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Here is an interesting proposal about registration. And, it has an
aggressive target, to essentially double GP registration to reach
250,000 by 2012 with major steps along the way. <br>
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The initial cost to is for the county to put some $$ into a contest. I
have seen a note from David Cobb that says he would rather see County
contribution changed to personal contributions and that he would put up
a share. <br>
<br>
I know that everyone is very busy on GA work, but this will come up as
part of budget discussions at the GA and we should be prepared to
respond. Personally, I think it is a good idea.<br>
<br>
Wes <br>
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<td>Proposal for a New Statewide Green Party Registration Drive
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<td>Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:15:13 EST</td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Rioryon@aol.com">Rioryon@aol.com</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:june.brashares@gmail.com">june.brashares@gmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:whastings@earthlink.net">whastings@earthlink.net</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jared.laiti@gmail.com">jared.laiti@gmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:blkcloud@sonic.net">blkcloud@sonic.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:earthworks_works@yahoo.com">earthworks_works@yahoo.com</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thebor@cagreens.org">thebor@cagreens.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lisa@losangelesgreens.org">lisa@losangelesgreens.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sanda@greens.org">sanda@greens.org</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:barry@hermansons.com">barry@hermansons.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:civillib@comcast.net">civillib@comcast.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david@duhc.org">david@duhc.org</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lindap_a@verizon.net">lindap_a@verizon.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lwlaura@yahoo.com">lwlaura@yahoo.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tnharter@aceweb.com">tnharter@aceweb.com</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dan@votehamburg5.org">dan@votehamburg5.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bill@iiipublishing.com">bill@iiipublishing.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dadcab@sbcglobal.net">dadcab@sbcglobal.net</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marnie@greenchange.com">marnie@greenchange.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:napagreens@aol.com">napagreens@aol.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dsilver@suddenlink.net">dsilver@suddenlink.net</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:katetanaka@aol.com">katetanaka@aol.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:funking@greens.org">funking@greens.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gregjan4@yahoo.com">gregjan4@yahoo.com</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mfeinstein@feinstein.org">mfeinstein@feinstein.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wrolley@charter.net">wrolley@charter.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jims@greens.org">jims@greens.org</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wsb3attyca@aol.com">wsb3attyca@aol.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:m_zehr@hotmail.com">m_zehr@hotmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:truekahuna@comcast.net">truekahuna@comcast.net</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gincase@gmail.com">gincase@gmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paul@deltagreens.org">paul@deltagreens.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gardenbeekeeper@yahoo.com">gardenbeekeeper@yahoo.com</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:timc2@sbcglobal.net">timc2@sbcglobal.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cbrouillet@igc.org">cbrouillet@igc.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davidquinley@aol.com">davidquinley@aol.com</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:squehee@ucla.edu">squehee@ucla.edu</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:adrienne@monitor.net">adrienne@monitor.net</a></td>
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<div><strong>Introduction</strong></div>
<div><strong></strong> </div>
<div>Hello All,</div>
<div> </div>
<div> Many of you have already spoken with me about the general idea
expressed in the proposal below.</div>
<div>Here is the first draft of a concrete proposal to increase Green
Party (GP) registrations. Please review and consider the proposal as
a way to reverse our downward trend in GPCA membership, activism,
donors and candidates. </div>
<div> The activation of this proposal on a broad statewide basis,
could have a significant effect on targeted elections, overall party
activism and participation, and an increased flow of contributions.
And who knows at what point we might reach a critical mass tipping
point for significant change ?!</div>
<div> Your feedback, affirmations and concerns are welcomed.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Peace/Unity</div>
<div> </div>
<div>tim smith</div>
<div>Sonoma county</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rioryon@aol.com">rioryon@aol.com</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong></strong> </div>
<div><strong><font size="4">Proposal for a New Statewide Green Party
Registration Drive</font></strong></div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div> In a recent article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, January
13, 2010, one of the CA Green Party founders, SF Supervisor Ross
Mirkarimi speaks to the need for current GP members to return to the
party-building days of the early 1990's...:<br>
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title="http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=9646&catid=&volume_id=452&iissue_id=467&volume_num=44&issue_num=15"
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entry_id=9646&catid=&volume_id=452&iissue_id=467&volume_num=44&issue_num=15</a>><br>
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<div> "Mirkarimi recalls the early party-building days when he and
other <strong>'Ironing Board Cowboys'</strong> would canvas the city
on Muni with voter registration forms and ironing boards to recruit new
members, activities that fell away as the party achieved electoral
successes and got involved with policy work.<br>
'It distracted us from the basics,' Mirkarimi said. Now the Green
Party has to again show that it's capable of that kind of field work in
support of a broad array of campaigns and candidates: 'If I want to
grow, there has to be a companion strategy that will lift all boats.'"</div>
<div> </div>
<div> At the 20-year Anniversary of the California GP's founding,
last Saturday, a recurring theme was the comradery and esprit de corps
that was built in the 1990-1 campaign to qualify the GPCA for the
ballot with a registration drive that proliferated throughout the state.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> Now more than ever, with GPCA registration numbers slipping
