From efficacy at msn.com Wed Jan 2 09:27:39 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:27:39 -0500 Subject: {news} Drug Bias Seen In ERs Message-ID: Drug Bias Seen In ERs Whites Likelier To Get Potent Painkillers Combined Wire Services January 2, 2008 http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hc-painkillers0102.artjan02,0,5046590.story?coll=hc_tab01_layout Doctors are more likely to prescribe strong painkillers for white patients than for blacks and other minorities, according to a finding that researchers say may spotlight bias in the emergency room. In the study, 37 percent of emergency room patients in pain got narcotics in 2005, compared with 23 percent in 1993, a change reflecting new methods to curb addiction and other side effects. At the same time, whites were about one-third more likely to get morphine or other opiate drugs than minorities. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed drugs such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently. Some doctors fear patients will become addicted or will feign pain to get drugs, and minority patients in severe pain were most likely to be untreated as a result, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "This variability may partially result from racial/ethnic bias," said co-author Mark J. Pletcher, of the University of California, San Francisco. The study examined 156,729 emergency room reports of patients in pain from 1993 to 2005. The analysis found differences in prescribing by race and ethnicity in both urban and rural hospitals, in all U.S. regions and for every type of pain. "The gaps between whites and non-whites have not appeared to close at all," Pletcher said. The increase in use of painkillers in emergency rooms over the 13-year period coincided with changing attitudes among doctors, who now regard pain management as a key to healing. Doctors in accredited hospitals must ask patients about pain, just as they monitor vital signs such as temperature and pulse. Even with the increase, the racial gap has endured. Linda Simoni-Wastila of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Pharmacy said the race gap finding may reveal some doctors' suspicions that minority patients could be drug abusers lying about pain to get narcotics. The irony, she said, is that blacks are the least likely group to abuse prescription drugs. Hispanics are becoming as likely as whites to abuse prescription opioids and stimulants, according to her research. She was not involved in the current study. The study's authors said doctors may be less likely to see signs of painkiller abuse in white patients, or they may be undertreating pain in minority patients. Patient behavior may play a role, Pletcher said. Minority patients "may be less likely to keep complaining about their pain or feel they deserve good pain control," he said. Stricter protocols for prescribing narcotics may help close the gap. A New York hospital recently studied its emergency patients and found no racial disparity in narcotics prescribed for broken bones. Montefiore Medical Center aggressively treats pain and is developing protocols for painkillers that dictate initial dosages and times to check with patients to see if they need more pain medicine, said Dr. David Esses, emergency department associate director at Montefiore. Such standards may eliminate racial disparities, Esses said. In the study, opioid narcotics were prescribed in 31 percent of the pain-related visits involving whites, 28 percent for Asians, 24 percent for Hispanics and 23 percent for blacks. Minorities were slightly more likely than whites to get aspirin, ibuprofen and similar drugs for pain. In more than 2,000 visits for kidney stones, whites got narcotics 72 percent of the time, Hispanics 68 percent, Asians 67 percent and blacks 56 percent. The data came from a well-regarded government survey that collects information on emergency room visits for four weeks each year from 500 U.S. hospitals. The new study was funded by federal grants. "It's time to move past describing disparities and work on narrowing them," said Dr. Thomas L. Fisher, an emergency room doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center who was not involved in the study. Fisher, who is black, said he is not immune to letting subconscious assumptions inappropriately influence his work as a doctor. "If anybody argues they have no social biases that sway clinical practice, they have not been thoughtful about the issue or they're not being honest with themselves," he said. 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For details and to RSVP, please visithttp://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/NYUJQNNXBWVJAWAASQMA/4thCDnominationDavid Bedell From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.comTo: lead at po.state.ct.usSubject: 4th CD nominating meeting POSTPONED to 1/13/08Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:55:21 +0000 January 2, 2008Legislation and Elections Administration DivisionSecretary of the StatePO Box 150470Hartford CT 06115-0470RE: RESCHEDULING OF NOMINATING MEETINGTo Whom It May Concern: The meeting previously scheduled for January 5 has been postponed to January 13 in order to accommodate both announced candidates seeking the nomination.Pursuant to CT General Statutes Sec. 9-452a, as Secretary of the Fairfield County chapter of the CT Green Party, I hereby provide statutory notice of a Party nominating meeting to be held: Date: Sunday, January 13, 2008Time: 1:00 PMLocation: Norwalk Public Library (2nd floor auditorium), 1 Belden Ave., Norwalk, CTPurpose: Nominate candidate for U.S. Congress representing CT?s 4th DistrictNominations shall be accepted from the floor. Anyone who meets the requirements of membership as defined by the bylaws of the CT Green Party, who resides within CT?s 4th Congressional District and is present at the meeting is eligible to vote. The nominees must receive support from a simple majority of those who actually vote. If there is more than one person nominated for the same office, instant runoff voting will be used and abstentions will not be counted as votes.Respectfully submitted,David Bedell, SecretaryFairfield County Chapter, CT Green Party Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. Share now! _________________________________________________________________ i?m is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_Cause_Effect -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Jan 2 14:37:40 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:37:40 +0000 Subject: {news} Media advisory: Two vie for Green nomination; caucus convenes January 13 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Fairfield County Chapter, CT Green Partywww.ctgreens.org/fairfield MEDIA ADVISORYJanuary 2, 2008 Two Vie for Green Nomination Party Caucus Convenes January 13 What: Green Party nominating meeting for CT?s 4th Congressional DistrictWhen: Sunday, January 13, 2008, 1:00 PM Where: Norwalk Public Library (2nd floor auditorium), 1 Belden Ave., Norwalk, CTWho: David Bedell, Fairfield Count Green Party Secretary, (203)581-3193, dbedell at greens.org Richard Duffee, Congressional candidate, (203)588-0161, richard.duffee at gmail.comGerry Falbel, Congressional candidate, (203)357-0626, gfalbel at optonline.net The Green Party nominating meeting for the Fourth Congressional District, originally scheduled for January 5, will instead take place on Sunday, January 13, at 1:00 PM. The date was changed to accommodate a second candidate seeking the nomination. The two announced candidates are Richard Duffee of Stamford, a retired lawyer and impeachment activist, and Gerald Falbel of Stamford, a solar energy engineer/designer and president of Optical Energy Technologies. In an earlier statement, Mr. Duffee said, "I believe the current Congress has not taken seriously the oath of office to defend the Constitution. We are in a constitutional crisis that cannot end until we repudiate empire and imperial presidencies and return to our Republic." In a letter sent to the Stamford Advocate, Mr. Falbel wrote, "With the realization that catastrophic global warming is rapidly approaching, I have decided to apply for the nomination of the Connecticut Green Party to run against Christopher Shays in the 2008 election." --------------------------(Earlier press release)-------------------------------------NEWSGreen Party Considers Run for Congress in 4th District For immediate release: December 10, 2007 (revised December 19)Contact:David Bedell, (203)581-3193, dbedell at greens.orgRichard Duffee, (203)588-0161, richard.duffee at gmail.com RICHARD DUFFEE TO SEEK NOMINATION NORWALK, CT ? On Saturday, January 5, the Connecticut Green Party will hold a nominating meeting to select a candidate for Congress from the 4th District. Richard Duffee of Stamford, a retired lawyer and impeachment activist, has announced his intention to seek the nomination. The meeting will take place at the Norwalk Public Library beginning at 10:00 AM on Saturday. The meeting is open to the public. All Green Party members residing in the 4th District are encouraged to attend and vote on the nomination, while other interested voters are welcome to attend as observers. When asked his reasons for running, Duffee cited the need to reverse the current Iraq war policies, to prevent war against Iran, and to counter the Bush administration's environmental legacy and failure to address global warming or public safety threats such as the nearby Indian Point nuclear power plant. Congress Has Failed to Impeach Above all, however, Duffee decided to run because Congress has not used its power of impeachment to end what he describes as the criminal activities of George Bush and Dick Cheney. "I believe the current Congress has not taken seriously the oath of office to defend the Constitution. We are in a constitutional crisis that cannot end until we repudiate empire and imperial presidencies and return to our Republic. "We need a government based on trust, openness, honesty, and disinterested public action. It is clear that Bush and Cheney regard us not as citizens, but as subjects, using all the techniques of ruling an empire?secrecy, deceit, betrayal, fraud, mystification, and violence. These are inherently incompatible with the moral prerequisites for maintaining a Republic based on the rule of law." Duffee has started a campaign blog at http://richardduffee.blogspot.com. He ran in 2006 for the same seat, but withdrew two weeks before Election Day, citing an agreement with the local Greens to endorse Democrat Diane Farrell because they felt she had a better chance of defeating Republican Christopher Shays in a close race. The same scenario will not be considered in the next election, according to David Bedell, Secretary of the Fairfield County chapter of the Green Party. "Richard has offered to run, and we will entertain other nominations from the floor, including None of the Above. But whatever we decide, if we put a candidate on the ballot in 2008, we expect it to be binding this time, not conditional as in 2006." Bedell explained that minor parties such as the Green Party have to petition their way onto the ballot, and if they do not run a candidate in any given year, then they lose their ballot line for that office. For the Congressional seat, the Green Party will have to collect at least 2100 signatures of voters in the 4th District. # # # _________________________________________________________________ The best games are on Xbox 360. Click here for a special offer on an Xbox 360 Console. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/wheretobuy/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) .Policies and Proposals; b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; c) From the EC: the development of Candidates Development Committee to educate, enhance, enable, advise and support candidates in the formation and maintenance of their candidacy. C. Reports: 1. (5 minutes): Proposal: Impeachment of Bush/Cheney; town resolutions for impeachment of Bush/Cheney. 2. (10 minutes): Reports from the elected Green Party officials. 3. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (5 minutes): CT Green Times. 7. (10 minutes): Fairfield Nominating Convention for 1-13-08. 8. (5 minute): ACLU lawsuit. 9. 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Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 11-27-07 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) .Policies and Proposals; b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; c) From the EC: the development of Candidates Development Committee to educate, enhance, enable, advise and support candidates in the formation and maintenance of their candidacy. C. Reports: 1. (5 minutes): Proposal: Impeachment of Bush/Cheney; town resolutions for impeachment of Bush/Cheney. 2. (10 minutes): Reports from the elected Green Party officials. 3. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (5 minutes): CT Green Times. 7. (10 minutes): Fairfield Nominating Convention for 1-13-08. 8. (5 minute): ACLU lawsuit. 9. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 1-82908 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 2-08.. 11. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. 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So here is the transcript in case anyone is having the same problem: Sincerely, Mike DeRosa Listen Live | RSS 2.0 Poorvote 1 starvote 2 starvote 3 starvote 4 starvote 5 starBest Thom and Ralph Nader discuss the presidential candidates and issues, and possible Michael Bloomberg and Ralph Nader candidacies, the day before the Iowa primaries Thom Hartmann interviews Ralph Nader, 02 January 2008 [Thom]: We're going to be talking a little later on in the program with both Chris Dodd and Dennis Kucinich, and Kucinich today, actually this is a conversation that I had with him on Monday, which was before the announcement. Today he has come out and said that his caucus-goers in Iowa, should they not get the 15 percent threshold necessary to stand in place, should go caucus with Mr. Obama. And I would love to get the thoughts of Ralph Nader on that. Ralph Nader the guy that I voted for for president in 2000 but not in 2004. We've had this conversation before. Ralph Nader, nader.org his web site. He's also in addition to being a consumer advocate, a lawyer, and an icon of all that's good in America, in my opinion. He's also the author of a brilliant book, " The Seventeen Traditions". Ralph Nader, welcome to the program. [Nader]: Thank you. Happy New Year to you and your listeners. [Thom]: Thank you sir. You are not endorsing John Edwards, but throwing your support to him. Is there a, at least according to the Politico. You want to tell us about that? [Nader]: Yeah, I mean, for years I tried to make the distinction with people that there's such a thing as commenting favorably on a position or a statement by a political candidate, without endorsing all hundred or hundred and fifty of that person's positions. But the press is very quick to take praise of you know, the, Edwards' very important statement which I think is probably the most insightful of his whole campaign, which I is, "do you really believe if we replace a bunch of corporate Republicans with a bunch of corporate Democrats, that anything meaningful is going to change?" And I praised that. And I think that goes to the central issue of political campaigning, which is about the proper distribution of power in America: who has too much if it: the few; who has too little: the many; and who makes the decisions: the few over the many. That's why I was a little disappointed to hear that Dennis Kucinich is urging his followers in Iowa to support Obama, who basically's been tiptoeing around the area of corporate domination of our political economy: elections, government, etcetera, the corporate crime wave, the taxpayer subsidies of corporate welfare, the distortion of the public budgets into military expenditures - now over half of the whole Federal government's operating budget and there's no more Soviet Union. I was really surprised, because Dennis's views on the need to control corporate power and to subordinate corporate power to popular sovereignty, the sovereignty of the people as our founders referred to it, is much closer to John Edwards than to Barack Obama. [Thom]: Yeah, I've been scratching my head ever since this came out. I first met Dennis Kucinich I think about ten years ago when a mutual friend of ours, Marianne Williamson, was putting together the Renaissance Alliance. I was on the board for several years and we had a meeting in Washington DC to talk about a Department of Peace. And I spoke at it about Corporate Power. I'd just had a book come out called " Unequal Protection" about the rise of corporate dominance in America. And, you know, I've always thought that Dennis Kucinich was a real progressive icon and I'm baffled. Do you have any insights? [Nader]: No, not at all. [Thom]: Yeah, OK. Your support and non-endorsement of John Edwards. What does this mean for the possibility of a Ralph Nader candidacy? [Nader]: Well, as I've said, I'll have to decide in a few weeks about whether I'm going to try to mobilize more grass roots support and extend the, any campaign into '09. I think campaigns for third parties should transcend the November election day and try and build on people's lobby to cycle back on Washington, especially on Congress. But I must say that the Fortune magazine piece last June on Hillary Clinton where in effect they answered the question, "why does big business love Hillary Clinton?" gives many of us in the progressive area serious pause about what the future of the Democratic Party's going to be if she happens to win the Democratic nomination in the election, because she really has made her peace with big business and basically accepted the corporate status quo and corporate occupied territory in Washington. She does a few rhetorical flourishes once in a while against the drug and insurance companies, but if you look at her record on the Senate Armed Services Committee, she's never met a giant weapons system she doesn't like, no matter how much these systems have been condemned as being strategically obsolete after the fall of the Soviet Union or unnecessary like the F-22, which is going to cost over $200 billion. [Thom]: Michael Bloomberg. I'm curious whether you launch a third party candidacy or not, Michael Bloomberg, and presumably Chuck Hagel, seem to be positioning themselves for this. What are your thoughts on that? [Nader]: I think that because the Republican camp is weak, apart from possibly McCain, who's long odds to win the nomination, I think it's very likely that Bloomberg's going to get in. What's his down side? He can turn it into a three way race. He doesn't have to make one call for money. He can get on the ballots in all the states. He's a well known figure and he'll be even more well known. A mayor of the largest city in America. Founder of a huge media empire from scratch in 1980. He's worth about $20 billion. He spends one to two billion and he'll outspend everybody. And why wouldn't he want to get in? Senator Hagel's just aching to be his vice president. And I think he can say to himself from the get-go he'll be number two in the polls unless someone like McCain gets the Republican nomination. [Thom]: Well, one of my best friends is a New Yorker and a Democrat, has been his whole life, and he likes Bloomberg. I know a number of Democrats in New York who think that Bloomberg has been a good mayor and kind of, you know, I mean, he used to be a Democrat, then he was a Republican, now he's an independent. To what extent would a Bloomberg candidacy hurt the Democratic candidate as opposed to the Republican candidate? [Nader]: Right now it is too early to tell. It is clear however that he'll take from the Republican votes, he'll take from the Democrats' votes and he'll take a lot of independent votes. That's why I think he could position himself very well if he moves in. It'll also be a much more exciting race. He'll raise big issues about the Electoral College, about third parties, about more voices and choices for the people, about paying attention to our cities which are being relatively ignored by the present candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire, largely rural states. Now I think, I don't agree with Bloomberg's policies in many areas. He is a champion of corporate welfare. He's given huge tax breaks to these giant brokerage firms in New York City who threatened to go across the river and position themselves in New Jersey. So he gives these big tax breaks to Merrill Lynch and others. And he's not very sensitive on civil liberties, you know. When you have a big political demonstration, it's peaceful in New York City, mayor Bloomberg is not really that tough on police exuberance or misbehavior, and that worries a lot of civil libertarians. [Thom]: Well, I mean, one of the things that you pointed out, particularly in your support for John Edwards, is that the biggest issue of our day right now is corporate dominance of not just the political sphere, but basically everything. You know, corporations asserting that they can even own us; they can own our DNA, they can own our personal information, and how could we trust somebody who basically is a billionaire by virtue of the corporate form to be a champion of anti-corporate reform? [Nader]: It's all very, very relative, Thom. In other words, people will look at Bloomberg and say, 'well, he's not owned by anyone because he owns so much', you know? [Thom]: Right. [Nader]: How do you buy a guy who's worth $20 billion? [Thom]: That's what they said about Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, too. [Nader]: Yeah, that and Perot, too. Ross Perot. [Thom]: Yeah. Yeah. [Nader]: So, that'll be, the second is I don't think he'll be awed by big business. That doesn't mean he won't go with them. It does mean that he might want to really crack down on corporate crime, fraud and abuse with a good Attorney General, because he is a big business guy. He's not awed by them. There are a lot of liberals who are really awed by big business. You know, they think, 'wow, look at these guys, they've made a big payroll, you know, and they go around with all kinds of entourages and yachts and private jets'. Well, you won't see that with Bloomberg. On the other hand, you know, he is part of the dominant corporate system. So, we shouldn't be overwhelmed by these things, except that, you know, it will be a more exciting race: more voices, more choices, more unpredictability. You'll get more votes out. You'll emphasize more the independent. So, you know, it's better than just a two-party elected dictatorship trying to run itself for another 4 years. [Thom]: Well, we definitely live in interesting times. Ralph Nader, nader.org the web site. Check out his book, "The Seventeen Traditions" too. Ralph Nader, thanks for being with us. [Nader]: Thanks very much. Thom. [Thom]: Good talking with you. Comments (2)add comment feedSubscribe to this comment's feed Roxie said: Ralph has endured much abuse recently, but how many people have saved as many lives & advanced as many progressive causes, and dedicated their whole LIVES to being a good CITIZEN!! I thank you for having Ralph on, and hope to hear more of him.... He understands the corporate (negative) influence on our democracy like few others do... I think Ralph is great and we owe him a big debt of gratitude.. Lucky us, that despite it all, he is still trying to make a difference!! Wow. January 02, 2008 Kevin Kakareka said: I would just like to thank Mr. Nader for his selfless interest in the betterment of this country and would hope that he stays engaged in the political discourse. After the trashing of this country by the present criminal administration I would hope that Mr Nader has an intense interest in investigating and exposing this administration for what it is. Thank You Mr. Nader January 02, 2008 _____ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Thornton Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:05 AM To: ctgp-news; connlist Subject: {news} [GPBC] Re: Nader throws support to Edwards--Maybe You can hear exactly what Ralph's position is by listening to what he said today. Click on the link below and then scroll down to Wednesday, January 2 and you can hear the podcast which begins immediately with the bullshit from politico. http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Hartmann.html Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image011.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1767 bytes Desc: not available URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Thu Jan 3 17:17:39 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:17:39 -0500 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center In-Reply-To: References: <20080103043503.BRZN15951.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <008e01c84e56$74d59ed0$5e80dc70$@org> As Cliff is now a member of the NC's Steering Committee, he should take the lead on item #3. As my previously scheduled work meeting was rescheduled to last night, I expect to be there. Happy Green Year! Charlie From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Thornton Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:50 AM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; B Barry Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center I WOULD LIKE TO BE IN NUMBER THREE AS I AM ALSO A NATIONAL DELEGATE RIGHT CLIFF ----- Original Message ----- From: B Barry To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:35 PM Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Time: 7:000PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 11-27-07 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) .Policies and Proposals; b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; c) From the EC: the development of Candidates Development Committee to educate, enhance, enable, advise and support candidates in the formation and maintenance of their candidacy. C. Reports: 1. (5 minutes): Proposal: Impeachment of Bush/Cheney; town resolutions for impeachment of Bush/Cheney. 2. (10 minutes): Reports from the elected Green Party officials. 3. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (5 minutes): CT Green Times. 7. (10 minutes): Fairfield Nominating Convention for 1-13-08. 8. (5 minute): ACLU lawsuit. 9. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 1-82908 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 2-08.. 11. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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Sincerely, Mike DeRosa _____ From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Pillsbury Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:18 PM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: RE: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP atPortland's Senior Center As Cliff is now a member of the NC's Steering Committee, he should take the lead on item #3. As my previously scheduled work meeting was rescheduled to last night, I expect to be there. Happy Green Year! Charlie From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Thornton Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:50 AM To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; B Barry Subject: Re: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center I WOULD LIKE TO BE IN NUMBER THREE AS I AM ALSO A NATIONAL DELEGATE RIGHT CLIFF ----- Original Message ----- From: B Barry To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:35 PM Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Time: 7:000PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 11-27-07 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) .Policies and Proposals; b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; c) From the EC: the development of Candidates Development Committee to educate, enhance, enable, advise and support candidates in the formation and maintenance of their candidacy. C. Reports: 1. (5 minutes): Proposal: Impeachment of Bush/Cheney; town resolutions for impeachment of Bush/Cheney. 2. (10 minutes): Reports from the elected Green Party officials. 3. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (5 minutes): CT Green Times. 7. (10 minutes): Fairfield Nominating Convention for 1-13-08. 8. (5 minute): ACLU lawsuit. 9. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 1-82908 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 2-08.. 11. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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In the meantime, keep checking the website: www.draftnader.org. David Doonan, our website guy, is putting new material up on a regular basis. Howie Hawkins and Danene Provencher, Co-Chairs, Draft Nader Committee 1. When Will Ralph Nader Announce? We don't know. We won't know until Ralph Nader makes that announcement himself. Pursuant to Federal Election Commission regulations, the Draft Nader Committee is independent of and not coordinating with Ralph Nader. The Draft Nader Committee has been urging Nader to run for the Green nomination and to announce as soon as possible. We urge Nader supporters to be patient for little while more. Meanwhile, read this newsletter. It will tell bring you up-to-date on campaign news and cover the things we need to organize now so that if and when Nader decides to run, we are ready to hit the ground running in a campaign for Nader's nomination. 2. Green Presidential Candidate Questionnaire The national Green Party has a Presidential Candidate Questionnaire which they asked candidates to fill out by December 31, 2007. Since Nader is not a candidate yet, the Draft Nader Committee submitted answers, based largely his statements on his 2004 campaign website (www.votenader.org), in order to keep his record, qualifications, and policy positions before the Greens at this stage in the process. The answers to the questionnaire are now posted at the Draft Nader Committee website: www.draftnader.org. 3. Green Primaries Tuesday, February 5: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Massachusetts Tuesday, February 12: Washington DC In the California and Massachusetts primaries, Ralph Nader is on the Green primary ballot. In these states, the state Green party told the secretary of state who to put on the ballot. In the Illinois and Washington DC primaries, the Draft Nader Committee petitioned to put Howie Hawkins on the Green primary ballot as a stand-in candidate for Ralph Nader. These state parties or state election law required that the candidate be declared, which Nader was not by the filing deadline. In Arkansas, the state Green party required the signing of a candidate pledge which would make the candidate a declared candidate. The Draft Nader Committee had Howie Hawkins file the pledge so he could run as a stand-in for Ralph Nader, but the Arkansas Green Party executive committee rejected it and did not place Hawkins on the ballot. 