[GPSCC-chat] February 27, 2014, meeting minutes
Drew
rainbeaufriend at riseup.net
Sat Mar 1 07:37:00 PST 2014
Important required addition: present included: Warner, Andrea Dorey, Pete Reilly (?), John Thielking, Sandy Perry and Spencer Graves.
Please reply to list with any additional folks present.
Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>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
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>
> 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.
>
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> 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
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>> , Note Taker: Spencer
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>> , Vibes Watcher:
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>> , Time Keeper: John
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>> , and AgendaPreparer for March: Warner.
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>> 7:40 Introductions, announcements, additions or corrections to agenda
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>> 7:55 Treasurer's report and hat passing
>> PO Box report: Andrea
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>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.
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>
> 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.
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> Pete and a good experience with Diane Ritchie as an attorney.
>
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> There have been no report to the Judicial Council of the State of
>California on Ritchie.
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>
> There is a clerk, a bailiff, and a reporter.
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> The bailiff is a Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputy.
>
>> 9:25 Adjourn
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>Signatures for Cindy Sheehan
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>Youtube for Daniel Sheehan
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>Labor Council: Pete saw part of a debate at the Labor council.
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>
>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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>> *From:* "WB4D23 at aol.com <mailto:WB4D23 at aol.com>" <WB4D23 at aol.com
>> <mailto:WB4D23 at aol.com>>
>> *To:* spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com
>> <mailto:spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>;
>> pagesincolor at yahoo.com <mailto:pagesincolor at yahoo.com>;
>> perrysandy at aol.com <mailto:perrysandy at aol.com>;
>> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org <mailto:sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> *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.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>--
>Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
>President and Chief Technology Officer
>Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
>751 Emerson Ct.
>San José, CA 95126
>ph: 408-655-4567
>web: www.structuremonitoring.com
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