from a high of 167,000 in 2003 to 111,000 in the last SoS report, GP
activists need to return to the streets, to register new voters and
recruit new activists into the GPCA.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> And the <strong>TIME IS RIPE</strong> ! For instance, last
week while riding my ironing board at a couple different local corrals
(grocery stores) i registered 16 new Greens out of the 20
voters registered - and about 10 of those indicated an interest in
becoming involved with the GP. While those numbers may be anecdotal in
nature, there are signs they are significant in potential scope. They
indicate massive dissatisfaction amongst voters and citizens with the
policies of the Republican and Democrat corporatocracy. Voters and
citizens want peace, health care reform, jobs and better wages for
working people, adequate funding for education, and
environmental protection for the increasingly endangered planet we live
on.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> Voters and citizens are willing to make the change to a party
that supports those policies, by "voting" with their party
registration, if we are willing to approach them openly, while
listening to their concerns.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> But let's face it, many Greens are already overwhelmed and
over-burdened by their individual workloads. What is needed is a way
to jump-start a new registration drive - an incentive-based proposal to
reverse the trend of diminishing GP numbers, activists, donors and
candidates.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> That is the purpose and goal of this Proposal : </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong><font size="3">Ironing Board Cowgirls and Cowboys Ride
Again</font></strong></div>
<div><strong></strong> </div>
<div>The GP shall incentivize GP registrations from March 8, to May 23,
(ie 75 days between the March GPCA GA and the 15-day close of
registrations before the June Primary) with a 3-part series of prizes.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>There shall be 3 categories of prizes.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>1) - One Category for the 5 counties with the highest percentage
increase in registration between the last SoS report and the May 15-day
close.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>1st Prize : $150 Clearinghouse credit</div>
<div>2nd Prize: $125 " "</div>
<div>3rd Prize: $100 " "</div>
<div>4th Prize: $ 75 " "</div>
<div>5th Prize: $ 50 " "</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Total Cost : $500</div>
<div> </div>
<div>2) - Another Category for non-professional activists (ie
contestants in this category may not be professional signature
gatherers), including 5 cash prizes for the highest number of
registrations turned in between March 8th and May 23rd. Minimum total
registered : 30.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Grand Prize $400</div>
<div>1st Prize $250</div>
<div>2nd Prize $200</div>
<div>3rd Prize $150</div>
<div>4th Prize $100</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Total Cost : $1,100</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>[Note : Individual Contestants shall receive a credit of one
registration for every contact name, phone number, and/or email address
of new GP registrants turned in to and checked by the county/regional
contest administrator. The new GP registrant shall verify (by phone,
email or in person) to the administrator that he/she is interested in
becoming active in the local GP, by A) attending a meeting; B)
receiving regular GP email communication; or C) donating at least $5 to
the local or state GP organization.]</div>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>3) - The final Category is for Professional signature gatherers
who are registered Green for the June Primary.</div>
<div>Note - there are literally hundreds of professional signature
gatherers currently working on statewide and local initiatives. This
is an enormous resource of potential activists to tap into. This
Category of prizes is designed to do that.</div>
<div> 6 cash prizes for the highest number of registrations
turned in between March 8th and May 23rd. Minimum total registered :
50. <br>
</div>
<div>Grand Prize $500</div>
<div>1st Prize $300</div>
<div>2nd Prize $250</div>
<div>3rd Prize $200</div>
<div>4th Prize $150</div>
<div>5th Prize $100</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Total Cost : $1,500</div>
<div><br>
[Note : Individual Contestants shall receive a credit of one
registration for every contact name, phone number, and/or email address
of new GP registrant turned in to and checked by the county/regional
contest administrator. The new GP registrant must verify to the
administrator that he/she is interested in becoming active in the local
GP, by A) attending a meeting; B) receiving regular GP email
communication; or C) donating at least $5 to the local or state GP
organization.]</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Grand Total Cost : $3,100</strong></div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Goal :</strong> 120,000 GPCA registrations by the SoS
15-day close report before the June Primary.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Funding :</strong> At least 20 counties shall be asked to
contribute $100 - $200 and there will be a request made for any balance
needed from the GA in March. The GROW WG may also be able to
contribute some funding.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Administration of Contest :</strong> At least one GP
member from each county or region shall be appointed by the counties or
regions to administer the contest in their jurisdiction, to collect the
registration forms (or copies), to keep track of and to vet the
contestants.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Reminder :</strong> Individual Contestants shall receive
a credit of one registration for every contact name, phone number,
and/or email address of new GP registrant turned in to and checked by
the county/regional contest administrator. The new GP registrant must
verify to the administrator that he/she is interested in becoming
active in the local GP, by one of the following 3 activities, A)
attending a meeting; B) receiving regular GP email communication; or C)
donating at least $5 to the local or state GP organization.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><strong>Notes :</strong> A) - If this proposal is successful,
stemming and turning the registration/activist/donor ebbtide, it could
be employed again to support a registration drive with a goal of
150,000 GP registrants, or more, for the June to November election
cycle. And it is hoped and is altogether conceivable, that we could
set in motion an activist centered momentum, allowing us to reach a
quarter million - 250,000 GP registrants - by 2012 or earlier.</div>
<div> B) - tim smith shall not be eligible for any prizes.</div>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">--
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better
and you don't,
then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente
Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
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