[StrategyPlan] [gpca-cocos] StrategyPlan Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4

Tue Dec 14 19:24:10 PST 2010

I cannot state how strongly I disagree with this.

Jim

On 12/14/2010 7:07 AM, shane que hee wrote:
> 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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>
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>> 1. web tool from Jenni Woodward (Kendra Gonzales)
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>> 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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>> 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
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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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