[StrategyPlan] StrategyPlan Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4
shane que hee
squehee at ucla.edu
Tue Dec 14 07:12:23 PST 2010
>
>Kendra/Jim:
>
>I agree that our request needs to be as short and simple as possible.
>
>I also think they should send their replies to this strategy E mail
>listserve by the end of January.
>
>We might then do a wiki.
>
>
>All I think we need to say to the Counties/Locals by County Contacts is:
>
>"The Green Party of California needs the help of our County Councils
>and Locals in charting our way forward following the November elections.
>
>.In keeping with our key value of decentralization we would like
>your written response by January 31 2011 to the following questions
>that we hope you can formulate at Locals/County/Regional meetings as
>appropriate:
>
>1. Given the current recession and its detrimental effect on
>fundraising, should GPCA and its Locals and Counties adopt a
>"survival plan" until recovery is tangible (e.g. unemployment below
>8%)? How would this affect all goals and strategies?
>
>2. What are realistic voter registration goals? What attracts
>people to a small party? What caused the California Green
>registration decline of the past six years, can it be reversed? Was
>the 2010 election new registrations of about 1,000 too unambitious?
>
>3. Given that we have fewer than 1% of registered voters, what are
>realistic electoral strategies for a party of our size? Do we
>continue attempts in partisan races or focus on non-partisan races?
>If there is to be focus on State-wide office, then should GPCA focus
>on MOST "winnable seats"? What are the latter? What funding and
>effort split is desirable?
>
>4. How do we recruit/develop electable candidates for non-partisan offices?
>
>5. How do we recruit electable candidates for state-wide offices?
>
>6. Does Prop 14 provide any potential to us? Should GPCA continue
>to be part of the lawsuit against Prop 14? Do we raise funds for the lawsuit?
>
>7. Should we make a real, concerted effort to promote
>ranked-choice voting (i.e. Instant Runoff Voting and proportional
>representation)?
>
>8. Should GPCA consider closer ties with the Progressive Caucus of
>the California Democratic Party? How would this work at the level
>of the Locals and Counties?
>
>9. The GPCA's decentralized structure and consensus-seeking
>decision process is an experiment that we've carried on for 20
>years. Is it working well enough? Is there a good balance of
>responsibilities between the state party and the
>county parties? Should we examine giving more authority over
>internal business to the state party? Is continuing to rely solely
>on volunteer labor a viable plan for growth?
>
>10. What kind of representation do Counties/regions/locals want in
>GPCA? How should the current system be changed for the better?
>
>11. What factors have created viable, stable Locals and Counties?
>What factors have caused Locals and Counties to deteriorate?
>
>12. What resources do Locals and Counties need from the state
>party? What resources does the state party need from Locals and
>Counties? What specific services/mutual agreements do
>Counties/regions/locals want from GPCA? How should the current
>system be changed?
>
>13. Should in-person General Assemblies be scrapped? If yes, what
>should replace them? Are the alternatives cost-effective?
>
>Please send the responses to strategyplan at cagreens.org.
>
>We hope to present the submitted responses and our resulting
>proposed GPCA strategic plan for comment in the March Budget General
>Assembly Plenary packet for discussion "....Kendra Gonzalez, GCWG
>Co-Co, DEC 14 2010"
>
>....Shane Que Hee, Dec 14 2010
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>> 1. web tool from Jenni Woodward (Kendra Gonzales)
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>>Message: 1
>>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:16:43 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Kendra Gonzales <earthworks_works at yahoo.com>
>>To: Green Party Strategy Jan 2011 <strategyplan at cagreens.org>
>>Subject: [StrategyPlan] web tool from Jenni Woodward
>>Message-ID: <601249.30492.qm at web56902.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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>>For consideration as a tool to use in our Strategy process:
>>
>>(by the way, I'm curious as to who is subscribed to this list?)
>>
>>
>>Hi Gloria,
>>
>>Thank you for the endorsement of the survey.
>>
>>FYI I copied Obama's OFA survey, made a few edits to it so it is
>>GPCA specific,
>>and put it on my CAGreens-Test site.? The revised survey for the
>>GPCA has been
>>available there since about 24 hours after I emailed the GPCA folks who's
>>addresses I have.
>>
>>I haven't checked if anyone has taken the survey.? I'll do that in
>>the next 72
>>hours, and perhaps post some interim results on the web site.? And
>>I'll keep the
>>survey "open" for anyone to take through the holidays.
>>
>>Please "pass it on" that the survey is "up and running" on CAGreens-Test also
>>very soon to be known as CAGreenIDEAS.org.
>>
>>I just yesterday registered a new domain name, CAGreenIDEAS.org.?
>>It will "point
>>to" the very same CAGreens-Test site which was not registered.? If
>>all goes well
>>the domain registration will allow people to web search for things like this
>>survey as well as find other content on the site they o/w don't
>>know is there.
>>
>>BTW: I think the "TRANSLATED" CAGreen, SF Greens, US Greens feature
>>I discovered
>>just a few days before the Nov. 2 election is WAY COOL! Potentially
>>one can look
>>at ANY Green web site in any of 52 languages, even though the web site
>>builder/maintainers never added "translation of web pages" to their
>>site.? Check
>>it out in the "Web Links" section c/o the left hand side Main Menu.
>>
>>CAGreens-Test is reached at: www.weblearningtools.org/CAGreens-Test.
>>CAGreenIDEAS.org will be reachable at either cagreenideas.org or
>>www.cagreenideas.org .
>>
>>Jennifer Gopinathadasi Woodward
>>San Francisco
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>>Message: 2
>>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:42:18 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Kendra Gonzales <earthworks_works at yahoo.com>
>>To: Green Party Strategy Jan 2011 <strategyplan at cagreens.org>
>>Cc: Barry Hermanson <barry at barryhermanson.org>, Barry Hermanson
>> <barry at hermansons.com>
>>Subject: [StrategyPlan] our approach to Strategizing
>>Message-ID: <181530.58966.qm at web56906.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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>>Hello all,
>>
>>I've briefly scanned over Jim's draft to send to County
>>Contacts....its not at
>>all disimilar to what?we've been proposing. However, I suggest we really
>>simplify the email,?offer just a handful of suggested topic items
>>or questions
>>for their consideration.
>>
>>The email is a bit too lengthy and people might?feel overwhelmed when reading
>>it....not to say?all the content isn't important, but I've found that email
>>communication warrants a short and to the point approach because its just too
>>easy to hit "delete". As evidenced by this email, I have the same
>>problem myself
>>and need to really edit things down for simplicity's sake!
>>
>>Another missing component is a place to send local ideas and action
>>items so we
>>can record and organize them together into the "Plan".??How do we document
>>everything? I have suggested Wiki....Marnie Glickman has created one
>>but?specific to her proposal for?the first part of 2011. Can we
>>use?it for the
>>larger picture stuff too??http://wiki.cagreens.org/index.php/Green_2012.?
>>
>>
>>Do we create our own Wiki, or use something else all together?
>>Jenni Woodward has also created a Greens Specific virtual space on her own
>>platform:
>>
>>
>>CAGreens-Test is reached at: www.weblearningtools.org/CAGreens-Test.
>>CAGreenIDEAS.org will be reachable at either cagreenideas.org or
>>www.cagreenideas.org .
>>
>>I'll create a draft email to the counties as well, and Barry said
>>he was going
>>to do one. Maybe between Jim, Barry, and myself we can create a
>>best approach.
>>
>>
>>Kendra Gonzales
>>
>>
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