[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Re: recruiting volunteers for Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections & Greens County Council

[Drew]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Drew <rainbeaufriend at riseup.net>
Sent: Fri Feb 14 22:37:39 PST 2014
To: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] recruiting volunteers for Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections & Greens County Council

De Anza College is getting it's own copy and licensing of "Inequality for all" and maybe the De Anza Green Party club could arrange for a showing. :)

Green is grow!

Drew

Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>Hi, Sandy:
>
>
>       1.  Thanks for offering to serve on the County Council. Someone 
>needs to check the rules on procedure so we can make it official.
>
>
>       2.  I'd be open to changing the format of our monthly meeting.  
>For example, we could start at 7 PM with a guest presentation or a
>movie 
>followed by a discussion that would run until 9 PM followed by a half 
>hour general business meeting with agenda organized by the County
>Council.
>
>
>             2.1.  However, a change like this would require someone 
>taking the lead to organize this.  The obvious lead organizers should,
>I 
>think, be people most concerned about our major foci.  These are 
>currently environment and universal health care.  Those are important, 
>but I'm more concerned about government secrecy and democracy.  
>Regarding the latter, I've recently attended regular meetings of the 
>Santa Clara County Citizens' Advisory Commission on Elections and the 
>League of Women Voters.  I've already been able to restart stalled 
>discussions on getting Instant Runoff Voting here in Santa Clara
>County.
>
>
>           2.2.  Is anyone interested in helping organize a showing of 
>"Inequality for All"?  Just over an hour ago, I finally received word 
>that we can now show "Inequality for All" on reasonable terms -- after 
>having had tentative showing canceled twice because of misinformation 
>about licensing.  Dream Menders will meet next Wednesday and discuss 
>showing this at the Peace Center, presumably 2-4:30 PM on a Sunday like
>
>March 16, 23, or 30.  Any preferences?
>
>
>     3.  Some will remember that Merriam Kathleen, Caroline Yacoub and 
>others (John Thielking?) organized a Green Movie night at the Peace 
>Center for 2 years.  The results from that were OK but not adequate to 
>justify the level of effort required to keep it going.  Before we
>change 
>how we manage our monthly meeting(s), we need to ask Caroline and
>others 
>what we should do to try to obtain greater success.
>
>
>       Spencer
>
>
>On 2/11/2014 5:34 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote:
>> Hi Spencer,
>> I would be willing to serve on the County Council, but only as a last
>
>> resort, after we have taken serious steps to recruit minority 
>> candidates and women. Otherwise, I am afraid our County Council will 
>> dwindle further, from three to two, two to one, etc. until we are on 
>> the verge of disappearing - just at the very time the situation for 
>> the Green Party is getting riper than ever.
>> I also believe we should consider a suggestion made by Drew a while 
>> ago: to grow the Green Party in small local committees as we are 
>> attempting to do with some small success at De Anza. To have the main
>
>> (tedious) business of the Party handled by the County Council in a 
>> separate meeting (open to any member). To have our monthly membership
>
>> meeting be an educational or organizing event geared toward new 
>> members and prospective members, with films, lectures, or actions,
>and 
>> broadly publicized.
>> With all due respect, I am tired of long discussions about whether or
>
>> not we should endorse a long list of projects, while in the meantime 
>> we are growing so small that people care less and less whether we 
>> endorse their activity or not.
>> Sandy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>
>> To: GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> Sent: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 9:03 pm
>> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] recruiting volunteers for Citizens' Advisory 
>> Commission on Elections & Greens County Council
>>
>> Hello, All:
>>
>>
>> 1. COUNTY COUNCIL: Our official County Council is supposed to have 7.
>> After John Thielking leaves in June, we will be down to 3 (Jim Doyle,
>> Betsy and me). The duties are simple: Respond to an occasional email
>or
>> phone call to help decide an issue that we prefer not wait for the
>next
>> monthly meeting. Other requirements: Live in Santa Clara County and
>have
>> been registered Green for at least a year. It's not necessary to come
>to
>> meetings.
>>
>>
>> 2. SANTA CLARA COUNTY CITIZENS' ADVISORY COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS:
>This
>> Commission meets the first Tuesday of each month except on election
>> days. It helps the Board of Supervisors manage the Registrar of
>Voters.
>> They currently have a vacancy in Supervisorial District 2
>> (www.sccgov.org/sites/bos/bnc/CABODocs/MaddyReport.html#CITIZENS’ 
><http://www.sccgov.org/sites/bos/bnc/CABODocs/MaddyReport.html#CITIZENS%E2%80%99>
> 
>> ADVISORY COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS).
>>
>>
>> ** This is a key post from which to advance instant runoff voting
>(IRV)
>> and increasing the volume of information available to the public
>> including about campaign finance. I've been attending their meetings
>> since last September. If we had had 1 or 2 people actively attending
>> these meetings for the past decade and pushing gently for IRV, we
>would
>> likely have gotten it 5 years ago or so, shortly after San Francisco
>and
>> Alameda Counties started using IRV. One of the current Commissioners
>is
>> a Peace & Freedom party member (Dave Kadlecek), which indicates that
>you
>> don't have to be a Democrat or a Republican to be appointed to this
>> board. Two of the current board members asked me to apply.
>> Unfortunately, I'm not eligible, because I do not live in
>Supervisorial
>> District 2. This is an unpaid position.
>>
>>
>> I'd be pleased to talk with anyone who might be interested either in
>> serving in trying to find someone to serve in either of these
>capacities.
>>
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Spencer
>>
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>
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