 

      6.  Sponsoring a local screening of Gar Alperovitz's "Next
      American Revolution".  This possibility was discussed in emails to
      this list from Drew and me Oct. 6, subj:  'Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd:
      [gpca-forum] Free copy of Gar Alperovitz's "Next American
      Revolution" DVD for local Green Party screenings'.  

            DISCUSSION:  Should we do this?  With whom should we
      try to co-sponsor?  Who has energy to try to help organize
      something in this area?  

            TIME ESTIMATE:  10 minutes.  

      That's my list.  

      Spencer 

On 10/18/2013 4:22 PM, WB4D23 at aol.com wrote:

October 18, 2013 
>
>Folks!  The next Green Party of Santa Clara County general monthly meeting will be next Thursday, October 24th.  
>At the September meeting I agreed to prepare a draft agenda. 
>Please post your proposals to this list.  Please remember to identify whether the item is a report, a discussion item, or a decision item.  List who will be the presenter(s) and how much time you think should be given to the item.  Remember that we try to limit meetings to two hours maximum and that there will be many items on the agenda.  If you are proposing a specific proposal, please post the full text of your proposal to be included in the draft agenda. 
>
>Warner 
> 
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