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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello, All: <br>
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Below please find a minor revision of the suggestions I had
for the Oct. 24 agenda. The estimated time still totals 65
minutes. With other standard agenda items, it should all fit
comfortably within 2 hours. <br>
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I deleted the word "minor". I generalized item 3.1 to say
simply, "The Santa Clara Greens may endorse candidates of other
parties for races where we do not have our own candidate." The
idea is to create an official process for producing a
recommendation list that could have us endorsing, for example, a
Democrat when we don't have a Green candidate, and we regard the
alternatives as worse. <br>
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I also added some "discussion" of the proposal to create a
blog for the Santa Clara Greens. We could use this to encourage
people to attend local meetings of school boards and other minor
governmental bodies and prepare a summary for others of what they
saw -- plus their reactions. The latter could include questions
about things they didn't see but thought should be considered by
the entity and leaders they mentioned. If we do this, well, we
could attract a following from people interested in local news.
That could translate into increased membership and increased
leverage in local politics. <br>
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Comments? <br>
Best Wishes, <br>
sg<br>
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On 10/19/2013 10:07 PM, Drew wrote:<br>
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--></style>Alternative parties, or People's parties works for me (really
the opposition or suppressed parties ), though I don't mind minor
parties.<br>
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Luis Rodriguez sends his apologies that the 24th will
notbepossible for him to come speak with us and we are trying to
find analternative date. We may be able to bring him to De Anza,
and hopefully somewhere in San José as well.<br>
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Green is GO!<br>
<br>
Drew<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Caroline Yacoub
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<div><span> I think, on the whole, this is a good idea, but
we need to know whether or not the folks we are cozying
up to accept corporate donations.</span></div>
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Brian <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:snug.bug@hotmail.com"><snug.bug@hotmail.com></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
Spencer Graves <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:spencer.graves@prodsyse.com"><spencer.graves@prodsyse.com></a>;
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:WB4D23@aol.com">"WB4D23@aol.com"</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wb4d23@aol.com"><wb4d23@aol.com></a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">"sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org"</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org"><sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org></a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Saturday, October 19, 2013 10:03 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda Items GPSCC Meeting
Thursday October 24th<br>
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<div dir="ltr">"Minor parties"? Puhleeze! How
about "emerging parties" or "nascent parties"?<br>
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<div>Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:58:25 -0700<br>
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:spencer.graves@prodsyse.com">spencer.graves@prodsyse.com</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:WB4D23@aol.com">WB4D23@aol.com</a><br>
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Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Call For Agenda
Items GPSCC Meeting Thursday October 24th<br>
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1. GPCA Plenary delegate recruitment and
selection. (15-20 minutes?) <br>
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2. Green party endorsing candidates
for state office. Between November 17 and
24, our delegates to the Standing General
Assembly (Jim Doyle, Drew Johnson, John
Thielking, Betsy and me) are supposed to
vote on endorsing candidates and issues as
outlined in an email I sent to this list on
Oct. 9, 1:52 AM, subj: "GPCA endorsements
for June 2014 primary, Coordinating
Committee, initiatives". There will likely
be discussion of this at the plenary, and we
need to instruct our SGA delegates on how to
vote at our meeting Nov. 24 -- if not
earlier. I suggest we have a 10 minute
discussion of this at this meeting with a
tentative decision and instruction to
delegates and everyone else regarding how to
complete this decision process with minimal
time on Nov. 24. (Announcement with brief
discussion: 5 minutes) <br>
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3. Prop 14 has in essence transformed
the primary into the only election for minor
parties. We can appear on the general
election ballot only if we come in first or
second in the primary. That strongly
encourages minor parties to coordinate with
one another to the maximum extent that their
membership will allow. We cannot control
which candidates pull papers and file to
run, but we can control endorsements and
recruitment of candidates to file papers.
There was discussion of this in the email
list of the GPCA Standing General Assembly <a
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Sanda Everette indicated there have already
been contacts between the statewide
Coordinating Committee of the California
Greens and representatives of Peace and
Freedom and Libertarian parties. Sanda
said, "We were hoping that there could be a
full statewide slate with candidates running
from the three parties and no one competing
with another third party candidate." <br>
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RESOLUTION: The Green Party of
Santa Clara County will attempt to contact
other minor parties in Santa Clara County,
attend their meetings, and invite them to
ours for the following purposes: <br>
<br>
<br>
3.1. The Santa Clara
Greens may endorse candidates of other
parties for races where we do not have our
own candidate. <br>
<br>
<br>
3.2. The Santa Clara
Greens will attempt to coordinate with other
third parties to develop joint procedures
for recruiting candidates to run for offices
in a way that can maximize our chances of
winning. <br>
<br>
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TIME ESTIMATE: 15 minutes? <br>
<br>
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4. Confirm Green Party December
meeting on the 19th (announcement with
discussion: 5 minutes) <br>
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5. PROPOSED: SCC GREEN BLOG (see my
email to this group stamped 10/15/2013 10:26
PM, subj: SCC Green Blog?): <br>
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<br>
PROPOSED: The Santa Clara
Greens will authorize the creation of a blog
on its web site. The party will elect at
least two blog editors. At least one editor
(different from the author) must approve any
text posted as a blog. All blogs must be
consistent with the ten key values and be
labeled as the opinion of the author and not
necessarily a position of the Green Party of
Santa Clara County. Also, claims that might
be controversial should be justified with a
footnote giving a reference to an
appropriate source with not links when
appropriate web sites are available. <br>
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DISCUSSION: Appropriate topics for such blogs could include
summaries of actions at public meetings in Santa Clara County and
issues considered and actions taken by elected officials at all
levels. However, one primary focus would be on local issues and
events that are often underreported in the mainstream media. <br>
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TIME ESTIMATE: 10 minutes <br>
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6. Sponsoring a local screening of
Gar Alperovitz's "Next American
Revolution". This possibility was discussed
in emails to this list from Drew and me Oct.
6, subj: 'Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd:
[gpca-forum] Free copy of Gar Alperovitz's
"Next American Revolution" DVD for local
Green Party screenings'. <br>
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DISCUSSION: Should we do this?
With whom should we try to co-sponsor? Who
has energy to try to help organize something
in this area? <br>
<br>
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TIME ESTIMATE: 10 minutes. <br>
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That's my list. <br>
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Spencer <br>
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On 10/18/2013 4:22 PM, <a
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<div><font size="4">Folks! The next Green
Party of Santa Clara County general
monthly meeting will be next Thursday,
October 24th. <br>
At the September meeting I agreed to
prepare a draft agenda.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Please post your
proposals to this list. Please remember
to identify whether the item is a
report, a discussion item, or a decision
item. List who will be the presenter(s)
and how much time you think should be
given to the item. Remember that we try
to limit meetings to two hours maximum
and that there will be many items on the
agenda. If you are proposing a specific
proposal, please post the full text of
your proposal to be included in the
draft agenda.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Warner</font></div>
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