4. Green Party Delegate Selection Process Primaries will play a role in only these five states for the Green Party. In the rest of the states, some combination of membership polling, caucuses, and/or conventions will determine who the delegates are for each state. The Green Party of the United States is a federation of state parties, each with their own state party rules and affected by their own state's election laws. The National Committee is now voting online in an instant runoff vote among five proposals for how to apportion delegates among the states. The voting closes on January 7. Then winning proposal will have to be adopted by a 2/3 majority in a subsequent vote. So it will be a while before we know for sure how many delegates each state party will be entitled to. Some state parties have their delegate selection rules in place. Many are still working on them. You should find out the answers to the following questions from your state's Green Party in order to participate. 5. State Delegate Selection Questions We Need To Answer 1. Who decides? Primary, membership poll, caucuses, state committee, state convention, or some combination of these? 2. When is the decision? This may be a multi-step process. E.g., a membership poll informing, but not mandating, a state convention. Or, precinct caucuses, district caucuses, all leading to a state convention. What is the calender for these decisions? 3. How are delegates awarded to candidates? Winner-take-all or proportionally? On our Draft Nader Committee conference calls, we have strongly favored proportional representation? 4. Do candidates' campaigns get to select the delegates to which they are entitled? The alternative would be the delegates are elected a state committee or congressional district caucuses and then instructed to be delegates for this or that candidate. On our Draft Nader Committee conference calls, we have also strongly favored rules that allow the candidates to name delegate slates from which they can send the delegates to which they are entitled at the end of the state process the proportion of Green membership support for each candidate. 5. Get it in writing. The delegate selection process in your state could be in its state bylaws or rules. It could be separate adopted policy resolution. They may not be written yet. We are collating this information state by state so we can help the state Draft Nader Committees, prioritize our national work, and have good information to forward to a Ralph Nader campaign if and when it is announced. Please send what you know about your state regarding these questions to Howie Hawkins at hhawkins at igc.org as soon as possible. 6. Draft Nader Committee Conference Calls We are coordinating our work through periodic national conference calls with state coordinators. We have sent signed-up Nader supporters the contacts of other Nader supporters in your state and asked that you organize a state Draft Nader Committee and elect a state coordinator who can be on the conference calls to bring your needs and concerns to the national Draft Nader Committee. As soon as you have organized and elected a coordinator, contact Danene Provencher at PRO826 at aol.com and we will let you know when the next conference call will be. --------------------------------- Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year. *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Jan 6 18:37:33 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:37:33 +0000 Subject: {news} RE: 4th CD nominating meeting POSTPONED to 1/13/08 Message-ID: Here is a more direct link to the Evite information page, so you can read the details without registering. To RSVP, you need to register with Evite, or just email me at dbedellgreen@ hotmail.com http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=NYUJQNNXBWVJAWAASQMA&unknownUser=true David Bedell ---------------original message--------------------- A second candidate, Gerry Falbel, has announced he is seeking the nomination, so to allow both Gerry and Richard Duffee to make presentations, we have recheduled the meeting to Sunday, Jan. 13. Sorry for any confusion. The meeting is open to observers, and Green Party members are encouraged to attend. Party members in the 4th Congressional District may vote. For details and to RSVP, please visit http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/NYUJQNNXBWVJAWAASQMA/4thCDnomination David Bedell _________________________________________________________________ Make distant family not so distant with Windows Vista? + Windows Live?. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/digitallife/keepintouch.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_VideoChat_distantfamily_012008 From roseberry3 at cox.net Sun Jan 6 19:29:27 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:29:27 -0500 Subject: {news} Accepted Minutes from the 8-21-07 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Message-ID: <20080107002923.XLFW3253.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Accepted Minutes from the 8-21-07 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Luna?s Pizza, 88 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT 06033, p: 860-659-2136 Time: 6:35PM to 7:15PM Attendees: Co-chairpersons: Jean deSmet, Northeast Chapter; Cliff Thornton, S. Michael DeRosa, Greater Hartford Chapter; Treasurer: Christopher Reilly, Greater Hartford Chapter; Secretary: Barbara Barry, Greater Hartford Chapter. Facilitator: Barbara Barry Agenda for 8-28-07 SCC meeting which might include but not limited to: 1. CT Green Times newspaper status: SMD: not enough articles have been submitted for a distribution for the 8-28-07 SCC meeting. CT: I have not edited my 2,000 word article about my campaign for this newspaper, yet. CT: Newspaper doesn?t look good i.e. fonts, paper, look. Needs to look professional. SMD. That can cost thousands of dollars, we don?t have right now. JdS: need the newspaper mainly to be done yearly e.g. election. 2. Results of political actions by the GP of CT with the CT legislature; issues GP of CT wants to address in 2008. SMD: Fight the Hike is still meeting and working on their issue of electric rates/electric utility concerns. 3. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT ?campaign finance reform? law. SMD: no news. 4. CTGP website: CR: Aaron Gustafson of Hamden, CT, and former webmaster,has renewed his ownership for one year of our GP of CT website: ctgreens.com. David Bedell and Christopher Reilly continue to do updates on the website. David has done some portals; Chris does the calendar (when information is provided to him) and separate tasks. 5. Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly: have about $1213.00. 6. Requests to be on GPUS committees: SMD to send email to GPUS about currently committee members who are endorsed by the SCC. BB: again request that our GPUS representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury, provide the SCC with list of current people who represent CT on GPUS committees in any capacity. 7. Any proposals? e.g. from Process and Procedure Committee members 8. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 9-07. 9. Place for next SCC meeting 9-25-07 SCC meeting. 10. Endorsements of Green Party candidates of CT. Known candidates seeking GP of CT SCC endorsements: New London: for City Council: Kenric M. Hanson and Arthur R. Costa; New London Board of Education: Ronna K. Stuller and Davana N. Grabel. Hartford: David Ionno for Hartford City Council. New Haven: Ralph Ferrucci for Mayor; Allan Brison for Alderman for New Haven; Hamden: Kelly McCarthy for Hamden City Council. CT: I have been meeting with Nicholas Carbone, Democrat, almost monthly this year. He wants the Green Party to endorse his candidates in Hartford. Cliff did not know which of the Democratic Candidates were being supported by Mr. Carbone. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: 1/2/2008 11:29 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Sun Jan 6 19:54:21 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:54:21 -0500 Subject: {news} Approved minutes from the 9-25-07 SCC meeting of Green Party of CT, quorum met. Message-ID: <20080107005418.XUIN3253.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Approved minutes from the 9-25-07 SCC meeting of Green Party of CT, quorum met. Middletown?s Russell Public Library, Reading Room 3, 123 Broad Street, Middletown, CT 06457 860-347-2528 Time: 6:30PM to 8:30PM. Voting attendees by chapter: Central: Beth Adams; Fairfield: Richard Duffee and Harold Burbank; Greater Hartford: Barbara Barry, Secretary of GP of CT and S. Michael DeRosa, Co-chairperson of GP of CT; Manchester at 6:50PM: Tim McKee; New Haven: Jerry Martin and Charlie Pillsbury; Northeast: Amy Vas Nunes; Cliff Thornton Co-chairperson of GP of CT. Non-Green Party Observer: Sherron Adrian from Hamden. Facilitator: Cliff Thornton A. Preliminaries: 1. Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees: Harold Burbank and Sherron Adrian; chapters noted; quorum was met; timekeeper; Charlie Pillsbury; ground rules. 2. Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda: no deletions. Additions: JM suggested but no consensus was reached regarding: a) approved minutes to be so noted in another way on the listserv; b) need minutes to be put on-line prior to SCC review and/or approval c) need a list of chapter contact people; SH: I want to present our predicament in Hamden: I found out in my local newspaper that Kelly McCarthy is no longer running as a Green Party Candidate for Mayor of Hamden due to her mother?s illness.. 3. Minutes of 8-28-07 SCC meeting were deferred due to need for more than the SCC allotted time to review. 4. Review and acceptance of minutes from the 9-17-07 EC meeting. 5. Treasurer?s report: presented by BAB due to absence of the Treasurer: Christopher Reilly. BAB: per Treasurer?s report at 9-17-07 EC Meeting: balance is $1243. B. Policies and Procedures Committee: JM: the following was approved by consensus: Officer Responsibilities: All officers must sign a statement at a time of their election or prior to the first official or informal action, stating that they will represent the Green Party, its values and platform to the best of their ability. They will keep all Green Party disputes within the party or appropriate third party e.g. Secretary of State, legal, insurance, GPUS, ACLU, or per applicable law or regulations. They will surrender all Party documents, keys, equipment and access rights to their successors. They will relinquish all rights to represent the party in all matters pertaining to the Secretary of the State?s Office, the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. Postal Service. Party Co-chairpersons: shall conduct meetings of the Executive Committee; shall conduct or appoint a facilitator for the State Central Committee and Executive Committee meetings; shall in person or through a designee approved by the State Central Committee, represent the Party at meeting(s) or in discussions with individuals and groups outside of the Party. Treasurer: Upon election the treasurer will complete all forms required by the State and Federal Governments, to operate the treasury and agree to relinquish that right at the completion of his/her term. The Treasurer shall receive all dues, contributions and other income. Shall establish or take possession of any existing bank accounts into which all receipts shall be promptly deposited within 10 calendar days or as per regulations. Promptly make payment for all duly authorized by the State Central Committee in a timely manner as long as funds are available. The Treasurer with the concurrence of at least one co-chairperson may make emergency expenditures of up to $100.00 without prior State Central Committee approval, subject to their subsequent review. Maintain financial records in accordance with sound accounting practice and publish monthly statements of initial and final assets, income and expenditures. A statement of the funds reserved for use by the chapters should also be a part of this report. Control the utilization of credit card and on-line services involved with contributions. The Treasurer is an Ex-Officio member of the Finance committee. The Treasurer must have access to the Party Post Office Box. No contributions can be accepted from Political Action Committees or other political parties by the Green Party of CT. Secretary: The Secretary shall take minutes as required by State Central Committee. Maintain a record of all correspondence and information transmitted through any printed or printable medium to or from the Party, including material between Chapters or Chapters and Party. Forward outgoing material to its addressee and incoming or internal material to the appropriate action party or group. Establish, maintain and periodically publish a list of information and data that may be of value to members and groups within the Party. Filing or storage of material shall be responsibility of the originator or action recipient. To re-review Secretary responsibilities at next SCC meeting. Co-chairpersons: Plan and schedule meetings, moderate and appoint suitable moderators, recruit qualified committee members, and submit timely status and progress reports to the State Central Committee as required by the State Central Committee. Inform and advise the State Central Committee in a timely manner, regarding subjects for which their Committee is responsible. Committees of the State Central Committee: All committees serve at the pleasure of the State Central Committee and can be created or dissolved at any time. Committee members must be members of the Green Party of CT. Committee members and their chairs are appointed or approved by the State Central Committee. These appointments must be reviewed annually. Reappointment is at the digression of the State Central Committee. The duties and responsibilities of all committees are set by the State Central Committee. Function of the Committee Chair: To schedule all meetings of the committee and to submit to the State Central Committee written timely reports e.g. at the next SCC meeting, on the activities of the Committee. The Chair will also be responsible for the preparation of all reports authorized by the Committee, and whenever consensus can not be reached, to make the objections of the members a part of that report. Every Committee Function must be authorized by the State Central Committee which had a quorum of chapters. Finance Committee: To plan and oversee the raising of funds by and for the Party. To develop and submit to the State Central Committee for approval by May 15th each year, an Annual Budget for the operation of the Party. That budget should be based on reasonable expectations of revenue and expenses reflecting the priorities of the State Central Committee. To periodically report to the State Central Committee on compliance with the budget plan. Membership in the Finance Committee: Green Party of CT Treasurer, is ex-officio; other Green Party members are appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for terms to expire at the scheduled State Central Committee each May of the year; a new Committee Chair may be appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for terms expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year. By-Law: To develop and submit on a periodic basis any suggested by-laws, to the State Central Committee to accept or reject, in a timely fashion; must sent back to the active chapters for feedback then present at the next State Central Committee after chapter review, which may recommend moderations. Membership: Green Party members are appointed by the State Central Committee for terms to expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year. Committee Chair is appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for terms that expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year. Platform: Draft platform recommendations for the adoption of the State Central Committee; Committee Membership: Members are appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for terms that expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year. Committee Chair: is appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for at term which expires at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year.. Process and Procedure: create a policy and procedure book for the use of the State Central Committee, Committees and Officers. These policies are for the purpose of the efficient operation of the Green Party of CT in compliance with the Party by-laws and applicable laws and regulations. Membership: members are appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for terms to expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting each May of the year. Committee chair: appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for a term which expires at the scheduled State Central Committee, at each May of the year. Data Management: maintain membership lists and other database at the request of the State Central Committee. Membership: Green Party of CT Secretary is ex-officio. Other members are appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for terms to expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year. Committee Chair: appointed or approved by the State Central Committee for a term to expire at the scheduled State Central Committee meeting, each May of the year. C. Reports: 1. Impeachment of Bush/Cheney; RD presented a rationale: Basic Rationale: only 20-21 Representatives of the House have signed House Resolution 333. A number signed resolutions to impeach Bush in the previous term, but those resolutions are inactive and the signers know they are, so I believe we can safely say that no more than 21 Representatives are currently demanding impeachment. Because both Bush and Cheney have clearly committed high crimes and misdemeanors and perhaps treason, at the least 414 Representatives are violating their oaths of office in failing to demand impeachment of Cheney---and all of them for failing to demand the impeachment of Bush. Because the minimal requirement for running for Congress should be that a candidate keep his or her oath of office, or gives good evidence of intending to, every congressional candidate who does not demand impeachment should be accused of failing to meet that minimal requirement and should have to face a candidate who meets it. The Green Party can do a great service by providing candidate who support impeachment The SCC should advocate having impeachment candidates in all five CT Congressional Districts. An impeachment candidacy should have two effects: 1) it should make all opponents know that they will lose votes if they do not support impeachment and 2) it should educate the public so that they begin to understand that the reason that Congress does not make progress on other significant issues is that its unwillingness to impeach. It also reveals a basic choice for empire over republic. Required Labor and Resources: To have these two effects, an impeachment candidate has to be able to get onto the ballot and into the debates. The basic requirements are: 1) validated signatures from 1% of the number of voters in the 2006 election. This normally requires about 5000 raw signatures. 2) the 5000 raw signatures will normally require about 500 hours of volunteer time. 3) the League of Women Voters will feel comfortable if it can be proven that at least 50 volunteers have given time. 4) the Federal Government considers one a candidate only if one has collected at least $5000 in donations. 5) the League of Women Voters will want to see that these donations have come from at least 50 people, but the greater the number the better. It would be best to have a receipt system while petitioning. We can ask for a dollar or more. We must assume that our activities are known to the other parties. In any district where the other parties do not believe we can meet these 5 requirements, we must assume that the other parties will not take our candidacies seriously because they will believe that they will not need to answer us in debates or will not have to confront us on a ballot. Because in such districts, other parties will not take our candidacies seriously, we will have no effect on the willingness of other candidates to support impeachment or on their chances in the election if they do not. Effect on other campaigns: The statewide petition needs only 7,500 validated signatures; last year our initial goal was 15,000 raw signatures; 13,000 turned out to be more than enough. If the statewide petition is carried (in the group) with the local congressional petition, we should have collected the necessary signatures well before we have the congressional signatures. Then we can carry local petitions with the congressional petitions. Time Line: The earlier we act, the better. The earlier we nominate candidates, the greater the likelihood that we will be able to compel Democrats, and perhaps some Republicans, to support impeachment. It would be best if we could nominate congressional candidates in October (2007). We MUST have everything in place by January 2008 when the Secretary of State makes petitions available. That is, we must have for each congressional district: 1) 5 candidates, 2) 5 campaign committees, 3) 5 campaign managers, 4) 5 treasurers, 5) 5 bank accounts, 6) 5 websites, 7) designated: phone number, email address and office. Definition of Impeachment Candidacy: The exact terms of nation-wide impeachment candidacies for each Congressional District will have to vary district to district depending on the positions and characters of opponents and constituents. In some districts, it may be best to keep open the promise that one will relent if an opponent co-sponsors impeachment resolutions. In others, it may be best to sunn all out no matter what. Others may be at different positions in between. We should be as clear as possible about our position in each district and the reasons for it. My own first priority is impeachment. I will adopt the position that I believe will maximize the chances of impeachment. Because Congressman Shays is the incumbent in the 4th Congressional District, I will need to define exactly what he will need to do to be satisfied that he is acting in the interests of impeachment. Harold Burbank has a different problem in the 5th Congressional District because Congressman Christopher Murphy, can co-sponsor H. Res 333 if he wants to, which makes his failing to do so more significant. Candidates in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts have other problems. Congressman Larson, 1st District Representative, is the only CT Rep. in the Out of Iraq Coalition. Impeachment candidates might want to make an opponent?s membership in that Coalition a pre-requisite to their bowing out, or make pledging to vote against any more funds a prerequisite, or signing onto bills to rescind the constitutional damage of Bush and Cheney have done, or signing bills to reduce presidential war-making powers, or to require obedience to international laws, etc. Despite the range of ambiguity outlined in the four previous paragraphs, nation-wide impeachment candidacies can be defined by four criteria. An impeachment candidate must make the opposition aware that we: 1) can get on the ballot; 2) can get into the debates, 3) will be raising the issue of impeachment at every opportunity, and 4) will only relent upon proof of co-sponsorship of 333 ( in all districts) or adequate guarantees of demands for impeachment and other closely related positions, if at all. RD: as a member of the GPUS GPAX Standing Committee, I have become the point person nation-wide about impeachment. Our goal is to strive for an impeachment candidate in every state. CT: this needs to be approved by the SCC and sent to the chapters for their own review to accept or approve. Vote: 6 approved; 3 were opposed. Vote carried to be sent to Chapters. 2. Reports about and from the candidates: a) SA: I am from HART (Hamden Alliance for Responsible Taxation). I am not a Green Party member. However, our group endorsed Kelly McCarthy, Green Party member for Hamden Mayor. Our concern is: can the Green Party do anything to replace her? SMD: per state law, the Green Party can replace her. However, we do not know of anyone who would be willing to do so. b) Harold Burbank, of Canton, would be interested in running in the 5th Congressional District as a Green Party Candidate. He is an attorney and former Assistant Attorney General in Maine. 3. GPUS reports from CTGP representatives: CP: the GPUS wants to know if the SCC of GP of CT wants to endorse three more voters to the GPUS Standing Committees until the spring of 2008. and we need to a transparent process for the delegates to the convention in the spring of 2008. TMc: the GPUS is working on who is to be a delegate at the GPUS Nominating Convention during the 2nd weekend in July 2008. Need to clarify how a delegate will be obliged to vote. Charlie and I are trying to find out how each GPUS Standing Committee vets members as different committees have different processes. 4. Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: BAB: Fight the Hike is still meeting and planning to take concerns to legislators. CT: we are talking about legalizing marijuana and addressing proposals to have prisons in Meriden and Hamden. SMD: we need a Green Party of CT Task Force to put together our specific issues and concerns for 2008. 5. Our websites: SMD: Eric DeVos to increase his work on the website in 10-07. 6. CT Green Times: SMD: I only have 4 articles so it will not be coming out until more are provided. 7. Fundraiser position: SMD: only received one response. That person resided in Asia.. 8. ACLU lawsuit: SMD: as a plaintiff, I am scheduled to meet with the ACLU in about two weeks. 9. Chapter reports: * Greater Hartford: SMD: David Ionno is running for Hartford City Council. Steve Fournier is Seriously considering running against Congressman Larson. Both are running as Green Party candidates. * Northeast: AVN: Jean deSmet is running for 1st Selectperson of Willimantic. She is not running as a Green Party Candidate but rather as an Independent with a Coalition of Democrats and Republicans. * New Haven: CP: we have the following Green Party Candidates: Ralph Ferrucci is running for New Haven Mayor and for Alderman positions: Allan Brison in the 10th Ward and Daniel Sumrall in the 7th Ward. Our next New Haven Chapter meeting is on 10-11-07, where we could potentially replace Kelly McCarthy?s now vacant candidate position. * Fairfield: RD: David Bedell for Constable and Clausel Berrouet, Jr. for Board of Education. HB: Tom Sevigny has advised me that there is no active Green Party in Canton, where I live. I am a Human Rights lawyer, a former Assistant Attorney General in Maine; am a graduate from the University of New Hamsphire Law School. I want to run as a Green Party Candidate for the 5th Congressional District. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 10-30-07 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 10-07. 11. Any additions: a) AVN: chapters are not visible. BAB: I would be willing to write to the prolonged absent chapters such as the Northwest Chapter, West Chapter and Shoreline Chapter and the Womens Caucus. Consensus: the Secretary is the write the Northwest, West and Shoreline Chapters and the Women?s Causus and request that, per bylaws, they provide the State Central Committee of Green Party of CT with their status since their last presence at the SCC two years ago. Specifically the SCC is seeking: any/all dates of meetings with dates and minutes of these meetings and list of attendees. b) SMD: Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: 1/2/2008 11:29 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Jan 7 00:54:16 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:54:16 +0000 Subject: {news} Proposed agenda for 1-8-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center Message-ID: I cannot make it to Tuesday's State Central Committee meeting, but could we add the Presidential nominating petition to the agenda? The application form is now available from the Secy of the State's office (http://www.sots.ct.gov/ElectionsServices/Elecform.html ), and the sooner we get the petitioning underway, the easier it will be to meet the August deadline. Cliff Thornton has volunteered to be a placeholder candidate for President. The SotS lawyers have confirmed that placeholders, like real candidates on a ticket, must conform to the Constitutional requirement that President and Vice President be from different states. Greg Gerritt, Secretary of the Rhode Island Greens and Co-Chair of the GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee, has agreed to stand as our placeholder for VP. We should ask Cliff and Greg to go on record that they will sign over their ballot line to the final nominated candidates as determined at the Green national convention in July. To avoid any possible disputes, Cliff and Greg must agree to subordinate their personal preferences to the national consensus of the Green Party. We also need 7 Presidential Elector candidates (representing CT's 7 electoral votes). Ten people have volunteered (see below). The SCC should select 7 names to put on the petition. We should take into consideration geographic diversity (at least one in each of the 5 Congressional Districts?) and gender diversity (give preference to women Electors if the Prez and VP placeholders are both men?). However, as a practical consideration, it may be better to select 7 people present at Tuesday's meeting, who can sign the application immediately. Each Elector will have to sign the Statement of Consent (page 2 of the application), and their respective Town Clerks will have to sign a copy of the verification page (page 3). Volunteers for Presidential Elector: Barbara Barry, Wethersfield Mike DeRosa, Wethersfield Ed Dubrule, West Hartford Richard Duffee, Stamford Ralph Ferrucci, New Haven Justine McCabe, New Milford Tim McKee, Manchester Karin Norton, Willington Charlie Pillsbury, New Haven Ronna Stuller, New London The only duties of Electors is registering their names on the petition. In the unlikely event the Green candidate wins CT, then the Electors have to meet and cast their Electoral College votes for the Green candidate. Someone (perhaps Tim or Mike?) should take responsibility for collecting all the necessary signatures and addresses on the application, and submitting it to the SotS. (Procedural note: technically, this petition application does not require approval of the SCC. In theory, any group of Greens could circulate a petition, and there could be two or more petitions circulated simultaneously, e.g., one by Nader supporters and another by McKinney supporters. For the sake of efficiency, though, it is better for the party to cooperate on one presidential ballot drive and agree on one set of placeholders and Electors.) David Bedell _________________________________________________________________ Put your friends on the big screen with Windows Vista? + Windows Live?. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/shop/specialoffers.