[GPSCC-chat] Laura Wells wants you to join the GPCA SGA

[WB4D23 at aol.com]

May 26, 2016
 
Folks:  Below is part of a message Laura Wells has asked  me to forward to 
the GPSCC email list.  She is asking the Santa Clara  County GP to re-engage 
with GPCA Standing General Assembly (SGA) which acts as  an on-line 
decision making body between Plenaries, including electing GPCA  Coordinating 
Committee members, setting policies, amending bylaws, taking  positions on ballot 
measures and endorsing candidates.  She feels that  these activities are 
too important for the GPSCC to be absent.  We can have  up to five members on 
the SGA that are appointed at our monthly general meeting  (like tonight) or 
by the County Council through email consensus.  If you  are interested in 
volunteering for this, please communicate on this list or to  one of our 
County Council members.  If you want to see the full details of  the proposals 
being considered by the SGA (which I have omitted because our list  has 
content quantity limits), send me a private email.  Warner Bloomberg,  GPSCC 
County Council member
 
 
  
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 From: _laurawells_ (mailto:laurawells at gmail.com) 
To: _WSB3_ (mailto:WSB3 at aol.com) 
Sent: 5/25/2016 9:23:01 P.M. Pacific  Daylight Time
Subj: SGA allotment for Santa Clara County

Hi Warner — and everyone! 


It was great to talk with you today, and with others in SCC, both on  the 
phone recently, and in person at the SF General Assembly (GA) on May  14-15.


I’m hoping that at your Thursday night County Council meeting you  are able 
to appoint up to 5 people. Actually I hope you appoint all 5!  This is a 
case when even a short-term commitment can be very helpful because  of the SGA 
votes happening June 20-26.  There are the Coordinating  Committee 
elections, with 12 decent folks (“decent” stands for  “decentralization”) who want 
to expand the Green Party of California to be  inclusive and welcoming, 
rather than shrinking as it has been for the past  few years in terms of 
finances, strength of locals, publications, media,  general assembly attendance, 
the list goes on.


Copied below (and attached) is way TMI - too much information - about  the 
bylaw amendments that will also be up for a vote June 20-26.  Judging from 
the discussion at the GA, we should at least vote DOWN the ID  90 amendment. 
It excludes as CC candidates those who haven’t been registered  Green for 90 
days. That is a perfect example of a new “rule” that on its  face sounds 
reasonable, but in practice excludes people who really  are “committed Greens.
” Many alternative suggestions came out during the GA  discussion, and so 
more work is needed on this issue; ID 90 is not the  solution. 

"Candidates must submit an  application to the Coordinating Committee by 
the last Monday of April to  be eligible. Applications must include a 
biography and what they wish to  accomplish on the Coordinating Committee. To be 
eligible, candidates must  have been registered Green 90 days prior to filing 
their application of  candidacy."

 


One thing I do miss about campaigning in statewide races is getting  
together with people around the state. If you have a meeting about strategy  or 
voter registration (there will be a lot of long-time Greens to welcome  back 
into the Green Party after the primary!) or whatever, please invite me  down 
to Santa Clara and let’s talk!


Another world is possible, a growing Green Party of California is  crucial —
 
Laura






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