[GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda Items GPSCC Meeting Thursday October 24th
Spencer Graves
spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Sun Oct 20 11:46:10 PDT 2013
Hello, All:
Below please find a minor revision of the suggestions I had for
the Oct. 24 agenda. The estimated time still totals 65 minutes. With
other standard agenda items, it should all fit comfortably within 2 hours.
I deleted the word "minor". I generalized item 3.1 to say
simply, "The Santa Clara Greens may endorse candidates of other parties
for races where we do not have our own candidate." The idea is to
create an official process for producing a recommendation list that
could have us endorsing, for example, a Democrat when we don't have a
Green candidate, and we regard the alternatives as worse.
I also added some "discussion" of the proposal to create a blog
for the Santa Clara Greens. We could use this to encourage people to
attend local meetings of school boards and other minor governmental
bodies and prepare a summary for others of what they saw -- plus their
reactions. The latter could include questions about things they didn't
see but thought should be considered by the entity and leaders they
mentioned. If we do this, well, we could attract a following from
people interested in local news. That could translate into increased
membership and increased leverage in local politics.
Comments?
Best Wishes,
sg
On 10/19/2013 10:07 PM, Drew wrote:
> Alternative parties, or People's parties works for me (really the
> opposition or suppressed parties ), though I don't mind minor parties.
>
> Luis Rodriguez sends his apologies that the 24th will notbepossible
> for him to come speak with us and we are trying to find analternative
> date. We may be able to bring him to De Anza, and hopefully somewhere
> in San José as well.
>
> Green is GO!
>
> Drew
>
> Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> *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>
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 19, 2013 10:03 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda Items GPSCC Meeting
> Thursday October 24th
>
> "Minor parties"? Puhleeze! How about "emerging parties" or
> "nascent parties"?
>
>
>
> 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 may endorse
> candidates of other parties for races where we do not have our own
> candidate.
>
>
> 3.2. The Santa Clara Greens will attempt to
> coordinate with other third 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.
>
DISCUSSION: Appropriate topics for such blogs could include summaries
of actions at public meetings in Santa Clara County and issues
considered and actions taken by elected officials at all levels.
However, one primary focus would be on local issues and events that are
often underreported in the mainstream media.
>
> 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 <mailto: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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