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_MediaCtr_bigscreen_012008 From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 7 21:37:15 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:37:15 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Nat'l Roundtable on Enviro. & Econ. joins Canadian Greensbehind carbon tax (Fwd release) Message-ID: <019001c8519f$6262a120$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: ; ; Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:54 PM Subject: USGP-INT Nat'l Roundtable on Enviro. & Econ. joins Canadian Greensbehind carbon tax (Fwd release) Green Party of Canada Media Release For Immediate Release January 7, 2008 NRTEE joins Greens in call for carbon tax OTTAWA - The Green Party is applauding the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) for recommending that Canada adopt a carbon tax. In a report released today, the roundtable said a carbon tax is a crucial component of any regime designed to cut greenhouse gases and arrest climate change. "It is encouraging that the National Roundtable also recognizes that any plan without a carbon tax is a plan without teeth," said Green Party leader Elizabeth May. "Currently, the Green Party is the only federal political party with the courage to tell voters the truth: Canada must price carbon if we are to take meaningful action on climate change and mitigate the climate crisis." The cornerstone of the Green Party's climate plan is a green tax shift: a $50 per tonne tax on carbon emissions coupled with equivalent cuts to personal income and payroll taxes. "We urge the other federal parties to adopt this policy without delay," said Ms. May. "The National Roundtable has added its voice to a growing group of experts who agree that a carbon tax is the most efficient and effective way to quickly reduce carbon emissions. When will Prime Minister Harper end his preoccupation with political expediency and do what is necessary to stop climate change?" -30- Contact: Camille Labchuk Press Secretary 613-562-4916 ext 244 clabchuk at greenparty.ca From chapillsbury at igc.org Mon Jan 7 23:50:42 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:50:42 -0500 Subject: {news} New Haven chapter meeting this Thurs. 01/10 References: <001201c83d24$2fbece90$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Message-ID: <001d01c851b2$06331a20$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Our January chapter meeting will be held this coming Thursday 01/10 from 7:30-9:00pm. The location is the Never Ending Book Store, 810 State Street. We will be debriefing the November election, discussing with ALDERMAN Allan Brison, Daniel Sumrall and Ralph Ferrucci what worked, and what we could do better in 2009. We also will discuss the CTGP request to find a candidate to run for Congress in the 3rd District in 2008. Please let me know if you have any other items of business to add to the agenda. Thanks. See you there, Charlie 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org __._,_.___ . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Tue Jan 8 22:54:15 2008 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:54:15 -0500 Subject: {news} =?windows-1252?q?New_Haven=92s_Board_of_Aldermen_voted_to_?= =?windows-1252?q?stop_war_in_Iraq_and_stop_developing_nuclear_weap?= =?windows-1252?q?ons?= Message-ID: <10859a090801081954u42ffc47ape0aacc6eb955ceca@mail.gmail.com> Aldermen: No Nukes by Paul Bass | January 8, 2008 - www.newhavenindependent.org Close your eyes, and you might have thought New Haven's Board of Aldermen was the U.S. Senate, as city lawmakers voted to stop the war in Iraq and stop developing nuclear weapons. Actually, they voted to advise the U.S. government to do those things, in non-binding resolutions. The two votes were the only points of contention at Monday night's board meeting at City Hall. It resembled the Senate not just because the topic was foreign policy ? but because the chambers also assumed the air of a debating society against a backdrop of passionate citizen lobbying. Dare we call it the city's Greatest Deliberative Body ? For while the two measures passed with solid majorities, both sides of the discussion ? including Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder, attending her first meeting ? offered thoughtful and unpredictable differences of opinion. Some aldermen voted in favor of one measure but not the other. The first measure up for a vote, submitted by the Peace Commission, urged "cessation of combat operations in Iraq and the return of U.S. troops." [image: allan%20b.jpg] allan%20b.jpg It passed by a voice vote. Green Party Alderman Allan Brison (pictured) read a speech in favor of the measure, twice ? at a pre-meeting press conference organized by peace activists, then again on the floor. "Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, was a bitter enemy of al-Qaeda, and was militarily impotent after 10 years of sanctions," said Brison, who represents East Rock and was attending his first meeting as alderman. "This was is about oil." Fair Haven Heights Alderman Robert Lee said he's "tired" of young people coming home in body bags. "No" votes included not just the board's lone Republican, but some Democrats, including Moti Sandman of Beaver Hills. "I think President Bush created a scenario we totally dismembered any semblance of government" in Iraq, Sandman reasoned. "We have a moral obligation to be there to recreate their infrastructure, before we pull out." Fellow Beaver Hills Democrat Carl Goldfield, too, voted against the Iraq resolution, echoing the "You make it, you break it" argument. The 15 or so peace activists in attendance clapped and cheered when the measure passed, until Goldfield, the board's president, instructed them to "refrain from expressing emotions." *Nukes Targeted* A more extended debate took place over the second proposal. This one "urged the United States Congress to support [U.S.] House Resolution 68calling for a comprehensive nuclear disarmament program." "We just want the [Bush] administration to follow the law" and abide by a three-decade-plus old nonproliferation treaty, said Fair Haven Alderwoman Erin Sturgis-Pascale. She introduced the resolution along with colleagues Dolores Colon of the Hill and Westville's Sergio Rodriguez. She said the U.S. spends $6 billion a year developing its arsenal. She called "every dollar spent? a theft of education and jobs." "In a perfect world," responded Republican DePino, who represented Morris Cove, "I would support the principle of comprehensive nuclear disarmament." But Resolution 68 "avoids the question of whether nuclear weapons are good or bad for security." DePino said she worries about "undermining" national security against "terrorists and hostile nations." Dwight's Gina Calder said she has the same worries. Although she voted for the Iraq resolution, she voted against the nukes measure. She said she knew she'd be voting on foreign policy on New Haven's Board of Aldermen, and she thought hard about the issue. When the U.S. first signed a non-proliferation treaty, the word knew of only three nuclear powers, she said. "Now we're doing with nine," some of which are "rogue states" like North Korea. That changes the issue because such governments are less responsible, and harder to deal with, she said. Carl Goldfield voted in favor of this resolution. He acknowledged, when reminded, that in the 1990s he spoke out against the Board of Aldermen taking on foreign affairs, which he considered beyond the local solons' purview. "I still think it's a bad idea," he said Monday night. "I gave up" trying to fight it. The anti-nukes measure passed 17-7, with three abstentions. Voting yes: Brooks, Perez, Colon, Clark, Smart, Brison, Antunes, Pascale, J. Rodriguez, Castro, Paolillo, Edwards, Jones, McCormack, S. Rodrigues, Goldfield, Sepulveda. Voting no: Calder, Rhodeen, DePino, Morehead, Silverman, Lehtonen, Sandman. [image: cliff%20graves.jpg] cliff%20graves.jpg Activists who spoke at a pre-meeting press conference urging the aldermen to vote yes on both measures included the NAACP's Clifton Graves Jr. (pictured), Peace Commission macher Al Marder, Gwen Mills of the Central Labor Council, and Gary Holder-Winfield, president of the Connecticut Federation of Black Democrats. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Wed Jan 9 12:39:34 2008 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:39:34 -0500 Subject: {news} my first aldermanic address Message-ID: Greens, The New Haven Independent and the New Have Register both did stories on my first aldermanic meeting. Attached in the address that I gave to the press conference just prior to the Board of Alderman meeting, and then, in an abbreviated form, to the Board meeting itself. The address was in support of the Peace Commission's resolution calling for an end to military operations in Iraq. The resolution passed by voice vote. There were some neigh's. I wish that I had known the protocol for calling for a voice vote (very easy I think - just call out, "Roll Call") so that the votes could have been put on record. A second Peace commission resolution calling for the US to comply with our own laws to disarm are nuclear weapons passed by a vote of 17 to 7 with 3 abstains, and 3 absente. 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I wish that I had known the protocol for calling for a voice vote (very easy I think - just call out, 'Roll Call') so that the votes could have been put on record. A second Peace commission resolution calling for the US to comply with our own laws to disarm are nuclear weapons passed by a vote of 17 to 7 with 3 abstains, and 3 absente. Best, Allan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Iraq War Resolution Press Conference.docx Type: application/octet-stream Size: 12593 bytes Desc: not available URL: From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Wed Jan 9 23:57:22 2008 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:57:22 -0500 Subject: {news} CodePink/info on Guantanamo protests Message-ID: <003501c85345$5e5d70d0$f9984c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> CodePink regularly sends the Connecticut Green Party website information. This is one of their e-mails. --Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: CODEPINK To: greens at ctgreens.org Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:40 AM Subject: Success! Omar's Been Released! Donate | Calendar | Local Groups | Store January 9, 2008 Dear Green Party Member, Last year at this time, the three of us were in Guantanamo, Cuba with former detainee Asif Iqbal and the mother and brother of detainee Omar Deghayes. Omar's mother, Zohar, had not seen her son in five years. When we got to the gates of the U.S. Naval Base to stage our protest, she broke down. "It breaks my heart to think of my son in a cramped narrow cell without sunshine or fresh air, living for so many years in conditions not even fit for animals," she cried. Omar grew up in Brighton, England, where he studied law. In 2001 he traveled to Malaysia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he married and had a son. When war broke out in Afghanistan, he fled with his family to Pakistan, planning to return to England. But he was arrested, reportedly for a bounty of $5,000, and sent to Guantanamo. Omar says he was beaten repeatedly and kept in solitary confinement for eight months. In March 2004, when he protested a body cavity search, five guards pepper sprayed him so badly, he lost sight in one eye. After six years of horrendous detention without charges or a trial, Omar was finally released on December 18, 2007. While we join his family in celebrating his release, we know over 300 prisoners still remain in Guantanamo, subjected to the same abuses and utter disregard for due process. January 11 marks the International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo. CODEPINK is organizing a protest in Miami outside the Southern Command, which runs the prison. For a list of dozens of local protests across the country, click here. If you can't join a protest, please take a moment to call (202-353-1555) or write Attorney General Michael Mukasey. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Jan 10 00:51:49 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:51:49 +0000 Subject: {news} Green constable Erik Eisenberg profiled Message-ID: I missed this story when it came out in the Stamford Advocate last November, but Erik alerted me--he's back visiting CT and attended tonight's Fairfield County GreenDrinks (about 100 people turned out for this environmental social networking party--see http://www.fcgd.biz ). I still say the "entry-level" position of Constable is the easiest to get elected to, and it can help us get a foot in the door of municipal politics. David Bedell http://www.greenconstable.org The Advocate. Stamford, Conn.: Nov 26, 2007. pg. A.7 (2007 Southern Connecticut Newspaper Inc) Constable post attracts entry-level politicians By Wynne Parry Staff Writer STAMFORD - Long before November's election, Erik Eisenberg knew he would win - he was among six candidates for six constable positions in New Canaan. As a constable, he could be hired by attorneys to serve legal papers. But because Eisenberg lives in Hanover, Germany, he cannot do the job. He admits the situation sounds strange. "I can't deny that," Eisenberg, 27, said by telephone. "But on the other hand, I am not aware that the constables there are always doing the tasks that are assigned to them." A graduate of New Canaan High School and a Green Party member, Eisenberg maintains a New Canaan address with his father. When he is sworn into office, Eisenberg will become one of a number of constables in New Canaan and elsewhere who seek the office for personal or political reasons, with no desire to perform the duties. Running wasn't Eisenberg's idea. David Bedell, secretary of the Green Party in Fairfield County, suggested it. Bedell, 45, sought the same office in Stamford, along with another Green Party candidate. "I thought because the Green Party is a new party and we don't have any elected officials, ... the best place to start was at the bottom," Bedell said. Generally, constables may deliver legal papers only within the boundaries of the municipality in which they are elected. A town of about 20,000, New Canaan has little work for constables, so Bedell said he envisions Eisenberg as cultural liaison between Germany and New Canaan - someone who can write letters to the editor with the added weight of an elected title. Another Green Party constable, Hector Lopez, was re-elected in New Canaan this year. Faced with a full slate of major-party competitors in Stamford, Bedell did not fare as well. Stamford's larger population means more legal action and more work for constables. "Believe me, if someone wants to work, they can make money at it," said Ralph Serafino, 51, a Democrat and full-time constable in Stamford. By law, he receives a base pay of $30 for a service, plus additional fees and reimbursement for mileage, depending on the nature of the case. But as in New Canaan, not all of Stamford's constables are interested in the position for its duties. In 2001, Republican Joseph Tarzia campaigned for strategic reasons. "If you have people that are well known, and so forth, that does help bring out the vote," he said. "The Democrats always fill their slots, so I think we have a responsibility to be competitive." But as a teacher and Board of Finance member, Tarzia, 60, didn't have much time to serve papers. He ran again and was elected in 2005 but gave up the post a few months early because he wanted it to go to George Christiansen. As a Republican and professional constable, Christiansen, 63, has been the odd man out in a number of elections. He began serving papers in 1993 after losing his programming job at IBM, he said. But he was elected only once since 1999, though he ran in every race. Because Stamford is a heavily Democratic city and he lacks name recognition, job security has been elusive, even though he is dedicated to the work, Christiansen said. "I just don't know why you would run for an office and tell the people you would do something when you can't do it," he said. Without an elected title, Christiansen can serve certain documents, but he loses more than half his livelihood when he loses an election, he said. For six years, he collaborated with state marshal George Ritchie, who died in April. Marshals also serve papers but they are appointed and work within a county. In March, Christiansen and Ritchie arrived at a home in Greenwich with divorce papers. The man Ritchie was seeking struck both of them with a truck carrying a snow plow, dragging Christiansen 5 or 10 feet, according to records. This month, Christiansen took the test to become a state marshal, even though he said he's happy being constable. "If you become a marshal, then you don't have to run for constable any more," he said. _________________________________________________________________ Watch ?Cause Effect,? a show about real people making a real difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Thu Jan 10 06:46:21 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:46:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} DC RELEASE Six pres. candidates on DC Statehood Green ballot in Feb. 12 primary Message-ID: <599698.78421.qm@web44810.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Scott McLarty wrote: From: Scott McLarty To: usgp-media at gp-us.org, natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org, usgp-int at gp-us.org, media-states at lists.gp-us.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org Subject: [media-states] DC RELEASE Six pres. candidates on DC Statehood Green ballot in Feb. 12 primary Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:51:56 -0800 (PST) THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org For immediate release: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Contact: Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Six presidential candidates on the DC Statehood Green ballot in the February 12 primary election ? The 2008 Green presidential candidate may come in second in DC, ahead of the Republican, say Statehood Greens ? The candidates: Jared Ball, Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, Ralph Nader (represented by Howie Hawkins), Kat Swift WASHINGTON, DC -- The DC Statehood Green Party will have six presidential candidates on the ballot when DC voters go to the polls on February 12 for the primary election. The six candidates are seeking the nomination of the Green Party in the 2008 race for the White House. The nomination will be decided by about 800 delegates from state parties who will gather at the Green Party's national convention in Chicago, Illinois, July 10-13. The DC Statehood Green Party has qualified for 28 delegates to participate in the nominating process. The candidates are listed below. Contact information, photographs, video clips, and bios of the candidates can be found on the candidates' own web sites. Video clips of many of the candidates are also linked at .. The first Green presidential debate will take place on Sunday, January 13 in San Francisco .. "Since the DC Statehood Green Party has major party status in the District of Columbia, Statehood Green voters will participate in the primary just as Democratic and Republican voters do," said LaVerne Butler, Ward 5 representative on the Statehood Green Party's steering committee. The Green Party has vowed to achieve 51 ballot lines in 2008 in all the states and the District of Columbia, and has committed party resources for this purpose. Greens currently have ballot access in 21 states, including Washington, DC .. "It's very possible that we'll see the Green nominee come in second on Election Day 2008, ahead of the Republican," said Gail Dixon, at-large member of the DC Statehood Green Party's steering committee and former elected member of the DC School Board. "We're seeing growing enthusiasm for many of our candidates, and District residents know how they've been treated under the Bush Administration for eight years. Many DC voters hold both Democratic and Republican politicians responsible for endorsing the Iraq war and other disastrous Bush policies, and for confirming President Bush's worst appointees. More and more DC voters are hearing the Statehood Green message that a vote in Congress will not give us democracy, and that we need the real thing -- statehood. The Green Party is the only party that supports DC statehood." In recent elections, DC Statehood Green candidates have collectively won more votes than Republican candidates, even in 2006 when the two parties ran the same number of candidates for partisan office. The Statehood Green Party is now 'DC's Second Party' in terms of electoral clout. The list of Green presidential hopefuls includes one DC native, two women (one of them African American), one African American man, at least two candidates with Native American ancestry, one of Arab ancestry, a former member of Congress, two former Green presidential candidates, a college professor, a candidate who will turn 35 in June 2008, and a 73-year-old. The candidates: ? Jared Ball, independent journalist; radio host (WPFW 89.3 FM Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC), hip-hop scholar, assistant professor of communications studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland http://www.jaredball.com ? Jesse Johnson, 2006 US Senate candidate and 2004 gubernatorial candidate for the Mountain Party in West Virginia (now an affiliate state party of the Green Party of the United States); filmmaker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg ? Cynthia McKinney, former member of the US House of Representatives (Georgia), 1993 to 2003, 2005 to 2007; former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, 1988-1992 http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://www.americanblackout.org/ ? Kent Mesplay, 2004 candidate for the Green presidential nomination; former president of Turtle Island Institute; environmental engineer, alternative energy activist; California Green organizer http://www.mesplay.org ? Ralph Nader, 1996 and 2000 Green candidate for President; 2004 independent candidate for President; consumer advocate (Howie Hawkins of the Green Party of New York State has consented to serve as a 'placeholder' candidate until Mr. Nader announces his intentions for the 2008 election) http://www.draftnader.org ? Kat Swift, Texas Green organizer; former Campus Greens leader; activist with Clean Money San Antonio and San Antonio Democracy Now http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez MORE INFORMATION The DC Statehood Green Party http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org ? Green candidate database for 2007 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml ? Green Party Presidential Campaign Support Committee http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml ~ END ~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. 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Should you have any questions feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Michael T. Kozik Managing Attorney Legislation and Elections Administration Division Office of the Connecticut Secretary of the State *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Fri Jan 11 17:28:47 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:28:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Input sought for national greens convention numbers-GP-US Proposal: ID 336 - Approval of the Winner of the IRV for National Convention Delegate Apportionment Formula Message-ID: <774128.49599.qm@web44813.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Dear State Greens, It looks like we will have 20 delegates under the current proposal and we would like your feed back if any. Tim McKee Manchester ************************************************************************************************** PROPOSAL SUBJECT: This proposal presents a formula to be used to calculate delegate apportionment for the 2008 GPUS Presidential nominating convention, GPVA version. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The current proposal is based directly on the results of the previous efforts to achieve a broad consensus for apportionment to the GNC. Except for minor adjustments to address newly approved convention rules and attendance projections suggested by the ANMC, results are identical to percentages of GNC representation. PRESENTER: Green Parties of Virginia, Arkansas, West Virginia, Montana CONTACT: Tamar Yager, 703-534-2187 (home), 502-296-3849 (cell) greenyager at gmail.com REFERENCES: GPUS Proposal 272: Allocation of Delegates to the National Committee of the Green Party version 2 http://green.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=272 GPUS Proposal 295: Delegate Allocation for GPUS National Committee Delegate Allocation for GPUS National Committee GPUS Proposal 323: Rules of the Presidential Nominating Convention of the Green Party of the United States http://green.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=323 FULL PROPOSAL: ALLOCATION OF DELEGATES TO THE 2008 GPUS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATING CONVENTION ARTICLE I - ALLOCATION METHOD GPUS affiliated caucuses and state parties shall receive 4 times the number of delegates allocated for the Green National Committee. Unaffiliated states, territories and caucuses, credentialed according to convention rules or affiliated after apportionment, shall be allocated four votes and four delegates. ARTICLE II - DELEGATES AND VOTES Each delegate seat counts for one vote. Proxy votes are allowed, as provided for in the convention rules, as long as the total number of votes cast for does not exceed twice the number of voting delegates in attendance for that delegation. ARTICLE III - ALLOCATION OF DELEGATES Except for the addition of delegates according to Article I above, each state, caucus and territory shall be allocated the number of delegates as follows. State: Delegates/Votes (% for informational purposes) Alabama: 8 (1.0%) Alaska: 8 (1.0%) American Samoa: 4 (0.5%) Arizona: 8 (1.0%) Arkansas: 8 (1.0%) Black Caucus: 4 (0.5%) California: 168 (20.1%) Colorado: 12 (1.4%) Connecticut: 20 (2.4%) Delaware: 8 (1.0%) District of Columbia: 16 (1.9%) Florida: 16 (1.9%) Georgia: 8 (1.0%) Guam: 4 (0.5%) Hawaii: 8 (1.0%) Idaho: 4 (0.5%) Illinois: 44 (5.3%) Indiana: 8 (1.0%) Iowa: 8 (1.0%) Kansas: 8 (1.0%) Kentucky: 4 (0.5%) Lavender Caucus: 4 (0.5%) Louisiana: 8 (1.0%) Maine: 44 (5.3%) Maryland: 16 (1.9%) Massachusetts: 32 (3.8%) Michigan: 24 (2.9%) Minnesota: 12 (1.4%) Mississippi: 8 (1.0%) Missouri: 8 (1.0%) Montana: 8 (1.0%) Nebraska: 8 (1.0%) Nevada: 8 (1.0%) New Hampshire: 4 (0.5%) New Jersey: 12 (1.4%) New Mexico: 8 (1.0%) New York: 40 (4.8%) North Carolina: 8 (1.0%) North Dakota: 4 (0.5%) Ohio: 12 (1.4%) Oklahoma: 8 (1.0%) Oregon: 24 (2.9%) Pennsylvania: 32 (3.8%) Puerto Rico: 4 (0.5%) Rhode Island: 8 (1.0%) South Carolina: 8 (1.0%) South Dakota: 4 (0.5%) Tennessee: 8 (1.0%) Texas: 12 (1.4%) U.S. Virgin Islands: 4 (0.5%) Utah: 8 (1.0%) Vermont: 8 (1.0%) Virginia: 8 (1.0%) Washington: 12 (1.4%) West Virginia: 8 (1.0%) Wisconsin: 24 (2.9%) Women's Caucus: 4 (0.5%) Wyoming: 8 (1.0%) Total Possible Delegates - 836 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- voting at gpus.org wrote: Date: 10 Jan 2008 05:05:01 -0000 From: voting at gpus.org To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-nc] Discussion Has Begun on GP-US Proposal: ID 336 - Approval of the Winner of the IRV for National Convention Delegate Apportionment Formula Discussion has begun for the following proposal: Proposal ID: 336 Proposal: Approval of the Winner of the IRV for National Convention Delegate Apportionment Formula Floor Manager: Holly Hart, holly-hart at uiowa.edu Discussion Dates: 01/10/2008 - 01/11/2008 Voting Dates: 01/12/2008 - 01/18/2008 Voting ends at Midnight Pacific Time The GP-US strives for consensus, which involves several steps, taken in order.. Clarifying questions and responses from the group making the proposal. Airing of concerns and discussion about how to improve the proposal by taking into consideration those concersn Call for consensus on the final proposal. Background: There have been some differences in the NC as to the appropriate formula for delegate apportionment for the GPUS Nominating Convention. Five proposals have been presented by various sponsors. They were presented for an IRV vote. The proposal of the Green Party of Virginia was the winner of the IRV vote, passed on 1/7/08 with Ranked Choice Vote - #332. The winning proposal must have a 2/3 majority, but neither the Voting Page nor IRV allow for determining the % of a majority. Therefore, the proposal that received the majority from the of this IRV vote is now submitted to another vote to gain 2/3 majority approval by the NC. Proposal: The Green National Committee hereby adopts the formula, below, as the delegate apportionment formula for the national nominating convention Delegate Apportionment -- GPVA This proposal is based directly on the results of the previous efforts to achieve a broad consensus for apportionment to the GNC. Except for minor adjustments to address newly approved convention rules and attendance projections suggested by the ANMC, results are identical to percentages of GNC representation. http://green.gpus.org/vote-proposals/delapportionVA.html Resources: CONTACT: Tamar Yager greenyager at gmail.com References: http://green.gpus.org/vote-proposals/delapportionVA.html Full details are available at: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=336 Please send your comments to natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org. Thank you and have a wonderful day! --The GP-US Voting Admin _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! 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I cannot make it to Tuesday's State Central Committee meeting, but could we add the Presidential nominating petition to the agenda? ... We also need 7 Presidential Elector candidates (representing CT's 7 electoral votes). Ten people have volunteered (see below). The SCC should select 7 names to put on the petition. ...Volunteers for Presidential Elector: Barbara Barry, Wethersfield Mike DeRosa, Wethersfield Ed Dubrule, West Hartford Richard Duffee, Stamford Ralph Ferrucci, New Haven Justine McCabe, New Milford Tim McKee, Manchester Karin Norton, Willington Charlie Pillsbury, New Haven Ronna Stuller, New London ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Jan 13 03:08:17 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:08:17 -0500 Subject: {news} Norwich Bulletin Seeking Editorial Advisors Message-ID: The Norwich Bulletin is seeking Eastern Connecticut residents interested in being member of the newspaper's Editorial Advisory Board. The advisory board meets monthly with the paper's Editorial Board to discuss issues facing the region and positions the paper might consider regarding those issues. Interested individuals can submit their names and a brief background on themselves to Acting Community Conversations Editor Ray Hackett by mail c/o The Norwich Bulletin, 66 Franklin St., Norwich, CT 06360, fax at 860-887-9666 or e-mail at rhackett at norwichbulletin.com. Please include a daytime phone number where you can be reached. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Jan 13 05:51:15 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:51:15 -0500 Subject: {news} US OH: Column: The Ill-Conceived War on Drugs Destroying America Message-ID: Newshawk: Lima Alert http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0358.html Pubdate: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 Source: Lima News (OH) Copyright: 2008 Freedom Newspapers Inc. Contact: letters at limanews.com Website: http://www.limanews.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/990 Author: Thomas J. Lucente, Jr. Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Tarika+Wilson (Tarika Wilson) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/raids.htm (Drug Raids) THE ILL-CONCEIVED WAR ON DRUGS DESTROYING AMERICA America's ill-conceived War on Drugs cost another life this month when a police officer in Lima accidentally shot and killed a woman and injured her baby during a drug raid. They were looking for her boyfriend. The accidental shooting of 26-year-old Tarika Wilson was just the latest in more than a quarter-century of bloodshed. For example, in Belpre in October 1998, police shot 57-year-old Delbert Bonnar eight times. They were looking for his son. In March 1994, a retired Methodist minister, Accelyne Williams, of Boston, died after a police special weapons and tactics team, given a bad address by an informant, raided his home. He died of a heart attack after police tackled him. In February 2003, Drug Enforcement Administration agents looking for her father shot Ashley Villareal, 14, of San Antonio. The agents thought he was driving the car in which Ashley was sitting so they shot and killed her. The agents, by the way, did not even have a warrant for the father. In August 1999, SWAT team officers looking for marijuana shot Mario Paz, 65, of Compton, Calif., twice in the back. Police found no drugs. The casualties are not limited to women, children and retired ministers, either. Law-enforcement agents are also losing their lives in these senseless and hastily arranged drug raids. Alarmed homeowners have killed quite a few police officers raiding the wrong house. This usually results in the death of the homeowner. The list of the innocents killed in this war is long and depressing. How many more people must the government kill in this war on U.S. citizens? How much more treasury and blood must be spilled before the government recognizes the folly of this policy? Already this year, government has spent more than $1.3 billion on the war on drugs. Police have made more than 51,000 arrests this year. This is only January. In 2006, government agents made 1.89 million arrests for drug law violations (13.1 percent of the total number of arrests and more than for any other offense), according to FBI statistics. In fact, police arrest someone every 17 seconds for violating a drug law. Yet, illegal drugs continue to permeate our society. Clearly, in a free society, a person's choice to take drugs is his or hers alone. It is no business of government what a person puts into his or her body. Still, the illegality of drugs is no excuse for the government to wage war on a large segment of its society, especially considering there are no beneficial results, only death and misery and an increasingly overcrowded prison system. In fact, the United States, supposedly a free nation, imprisons more people than any other country in the world, in actual numbers and as a percentage of the population. Even China and Russia imprison fewer people than the United States. That was not always the case. The dramatic increase in the prison population is largely from the war on drugs. Another ill-effect of the war on drugs is the increasing militarization of our community police forces. They are no longer keepers of the peace; they have morphed into quasi-military organizations that have adopted a siege mentality in their own cities. They take millions of dollars in grants from the federal government and purchase armored vehicles, helicopters and automatic weapons. They use this equipment in macho shows of force to keep the populace in line. This "us against them" attitude makes it increasingly easier for them to bust down doors on unsuspecting residents based on often-spurious tips from shady characters. They conduct pre-dawn raids with very little intelligence on what they will find in the house. Then, when an officer kills someone, they put up a wall of silence and claim the whole operation was "by the book." Well, whatever book they are using has no place in a free society where police should be protecting the liberties and freedoms of citizens -- even if that freedom includes the recreational use of drugs. The Constitution has become nothing but a doormat for government agents to trample on as they bust down another door to another American home looking for drugs that may or may not be there. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Jan 13 09:31:07 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:31:07 -0500 Subject: {news} US OH: Editorial: Race Matters Message-ID: Newshawk: Lima Alert http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0358.html Pubdate: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 Source: Lima News (OH) Copyright: 2008 Freedom Newspapers Inc. Contact: letters at limanews.com Website: http://www.limanews.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/990 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Tarika+Wilson (Tarika Wilson) RACE MATTERS A new report tells us something most already knew: Blacks are far more likely than whites to be incarcerated for drug crimes. Following the shooting death of 26-year-old Lima resident Tarika Wilson during a police SWAT raid, the data show it's naive to think the anger is about her death alone, but rather people are upset about a system that they have good reason to think works against them. In 193 of the country's largest 198 counties, blacks face disproportionately higher rates of incarceration that whites for drug offenses, based on a national report by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that wants to reform sentencing policies. Of the nine Ohio counties in the study - Allen County is not among them - blacks are imprisoned 10 times more often than whites in Lucas County. The scale goes to a high of 21 percent in Butler County. Lima attorney Ken Rexford last year made a similar charge against the criminal justice system, saying blacks in Allen County face double the charges whites do, based on factors such as police waiting to make an arrest until more sales have taken place. Few people wanted to have the discussion last year. It is a conversation that must take place. The solution to this de facto racism, of course, is simple: Stop imprisoning people for trading in drugs or using them. Black leaders, as well as white leaders, should do everything possible to eradicate recreational drug use from their communities. But the government's war on drugs has done little, if anything, to curtail drug use among blacks or any other Americans. A reduction in drug use involves the work of counselors, parents, teachers, preachers, doctors and friends. It takes a culture, not armed state agents charged with feeding a growth industry of incarceration. Joel Dyer, author of "The Perpetual Prisoner Machine; How America Profits from Crime," told Freedom Communications that blacks are disproportionately arrested for drugs mostly because of their collective economic plight. "We still have a higher percentage of blacks than whites living in poverty," Dyer said. "In policing, communities tend to have more enforcement in minority and low-income neighborhoods. That means if you're using drugs, and you live in one of those neighborhoods, you're more likely to get caught. You are likely to be defended by a busy public defender's office, rather than a private lawyer who can spend ample time and money on your case. Once you're in prison for drugs, you stand a good chance of becoming a violent criminal because it's tough to survive in prison." Dyer, an expert on the public/private prison phenomenon, explains that for nonviolent drug convicts, survival in the joint often involves joining a race-based prison gang that mandates violent behavior. "Stiff penalties for drug crimes can actually generate violent crime because drug convicts eventually get released, having become violent in prison," Dyer said. Research by author and former law professor David Kopel, of the Colorado-based Independence Institute, has found incarceration of drug criminals diverts law enforcement resources from violent crime and results in shorter sentences for violent criminals. That's partly because imprisonment of common drug offenders has created a cell shortage. Burgeoning inmate populations have left sheriffs and politicians throughout the country clamoring for new and bigger prisons for the past decade. Official drug prohibition results in a dangerous and sometimes violent black market, as forbidden trade usually does. In this case, the underground market has spawned a judicial racket that places a price on human heads. Based on our history, it's not surprising that the humans in our modern inmate trade are disproportionately black. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Mon Jan 14 08:34:00 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:34:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Green Party holds Presidentail Debate in San Francisco Message-ID: <988374.73313.qm@web44804.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Green Party holds presidential debate in San Francisco Delfin Vigil, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, January 14, 2008 (01-13) 20:01 PST San Francisco -- Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana. Those were just some of the goals stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in San Francisco. About 800 people of varying ages, economic backgrounds and political parties attended the "Presidential Debate that Matters" at the Herbst Theatre, where the five Green presidential hopefuls spent more time agreeing with one another than actually debating. "We're not so much against each other as we are for each other," said one of the candidates, Kent Mesplay, an environmental engineer who also ran for the Green Party nomination in 2004. "We have to be because by no means is (the two-party system) a level playing field." The nearly three-hour event was co-moderated by "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan and KPFA radio host Aimee Allison, who allowed the candidates timed answers to questions about the war in Iraq, illegal immigration, the farm bill and health care, among other subjects. Nearly every answer was greeted with nods of agreement from the other candidates waiting their turns and by roars of applause from the audience, giving the forum a pep rally feeling. Bay Area elected officials who are Green Party members - including Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and San Francisco Board of Education member Mark Sanchez - also took the lecturn, urging the crowd to see the Green Party as the most progressive political option and not as a wasted vote. "Please. This is serious. This is not a joke. This is about starting a real movement in this country," said candidate Cynthia McKinney to a standing ovation. The former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia who converted to the Green Party last year was, at one point during the debate, acknowledged as the front-runner. The party's presidential nominee will be selected in July in Chicago. The other three candidates included Jared Ball, a hip-hop scholar and assistant professor of communications at Morgan State University in Baltimore; Kat Swift, a 34-year-old dread-locked activist from San Antonio who said she will "be just old enough to be president by the time of the next election"; and actor and filmmaker Jesse Johnson from West Virginia. Getting the Green Party candidate on the ballot in every state is the priority, according to the candidates, who repeatedly urged the audience to register Green after the debate. "Can the Green Party get beyond being blamed for Bush coming into power?" asked Mesplay, sarcastically referring to the argument that the Green Party takes votes away from Democrats. "We're not the ones who spoiled the American vote. Bush is." The candidates' answers ranged from dramatic sound bites to simple solutions. When asked about the farm bill, Swift's answer was not that of a typical politician: "I'm not familiar with the details of the farm bill. From what I've heard from farmers is that it doesn't work. I would get farmers together and ask them for the answers." Ralph Nader, the 2000 Green Party presidential nominee who has yet to announce his intentions for 2008, was scheduled to participate in Sunday's debate, but he did not. Nader showed up late for the event and addressed the crowd for about 10 minutes Former San Francisco mayoral candidate and Green Party member Matt Gonzalez was scheduled to co-moderate the event but could not make it due to illness, according to event spokesman Cress Vellucci. Gonzalez received the loudest applause when his name was announced as one of several elected officials from the Green Party. At least three hecklers who interrupted the forum also received a few claps of approval. The event was organized in the past month by several Bay Area Green Party activists who spread the word through advertisements in local weekly newspapers and on Air America Radio. About 760 paid the $10 to $20 suggested donation to attend the forum, while an additional 50 to 100 got in free, according to Vellucci. Mini Kahlon, a 38-year-old San Francisco resident, came to the event at the suggestion of a friend. "I had hoped for a higher caliber of interaction on the issues," said Kahlon. "There was a lot more cheerleading than I had expected. But I like the idea of a debate that doesn't only include Democrats and Republicans." E-mail Delfin Vigil at dvigil at sfchronicle.com. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNMOUEQ25.DTL This article appeared on page A - 8 of the San Francisco Chronicle *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Mon Jan 14 08:45:24 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:45:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Fwd: Plan to attend Rochester Campaign School January 19th Message-ID: <842832.95226.qm@web44810.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Green Party of the United States wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: Green Party of the United States To: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Subject: Plan to attend Rochester Campaign School January 19th Back to GP.org Plan to attend Rochester Campaign School January 19th ( this notice being sent to addressees within 500 mile radius of Rochester) January 19th, 2008 / 10:00 am to 8:00 pm Auditorium Center 875 East Main Street Rochester, New York Featuring: Brent McMillan National Political Director for the Green Party of the United States Scott McLarty National Media Director the Green Party of the United States Howie Hawkins Former Green Party candidate for United States Senate from New York Rachel Treichler Former Green Party candidate for New York State Attorney General Jason Nabewaniec Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States Running for Office Candidates are the vehicles that carry a political movement. Sustainability and going green is becoming trendy, Americans are growing more aware of the health insurance crises and want health care for everyone, and most Americans are now against the war in Iraq and dread the thought of another US war in the Middle East, the UN has a moratorium on the death penalty, LGBT rights are gaining public acceptance, fiscal responsibility will become critical as the economy edges closer to a recession. With the Green Party, Michael Bloomberg, and Ron Paul engaging in presidential politics the recognition and attention on independent politics will be enhanced in 2008. The political climate is ripe for Green growth in 2008, we need your to help as a candidate drive the movement so that going green doesn???t get further co-opted by the major corporate parties. Howie Hawkins former Green Party candidate for United States Senate and several other public offices will lead this workshop on answering the call of duty to the Green political movement. What Every Green Candidate should know Following the 2004 general election a questionnaire was sent out by the Green Party of the United States Coordinated Campaign Committee (CCC) to all the Green candidates who ran for office in 2004. With the luxury of hindsight, candidates reflected and shared their experiences of what worked best, and what could have been better. Then CCC member, Susan Fawcett compiled these into a checklist of things candidates and their campaign committees should have in mind before deciding to run for office. Brent McMillan, Political Director for the Green Party of the United States will take participants through this checklist along with handouts and additional information. Get Out The Vote This workshop is based on one that was originally presented by John Funchion at the Northeast Campaign School held in New London, CT in May of 2005. John was the GOTV Coordinator for the Jeff Toste for state legislature campaign in 2004. (John had worked for Paul Wellstone previous to becoming involved with the Green Party of Rhode Island.) The GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee was so impressed with this workshop that it became the basis of the GOTV Campaign Manual that is available for download off the CCC webpage. In 2007 Brent McMillan was the GOTV Coordinator for the Renee Bowser campaign in Washington DC. Renee ran for an open seat representing Ward 4 on the City Council. It was the strongest GOTV effort that the DC Statehood Green Party had done in years. Fundraising for Candidates The best person to do fundraising for a campaign is the candidate. This workshop is for both those that are considering running for office for the first time and those who have run before. Campaign Managers should know what to what the candidate should be doing for fundraising. This workshop can dramatically improve a campaigns ability get its message to the voters. Working with the Media This workshop will explore building relationships with people in the media and how to get more coverage. Topics will also include: how to write a press release, what is the difference between a press release and a press advisory, how to structure and deliver your message. Scott McLarty, Media Director for the Green Party of the United States will lead this workshop on helping candidates prepare for working with the media. Campaigning Online Nothing beats door to door canvassing however campaigns can attract volunteers and provide more depth to its message with a strong online presence. This workshop will teach the basics in creating a website and promoting your campaign online. Rachel Treichler is a former Green Party candidate for New York State Attorney General and United States Congress she created and managed her own campaign websites and will walk you through the process of taking your campaign online. Hosting a Successful Campaign Event Currently there are several presidential candidates traveling the country campaigning for the Green Party???s nomination. Greens from small towns to big cities will be asked to host campaign events that promote and raise the public awareness of the Green Party and our candidates, as well as, raise money for our candidates. Few people have hosted as many campaign events for Green candidates as Howie Hawkins, co-founder the Green Party in the United States in 1984, Howie has run for public office several times for offices such as Senate, Congress, and Mayor. Howie Hawkins will take through the process of hosting a successful campaign event in your area, to ensure that you and the candidate will get the most out of a campaign visit. Additional Information Registration is FREE and starts at 9:30am, workshops begin at 10am and are expected to go to 7pm. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED. Please join us afterwards for diner at a local restaurant. Jason Nabewaniec, Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States, and Chair of the Green Party of New York State's Campaign Committee will be hosting this event. For more information or to RSVP please call Jason at 585-413-3478, RSVP is not required but it is requested. More information will be made available online at: http://gpomc.blogspot.com/2008/01/campaign-school.html Workshops will be held GAGV on the 5th floor of the Rochester Auditorium Center, 875 E. Main St -corner Prince St. There is a parking lot behind the building off College Ave near the corner of Prince St, use the side door next to that parking lot. Elevator and stairs located off the main lobby. If you wish to make a donation to help us cover room fees, printing fees, travel costs and food then please send a check to the Green Party of Monroe County PO Box 40282 Rochester NY 14604 Write "Campaign School" on the check; donations are not tax deductible. Thank you for your contribution to make this event possible. Email: office at gp.org Office: PO Box 57065 Washington, D.C. 20037 202-319-7191 or toll-free (US): 866-41GREEN *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"You're not going to reinstate the constitution if you can't even say that violating it is wrong." Duffee pulled out of the 2006 election only a couple weeks from election day. A poll found that Diane Farrell, a democrat, had a chance at unseating Chris Shays, the republican incumbent, and the Green Party was afraid of siphoning votes from Farrell. This time, the party has said if they place a candidate on the ballot, they won't back out. "It's an enormous effort to get onto the ballot," David Bedell, secretary of the Fairfield County chapter of the party, said. "You have to collect a lot of signatures, and then to do all that work and change our minds - it's a wasted effort." Duffee is a 59 year-old retired lawyer who has traveled to almost 30 countries and lived in India for seven years. After graduating from Pace Law School, he said he lost faith in the democratic party when the Legal Services Corporation, a federal agency that provides free legal aid, reduced it's scope under President Bill Clinton. Now a resident of Stamford, Duffee talks extensively, when prompted, about the aspects of America that anger him. His voice cracks when describing how much money the country spends on defense - roughly 50 percent of the entire world's spending - and how other countries view the U.S. as an empire. "We in this country don't understand how the rest of the world perceives us, or why, because we don't look at ourselves from the outside," Duffee said. He wants progressive taxes to even the country's distribution of wealth. At a more local level, he wants the license revoked for Indian Point, a nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. On Iraq, Duffee said the U.S. should pull out immediately and pay reparations. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice should all stand trial before an international criminal court for leading the country to war, Duffee said. But Duffee's marquee issue remains impeachment, a stance supported by the Green Party. The new congress takes office Jan. 3, 2009, providing a 17 day window to get it done. "You can impeach, even in a day," Duffee said. _____ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From smderosa at cox.net Mon Jan 14 20:28:10 2008 From: smderosa at cox.net (Mike DeRosa) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:28:10 -0500 Subject: {news} AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE GREEN PARTY DEBATES IN SAN FRANCISCO CA. Message-ID: <4717BEC0FFED4ECBA2BA29CCE10FD720@OwnerPC> AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE GREEN PARTY DEBATES IN SAN FRANCISCO CA. THE INDYBAY (Independent Media Center) writer, Robert Livingston gives us some interesting facts on the behind the scenes happenings.. Go to indybay URL to see good photos and read interesting comments: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/13/18472264.php Green Party Presidential Debate in San Francisco: Show of Unity? by Robert B. Livingston ( gruaudemais [at] yahoo.com ) Sunday Jan 13th, 2008 11:23 PM It was not without trepidation that I attended the Green Party Presidential Debate today at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco-- and despite moments of inspiration, cheer and hope... I left mystified. Will the Green Party enter the 2008 Presidential race strong and unified-- or will it continue to become increasingly marginalized by a leadership more concerned with creating pockets of influence than with igniting an authentic and diverse national movement capable of substantially challenging the status quo of a country increasingly controlled by corporations? San Francisco January 13, 2008 "What is missing?" I kept asking myself from the moment I arrived at the Herbst Theatre this afternoon. It seemed all of the keys were in place for a dramatic and catalytic presidential debate that would put the trivia of the the two-party presidential debates in a spotlight. Despite the full house and exhuberent audience participation, somehow that never quite happened. Earlier I had encountered Cynthia McKinney and confessed to her that my dream would be for Nader to throw his support behind her campaign-- and I could see in her eyes that she truly hoped so also... but she also looked as if she hadn't any idea what Nader had in store. It remains to be seen if Nader will declare his own independent candidacy-- to broaden debate about the issues he cares most about? After seeing McKinney, I saw Nader, looking weary and somewhat disappointed, huddling with his advisers-- something did not seem to be happening according to plan. I was never able to talk with any of them, although I had hoped to do so. During an intermission, I encountered a few prominent local Greens huddling-- what were they talking about? They shooed me away-- whatever it was they did not want me to know. Whatever was going on, the full audience were treated like children-- no one ever explained why Nader was not to share the stage with the Green candidates. All that was announced was a terse message that the organizers had been informed 48 hours before the event that he would not appear with the Green Party candidates and that he was not an official candidate. Was Nader going to announce his own independent run for the presidency? I was told later that Nader had not yet declared. (Indeed, before the event Green Party organizers said that Ralph Nader's office had asked them to state that he is not a candidate.) I was also told after the event by Aimee Allison that Nader had not shared the stage with the Greens for "legal" reasons: was that a way of saying that rules set up by those who set up the debate could not allow him to share the stage-- or was it his own agenda that disallowed him from sharing the stage? I was never sure. At one point Cindy Sheehan, one of the moderators, asked Nader about his potential candidacy. Alone on the stage, Nader quipped about building bridges to the Green Party and embarked upon an eloquent diatribe against the control corporations increasingly have over our country-- a control that can be described as being fascist. He said that on the issues, the Green Party as compared to the two corporate parties (Republican and Democratic Parties) was as different as day and night. He suggested that internal conflicts and excessive rule-making within the Green Party did not much interest him and advised that the Party grow by keeping its focus on the issues it professes to be concerned about-- and by organizing. Much of Nader's soliloquy on a host of issues was devoted to advising the party to become angry and energized by the increasingly negative turn our country has taken in recent years. So what happens next? I wonder-- and I'm sure many people wonder. Will Nader run? If he does-- what will that mean for the Green Party? What will that mean for Cynthia McKinney's campaign? (At one point in the debate, Jared Ball declared that the debate was less a debate than a discussion of unanimity of support behind Cynthia McKinney, clearly the most popular of the candidates that shared the stage.) Rather than leaving the event energized-- I left mystified-- except for one thing: clearly Nader and the Green Party candidates virtually share the same interests. All the debaters were eloquent and sincere. The audience all hoped for unity and purpose. All were solidly behind Cindy Sheehan's independent congressional campaign in San Francisco against Nancy Pelosi. Both Nader and McKinney appeared bent toward making the critical issues of our day tantamount to any party bickering or conflict. So where was the magic? Where was the transparency? Where was the unity and purpose? Stay tuned.... ********** Of note: To my knowledge, Matt Gonzalez did not appear as a moderator as advertised. Elaine Brown did not appear because she left the Green Party. On stage to debate were Jesse Johnson, Kat Swift , Cynthia McKinney , Kent Mesplay ,and Jared Ball . The crowd was told at the start that Ralph Nader would appear separately from the Green Party candidates, which he did after they debated. He never shared the stage with them. Disclosure: I endorsed Ralph Nader at draftnader.org (which never published my comment that I hoped Cynthia McKinney would declare her candidacy. I afterwards endorsed Cynthia McKinney. My hope continues to be that Nader and McKinney could find a way to run together. I am a charter member of GDI, Greens for Democracy and Independence-- I believe that an authentic and strong Green Party requires transparency and valid representation-- it should not endorse candidates in the corporate parties. It is my understanding that today's event will be broadcast and reported widely-- as soon as possible I hope to provide links to such in the comments section. 