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On 5/19/2010 12:39 PM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
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valign="top">Thanks Gerry, for looking into this issue. I have another
question: why should the Marin (or Solano) board of supes give a good
gosh-darn what the Green Party of Santa Clara County thinks? In other
words, what earthly use is our endorsement? I could see a point in
getting into the Palo Alto thing. But Marin? Maybe they just don't have
any north bay Greens who want to do phone banking or leafletting.<br>
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--- On <b>Wed, 5/19/10, Gerry Gras <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gerrygras@earthlink.net"><gerrygras@earthlink.net></a></i></b>
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There is a lot of mis-conception about this issue. <br>
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To begin with, Joe Feller has been very active in a number of local
governance questions... especially in fighting big box retailers like
Walmart. His involvement in the Marin County Waste Treatment question
is just an extension. Both dovetail with his Green Party work, but
most of this is not done from the viewpoint of being an official GP
representative... where he also the CC Regional Rep.<br>
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And, there are a number of organized Greens in Marin... e.g. more than
half of the Fairfax City Council as well as Marnie Glickman - Gary
Ruskin from Green Change. I am sure that Marnie is very much on board
with this, though spending most of her time on the GPUS Platform
revision coming up at the Annual National Meeting. <br>
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A significant portion of Marin County, including Novato, is represented
by Jared Huffman in the Assembly. Huffman was one of the architects of
the Water legislation that passed last fall. He worked for years as a
lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and served on
the board of the Marin County Water District. All of which gave him
the typical insider, political game player mentality that says he knows
best and does not have to listen to anyone. Once in a while, he is
right. Since the Novato Democratic Club sponsored the kick-off event
for the campaign against privatization, I would assume the he is
against it, but can not quickly find a reference that says so. This
just underscores the manner in which things work in Marin. The Marin
Peace and Justice Coalition was also a sponsor of the kickoff.<br>
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As to the question of what good an endorsement from non-Marin Greens
might have, it would be better to put the question to Joe directly
rather than to make conjectures about what might be needed.<br>
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I will also note that Marnie Glickman attributed Pam's win for Fairfax
City Council partially on the ability of Greens in Marin to do phone
banking. It also helped find some new resources for the party. <br>
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That being the case, I would suggest that we do volunteer to
participate, especially to do phone banking... and to ask Feller for a
good script. That can be done from here... and, if run as efficiently
as the one in Fairfax, we might learn to make it a habit. <br>
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