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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello, All:  Below please find
      information on the Standing General Assembly (SGA) items currently
      under consideration.  Tomorrow evening, we need to decide how
      Santa Clara County's SGA delegates should vote on these items. 
      From my perspective, the decision on all but one of the seven
      items is fairly obvious.  For Governor, we have a choice of
      whether to endorse Deacon Alexander or Luis Rodriguez, either, or
      both in what order.  <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      Spencer <br>
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      On 11/14/2013 7:30 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:WB4D23@aol.com">WB4D23@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in -1pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Report
                  on status of P. O. Box – Continued from September
                  meeting – Tian Harter <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in -1pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">(5
                  minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt;
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                exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Report on November
                  16-17<sup>th</sup> Santa Rosa GPCA Plenary – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
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                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Plenary Delegates (20<span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.25pt"> </span><span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.05pt">M</span>in<span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.05pt">u</span>tes) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Discussion and Proposal
                  to Instruct GPSCC Standing General Assembly <span
                    style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Delegates re
                  voting for GPCA endorsements of state office
                  candidates – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spencer
                  Graves (15 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Notes:<span
                    style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Current plans
                  are for SGA delegates to vote on GPCA endorsement of
                  GPCA state office candidates during the week
                  immediately following <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">the Plenary.<span
                    style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This meeting
                  will be the last GPSCC general meeting before <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
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                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">the <span
                    style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>voting period ends
                  November 24th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The
                  GPSCC SGA delegates are:<span style="mso-spacerun:
                    yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 84pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Jim Doyle, Drew
                  Johnson, John Thielking, Betsy Wolf-Graves </span><span
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                  'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%;
                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">and Spencer Graves.</span></p>
            </div>
          </font></div>
      </font></blockquote>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 31 - Election: Coordinating Committee, one female seat, November
    2013 - June 2015:  There is only one candidate:  Margaret Elysia
    Garcia
    (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating/election-bios/2013-11/garcia">www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating/election-bios/2013-11/garcia</a>). 
    The options are her, "No other candidate", write in, or abstain.  I
    recommend we vote for her.  <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 32 - Election: Coordinating Committee, one male seat, November
    2013 - June 2015:  There is only one candidate:  Shamako Noble (<a
href="http://www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating/election-bios/2013-11/noble">www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating/election-bios/2013-11/noble</a>). 
    The options are as before.  I recommend we vote for him.  <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 33 - GPCA position on California Cannabis Hemp Initiative 2014: 
    The options are to endorse, take no position, oppose, or abstain.  I
    recommend we vote first to endorse and second for no position.  <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 34 - GPCA endorsement for Governor in June 2014 primary
    election:  There are two candidates:  Deacon Alexander (<a
href="http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-deacon-alexander-governor"
      style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight:
      bold; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
      letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto;
      text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-deacon-alexander-governor</a>)
    and Luis Rodriguez (<a
href="http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-luis-rodriguez-governor"
      style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight:
      bold; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
      letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto;
      text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-luis-rodriguez-governor</a>). 
    We have five SGA delegates, and we can instruct them to vote
    differently.  In this case, my inclination is to instruct 3 of our
    delegate to vote for Rodriguez first and Alexander second and the
    other 2 delegates to vote the opposite.  However, I could easily be
    persuaded otherwise.  <br>
    <br>
         <br>
          * Longer term, I think we should work to recruit exactly one
    candidate to run for different offices while coordinating with other
    third parties under a slogan like, "Vote -- but not for bribery." <br>
    <br>
    <br>
          * For next year, what do you think about working with the
    League of Women Voters and other third parties to organize a series
    of debates for offices that rarely get much attention in the media
    these days?  I think we can help build the party and generate more
    interest in the primary -- and our candidates -- by helping organize
    such debates.  We need also a good outreach program, notifying the
    media of the events, inviting all candidates for a given office,
    using an empty chair for any who do not show, and using on-line
    resources like "Ballotopedia" to summarize the kind of people who
    should vote for each candidate or initiative.   <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 35 - GPCA endorsement for Secretary of State in June 2014 primary
    election:  One candidate:  David Curtis
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-david-curtis-secretary-state">www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-david-curtis-secretary-state</a>)<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 36 - GPCA endorsement for Treasurer in June 2014 primary
    election:  One candidate:  Ellen Brown
    (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-ellen-brown-treasurer">www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-ellen-brown-treasurer</a>) 
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ID 37 - GPCA endorsement for Controller in June 2014 primary
    election:  Laura Wells
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-laura-wells-controller">www.cagreens.org/elections/2014/statewide-candidate-questionnaire-laura-wells-controller</a>) 
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
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                  mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Proposal regarding
                  GPSCC endorsements of local candidates – Spencer
                  Graves (15 minutes) – Continued from October meeting;
                  see text of proposal following these agenda proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  Care Committee Report <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>–
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                      style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span>(10<span
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                  Committee Report --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(10
                  Minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  'Cambria','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria">Report
                  from Jr. Statesman November 16<sup>th</sup> (5
                  Minutes)</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt;
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                    style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.05pt">u</span>tes) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.05pt">b</span>ling<span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt"> </span>– Need to
                  identify event coordinators -- (<span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt">1</span>5<span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.25pt"> </span><span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: 0.05pt">M</span>in<span
                    style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.05pt">u</span>tes) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  Cambria">Holiday Peace Fair December 14<sup>th<o:p></o:p></sup></span></p>
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                  Cambria">Others?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
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                  Cambria">Proposal re GPSCC blog – Spencer Graves <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 233.8pt 0pt 0in;
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
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                  Cambria">(10 Minutes)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 
                  </span>Continued from October Meeting; see text
                  proposal below</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
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                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
              LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spencer
                Graves Proposal re GPSCC local candidates endorsements.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Prop 14 has in
                essence transformed the primary into the only election
                for minor parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We
                can appear on the general election ballot only if we
                come in first or second in the primary.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>That strongly
                encourages minor parties to coordinate with one another
                to the maximum extent that their membership will allow.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We cannot control
                which candidates pull papers and file to run, but we can
                control endorsements and recruitment of candidates to
                file papers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There
                was discussion of this in the email list of the GPCA
                Standing General Assembly
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gpca-votes@cagreens.org"><gpca-votes@cagreens.org></a>.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>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."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
              LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">            </span>RESOLUTION:<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
              LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">                 
                </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The
                Santa Clara Greens will agree to endorse candidates of
                other minor parties for races where we do not have our
                own candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>"Minor
                parties" in this case will refer primarily to the Peace
                and Freedom and the Libertarian parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
              LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none;
              mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule:
              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">               
                </span>2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The
                Santa Clara Greens will attempt to coordinate with other
                minor parties to develop joint procedures for recruiting
                candidates to run for offices in a way that can maximize
                our chances of winning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 
                </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria">Spencer Graves Proposal re GPSCC blog.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
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              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0.6pt 0in 0pt;
              LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none;
              mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule:
              exactly"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
                'Cambria','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family:
                Cambria"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">            </span>PROPOSED:<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Santa Clara
                Greens will authorize the creation of a blog on its web
                site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The party
                will elect at least two blog editors.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>At least one
                editor (different from the author) must approve any text
                posted as a blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>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.<span
                  style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>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.
                <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
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