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He will run for the seat currently occupied by Republican Christopher Shays, which is also being contested by Democrat Jim Himes. Another candidate, solar energy engineer/designer Gerald Falbel of Stamford, sought the Green nomination but failed to garner sufficient support. Several caucus participants voted for the option ?None of the Above? in lieu of a candidate, but the majority supported Duffee?s nomination. When asked his reasons for running, Duffee cited the need to reverse the current Iraq war policies, to prevent war against Iran, and to counter the Bush administration's environmental legacy and failure to address global warming or public safety threats such as the nearby Indian Point nuclear power plant. Congress Has Failed to Impeach Above all, however, Duffee decided to run because Congress has not used its power of impeachment to end what he describes as the criminal activities of George Bush and Dick Cheney. ?I believe the current Congress has not taken seriously the oath of office to defend the Constitution. We are in a constitutional crisis that cannot end until we repudiate empire and imperial presidencies and return to our Republic. ?We need a government based on trust, openness, honesty, and disinterested public action. It is clear that Bush and Cheney regard us not as citizens, but as subjects, using all the techniques of ruling an empire?secrecy, deceit, betrayal, fraud, mystification, and violence. These are inherently incompatible with the moral prerequisites for maintaining a Republic based on the rule of law. ?Christopher Shays is guilty of breaching his oath of office by supporting a criminal president and vice president. He may be guilty of crimes against peace in his pursuit of the Iraq War.? Duffee has started a campaign blog at http://richardduffee.blogspot.com. Minor parties such as the Green Party have to petition their way onto the ballot, and if they do not run a candidate in any given year, then they lose their ballot line for that office. For the Congressional seat, Duffee?s supporters will have until early August to collect at least 2100 signatures of voters in the 4th District. * * * Richard Duffee on the issues: ? Health care: ?There's nothing wrong with the Canadian single-payer plan?the vast majority of Canadian citizens are happy with it?including the doctors.? ? Jobs: ?We can make jobs the way FDR did in 1932, this time by hiring people to do insulation, solar power, wind power, geothermal, retrofitting, and so on, and making it available to everyone at cost the way the GI bill made housing available to veterans after World War II.? ? Foreign policy: ?We should comply strictly with all the provisions of international law we created but now disavow. We should comply with the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg rules, the Geneva Accords, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1996 International Court of Justice opinion that nuclear weapons are illegal, and fully fund the UN, help it reform so it can function, and behave as a normal law-abiding nation?which Article 6 of our Constitution says we are supposed to be.? ? Global warming: ?Global warming is lethal. Several factors?loss of rainforests, collapse of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, exacerbation of El Ni?o?may make exponential heat spikes that will cause drought so severe that no one can survive it, flooding great enough to wipe out vast coastal areas and whole nations, horrific storms, sudden freezes, and such chaotically unpredictable weather that no agriculture can succeed.? From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Tue Jan 15 15:40:52 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:40:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} SF Greens Pres. debate online updates Message-ID: <122508.16926.qm@web44815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Dear fellow Greens I am in the process of editing and digitizing for upload onto the Internet, the video of yesterday's Green Party Presidential Debate in San Francisco. Currently I am uploading the contents of the debate on a 'per question' basis. In other words, I am uploading each question and the answer by all five panelists as one upload at a time. The video uploads are at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=mfeinsteintube&p=r As soon as the full debate contents are uploaded, there will be a page on the www.gp.org site that has explanations and links to each upload. That page can be used by your parties to send around by email to faciliate widespread viewing. I also plan to upload the contents of the debate on a 'by candidate' basis, so that viewers can go and see all answers by a single candidate grouped together. That will come later and those links will also be added to the www.gp.org page. Mike Feinstein Santa Monica *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Jan 15 21:41:54 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:41:54 -0500 Subject: {news} Richard Duffee wins Green Party nomination for 4th District Congressional Seat: Stamfor Times Message-ID: Mike's post was actually a story about Richard that ran last month in the Stamford Times and Norwalk Hour. Below is the post-convention story by the same reporter. It appeared online as top story in the Wilton Villager, on page 3 of the print edition of the Norwalk Hour, and should be in the next issue of the Stamford Times. (The Hour is Norwalk's daily; the Times is a weekly spinoff; I've seen nothing in Stamford's daily the Advocate yet, or Bridgeport's CT Post. The Hersam-Acorn small-town weeklies will probably run a story.) http://www.wiltonvillager.com/wilton_templates/wilton_story/290766605211423.php Duffee gets Green Party nomination in 4th District By JARED NEWMAN NORWALK - On Sunday, Fairfield County's Green Party chapter nominated Richard Duffee to run for the 4th District seat in Congress. Duffee now needs roughly 2,100 signatures - 1 percent of district voters in the last election - to appear on the ballot alongside Republican incumbent Christopher Shays and Democratic candidate Jim Himes. Duffee's major campaign platform is the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. In the second floor auditorium of the Norwalk Public Library, Duffee often yelled, pointing a finger wildly in the air as he talked of civil rights violations and government exploitation of foreign countries. He said the government is running a plutocracy under the cover of a republic, and it's because Congress keeps giving its powers away. The Constitution, he said, needs to be upheld. "I want a republic," Duffee screamed during his closing remarks. "I pledged my allegiance to a republic, not an empire. I have no allegiance to an empire. It is morally reprehensible." The crowd, in turn, applauded. Of the 10 members of Fairfield County's Green Party chapter, seven chose to nominate Duffee, and three voted not to nominate anyone. Another candidate, Gerry Falbel, received no votes. Two years ago, Duffee withdrew from the ballot to avoid pulling votes away from Diane Farrell, who was running a close race with Shays. This time, Duffee said he won't pull out unless a more likely candidate to win seems dedicated to impeachment. Besides, said David Bedell, the chapter's secretary, it's too much effort to put a candidate on the ballot only to remove him or her at the last minute. Mike DeRosa, the party's state co-chairman, expects that Duffee will do a lot better than many people think. "I think the issue is going to be raised that we're the spoilers," DeRosa said, "but you can't spoil something that's rotten to the core." Himes attended the party meeting, and pledged to Green Party members that he would listen to them and would try to incorporate the party's key values into his platform. In a later interview, Himes wouldn't commit to being for or against impeachment. "I don't really have a comment on impeachment," he said. "I haven't developed a position on it." Himes added there's no time to impeach once the new Congress takes hold Jan. 3, 2009, but Duffee has said Bush's 17 remaining days as a lame duck is enough. Clifford Thornton, a state and national co-chairman for the Green Party, said he approved of Duffee's nomination, though the party, he said, should mainly focus on gaining state Senate and House seats. There are six state senate candidates and four state House candidates running, and Thornton hopes at least one will be elected. From efficacy at msn.com Thu Jan 17 05:47:00 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:47:00 -0500 Subject: {news} Editriol--Crime statistics Mislead Message-ID: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-crimestat.artjan16,0,7905023.story Crime Statistics Mislead January 16, 2008 If there was confusion last week about crime in Hartford, it is understandable. The Courant ran a Page 1 story on Jan. 9 reporting that homicides in the city had risen to 33, a level last reached during the gang violence of the mid-1990s. Later that morning, Mayor Eddie A. Perez held a news conference to announce that crime in the city had fallen to its lowest level in 30 years. The conundrum is that both were right, as far as they went. Mr. Perez said there were 1,600 fewer serious crimes last year than in 2006, a decrease of 15.5 percent. That is true but misleading. Most of the decline in Hartford crime was the result of an administrative order from Gov. M. Jodi Rell in 2005 requiring that motor vehicle registration stickers be put inside windshields instead of on license plates. Hartford had about 1,300 fewer stolen license plates last year. This is a good thing - stolen plates were a real nuisance - but take those numbers out of the mix and crime is down just a bit. In the area of violent crime, robberies and aggravated assaults were down in 2007, but rapes and murders were up. Murders went from 24 in 2006 to 32 last year. (Police said one of the 33 homicides was determined to have been justified.) Meanwhile, murder rates fell in all the state's other large cities and in New York, Boston and Chicago. Hartford had as many homicides in 2007 as Stamford, New Haven, Waterbury and Bridgeport combined. We are not unsympathetic to Mr. Perez's efforts to put the best face on the problem and counter the impression that the city is unsafe. He is largely correct. Most of the violent crime is drug-related and not directed at law-abiding strangers or residents (though they are subject to property crime). Complaints from residents tend much more toward quality-of-life issues such as noise, speeding or litter rather than violent crime. Nonetheless, Mr. Perez should realize that touting reductions in crime when murders have increased verges on Orwellian absurdity. The mayor should point his police department in the direction of the homicides. Let's be clear. The real scourge here is the drug problem and the decades-long failure of the war on drugs, the Vietnam of domestic policy. In cities such as Hartford, drugs drive so much of the crime. Dealers shoot one another. Dealers rip off addicts who come to the city from the suburbs. Drug-addled prostitutes who don't get paid charge johns with rape. Addicts steal to feed their habits. Absent an effort to change the way we deal with illegal drugs, the police have to deal with the results. Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts is pushing for tougher penalties for gun crimes, as he should. Police seized nearly 400 guns last year, evidence that the gun has become the dispute-resolution tool of choice for many of the city's lost boys. Mr. Roberts also is working with state and federal authorities on drug and firearm crime. He has a quality-of-life initiative that the General Assembly should support with funding. He should increase these efforts, look for programs that have worked in other cities and devote more resources to solving murders, if necessary. Though progress has been made in other areas, the mayor isn't going to sell the notion that the city is safer until the murder rate goes down. 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The address of the video page is .. The page will be updated regularly with new video as more Green presidential campaign events take place around the US. Six Green candidates are on various state ballots for the Green nomination, which will be decided at the party's National Nominating Convention in Chicago, July 10-13. The video page currently has links to video clips of the January 13 Northern California Green Presidential Debate at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco , and a January 5 forum with candidates Kat Swift and Jesse Johnson in Minnesota .. The page also carries a link to audio of the entire San Francisco debate .. An additional page has been opened at the Green Party's blog where visitors can post comments on the videos. The comment page address is .. 2008 Green presidential candidates: ? Jared Ball http://www.jaredball.com ? Howie Hawkins (serving as a placeholder until Ralph Nader announces his intentions for the 2008 election) http://www.draftnader.org ? Jesse Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg ? Cynthia McKinney http://www.runcynthiarun.org ? Kent Mesplay http://www.mesplay.org ? Kat Swift http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez Not all six of the candidates will be on the ballot in every state where Greens are participating in primaries. In states where deadlines have already passed, most but not all of the campaigns have submitted required petitions with valid signatures to their respective elections offices. MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php ? Green candidate database for 2007 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml Green Party Presidential Campaign Support Committee http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml ~ END ~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ media-states mailing list media-states at lists.gp-us.org http://lists.gp-us.org/mailman/listinfo/media-states *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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To watch it on the web tonight- -go to www.current.com -click on the watch tab -spin the wheel until you see it This video will air to over forty million homes and with the European market it could go as high sixy, seventy million. Thanks. Dave Here are the channel listings to see if you get Current USA + DIRECTV 366 + Comcast Nationwide 107 + Echostar 196 + Time Warner Digital Basic Nationwide + AT&T Uverse 189 UK & IRELAND + Sky 229 + Virgin Media 155 Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org "THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON" Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Fri Jan 18 16:53:32 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:53:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Green Party congressional candidate Steve Fournier profiled in column Message-ID: <792862.51496.qm@web44806.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> courant.com/news/local/columnists/hc-rgreen0118.artjan18,0,2127311.column?coll=hc_home_xpromo Courant.com Dear John: Steve's Waiting Rick Green January 18, 2008 Excuse me, Congressman Larson? I'd like you to set aside a little time for one of your constituents. I know it's the election season and your party's angling to take charge of the White House and all. But there's a cranky guy here in Hartford who says you two must talk about impeachment. Stephen Fournier ? an intelligent, heartfelt and sometimes confrontational Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-Green-Party-member ? wants you to join some of your colleagues in the House of Representatives and go after President Bush because of the Iraq war. Fournier claims that you've been dodging him, but I don't buy it. So I want to bring you two together. If you need neutral ground, I can get a room here at The Courant. Personally, I agree with you, Congressman. It is time for all of us to move on from this relentless, exhausting George Bush fiasco. Unlike a lot of your colleagues, you can be proud that you did the right thing in opposing the war in Iraq. Impeachment is messy and divisive. But I still think you owe Fournier a little chat. This guy poses a provocative, difficult question for those of us who opposed the Iraq adventure: If we are really against this war, isn't it time to examine what led us up to it? Fournier says that the president lied to Congress and the country and that he should be impeached for this. He wants to talk about spying on American citizens, holding prisoners without due process and a long list of other complaints that Fournier says merit impeachment. Steve tells me that since a group of like-minded folks began meeting last summer, he's asked to meet with you four times. Fournier said that your staff members never got back to him about these requests. In late November, members of Greater Hartford Impeach presented your office with a list of questions about your position on impeachment. Now I know that a U.S. representative is busy. But I see where you had time to head out to Iowa to campaign for Chris Dodd. And I heard you on the radio during a leisurely, lengthy gabfest with Ray and Diane on WTIC-AM over Christmas. You might recall his days on the Hartford Board of Education back in the 1990s, but Steve has mellowed since heart surgery a few years ago. He paints. He's got grandkids. But he's also mad as hell about this impeachment thing. "My representative is right at the vortex of it all. He claims to be the vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus," Fournier told me when I stopped by his house in Hartford's West End the other day. "It's simple accountability. If you commit a crime, you are going to pay for it." "I had to do this. I am a citizen. I am a lawyer. I know what a crime is," said Fournier, who showed me your most recent letter to him. I don't disagree when you say that "to knowingly move forward with an impeachment that cannot succeed would only serve political purposes, vindicate the president and not serve our rule of law." But when you say that the Bush administration's war policy was "one reached largely by deceit," that troubles me. Fournier says this mandates impeachment. Because he's frustrated, Fournier has promised to run against you as a Green Party candidate. I think there's some wiggle room here, though, if you will sit down and talk with him. Emily Barocas, your press secretary, told me that you are "happy to meet with any constituent on a substantive issue. But our office is not in the business of staging media events for someone's candidacy. We are not brushing him off." Now I'm no Kissinger, but I think I can get Fournier to agree to some ground rules. Shall we pencil in a date during your next visit back home? Of course, if you do find time for Steve, I should warn you. I've had a few arguments with this smart son-of-a-gun through the years. He's very persuasive. Rick Green's column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. He can be reached at rgreen at courant.com. Copyright ? 2008, The Hartford Courant =0)document.write(unescape('%3C')+'\!-'+'-') //--> *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. 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Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim McKee To: CT Greens News ; hartfordgreens at yahoogroups.com ; tollandcountygreens at yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 4:53 PM Subject: {news} Green Party congressional candidate Steve Fournier profiledin column Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org courant.com/news/local/columnists/hc-rgreen0118.artjan18,0,2127311.column?coll=hc_home_xpromo Courant.com Dear John: Steve's Waiting Rick Green January 18, 2008 Excuse me, Congressman Larson? I'd like you to set aside a little time for one of your constituents. I know it's the election season and your party's angling to take charge of the White House and all. But there's a cranky guy here in Hartford who says you two must talk about impeachment. Stephen Fournier - an intelligent, heartfelt and sometimes confrontational Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-Green-Party-member - wants you to join some of your colleagues in the House of Representatives and go after President Bush because of the Iraq war. Fournier claims that you've been dodging him, but I don't buy it. So I want to bring you two together. If you need neutral ground, I can get a room here at The Courant. Personally, I agree with you, Congressman. It is time for all of us to move on from this relentless, exhausting George Bush fiasco. Unlike a lot of your colleagues, you can be proud that you did the right thing in opposing the war in Iraq. Impeachment is messy and divisive. But I still think you owe Fournier a little chat. This guy poses a provocative, difficult question for those of us who opposed the Iraq adventure: If we are really against this war, isn't it time to examine what led us up to it? Fournier says that the president lied to Congress and the country and that he should be impeached for this. He wants to talk about spying on American citizens, holding prisoners without due process and a long list of other complaints that Fournier says merit impeachment. Steve tells me that since a group of like-minded folks began meeting last summer, he's asked to meet with you four times. Fournier said that your staff members never got back to him about these requests. In late November, members of Greater Hartford Impeach presented your office with a list of questions about your position on impeachment. Now I know that a U.S. representative is busy. But I see where you had time to head out to Iowa to campaign for Chris Dodd. And I heard you on the radio during a leisurely, lengthy gabfest with Ray and Diane on WTIC-AM over Christmas. You might recall his days on the Hartford Board of Education back in the 1990s, but Steve has mellowed since heart surgery a few years ago. He paints. He's got grandkids. But he's also mad as hell about this impeachment thing. "My representative is right at the vortex of it all. He claims to be the vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus," Fournier told me when I stopped by his house in Hartford's West End the other day. "It's simple accountability. If you commit a crime, you are going to pay for it." "I had to do this. I am a citizen. I am a lawyer. I know what a crime is," said Fournier, who showed me your most recent letter to him. I don't disagree when you say that "to knowingly move forward with an impeachment that cannot succeed would only serve political purposes, vindicate the president and not serve our rule of law." But when you say that the Bush administration's war policy was "one reached largely by deceit," that troubles me. Fournier says this mandates impeachment. Because he's frustrated, Fournier has promised to run against you as a Green Party candidate. I think there's some wiggle room here, though, if you will sit down and talk with him. Emily Barocas, your press secretary, told me that you are "happy to meet with any constituent on a substantive issue. But our office is not in the business of staging media events for someone's candidacy. We are not brushing him off." Now I'm no Kissinger, but I think I can get Fournier to agree to some ground rules. Shall we pencil in a date during your next visit back home? Of course, if you do find time for Steve, I should warn you. I've had a few arguments with this smart son-of-a-gun through the years. He's very persuasive. Rick Green's column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. He can be reached at rgreen at courant.com. 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Liz and Catherine appear to be based in San Francisco, with their home town being Bristol CT. Apparently they've given this workshop previously. --Ed ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liz Ziogas Date: Jan 16, 2008 1:58 PM Subject: BEHS Pachamama Event Flyer ... Friends and Community Members, We, Liz Ziogas and Catherine Ratte, will be hosting an interactive workshop on environmental sustainability at Bristol Eastern High School on February 1st. @ 5 pm. It is put on by the Pachamama Alliance, and it is the first of it's kind to reach Connecticut, and we are proud to be holding this event in our home town of Bristol, CT. We need your support in getting the word out and letting everyone know that they are invited. Please print the attached flyer and display it where it is likely to be seen by all friends, and family (and general public). We thank you for your collaboration in raising consciousness!!! 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Act Now to Stop 3 Strikes & You're Out in Connecticut Act Now to Stop 3 Strikes & You're Out in Connecticut Dear Friend, As you probably know, CT's General Assembly is calling a Special Session next Tuesday, January 22 in order to vote on criminal "reform" legislation. The buzz word is "three strikes", but they are also proposing 2 new prisons, and defining more crimes as violent. These proposals are repressive and regressive and should be opposed. A compact review is in this press release: http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/leaders-080108.html Please email or call the following leadership in CT's General Assembly, along with the Governor, to say that this legislation is inappropriate and shouldn't be passed. And forward this on to others! Some of us will also be down at the Capitol on Tuesday; more information will be coming. We have 2 sample messages. Send as is or change. Feel free to contact your own rep and senator, too! (Find contact info at http://www.cga.ct.gov/ ) To those who are supporting "three strikes" etc: Dear General Assembly Member, I am concerned about the Special Session next Tuesday. The legislation being proposed will, once again, put more people of color and members of disenfranchised communities in prison for longer periods won't save the state money, is regressive and repressive. There are better ways and better answers to our criminal justice system such as more comprehensive re-entry planning, prevention and alternatives to incarceration to name a few. The people of CT have said they don't want "Three Strikes"; they want better re-entry provisions. How does voting for these proposals help "The Year of Re-entry"? Please re-consider your support and oppose the repressive legislation on the table. Sincerely, Rep. Mike Lawlor mlawlor99 at juno.com Sen. Andrew MacDonald McDonald at senatedems.ct.gov Sen. Don Williams Williams at senatedems.ct.gov Rep. Jim Amann Jim.Amann at cga.ct.gov Governor Rell governor.rell at po.state.ct.us To allies who (should) oppose these proposals: Dear General Assembly Member, I am concerned about the Special Session next Tuesday. I am hoping that you will oppose the repressive proposals such as "three strikes", more prisons, etc. Your voice is needed to lead others to also vote against proposals that will put more people of color and other disenfranchised populations in prison, won't save the state money, won't make us safer, and flies in the face of the so-called "year of re-entry." Thank you for your support, Rep. Chris Donovan christopher.donovan at cga.ct.gov Rep. Minnie Gonzalez minnie.gonzalez at cga.ct.gov Rep. Ken Green Kenneth.Green at cga.ct.gov Rep. Marie Kirkley-Bey marie.lopez.kirkley-bey at cga.ct.gov Sen. Eric Coleman Eric.Coleman at cga.ct.gov Sen. 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URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Mon Jan 21 02:02:37 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:02:37 -0500 Subject: {news} 1-22-08 EC meeting of GP of CT ***at: Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Newington, CT Message-ID: <20080121070233.MJEG4251.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Location of 1-22-08 EC meeting: Ruby Tuesday restaurant 3240 Berlin Turnpike (by Lowe?s) Newington, CT 06111 P: 860-667-0282 Develop proposed agenda for 1-29-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland?s Senior Center 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Time: 7:000PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-8-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 1-22-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) .Policies and Proposals; b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; C. Reports: 1. (15 minutes): Development of Internal Elections Committee. 2. (10 minutes): Committee to support Green Party of CT candidates re: petitioning, campaign issues. 3. (10-15 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (5 minutes): CT Green Times. 7. (5 minutes): Recruitment of potential candidates for state offices, Register of Voters. 8. (1 minute): ACLU lawsuit. 9. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 2-26-08 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 2-08. 11. