[GPSCC-chat] February 27, 2014, meeting minutes

[Spencer Graves]

Please send any additions or corrections to this list.  Spencer


On 2/27/2014 5:23 PM, perrysandy at aol.com wrote:
> Hi John,
> Here is a final agenda.
> Sandy
> *Green Party Meeting  Thursday, Feb 27, 2014*
> 7:00-7:30 Nancy Neff from California Clean Money Campaign will speak 
> on SB 27 and SB 52.


       Nancy Neff:  nancy at neffs.net


       Nancy mentioned Disclose, Amend, Reform, Empower (DARE):  
Disclose, Amend to overturn Citizens United, Reform


       SB27 requires nonprofits to disclose any amounts over ~$50K. 
Passed the house with amendments.  Must go back to the Senate for their 
concurrence.


       SB52 requires the top 3 funders must be identified on TV ads, top 
2 on radio ads.


       Nancy distributed "activist packets":  www.CAdisclose.org > 
Action > Download materials.  This includes a request for funds, a 
petition that anyone can download and collect signatures, AND a request 
for letters sent to Assembly Speaker Perez and Assembly Speaker Elect 
Atkins.


       This Saturday, there will be a Grass Roots Leaders Summit at All 
Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly, Palo Alto.  Y'all come.

> 7:30 Meeting starts. Identify Facilitator:  Sandy


> , Note Taker:  Spencer


> , Vibes Watcher:


> , Time Keeper:  John


> , and AgendaPreparer for March:  Warner.

> 7:40 Introductions, announcements, additions or corrections to agenda

> 7:55 Treasurer's report and hat passing
>          PO Box report: Andrea

PO Box held over to next month.

> 8:00 Memorial/appreciation for Lois Duperrault.


       Brainstorming:  $100 for a plaque for the Peace Center.  Or give 
to a charity Lois particularly liked.


       Spencer to ask Tian.

> 8:05 Discuss the following proposal I sent to the Discuss list:
> 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.


Warner:  There is value in having an open discussion of our business, 
even if some may consider this tedious.  We need to go through meetings 
like this just to keeping this party going.  Warner is more interested 
in supporting business meetings than presentations.


** >> Spencer to contact Sanda to determine what we need to do to obtain 
a legal County Council.


    Maybe have an outreach meeting every other month?  Sandy is willing 
to try to initiate the process -- try it at least once.


       Maybe this business meeting start at 7 PM rather than 7:30 PM?


       It helps having people coming from outside for a 7 PM speaker.


Conclusion:


       1.  The regular meeting will remain as is with an extra effort to 
get a speaker for the first half hour.


       2.  We will try to organize occasional extra events, starting 
with Sandy.

> 8:40 Evaluate our candidate signature campaign and lessons learned.


       PROBLEM:  We have no local candidates.  The planning process for 
that needs to be 2 years long.  We have no organization attempt to 
identify people to run for local office.


       Sandy:  A new party in New York (well funded) has an active 
candidate recruitment effort.

> 8:55 Report on single payer health care work. Sandy


       Health Fair:  April 12 at Andrew Hill High School.  500-600 
people.  We may be able to get a Green speaker on the agenda.

> 9:05Report on climate change work.


       An anti-keystone rally --


       A court decided Nebraska could NOT us eminent domain for this.

> 9:15 Whether or not to host a GPCA Plenary – Warner.


       The day after our January meeting, Sanda asked if Santa Clara 
County would like to host state wide Plenary in June.


       This would entail finding a location for 50-75 people, lots of 
work planning.


       Warner will write Sanda saying the issue was discussed but we are 
not able to do it at this time.

> 9:25Diane Ritchie campaign for Judge.


       Pete and a good experience with Diane Ritchie as an attorney.


       There have been no report to the Judicial Council of the State of 
California on Ritchie.


       There is a clerk, a bailiff, and a reporter.


        The bailiff is a Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputy.

> 9:25 Adjourn

Signatures for Cindy Sheehan


Youtube for Daniel Sheehan


Labor Council:  Pete saw part of a debate at the Labor council.


Cathy Sutherland is supported by Carpenter, Mayfield, Warner, and others.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com>
> To: WB4D23 <WB4D23 at aol.com>; spencer.graves 
> <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>; perrysandy 
> <perrysandy at aol.com>; sosfbay-discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Sent: Thu, Feb 27, 2014 4:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Final Agenda Anyone? Legal Opinion About 
> DR's Behavior: Was Registrar Of Voters S...
>
> That's fine.  Pete would still like a chance to speak about Diane 
> Ritchie at our meeting tonight. She was his attorney a few years ago 
> and did a good job for him. I still don't see a final agenda being 
> circulated. So far we have the additional items of DR and Fred and his 
> wife's death (commemorative certificate for Fred proposed by Tian) to 
> discuss. Thanks.
>
> John Thielking
>
>
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> *Sent:* Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [GPSCC-chat] Legal Opinion About DR's Behavior: Was 
> Registrar Of Voters S...
>
> February 27, 2014
> I have previously written and spoken my opinions about GPSCC 
> endorsements.  I don't think we should be endorsing local candidates 
> unless they request it and give us the courtesy of attending a meeting 
> or at least sending someone from their campaign.
> I don't really thing the GPSCC needs to be endorsing judicial 
> candidates.  If GPSCC members want to get into evaluating candidates, 
> I suggest we follow past practice of delegating
> a committee to put together an information comparison of candidate 
> positions with a comment of either reccomended,
> not recommended, or no recommendation.
> Warner
> In a message dated 2/27/2014 3:29:33 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com 
> <mailto:spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> writes:
>
>
>           I would oppose the Green Party of Santa Clara County taking
>     a position on Ritchie without first consulting several attorneys
>     for their views on her and on the Merc story / stories about her.
>
>
>           We could start by consulting Warner.
>
>
>


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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
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Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
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