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1234 - Release Date: 1/20/2008 2:15 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 21 11:18:04 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:18:04 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Chilean Greens get govt recognition Message-ID: <09b001c85c49$33af8cd0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: Julia Willebrand To: usgp-int at gp-us.org Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:11 AM Subject: USGP-INT Chilean Greens get govt recognition Dear IC, This is good news for the GP of Chile which has had a really hurdle to get official recognition. We need a letter of congratulations. Steve can you do one? Julia ============================== NEW GREEN PARTY FORMS IN CHILE Promises ?Mother of All Battles? Against Patagonia HydroAys?n Dam Project (Jan. 21, 2008) After a year of jumping legal hurdles, the Partido Ecologista (or Green Party) was recognized on Jan. 11 in the El Diario Oficial, the official government registry. Led by Universidad de Concepci?n political scientist F?lix Gonz?lez, the party will be formally introduced to the public this week. Well-known environmentalists Sara Larrain, director of Chile Sustentable, Ecology Policy Institute director Manuel Baquedano and Renace National director Isabel Lincolao also joined Gonz?lez in forming the party. These older activists will take on a supporting role in the party, but want a new generation to step into leadership roles. During a meeting last week with Chile?s Secretary General Jos? Viera-Gallo, the directors of the new party introduced a 10-point list that will define the party?s relationship with the government. The list, known as the ?Chagual Agreement,? outlines promises made by Michelle Bachelet to the green movement when she was running for President in 2005. Bachelet signed the agreement during her campaign. ?We have restated our intention to respect this agreement,? Viera-Gallo told the Chilean daily La Naci?n. The new party will not align itself with either the center-left governing Concertaci?n coalition or the rightist opposition Alianza. In past elections, environmentalists have aligned themselves with the Concertaci?n, but recent decisions by Bachelet?s government led them to disassociate themselves from the established blocs of Chilean politics. During the Wednesday meeting at La Moneda, Gonz?lez outlined ?two critical points? connected with the Chagual Agreement that trouble environmentalists. The first was the Zanelli Commission, a body created to study the possibility of developing nuclear energy in Chile. The environmentalists claim President Bachelet promised not to consider nuclear energy when she signed the agreement (ST, Oct. 2, 2007). Secondly, Gonz?lez said that the government has not made a decision on the labeling of genetically-modified foods. Gonz?lez told the Santiago Times that Minister Viera-Gallo ?assured us that the nuclear matter will not (?) go much further than what the Zanelli Commission has already done. On the subject of genetically altered foods, he told us that the government had no intention of approving them.? Viera-Gallo also tried to pacify the Green Party?s worries by comparing the US$200,000 the government gave to the Zanelli Commission to the more than US$6 million in direct subsidies it has given to renewable energy through Corfo (the Corporation for Development of Production). Gonz?lez explained to the Santiago Times that the Green Party is necessary because a ?cultural change? is taking place in Chile. He argued that people are becoming more concerned about how environmental issues affect them, which allows his party to propose new topics. In order to get its message out, the party plans to use ?alternative media? that is not owned by interests that can influence the way news is written. The goal of the party is to be a ?distinct alternative,? Gonz?lez said. ?We don?t come from the political class, we are not going to be in Juntos Podemos (the far left coalition called Together We Can), we are not going to be on the right, and we are not going to be in the Concertaci?n, because they don?t represent us. This is the principal message.? Gonz?lez also said the party will form part of the growing international fight against the HydroAys?n project. He described environmentalists? efforts to thwart the dam initiative as ?the mother all battles? because they are up against three industrial giants: Colbun, ENDESA and Transelec. If approved by the government, HidroAys?n?s multi-dam project could generate as much as 2,750 MW of electricity, roughly equivalent to about 20 percent of Chile?s current generating capacity. The project, slated for the region?s two largest rivers ? the Baker and the Pascua ? has an estimated price tag of US$2.5 billion. That figure does not include an additional US$1.5 billion likely needed to build a 1,200 mile transmission line between southern Region XI, an area also known as Ays?n, and central Chile, where the electricity would be consumed. HidroAys?n is still working out details with Transelec, a Canadian-owned electricity transport company, over the costs and route of the extensive line. The project has generated no small amount of opposition, particularly from environmentalists ? both in Chile and abroad ? who say the dams, reservoirs and transmission line would cause irreparable damage to pristine southern Chile. (ST, Jan. 14) The party plans to run candidates in October?s municipal elections, hoping for five percent of the vote. According to their website, before being legally recognized in Chile, the party was incorporated into the International Green Parties, through the Federation of Green Parties of America. The party has been an active member of the Federation for four years. By Helen Bunting (editor at santiagotimes.cl) Julia Willebrand, NY NWC Delegate 212 877-5088 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Jan 22 20:27:01 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:27:01 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Australian Green Senator's comments on "Greens in Bali"process Message-ID: <0e1b01c85d5f$0e385bf0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Feinstein" To: "GP-US International Committee" Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:21 PM Subject: USGP-INT Australian Green Senator's comments on "Greens in Bali"process > for your information > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: [UNFCC-Bali] Seeking Green responses to UNFCCC Bali > document/process > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:13:06 +1100 > From: Woldring, Oliver (Sen C. Milne) > CC: Milne, Christine (Senator) > > I was in Bali in my capacity as Vice President of the IUCN (the > International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and also as an > Australian Greens party Fed Senator. > > It was wonderful to meet so many other Green MP's and their staffers and > I applaud the Heinrich Boll foundation in particular for their > reception. It was a wonderful opportunity for building Green networks > and camaraderie. As usual the Foundation also did a wonderful job in > exposing the furphy that nuclear power is a solution to climate change > in a well organised and well attended side event. Thanks must also go to > Mike Feinstein for gathering as many Greens as could be found in the > chaos of the many thousands of delegates for a special gathering. It was > a big and much appreciated effort, especially as he undertook this at > the request of Global Greens at the last minute. > > Nonetheless I feel Bali was a lost opportunity to have a clearer > presence as the Global Greens. Members were scattered through many > Government and non-government delegations and had little opportunity to > present as one voice. It is particularly important that the Global > Greens find a mechanism to do so at future UNFCCC conferences because we > are the only political party which has global reach, is united under one > charter and has a serious, scientifically-based agenda to reduce > greenhouse gas emissions. It is critical that at future events we are > able to book press conferences and side-events as the Global Greens. > > Notwithstanding the current difficulties which preclude registration as > the Greens Party the presence of Greens from many counties did have a > significant impact, particularly on the European delegation, especially > relating to biofuels. The European Union is now likely to reduce its 10 > per cent biofuels target because of the perverse outcome on destruction > of tropical forest in the conversion to palm oil. This would be a very > positive move. > > IUCN was in Bali to try to insure that biodiversity considerations are > taken into account in the development of carbon reduction strategies and > financial mechanisms. The protection of natural forest under REDD > (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing > Countries) is an issue that the Greens need to engage with everywhere as > the amount of carbon sequestered in natural ecosystems, especially > mature forest, combined with their biodiversity and ecosystem services > value make this a central issue for environmental protection and poverty > reduction > > The outcome of the Bali COP/MOP, although not unexpected was very > disappointing. The urgency of the global crisis played second fiddle to > national sovereignty. While delegation after delegation spoke of the > seriousness of global warming it was clear that political will does not > yet exist to respond to the crisis quickly enough to avoid catastrophic > climate change. The Greens are needed in this political context more > than ever. > > While Australia, following the change of Government in the November 2007 > election agreed to ratify the protocol but they are still chairing the > Umbrella Group and it is unclear whether it will use this position to > continue to stall and frustrates negotiations or to demonstrate > leadership in by dragging recalcitrant governments like the USA closer > to the more realistic targets. Domestically there is still no commitment > to underpin national policy with an objective of restraining the average > global temperature rise to 2 C or less. > > The success of the Greens in the election means that after July 2008 the > Australian Greens will have five Senators, party status for the first > time and will share balance of power in the Senate. Achieving more > rigorous reduction targets and policies on climate change will be our > top priority in this new political arrangement. > > > _______________________________________________ > usgp-int mailing list > usgp-int at gp-us.org > http://forum.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/usgp-int > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1237 - Release Date: 1/22/2008 > 11:04 AM > > From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Wed Jan 23 09:51:15 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:51:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Need 5 volunteers for CCSU climate crisis om jan 30 Message-ID: <794413.41454.qm@web44807.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Interested in providing symposium attendees with information regarding you organization? Wednesday, January 30th from 6:00-9:00 PM in conjunction with Green Democracy and the Focus the Nation webcast, we will host a resources expo in Alumni Hall, Student Center. You will be able to access the area for set-up at 5:30 PM. The tables are 72" round tables and, unless specifically requested, there will be TWO groups to a table. Inaugural Global Sustainability & Climate Change Symposium "Raising Awareness and Promoting Change" January 29th-31st, 2008 at Central Connecticut State University !!! NEW EVENT !!! Wednesday, January 30th 7:00- 8:00 PM Green Democracy with CT Rep John Larson and Christopher Murphy Join us as we engage our governmental, academic, civic, and business leaders in a discussion on how we can address the global climate change crisis. These events are free and open to the public...PLEASE REGISTER. Register Here To Be In The Audience: Please note that while the symposium is free and open to the public, we ask that you register in advance if you plan on attending a lunch session. Audience Members Register Here Educators With Students Register Here *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jan 23 22:58:03 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:58:03 -0500 Subject: {news} =?windows-1250?q?Agenda_for_1-29-08_SCC_meeting_of_CTGP_at?= =?windows-1250?q?_Portland=92s_Senior_Center_?= Message-ID: <20080124035756.XYSK129.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Agenda for 1-29-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland?s Senior Center 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Time: 7:000PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-8-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 1-22-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) (20minutes) Policies and Proposals; Election Procedures: The election of State Officers and USGP Representatives will be held at a meeting open to all Connecticut Green Party members in April each year. Ballots will be distributed to all Connecticut Green Party members at least 2 weeks before the Annual Meeting. Although nominations will be accepted from the floor at the Annual Meeting, anyone wishing to have their name printed on the ballot must submit their name and the name of the office they are seeking in writing, at or prior to the March State Central Committee meeting. Lots will be drawn at the March State Central Committee meeting to decide name placement on the ballot. The candidate does not need to be present for the drawing. The ballot will be distributed with a cover letter (see example attached) and statements from any of the candidates who wish to submit one. Statements are limited to 200 words. The ballot (see sample attached) should notify the voter that "None of the Above" should be used to indicate non-support of any of the candidates. For instance: if the voter can only support 1 candidate the voter should list "None of the Above" as his/her second choice. In that way preventing election of other candidates from winning by default if the other voters leave their second choice blank. Ballots can be mailed to the CTGP Post Office box. The members should be told that the ballot must be postmarked no later than 3 business days prior to the meeting. The members name and address must be shown on the outside of the envelope or on a separate inner envelope containing the ballot. Once the ballots are distributed, the Post Office should only be opened when 2 CTGP members are present. A list of the names of the members who returned ballots should be kept by each person opening the box. The ballots should be kept in a secure location until they are turned over to the Internal Elections Committee members at the Annual meeting. Anyone who does not receive a ballot can request one from a designated member of the Membership List Committee. A ballot will be provided if the requester has met the CTGP membership requirements. All ballots, whether mailed or voted in person at the election, had to be placed in a sealed envelope with the voter?s name and address written on the outside. This is to ensure people only vote once and that only eligible voters participate. To save time mailed ballots may be verified against the membership prior to the Annual Meeting. People voting in person at the convention were instructed to seal their ballots and write their name and address on the outside. A sealed box should be available for the members to depot their ballots. At least 3 election clerks will appointed by the Annual Meeting participants. At the close of voting the elections clerks will open the ballot box and separated all mailed ballots that had already been verified, ballots lacking names and addresses, and ballots that had not yet been verified. Then look up all ballots with names and addresses to verify they are from eligible voters. Finally, take the small number of ballots that either lacked names or were from people not on the mailing list. Open the former to see if there was any name inside the envelope. If not, the ballot is to be excluded as invalid. Then take the ballots from people not on our mailing list and check with the Membership List Committee to verify eligibility. For all contested races enter the rankings from all the ballots into a program called Elect, which is freely available from www.VotingSolutions-.com. Keep the configuration files and output files are available for inspection. Use ChoicePlus Pro -- Version 2.3.2, which is freely available, open source software for tallying STV elections. Details for the election are as follows:Droop threshold equal to [votes / (seats + 1)] + 1 vote, disregard decimals was used. Fractional transfer of surplus votes from all ballots. Duplicate rankings (e.g., more than one candidate ranked #1) were handled by fractionally diving the ballot between the duplicate-ranked candidates. This produces some fractional votes in the first round. The instructions stated that any rankings following ?Abstain? or ?None of the above? would be disregarded, so any such rankings were not entered. ?Abstain? was treated like a candidate, except that the candidate was excluded, because votes for abstain have no effect on the outcome. To simplify slightly, ?None of the above? affects the outcome if, in the final round, it has more votes than a human candidate, meaning that it is the ?last candidate standing.? To check this, run the STV tally and then inspected the results. The following data should be retained by the Party for future use: The actual paper ballots, envelopes and other materials mailed back. Scanned tif images of all the ballots. The rankings on the ballots that we entered. Round-by-round STV results. The data entry program (elect.exe) and all the configuration files. The configuration files for Choice Plus Pro and all output files. Party Membership Meeting Including the Annual Meeting The Agenda for all general membership meeting of the Party must be mailed to each member with a notice of all resolutions that the SCC plans to bring before the membership. The notice must also include a caution that resolutions are subject to amendments from the floor and that new resolutions can also be raised by the attending members. Choices: No amendments from the floor. Amendments from the floor require 2/3 vote from those voting A Rules Committee will suggest rules for the running of the meeting to the membership as the first order of business. . b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; C. Reports: 1. (15 minutes): Development of Internal Elections Committee. 2. (10 minutes): Committee to support Green Party of CT candidates re: petitioning, campaign issues. 3. (15-20 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. Criteria for CT delegates to the 7-08 Green Party Presidential Convention. Arizona Green Party petition drive. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (2 minutes): CT Green Times newspaper. 7. (5 minutes): Recruitment of potential candidates for state offices, Register of Voters. 8. (1 minute): ACLU lawsuit. 9. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 2-26-08 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 2-08. 11. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1238 - Release Date: 1/22/2008 8:12 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Wed Jan 23 23:03:51 2008 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:03:51 -0500 Subject: =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Re:_{news}_Agenda_for_1-29-08_SCC_meet?= =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?ing_of_CTGP_at_Portland=92s_Senior_Center?= In-Reply-To: <20080124035756.XYSK129.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> References: <20080124035756.XYSK129.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Message-ID: <10859a090801232003p7fb23f96l176e8dab95c4dbf4@mail.gmail.com> I think we should attempt to answer these questions at our SCC meeting next week and suggest we do this during the GPUS report time slot. 1) What is the process which your state will follow in selecting delegates to the nominating convention, and what instructions will you give the delegates? 2) Between now and the convention in July, what dates and deadlines are applicable in your state of which the candidates for GPUS presidential nominee should be aware? Please include in your answer information and dates relating to ballot access and dates of primaries/caucuses/state nominating conventions. 3) After the GPUS presidential nominee is elected, what are the dates and deadlines of which she/he should be aware? 4) Who is the media contact for your state? 2008/1/23 B Barry : > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > Agenda for 1-29-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland's Senior Center > > 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 *Time: > 7:000PM* > > > > Facilitator: To Be Determined > > > > A. Preliminaries: > > 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting > attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. > > 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, any > deletions or additions. > > 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-8-08 SCC > meeting. > > 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 1-22-08 EC > meeting. > > 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. > > > > B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: > > a) (20minutes) *Policies and Proposals*; Election Procedures: > > The election of State Officers and USGP Representatives will be held at a > meeting open to all Connecticut Green Party members in April each year. > > Ballots will be distributed to all Connecticut Green Party members at > least 2 weeks before the Annual Meeting. > > Although nominations will be accepted from the floor at the Annual > Meeting, anyone wishing to have their name printed on the ballot must submit > their name and the name of the office they are seeking in writing, at or > prior to the March State Central Committee meeting. > > Lots will be drawn at the March State Central Committee meeting to decide > name placement on the ballot. The candidate does not need to be present for > the drawing. > > The ballot will be distributed with a cover letter (see example attached) > and statements from any of the candidates who wish to submit one. > Statements are limited to 200 words. > > The ballot (see sample attached) should notify the voter that "None of the > Above" should be used to indicate non-support of any of the candidates. For > instance: if the voter can only support 1 candidate the voter should list > "None of the Above" as his/her second choice. In that way preventing > election of other candidates from winning by default if the other voters > leave their second choice blank. > > Ballots can be mailed to the CTGP Post Office box. The members should be > told that the ballot must be postmarked no later than 3 business days prior > to the meeting. The members name and address must be shown on the outside > of the envelope or on a separate inner envelope containing the ballot. > > Once the ballots are distributed, the Post Office should only be opened > when 2 CTGP members are present. A list of the names of the members who > returned ballots should be kept by each person opening the box. The ballots > should be kept in a secure location until they are turned over to the > Internal Elections Committee members at the Annual meeting. > > Anyone who does not receive a ballot can request one from a designated > member of the Membership List Committee. A ballot will be provided if the > requester has met the CTGP membership requirements. > > All ballots, whether mailed or voted in person at the election, had to be > placed in a sealed envelope with the voter's name and address written on the > outside. This is to ensure people only vote once and that only eligible > voters participate. > > To save time mailed ballots may be verified against the membership prior > to the Annual Meeting. > > People voting in person at the convention were instructed to seal their > ballots and write their name and address on the outside. A sealed box > should be available for the members to depot their ballots. > > At least 3 election clerks will appointed by the Annual Meeting > participants. > > At the close of voting the elections clerks will open the ballot box and > separated all mailed ballots that had already been verified, ballots lacking > names and addresses, and ballots that had not yet been verified. Then look > up all ballots with names and addresses to verify they are from eligible > voters. Finally, take the small number of ballots that either lacked names > or were from people not on the mailing list. Open the former to see if > there was any name inside the envelope. If not, the ballot is to be > excluded as invalid. Then take the ballots from people not on our mailing > list and check with the Membership List Committee to verify eligibility. > > For all contested races enter the rankings from all the ballots into a > program called Elect, which is freely available from > www.VotingSolutions.com. Keep the configuration files and output files > are available for inspection. > > Use ChoicePlus Pro -- Version 2.3.2, which is freely available, open > source software for tallying STV elections. Details for the election are as > follows:Droop threshold equal to [votes / (seats + 1)] + 1 vote, disregard > decimals was used. > > Fractional transfer of surplus votes from all ballots. > > Duplicate rankings (e.g., more than one candidate ranked #1) were handled > by fractionally diving the ballot between the duplicate-ranked candidates. > This produces some fractional votes in the first round. > > The instructions stated that any rankings following "Abstain" or "None of > the above" would be disregarded, so any such rankings were not entered. > > "Abstain" was treated like a candidate, except that the candidate was > excluded, because votes for abstain have no effect on the outcome. > > To simplify slightly, "None of the above" affects the outcome if, in the > final round, it has more votes than a human candidate, meaning that it is > the "last candidate standing." To check this, run the STV tally and then > inspected the results. > > > > The following data should be retained by the Party for future use: > > The actual paper ballots, envelopes and other materials mailed back. > > Scanned tif images of all the ballots. > > The rankings on the ballots that we entered. > > Round-by-round STV results. > > The data entry program (elect.exe) and all the configuration files. > > The configuration files for Choice Plus Pro and all output files. > > Party Membership Meeting Including the Annual Meeting > > > > The Agenda for all general membership meeting of the Party must be mailed > to each member with a notice of all resolutions that the SCC plans to bring > before the membership. The notice must also include a caution that > resolutions are subject to amendments from the floor and that new > resolutions can also be raised by the attending members. > > Choices: No amendments from the floor. Amendments > from the floor require 2/3 vote from those voting > > > > A Rules Committee will suggest rules for the running of the meeting to the > membership as the first order of business. > > . > > > > b) From the EC: temporary *Budget Committee* members to be EC members; > > > > C. Reports: > > > > 1. (15 minutes): Development of *Internal Elections Committee. * > > 2. (10 minutes): Committee to support *Green Party of CT candidates*re: petitioning, campaign issues. > > > > 3. (15-20 minutes): *GPUS *reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson > of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National > Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. Criteria for CT > delegates to the 7-08 Green Party Presidential Convention. Arizona Green > Party petition drive. > > > > 4. (5 minutes): *Political issues the GP of *CT has addressed with > legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal > health coverage. > > > > 5. (5 minutes): Reports from *absent chapters.*** > > > > 6. (2 minutes): *CT Green Times *newspaper*. * > > > > 7. (5 minutes): Recruitment of potential candidates for state offices, > Register of Voters. > > > > 8. (1 minute): *ACLU lawsuit.* > > * * > > *9. *(2-5 minutes, each): other *Chapter* reports. > > > > 10. Date, place and time for *next SCC meeting* 2-26-08 and date, place > and time of next EC meeting in 2-08. > > > > 11. Any additions > > > > Green Party *Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots > democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, > decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future > focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and > gender equality.* > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1238 - Release Date: 1/22/2008 > 8:12 PM > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. 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URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Thu Jan 24 16:23:41 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:23:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} =?iso-8859-1?q?Presidential_Petitions_filing_updates=281-2?= =?iso-8859-1?q?9-08_SCC_meet_ing_of_CTGP_at_Portland=92s_Senior_Ce?= =?iso-8859-1?q?nter=29?= Message-ID: <855359.82595.qm@web44805.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Dear Greens, We are close to finishing our papers for the Presidential petitions with the Sec. of State. I urge all those chosen as elector to show up at the State Central Committee on Tuesday Jan. 29 th at 7 pm sharp at the Portland Senior center. If you can not show up, please make arrangements with me personally before hand.If you can not be there, we will chose another person at that meeting. I plan on submitting the paper work on WED. the 30th. and it will take a few days for the elections office to verify electors addresses. We would like to get going on the real street work of collecting 7,500 valid signatures by Aug. (Our goal will be at least 10,000 signatures with some to be not valid). Thank you for support! Tim McKee 860-643-2282 *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Thu Jan 24 17:57:43 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:57:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Nader-Camejo's Letter to PA Gov. Rendell (high costs of petitions ) Message-ID: <187913.35689.qm@web44803.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Forwarded by Carl Romanelli, who writes: "[Y]esterday the PA Supreme Court declined to hear our request for reargument. Sam Stretton (one of my attorneys) wants to appeal to the US Supreme Court. I have been calling the conduct of the court and the PA Dept of State criminal. I've publicly been asking the PA Attorney General to expand the current investigation to include review of both. This is a classic case of conspiracy with the court as a player. Nader's letter is the story today." Ralph Nader Peter Miguel Camejo P.O. Box 19312 Washington, D.C. 20009 January 23, 2008 Governor Edward G. Rendell 225 Main Capitol Building Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Dear Governor Rendell, Commonwealth Court Judge James Gardner Colins recently announced his interest in filling the vacancy on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court created by Chief Justice Ralph Cappy?s retirement. As concerned citizens who have firsthand experience with Judge Colins? jurisprudence, we are writing to urge you to reject his bid for appointment to this position. In our experience, Judge Colins lacks the legal acumen and judicial temperament necessary for a successful tenure as a Justice of the Commonwealth?s high court. Judge Colins presided over a challenge to the nomination papers we submitted in Pennsylvania as candidates for President and Vice President during the 2004 general election. In setting aside our nomination papers, Judge Colins issued an opinion in which he falsely accused our campaign of seeking to gain ballot access by fraud. This false accusation ? in Judge Colins? characteristically hyperbolic style ? was publicized widely, both during and after the election. As Judge Colins? own factual findings prove, however, his accusation is not only false, but a mathematical impossibility. The Nader-Camejo campaign submitted a nomination petition with 51,273 signatures to satisfy a requirement of 25,697 signatures. Judge Colins counted 49,499 of these signatures either as valid, or invalid based on narrow technical or procedural grounds, and another 1,087 signatures as duplicates. Finally, Judge Colins counted a tiny number of signatures ? 687 or 1.3 percent of the total ? as ?forgeries,? a category that included phony or fictitious names signed by people bent on sabotage or mischief, which a review of the petition prior to submission failed to detect. In fact, pursuant to this review, our campaign had already struck approximately 7,000 such signatures before submitting the petition, because they were obviously the result of sabotage or mischief. After summarizing these findings, Judge Colins inexplicably concluded that the petition was ?the most deceitful and fraudulent exercise ever perpetrated upon this Court,? and that the petition included ?thousands of names that were created at random.? Simply put, these accusations are false, and demonstrably so. Judge Colins? own findings indicate that he counted 50,586 out of 51,273 signatures (or 98.7 percent) as free from any possible impropriety. Judge Colins? claim that the petition included ?thousands? of fraudulent signatures is therefore a mathematical impossibility. In short, Judge Colins? false accusations against the Nader-Camejo campaign constitute a gross and flagrant distortion of the facts in this case. Justice Thomas Saylor, who was the only member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to address Judge Colins? accusations on the merits, accordingly concluded that the record contains ?no evidence? to support them. (The other members of the high court, by contrast, upheld Judge Colins? decision without opinion, issuing an unsigned order that was only three sentences long.) Nevertheless, Judge Colins never issued a correction, despite receiving notice from Justice Saylor not only of his egregious error of fact, but also regarding errors of law constituting grounds for reversing his entire decision. Worse, Judge Colins, who was elected to the bench as a Democrat, subsequently ordered us to pay $81,102.19 in litigation costs to Reed Smith, LLP, the corporate law firm that challenged our nomination papers in cooperation with Pennsylvania House Democratic leaders H. William DeWeese, Michael Veon and a reported 170 Democratic Party ?volunteers? Mr. DeWeese and Mr. Veon recruited. No state in the nation, including Pennsylvania, has ever taxed candidates for public office with such costs. Indeed, Judge Colins? unprecedented order functions much like a poll tax, effectively penalizing candidates for attempting to run for office, just as poll taxes once penalized voters for attempting to vote.* The impact of Judge Colins? mishandling of our case has been immediate, farreaching and severe. In Pennsylvania?s 2006 general election, only one minor party candidate, Carl Romanelli of the Green Party, was willing to risk personal financial ruin by defending his nomination papers against attack by Democratic Party challengers. Now Mr. Romanelli, too, is fighting an order to pay more than $80,000 in litigation costs to a corporate law firm, Thorp, Reed and Armstrong, that the Democratic Party retained to force him off the ballot. Furthermore, because no other minor party candidate ran for office in 2006, the state of Pennsylvania no longer recognizes the formerly-qualified Constitution, Libertarian and Green Parties. Judge Colins? order taxing candidates? rights to speak, petition and assemble within Pennsylvania?s electoral system therefore ultimately punishes Pennsylvania?s voters, leaving them with fewer voices in the political sphere and fewer choices at the polls.** Only Judge Colins himself knows how or why he so grossly mishandled our case, issuing an opinion that his own facts contradict, followed by an unprecedented judgment punishing core protected First Amendment activity. Nevertheless, Judge Colins? conduct in this case falls far short of the high standards of judicial excellence necessary for appointment to the Commonwealth?s high court. We call on you to apply these standards and disqualify Judge Colins from your consideration. James Gardner Colins is not fit for appointment to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. We enclose the opinions from our case for your review, and urge you to confirm the foregoing facts for yourself. Sincerely, Ralph Nader Peter Miguel Camejo 2004 Independent Candidates for President and Vice President * In keeping with its recent practice of abdicating its role as the nation?s highest appellate court, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review this case. Nevertheless, Judge Colins? unprecedented order clearly violates Supreme Court precedents prohibiting states from requiring candidates and voters to pay costs associated with holding elections. See Lubin v. Panish, 415 U.S. 709 (1974) (striking down candidate filing fees ranging up to $982); Bullock v. Carter, 405 U.S. 134 (1972) (striking down candidate filing fees ranging up to $8,900); Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966) (striking down poll taxes). **Although a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld Judge Colins? taxation of costs in our case, that court appears to have reconsidered, and recently reversed and remanded the Commonwealth Court?s taxation of costs against Mr. Romanelli *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 28 08:18:14 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:18:14 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Radio France Interview with Clara Rojas Message-ID: <12bb01c861b0$3d401f50$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Romanelli To: Green Party International ; Media US Greens Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:47 AM Subject: USGP-INT Radio France Interview with Clara Rojas Here is new information from Colombia. Peace, Carl Romanelli/PA Clara Rojas' exclusive interview with Radio France International (RFI) - a personal message for Ingrid Betancourt. 25/01/2008 - NewsPress, CyberPress Clara Rojas was interviewed by Veronique Gaymard in Madrid, where she took part in an Annual Conference on victims of terrorism. Two weeks after her being set free, she gave RFI her first interview with international media. "I often listened to Radio France International. I had short wave radio and they broadcasted very good programmes, as well as lots of information about Ingrid. I am sure she still listens because when we were held together, she used to get RFI on the little radio we shared. And afterwards, I continued to listen to programme sin Spanish and French." RFI: How are you feeling now, Clara? I feel happy because I have been reborn; I have returned to life and, of course, what motivated me most was to find my little son again. I am delighted with him and the way in which he answers me is fascinating. He is feeling better and better each day. And of course, as he realises his importance and the part he played in the situation, this pleases him very much. RFI: After six years in captivity, you left behind other hostages. What do you wish to say to them, in particular Ingrid Betancourt, with whom you shared part of your captivity? I ask them to have courage, because there is a real movement that had been undertaken to have them freed. I had a meeting yesterday with President Zapatero and President Uribe. They asked me what I thought of the situation. So I insisted on the importance of reaching an agreement with concessions on both sides so that hostages could be freed quickly. The Catholic Church's proposal is on offer. But I told them of my concerns because there are conflicting reports about this. On one hand, the Church states it has already made contact with FARC, but FARC deny this, at least in the reports I have with me. So I told them that are vital to make sure of the existence of a channel by which they can have a reliable contact with FARC. If the Church has already made contact, which it provides evidence of this, as Hugo Chavez did when he was involved. Because the families expect this. It seems to me that it is necessary that a greater effort be made to set up a direct link with FARC in order to get tangible results, as was the case, for me, for my son and all the people who were freed finally. This effort must be made because the hostages are not well, either physically or emotionally, and especially Ingrid from what one can see in the proof of life video. It is crazy that she, as a woman, ought to carry such a burden. FRI: When did you last see Ingrid? When were you separated? It must be nearly three years. It was in October 2005.so two and a half years. RFI: You had just given birth to your child? I had just had him. We had just completed a" march'' as they call them, and it was then that we were divided into several groups. Ingrid and I were placed in two different groups. I stayed with the group where my son was and since then I had not had any news of her until I saw the proofs of life which worried me very much. Because she appears to be physically and psychologically weak. So I took the initiative, I spoke to President Chavez to ask him to do something to get Ingrid freed as quickly as possible. Because I 'm telling you that if my liberation succeeded, it was thanks to President Chavez. So we must overcome obstacles and try to do what is necessary to free the hostages who remain. It seems that the International Red Cross will undertake a mission. But rather than establishing contact with the hostages, it would be more beneficial if they found a way to free them all, once and for all. RFI: After six years in captivity, we are surprised to find you so spirited. We were all impressed by your healthy appearance the day you were freed. Of course, I also have concerns but I was able to overcome them by making an .. effort.For a long time I had the idea that one day I would find my son again and so I would need to be in good shape. So I made great efforts to keep well, at least in spirit. My child has to be well looked after and we will need some time and a quiet time for both of us to be able to recover. But, meanwhile, we are taking advantage of this first happy time, finding liberty once RFI: Now, you chose to come to Europe, but with your son and your mother, a few days after your liberation. Sure. My mother had agreed a long time ago to take part in this conference. She wanted to come to fulfil her promise. And as they extended their invitation to my son and me, we agreed to make an effort to come. And it proved very useful, because we were able to speed up the process to get papers for my son. Result, I have all the necessary documentation, and that pleased me a lot". RFI: Have you a message for Ingrid Betancourt? "That she be reassured , that here there are many people who not only love her but are working hard so that she may come back. I have already had preliminary contacts with the French government to visit France. There was even a possibility that I go there this weekend, but passport problems and medical checks I must take means I must make this journey a little later. In France I will meet the Ingrid Betancourt support committees. They contacted me as soon as I was liberated, sending me details of their campaign. It was impressive. So there are many people working for her. Ingrid must be certain , that, as far as I am concerned, I will continue to do everything in my power. When I meet someone, the first person I think of, is Ingrid. The day before yesterday I was at the Spanish Parliament and I felt strange because I felt her presence when listening to people speaking about her. She is such a terrific person that it would be great to have her here soon so she can tell us what she has been through". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Jan 28 08:21:09 2008 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:21:09 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Account of Ingrid Benancourt Escape Attempt Message-ID: <12cc01c861b0$a580a8f0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Romanelli To: Green Party International ; Media US Greens Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:51 AM Subject: USGP-INT Account of Ingrid Escape Attempt Frank Pinchao has a book coming out this month. In it there is an account of one of Ingrid's attempts to escape. Peace, Carl Romanelli/PA Escape attempt by Ingrid Betancourt 24/01/2008 - The International Courier, El Tiempo The book called "My Escape to Freedom" by John Frank Pinchao, the policeman held prisoner by FARC who escaped last April, is due out next week in Colombia. In one chapter, published in advance by El Tiempo, the former hostage relates one of Ingrid Betancourt's escape attempts. The International Courier printed an extract. "The night Ingrid escaped was overcast and wet, and the guerrillas took turns to keep watch, as usual. The guard who had come to take over was chatting with the other guerrillas on guard duty; they had chained each of us to one another by the wrists. I was tied to Captain Bermeo [one of the military hostages]. The rain was torrential. The following day, two pairs of boots had disappeared, those belonging to Ama?n [Florez Pantoja] and to [Jos? Miguel] Arteaga [two officers held hostage], who asked the rebels where they had gone to. The later replied they knew nothing and, as some rebels had boots in bad shape, it was thought they had been taken to go fishing. Sgt Marulanda was due to give the radio to Ingrid. He went to the hut, called her, got no reply and left the radio beside her bed. At breakfast time, we took out our pots so we could be served and, as usual, they counted the pots to make sure that everyone could eat. Two pots were missing. We all wondered who was not there, until someone ended up saying that it was the two "doctors" [Ingrid Betancourt, the presidential candidate kidnapped in 2002, and Luis Eladio P?rez, the senator kidnapped by FARC in 2001]. They went to find them to see if they wanted breakfast, but, surprise, there was no one in the hut. All the rebels were alerted. Ama?n went to check the boots left in Ingrid's hut, and of course they were his own. As she knew well the rebels would count the boots, clever Ingrid had taken the boots belonging to Arteaga and Ama?n and had put them in her hut so the rebels wouldn't suspect anything. (.) We asked the rebels to tell us the truth about Ingrid's disappearance (rumour had it that she was going to be freed): we wanted to know if they were going to free her without telling us, in that case that would explain that they were going to leave at night so we would not notice anything, but they told us that no, she had escaped. After that, the guards, who until then used to keep watch for two hours each, were doubled and their watch lasted six hours. Groups of ten men searched all around, each one had to comb an area of 5 to 6 metres and 50 to 60 metres from the edge of the rivers. We heard them call Ingrid's name, in vain. We saw them return exhausted, after long hours spent looking for these two hostages who were seeking freedom. After 5 days, Castellanos said: "Hello Doctor, So, had you a good stroll?" Thinking it was a joke, we didn't believe it at first, and then we turned and saw Luis and Ingrid who had just arrived, looking exhausted and thin. They were fed, but they didn't want to eat; after this failure, they could hardly touch their food. Two rebels came to tie them up: that was the first time they were tied up. First Luis and then Ingrid, but she fought. Then "Gina" arrived, a female rebel who was second in command of the unit looking after us and who also carried out the role of nurse. Ingrid told her she would not allow her to tie her, that it was an outrage, and asked Gina, as she was a woman, to help her. Two guerrillas got involved, "Efren", the black man, and another very small man. Ingrid was still struggling but in the end they succeeded in chaining her up. Ingrid told "Gina" that this was a memory forever engraved in her memory, that she would never forget, to which the guerrilla replied"Shut up, you haven't any guts." (..) Later, they told us exactly what had happened. Luis Eladio's health had worsened during their escape, and then they had finished the little food they had been able to bring with them. They said to each other if they saw a fisherman, that they would ask for help. It was then they saw a boat. But as it came near, they realised it was the guerrillas. These said to them "get in, you sons-of-a-bitch" and brought them back to the camp. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Tue Jan 29 15:37:08 2008 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:37:08 -0500 Subject: {news} Green Democracy with John Larson and Chris Murphy 1/30 at CCSU Message-ID: "Green Democracy"? Here's a chance for our Congressional candidates Harold Burbank, Steve Fournier, or other Greens to show up and pressure Larson and Murphy to get serious about global warming. http://www.ccsu.edu/ccsuclimate/symposium.htm Inaugural Global Sustainability & Climate Change Symposium "Raising Awareness and Promoting Change" January 29th-31st, 2008 at Central Connecticut State University !!! NEW EVENT !!! Wednesday, January 30th 7:00- 8:00 PM Green Democracy with CT Rep John Larson and Christopher Murphy Join us as we engage our governmental, academic, civic, and business leaders in a discussion on how we can address the global climate change crisis. Detailed schedule at http://www.ccsu.edu/ccsuclimate/symposium.htm From roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Jan 29 17:21:45 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:21:45 -0500 Subject: {news} Approved minutes from the 11-27-07 SCC meeting of CTGP Message-ID: <20080129222147.WYDR26354.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Approved minutes from the 11-27-07 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland?s Senior Center. Quorum was met. 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Time: 7:000PM Voting attendees by chapter: Central: Vittorio E. Lancia; Fairfield: Paul Bassler, Richard Duffee; Greater Hartford: Barbara Barry, Secretary of GP of CT; S. Michael DeRosa, Co-chairperson of GP of CT; Christopher Reilly, Treasurer of GP of CT; New Haven: Allan Brison, Jerry Martin; Northeast: Amy VasNunes. Tolland: Tim McKee. Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GP of CT. Non-voting Greater Hartford attendee: Steve Fournier. Facilitator: Barbara Barry, Secretary of GP of CT. A. Preliminaries: 1. Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; quorum was met; timekeeper=VL; ground rules reviewed. 2. Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda; deletions: Impeachment; additions: proposals about: Raise the Age, CT/RI Peace, Justice and Environmental Network and the Indian Point (NY) Nuclear Power Plant Relicensing. 3. Approval of minutes of 10-30-07 SCC meeting. JM: abstained. 4. Acceptance of minutes from the 11-19-07 EC meeting. NOTE: there will be no SCC meeting on 12-25-07, Christmas or New Years Day, 1-1-08. The next SCC meetings will be 1-8-08 and 1-29-08. 5. Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly: GP of CT balance of about $1628. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) .Policies and Proposals: JM and BAB: The Office of Secretary: The Secretary shall take minutes of all the State Central Committee and Executive Committee meetings. In the absence of the Secretary another Green Party member shall be appointed to take down the minutes. The SCC (State Central Committee) minutes will become official upon approved by the SCC. The EC (Executive Committee) minutes will become official upon acceptance by the SCC. SCC and EC minutes may be published on the website or other media only after they have been approved or accepted by the SCC. The Secretary will make an audio recording of SCC and EC meetings for assistance in producing accurate minutes. Those recordings will be maintained for five years from the date of the recording or longer upon the request of the SCC for the purposes of historical record and form membership review. All recording equipment, recording media, equipment maintenance, and storage costs will be paid for by the Party. Any recordings will be maintained by the Secretary and will be available to any Green Party member for the purpose of listening. All recordings will remain the property of the Green Party and not the Secretary. The Secretary shall hold as complete a list of all individual members, Chapter Correspondents and Chapter members as possible. The actual collection of this data will be done by an individual or committee appointed by the SCC and all data will be forwarded to the Secretary upon request. The Secretary will also maintain a record of all correspondence and information transmitted through any printed or printable medium to or from the Party, including material between Chapters or Chapters and Party. The Secretary will periodically suggest the most appropriate site for storage of this data to the SCC. The Secretary will forward outgoing material to its addressee and incoming or internal material to the appropriate action party or group. The Secretary will establish, maintain, and periodically publish a list of information and data that may be of value to members and groups within the Party. BAB: Long term storage or achieving of all SCC, EC minutes and any other CT Green Party pertinent information should be the responsibility of this party. This is for historical purposes and is in our self interest to do so. If we do not keep our own historical information, then it will be written without our most accurate information. SMD: technology may be of assistance to us. Perhaps storing records in a DVD or USB. Consensus: Approval. Committees of the SCC All committees serve at the pleasure of the SCC and can be created or dissolved at any time, except those specifically established with an expiration date. Committee members and their chairs are appointed by the SCC by vote or consensus. These appointments must be reviewed annually by the SCC. Reappointment is at the discretion of the SCC. The duties and responsibilities of all committees are set by the SCC. Duties of Committee Chairs: To schedule all meetings of the Committee and to submit to the SCC written reports on the activities of the Committee. The Chair will also be responsible for the preparation of all reports authored by the Committee and whenever consensus can not be reached, to make the objections of the members a part of that report. Consensus: Approval. b) The temporary Budget Committee members i.e. EC members: no response from a second inquirer for the fundraiser position. Any interested person(s) are welcome to contact any EC member. c) From the EC: the development of Candidates Development Committee to educate, enhance, enable, advise and support CT GP candidates in the formation and maintenance of their candidacy to be done by BAB and SMD. Any other interested parties are welcome to add their expertise. Consensus: approval. d) PROPOSAL: PRESENTER=Fairfield County chapter and Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GP of CT. CONTACT: David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd, Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193, dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com; Richard Duffee, 203-588-0161, richard.duffee at)gmail.com; Cliff Thornton,860-657-8438, efficacy(at)msn.com SUBJECT: Trying Youth As Adults BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Connecticut is one of 3 states (with New York and North Carolina) that require all arrested 16- and 17-year-olds to appear in adult criminal court and to be incarcerated with adults. The CT Juvenile Justice Alliance/CT Campaign 4 Youth Justice is seeking to change this practice and is seeking partners to support the RAISE THE AGE Position Statement. The National Green Party Platform 2004 clearly states (under Social Justice, II.H.4.): "Juvenile offenders must not be housed in needlessly restrictive settings. They must never be housed with adults.? PROPOSAL: The CT Green Party shall endorse the Raise the Age Position Statement encompassing these key points: * Connecticut's 16- and 17-year-olds should not be automatically tried and incarcerated in the adult criminal justice system. * The jurisdiction of the Juvenile Matters section of the Superior Court for delinquency and Family With Service Needs should be raised to 18. * We support balanced and restorative justice for children and youth involved in the juvenile justice system; i.e. personal accountability, competency development and community protection. For more info and a list of participating organizations, see HYPERLINK "http://www.raisetheagect.org/"http://www.raisetheagect.org Consensus: Approval. e) PROPOSAL. PRESENTER: Fairfield County chapter. CONTACT: David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd,Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193, dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com; Richard Duffee, 203-588-0161, richard.duffee(at)gmail.com SUBJECT: CONNECTICUT/RHODE ISLAND PEACE, JUSTICE and ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A website hub, http://www.cripjen.org, has been created to serve CT and RI peace, justice, and environmental groups. It offers a calendar, member list, forums, petition center, etc. Current member groups include several we have worked with in the past: Green Party of RI, American Friends Service Committee, Greater New Haven Peace Council, Efficacy, Toxics Action, etc. Joining this network will help us coordinate activities with other groups and increase visibility of the Green Party. PROPOSAL: The CT Green Party shall join the Connecticut/Rhode Island Peace, Justice and Environmental Network and invite our members to use the resources on the Network website, HYPERLINK "http://www.cripjen.org/"http://www.cripjen.org Consensus: Approval. f) PRESENTER = Fairfield County chapter. CONTACT (name, address, phone number, email): David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd, Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193, dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com; Nancy Burton, 203-938-3952, NancyBurtonCT(at)aol.com SUBJECT: CT CAMPAIGN TO STOP INDIAN POINT (NY) NUCLEAR POWER PLANT RELICENSING. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE : An organization is being formed in Connecticut to join a New York State organization - PHASE I (?Public Health and Sustainable Energy?) - in efforts to oppose the relicensing of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant reactors on the Hudson River. The Connecticut group will be known as ?PHASE II? and will be a coalition of individuals, families and organizations. Nancy Burton is organizing this coalition. Nancy is co-founder of the CT Campaign Against Millstone and was the 2006 Green candidate for Attorney General. The Fairfield chapter has already signed on as a member of PHASE II. PROPOSAL: The CT Green Party shall sign on as an organizational member of the coalition known as "Public Health and Sustainable Energy (PHASE II)." JOIN THE CONNECTICUT CAMPAIGN TO STOP INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT RELICENSING. An organization is being formed in Connecticut to join a New York State organization - PHASE I (?Public Health and Sustainable Energy?) - in efforts to oppose relicensing of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant reactors on the Hudson River in Buchanan, New York. The Connecticut group will be known as ?PHASE II.? Each organization will be a coalition of individuals, families and organizations. More than one million Connecticut residents live within 50 miles of Indian Point - and thus are deemed under federal law to be within the ?peak injury zone? in the event of a catastrophic accident or terrorist event at the nuclear facility. Fairfield County is entirely within the 50-mile zone, as are the cities of New Haven and Waterbury and their environs. At a distance of only 16 miles, Greenwich is the CT community closest to Indian Point. PHASE I and PHASE II will coordinate filing of intervention petitions in the proceedings which will soon be underway before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In addition, PHASE I and PHASE II will coordinate filings of legal ?contentions? in which their expert witnesses will put forth technical and legal grounds why Indian Point?s two operating reactors should not be allowed to operate beyond their original 40-year licenses which expire in 2013 and 2015 for IP Units 2 and 3 respectively. IP?s owner, Entergy, is seeking 20-year license extensions. Indian Point is located 40 miles from Ground Zero in the most densely populated region of the country: 20 million people live within 50 miles of Indian Point. It is a risk to human populations, the environment and the very financial stability of the United States. A major accident at Indian Point would be catastrophic. It would devastate the entire Northeast. It would kill and injure hundreds of thousands of people and cause untold billions in property damages. Indian Point has been plagued with operational dysfunction and failures throughout its life. It is leaking tritium at a high rate into the groundwater. Health studies show that Fairfield County suffers cancer incidences 8 and 9 per cent above the U.S. rate for males and females. The highest cancer incidences are in the towns closest to Indian Point. To date, 30 municipalities in New York, including four counties - Westchester, Rockland, Ulster and Hudson - have passed resolutions opposing IP relicensing. Over 400 elected officials in the metropolitan area, including 11 members of Congress, have called for the closure of Indian Point. Go to HYPERLINK "http://www.IPSECinfo.org"www.IPSECinfo.org and HYPERLINK "http://www.Riverkeeper.org"www.Riverkeeper.org for more information. Participation in PHASE II is at no cost to participants, although donations are welcome. To sign on, send an email to: HYPERLINK "mailto:NancyBurtonCT at aol.com"NancyBurtonCT at aol.com. Or call 203-938-3952. JM: are there any financial responsibilities for the GP of CT? RD: No. Consensus: Approval. C. Reports: 1. Reports from the elected Green Party officials and candidates-elect: a) AB: My win for the Alderman of New Haven (10th Ward) is significant because I beat a three (3) term incumbent Democrat who was closely tied and endorsed by the Democratic Mayor DeStefano. This has never been done before. Only 4 of the 30 Alderman incumbents had any opposition: 2 were from the Green Party (Daniel Sumrall was the other Green Party Candidate) and from 2 Republicans. Channel 30-TV did a photo-op with the incumbent but not with me. I was within feet of them but there was no media coverage of myself or Daniel Sumrall. CT: overall throughout the state: 70% of voters did not vote. SMD: we should run for Register of Voters in each town. TMc: we need competitive races. Wednesday, 1-9-08 at noontime could be the day for this, if candidates have announced and been nominated by their appropriate Green Party chapters. We can use the 1-8-08 SCC meeting to discuss this. Both meetings will be in New Haven. Consensus about 1-8-09 SCC meeting and 1-9-09 press conference: approval. b) BAB: Jean DeSmet, Co-chairperson of the GP of CT., won the seat for First Selectperson (i.e. mayor) for Windham, defeating the incumbent Democrat. She presided over her initial Council Meeting on 11-20-07. She ran on an Independent ticket made up of Democrats and Republicans (not as a Green Party member). 2.GPUS reports from CTGP representative, Tim McKee. Charlie Pillsbury was absent. Cliff Thornton is GPUS Co-chairperson. National Committee Members of GPUS are: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. TMc: Cliff Thornton was elected a Co-chairperson of the GPUS. We are trying to resolve how the delegates will be allotted for each state Green Party at the 7-08 GPUS Presidential Nominating Convention. Possible ways to determine allotments: the number of registered GP voters in a state. However, some states will not allow voters to register for the Green Party; the number of GP campaigns; the number of elected Greens to office; active chapters; should states without organized Green Party be given 4 delegates as an incentive to organize. SMD: AVN: I was hospitalized so did not vote. 3. Political issues the GP of CT will address during the 2008 Legislative Session: SMD: Fight the Hike. 4. Reports from absent chapters: BAB: no change since the 10-30-07 SCC meeting i.e. No response from the: Northwest, West or Shoreline chapters. Ana Lachier advised she knew of no meetings of the Women?s Caucus after the initial meetings years ago. I would be willing to make a second contact. JM: recommended that the Secretary send a certified letter with request for response back within 14 calendar days, to the above chapters and Women?s Caucus contacts. Secretary, Barbara Barry, agreed to do so. 5. CT Green Times: SMD: not available due to lack of articles and availability of publisher. 6. ACLU lawsuit: SMD: case is going forward. Judge Underhill denied the summary judgment presented by the State of CT. CT: Ralph Ferrucci?s campaign manager provided information to the ACLU about his most recent campaign 7. Other Chapter reports: Greater Hartford: SF: I?m a potential candidate against Rep. John Larson. I have done impeachment meetings in Hartford. I have delivered the impeachment position paper of the Greater Hartford Green Party (in coalition with other local groups) to Rep. Larson?s office. And I have called his office in efforts to get his responses/answers to his constituents about these 12 questions. To date, Rep. Larson has not responded. TMc: we need to have a press conference with our candidates who support impeachment. 8. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 1-8-08: New Haven. Date, place and time of next EC meeting in 1-08: to be determined. 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URL: From efficacy at msn.com Wed Jan 30 14:27:28 2008 From: efficacy at msn.com (Clifford Thornton) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:28 -0500 Subject: {news} Ralph's angle - Message-ID: Note from the ABC News article that Ralph Nader seems to have no qualms about reaching out to Kucinich & Edwards supporters, and even connects his announcement to their withdrawal: Nader said he filed papers with the Federal Election Commission and launched a Web site after Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Ohio congressman, announced his decision to withdraw from the presidential race last week. He was set to announce that he had formed an exploratory committee Wednesday, even before former Sen. John Edwards made it known that he'd be ending his candidacy. But with Edwards who has made economic populism and ending poverty cornerstones of his campaign leaving the Democratic field, Nader said, he feels his candidacy is more urgent than ever. "When Kucinich threw in the towel, now you have Edwards gone who's going to carry the torch of democratic populism against the relentless domination of powerful corporations of our government?" Nader said. "You can't just brush these issues to the side because the candidates are ignoring them." >> http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=1664 Scott --- Scott McLarty > wrote: > John Edwards' impending withdrawal is another > shift in the landscape. Edwards was also > trying > to deliver a populist message (albeit less so > than Kucinich's, and compromised by his own > corporate loyalties). Maybe we can rework the > message to appeal to both Kucinich & Edwards > supporters. > > I really like Craig's strategy of targeting the > appeal to various blogs, Indymedia, and other > sites read by progressives & antiwar types, > including those now adrift because of DK's & > JE's > departure. If we wrote up a strong message to > disappointed Dems and sent it to the > aforementioned blogs etc., we could follow it > up > quickly with a press release announcing the > appeal. > > The narrowing of the Dem field of candidates, > which means less choice for voters, really is a > good opportunity for Green outreach. The fact > that the departing candidates were less than > ideal is besides the point. > > Scott > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Wed Jan 30 17:20:13 2008 From: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com (Tim McKee) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:20:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} (ABC NEW)_NADER FORMS EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE Message-ID: <330809.79462.qm@web44814.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Ralph Nader Flirts with Presidential Bid With Harsh Words for Current Field, Nader Says Candidacy as Urgent as Ever By RICK KLEIN Jan. 30, 2008 ? Ralph Nader has formed a presidential exploratory committee, and said in an interview Wednesday that he will launch another presidential bid if he's convinced he can raise enough money to appear on the vast majority of state ballots this fall. Nader, who ran as an independent candidate in each of the past three presidential elections, told ABCNews.com that he will run in 2008 if he is convinced over the next month that he would be able to raise $10 million over the course of the campaign  and attract enough lawyers willing to work free of charge to get his name on state ballots. Nader said he established an exploratory committee and launched a Web site after Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Ohio congressman, announced his decision to withdraw from the presidential race last week. He was set to announce that he had formed an exploratory committee Wednesday, even before former Sen. John Edwards made it known that he'd be ending his candidacy. But with Edwards  who has made economic populism and ending poverty cornerstones of his campaign  leaving the Democratic field, Nader said, he feels his candidacy is more urgent than ever. "When Kucinich threw in the towel, now you have Edwards gone  who's going to carry the torch of democratic populism against the relentless domination of powerful corporations of our government?" Nader said. "You can't just brush these issues to the side because the candidates are ignoring them." He has harsh words for the leading Democratic candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, chastising them for failing to advance aggressive plans to tax corporations more fairly, and to fight for a vastly higher minimum wage. Obama, he said, is a particular disappointment, since his background suggests that he knows the importance of progressive issues yet hasn't fought for them in the Senate. "His record in the Senate is pretty mediocre," Nader said. "His most distinctive characteristic is the extent to which he censors himself. He hasn't performed as a really progressive first-term senator would." His "self-censorship," Nader said, "is a reflection of character." He's no kinder to the Republican frontrunner, Sen. John McCain. "Senator McCain is the candidate of perpetual war," he said. Nader also rejects the "spoiler" label many Democrats have applied to him since 2000, when his candidacy was blamed in some circles for helping defeat Democratic candidate Al Gore. "That is the sign of political bigotry," he said. "Why aren't the major candidates spoilers? They represent parties that spoil our electoral system and our government." Copyright ? 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures *********************************************************************** Tim McKee Manchester CT Home-860-643-2282 Cell-860-778-1304 Tim McKee, is a National Commitee member of the Green Party of the United States and is a spokesperson for the Green Party of CT. BLOG- http://TheBigGreenPicture.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Wed Jan 30 22:39:25 2008 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:39:25 -0500 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] When is your state convention? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <10859a090801301939w7e1c0b9eie4d9551451cd1d79@mail.gmail.com> for the EC to respond. thanks, charlie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Gerritt Date: Jan 30, 2008 5:37 AM Subject: [usgp-nc] When is your state convention? To: national comm votes Cc: pcsc , Tom Cleland NC members, the PCSC has now posted on the website delegate allocations for state parties for the July convention, and where we know, the type of balloting the state party will be using to elect and instruct the delegates. Data is spotty as noted in the report below that appeared on the pcsc list serve from Tom Cleland is is managing the project for the PCSC. Please check for your state at http://gp.org/2008-elections/Delegation-Size.php. So far we only have primary, caucus, or balloting dates for 9 states. If we spread the word maybe we can fill in some more of the blanks. So I will reiterate. Please check this website to make sure the information is accurate and to see if we have any information from your state. Whetehr the information is correct or NOT, please report back to me, to the NC, to Tom Cleland, to somebody, what process your state is using to elect and instruct delegates, and the date or dates that are relevant so that we can get it all posted. The party needs this data, the candidates need this data, and the media wants this data. So please send it in ASAP. If you do not have this data, and you do not have your process together, please get in touch with me and I and the pcsc can help you get your process in place. Greg Gerritt gpri pcsc _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html To report violations of listserv protocol, write to forummanagers at lists.gp-us.org For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at gmail.com Wed Jan 30 22:44:44 2008 From: chapillsbury at gmail.com (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:44:44 -0500 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Apply by February 21 for campaign funds Message-ID: <10859a090801301944l198128cya885a99fa3a5fc7f@mail.gmail.com> fyi, charlie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Gerritt Date: Jan 29, 2008 12:13 PM Subject: [usgp-nc] Resources for Green candidates To: national comm votes NC delegates, please forward to everyone in your state party involved in campaigns. Greg Gerritt GPRI CCC Apply by February 21 for campaign funds to be allocated in Mid March Please Forward Widely Greens, now that the CCC has been seated it is time to open up the application process so that the CCC get get resources into the hands of local candidates around the country. Right now we have in the data base 92 local candidates for 2008. Our goal is 1000. We can not get to this goal without you. The CCC can help with candidate recruitment, but primarily as an instigator and resource. The recruitment is going to go on in your local communities. The tools we offer are varied, but maybe the most important is this. If you know any candidate or potential candidate who can use advice on how to get a campaign up and running, can use a conversation with an experienced campaign consultant, wants help interviewing a campaign manager or treasurer, needs someone to review written materials, get them up to speed on media work, or just needs someone to talk to about a campaign or potential campaign, the CCC has someone who will talk to the candidate and help them figure it out. We can help candidates run better races, and be a sounding board for someone mulling a campaign, trying to figure out if they can pull together what it needs. That ought to give you a better recruiting tool, but you still have to recruit. Then give them a CCC contact, either through the website or the national office, and maybe we can finish the deal, let them know we stand behind them. In addition to talking to any candidate or potential candidate who comes our way, something we have been doing more and more of, we have started calling state parties to make sure that not only NC members are aware of our existence and services, but also state officers. In the next few weeks nearly every state will get a call so we can talk up what we do. The Coordinated Campaign Committee was actually created to give away money to Green candidates, and while we mostly do consulting these days, we still give away money when we can. We can not guarantee at this point what the National Committee will allocate for spring candidates support, but the Tier ONE budget calls for $4000 to be allocated this year. The committee has had a preliminary discussion about how to allocate the money. Do we donate $2000 now and $2000 in the fall? (assuming the CCC gets it full allocation) Or do we spend some now, but keep more than 50% of the yearly allocation for the fall, when more candidates are running and the races are bigger. The committee is leaning towards holding back more money for fall, but we are unsure of exactly how it will shake out. In any case the CCC hereby opens up the application period for Green candidates to apply for funds. The application is included below as is the link to the application on the website and should be returned to us by February 21. It states on the applications where they ought to be sent. There actually two applications, a short one for candidates seeking website templates, advice, and other non monetary resources, and a longer one for candidates seeking monetary resources. The application is designed so that it can be useful to candidates to fill out even if they do not garner any cash from us. It asks candidates to write down their campaign and fundraising plans. Every candidate ought to have a well thought out written plan, written so it can be shared with appropriate campaign workers and volunteers, and the act of writing the plan stimulates further thought about the campaign and helps the candidates be more aware and better candidates. The CCC promises that it will review every campaign plan sent, and beyond scoring them and allocating resources, we shall have a discussion about the plan with every Green candidate who desires that conversation. We have added two conditions to the awarding of resources this year. 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next election cycle. 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to offer support to their campaign. So please distribute this note widely and recruit some great candidates. The Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee http://gp.org/committees/campaign/quest.shtml The short two part application to be used if seeking non monetary resources Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. Completed application and supporting material should be sent to brent at gp.org. Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. Introduction The Coordinated Campaign Committee is able to offer Green Party candidates the following types of support. 1. Website Template - Several website templates are available for candidate websites. Please fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to the website templates 2. Media support -Press releases may be reviewed by a media savvy Green and press releases from a campaign may be posted on the national website. Please fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to Media Support. 3. Use of National Donor Lists for district or selected zip codes - Lists of donors that have donated to the national party are available for candidates. Use of donor lists by a candidate is subject to state party approval. Please fill out Part 1 and 2 of this questionnaire to gain access to the donor lists. 4. Use of volunteer lists - The CCC collects lists of persons who have volunteered through the national party website in each state. Lists of volunteers may be made available to candidates. Please fill out Part 1 and 2 of this questionnaire to gain access to these volunteer lists. 5. Advice regarding the campaign's ballot access plan, fundraising plan, field plan, and media plan - Please fill out parts 1 and 2 of this questionnaire and the worksheet on which ever plan the campaign needs advice on. The plan will be reviewed by a member of the CCC. Every candidate accepting resources or advice from the CCC is also expected to abide by the following conditions 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next election cycle. 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to offer support to their campaign. Check all types of support you are requesting: _____ Website templates _____ Use of national donor list for district or selected zip codes (subject to state party approval) _____ Volunteer lists through Green Wave _____ Media Support _____ Advice regarding _______________________ _____ Other Support. Please describe _________________________________ Part 1. General Information Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: Official name and address of campaign committee: (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) Campaign web site: Number of candidates for this office: Number of seats: Date of primary: Date of general election: Partisan or nonpartisan election? Is the candidate a write-in? Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): Part 2: About the Candidate (optional) Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party affiliation at the time. Is the candidate: ___ A person of color? ___ Female? ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? ___ Under 30? ___ Disabled? ___ Poor or lower class Income level? Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and not registered in any other party)? If not, please explain: Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If not, explain. Optional: If you are requesting media support, please provide any information that you feel might help the media committee cover your campaign. Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to brent at gp.org. Full Candidate Questionnaire - 7 Parts To be used if seeking financial support. Green Party of the United States Coordinated Campaign Committee Campaign Resources Questionnaire -- 7 Parts Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to brent at gp.org. Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. Introduction By filling out this application, the campaign automatically agrees to the following: 1. Any candidate that receives matching funds will be required to share their donor lists with the CCC to help future candidates. 2. By accepting matching funds, the campaign consents to an audit by the Finance Committee if requested by the CCC and agrees to provide any documentation the CCC or the Finance Committee may require (including, at a minimum, a post-campaign report detailing the use of the funds). 3. Currently, the CCC is unable to make donations greater than $500. In addition, the CCC's contributions program may be cancelled at any time due to lack of funds. 4. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next election cycle. 5. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to offer support to their campaign. Part 1. General Information Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: Official name and address of campaign committee: (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) Campaign web site: Number of candidates for this office: Number of seats: Date of primary: Date of general election: Partisan or nonpartisan election? Is the candidate a write-in? Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): Part 2: About the Candidate Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party affiliation at the time. Is the candidate: ___ A person of color? ___ Female? ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? ___ Under 30? ___ Disabled? ___ Poor or lower class Income level? Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and not registered in any other party)? If not, please explain: Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If not, explain. Optional: Please include the candidate's bio or resume. Part 3: Field Plan How many votes does the campaign expect to get? How many votes will it take to win this election? Is this the first time a Green Party candidate has sought this office? Will this race affect ballot access for future Green candidates in the state or jurisdiction? How? How much time will the candidate devote to the campaign on a daily basis? List endorsements received and endorsements sought or expected. Explain in detail how the campaign plans to identify and turn out the number of voters needed to achieve its goals. This document should reflect detailed analysis of previous elections for the same office; previous elections for the top-of-the-ticket race in other years when this office has been on the ballot; political histories of the opponents in this election and the candidates for this office in the last election; voter ID efforts; applicable campaign tactics and get-out-the-vote plans and how many votes each tactical approach is expected to yield; timelines; and the structure of the campaign organization, including qualifications of key campaign staff and the number and activities of volunteers. (This will usually require 500 words or more.) Part 4: Media Explain how the campaign expects to make use of earned media. Include the press secretary's resume or bio. If available, please include (or provide web links to): Samples of campaign materials or speeches Press clips Part 5: Budget How much money does the campaign expect to raise? How much money have winning candidates spent on the same race in previous elections? List any legal limits or any limits the campaign has set for contributions. Is there a Clean Money law or other mechanism for public financing in effect? Explain in detail how the campaign plans to raise the amount of money needed to achieve its goals. This document should include the campaign budget and should reflect detailed analysis of the campaign's expenses in every phase from exploratory to election day and wrapup; appropriate fundraising tactics and how much money each tactical approach is expected to yield; legal and political constraints on fundraising; and the role of advertising in the campaign. (This will usually require 300-500 words.) Part 6: GPUS Contributions Explain in detail how GPUS contributions will be used by the campaign. If not already states, is there any state or local law, or any state or local Green Party policy, that limits the size or nature of contributions from the Green National Committee to the campaign? Part 7: References List at least three references, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses. At least one reference should be associated with a Green organization. 1. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ 2. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ 3. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ Please ask a reference associated with a Green organization to fill out the reference questions below and e-mail them to brent at gp.org. 1. How long have you known the candidate? 2. To your knowledge, is this candidate a member of the Green Party and not also a member of any other party? 3. 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Michael DeRosa, a Co-chariperson of CTGP; Christopher Reilly, Treasurer of CTGP; New Haven: Jerry Martin, Charlie Pillsbury; New London: Laura Cordes, Rona Struller; Tolland: Tim McKee; Cliff Thornton, a Co-chairperson of CTGP. Non-voting from Northeast Chapter: Scott Deshefy. Facilitator: Charlie Pillsbury A. Preliminaries: 1. Introductions of voting attendees/non-voting attendees; chapters; quorum was met; timekeeper was Vic Lancia. ground rules. 2. Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda. Deletions: reports from the elected GP officials, Policies and Procedures; Additions: petitioning and campaigning for CTGP candidates; CTGP literature; 3. Approval of minutes of 11-27-07 SCC meeting. 4. Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly: $1640. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) Temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; add: Laura Cordes and Tim McKee. c) Candidates Development Committee to educate, enhance, enable, advise and support candidates in the formation and maintenance of their candidacy: Barbara Barry, Mike DeRosa. Add: Charlie Pillsbury. C. Reports: 1. Impeachment of Bush/Cheney: RD: to the best of my knowledge, none of the 169 towns in CT have passed any town resolution for the impeachment of Bush/Cheney. 2. GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, GPUS Co-chairperson, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. CT: the Steering Committee removed Liz Arozone, NJ, due to alleged communication violations brought by GPUS staffer, Brent McMillian. Neither of the GPUS staffers, Brent nor Emily, have any actual supervisors nor are none written in their job descriptions. TMc: there will be a 1-13-08 debate among potential GPUS presidential candidates. Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney would be there. It is unclear if CSPAN will allow it to be re-broadcast. TMc: GPUS is still discussing which of the 5 proposal will be selected to be used to determine the delegate process for the GPUS Presidential Convention for 7-08 in Chicago. Proposals have included: a) actual registered Green Party voters; the number of elected Green Party officials; the number of members a state has in the U. S. Congress. the number of potential Green Party members. TMc: CTGP will need to determine/elect their delegates for the GPUS Convention. This potentially could be done at the 4-08 CTGP Annual Meeting. SMD: I joined the GPUS Ballot Access Committee. It never had a ballot meeting from the time of the GPUS 8-07 Meeting until I was able to recruit other members to strongly urge the Chairperson, Phil Hunkelberry, to have one. Our first teleconferenced meeting was Monday, 1-7-08. We discussed, if there was a need for any GPUS Ballot Access meetings. Others joined me is suggesting that we move quickly to help Arizona with their presidential petition drive. AZ is the first state during the calendar year, which needs to have their petitions in, which is by 3-5-08. Next GPUS Ballot Access meeting: 1-14-08. SMD: MA is willing to help us in CT and New England to develop a regional coalition to gain ballot access. SMD: 2 polls have indicated that 60% of the US voters are willing to vote for a third party presidential candidate. SD: third party presidential candidates have come to CT more than the Democratic and Republican candidates. TMc: CT needs to start petitioning for the GPUS Presidential Candidate in order to have the required number of valid signatures by 8-6-08. Since we will not know who will be the GPUS Presidential Candidate, Greg Garett is willing to be the stand-in for both the Vice President and the Presidential candidates. TMc: will clarify with the CT Secretary of State?s office: when petition sheets will be available. I will also coordinate this petition drive. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. Absent chapters: deleted due to lack of time. 6. CT Green Times: SMD: is here for chapters to distribute. More can be provided if I am contacted. 7. Fairfield Nominating Convention for 1-13-08: RD: another congressional candidate has come forward to primary me for the GP candidate for Congress. Some voters have been told that if they change their voter party affiliation notification to their town Register of Voters, it is not official until a 90 day waiting period has occurred. Also, the town of Wilton, has declined to allow voters to register with the Green Party. Wilton will only allow for voters to register as: Unaffiliated, Democrat or Republican. TMc: volunteered to clarify with the CT Secretary of State?s office, if this Wilton action was the correct action. It is the belief of many CTGP members that because all of our 2006 state-wide candidates (except for Governor) received over 1% of the votes, state-wide voters can now register with the Green Party. 8. ACLU lawsuit with Plaintiffs: CTGP and SMD against the State of CT?s 2005 Campaign Finance Reform Law: SMD: I along with Barbara Barry and Ed DuBrule (current and past CTGP Secretaries) have been asked by the ACLU to provide CTGP documents from 2002 through the present. This will need to be done in a week or so. The judge for this case is Judge Underhill who is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Yale Law School. Our position is that this law is a Democratic and Republican Party subside law for the Republican and Democratic Parties and provisions of the law arbitrarily discriminates against minor parties. 9. Chapter reports. New London: RS: had our 1-8-08 chapter meeting at which Scott Deshefy spoke of his desire to run as a CTGP candidate from our Congressional District. We are also exploring what city issues we will continue to work on or start. Some Green Party members have been appointed to some town committees so we do have a presence in New London. SD: I have contacted the CT Secretary of State?s office for the registration petition forms. He is under the impression that each candidate must have a separate petition form. Fairfield: RD: Harold Burbank is running as an Independent Candidate for the 5th Congressional District i.e. not as a Green Party candidate. Central: VL: I am eager to continue our tabling and work on the petition drives. Greater Hartford: SMD: Steve Fournier officially announced on a radio show that he is running for Congress against Representative John Larson, Democrat from East Hartford. Steve also has not gotten any response from Rep. Larson regarding 12 questions that this chapter and coalition members want Rep. Larson to answer about the why Cheney and Bush should be impeached. SMD: each CTGP candidate needs a list of volunteers and ask for their areas of interest or skills such as petitioning, media contacts, running errands. New Haven: CP: Allan Brison was sworn in on 1-1-08 as a Green Party Alderman from the 10th Ward of New Haven. The first meeting of the alderman was 1-10-08. For the first time, New Haven passed an anti-war resolution and a nuclear disarmament resolution. Alan had proposed these resolutions and a Democrat 2nded the motion. Tolland: TMc: still trying to get more connections with other communities/ people. 10. CTGP candidate literature: SD: has a blog and suggested using: NewMenu.com 11. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 1-29-08 will be at Portland Senior Center, unless otherwise notified. The date, place and time of next EC meeting in 1-08: to be determined. 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URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Wed Jan 30 23:55:22 2008 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:55:22 -0500 Subject: {news} Accepted minutes of the 7PM 1-22-08 meeting of the EC of the Green Party of CT Message-ID: <20080131045522.RSCV1351.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Accepted minutes of the 7PM 1-22-08 meeting of the EC of the CTGP Location: Ruby Tuesday Restaurant, 3240 Berlin Turnpike, Newington, CT 06111 P: 860-667-0282 Attendees: Co-chairpersons: S. Michael DeRosa, Cliff Thornton; Treasurer: Christopher Reilly; Secretary: Barbara Barry. Observers: none. CR: current Treasury balance: $2639. Proposed agenda for 1-29-08 SCC meeting of CTGP at Portland?s Senior Center 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT 06480 Phone: 860-342-6760 Time: 7:000PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of voting attendees; non-voting attendees; chapters; if quorum was met; timekeeper; ground rules. 2. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight?s proposed agenda, any deletions or additions. 3. (2-4 minutes): Review and approval of minutes of 1-8-08 SCC meeting. 4. (2-4 minutes): Review and acceptance of minutes from the 1-22-08 EC meeting. 5. (2-4 minutes): Treasurer?s report from Christopher Reilly. B. Any proposals/referendums by chapters, committee: a) (10minutes) Policies and Proposals; Election Procedures resubmitted from 5-10-07: The election of State Officers and USGP Representatives will be held at a meeting open to all Connecticut Green Party members in April each year. Ballots will be distributed to all Connecticut Green Party members for receipt at least 2 weeks before the Annual Meeting. Although nominations will be accepted from the floor at the Annual Meeting, anyone wishing to have their name printed on the ballot must submit their name and the name of the office they are seeking in writing, or at the last SCC meeting prior to the Annual Meeting of the GP of CT. Lots will be drawn at the March State Central Committee meeting to decide name placement on the ballot. The candidate does not need to be present for the drawing. The ballot will be distributed with a cover letter and statements from any of the candidates who wish to submit one. Statements are limited to 200 words. The ballot should notify the voter that "None of the Above" should be used to indicate non-support of any of the candidates. For instance: if the voter can only support 1 candidate the voter should list "None of the Above" as his/her second choice. In that way preventing election of other candidates from winning by default if the other voters leave their second choice blank. Voters may also be able to mark ?abstain? i.e. the vote is note counted. Ballots can be mailed to the CTGP Post Office box. The members should be told that the ballot must be postmarked no later than 3 business days prior to the meeting. The members name and address must be shown on the outside of the envelope or on a separate inner envelope containing the ballot. Once the ballots are distributed, the Post Office should only be opened when 2 CTGP members are present. A list of the names of the members who returned ballots should be kept by each person opening the box. The ballots should be kept in a secure location until they are turned over to the Internal Elections Committee members at the Annual meeting. Anyone who does not receive a ballot can request one from a designated member of the Membership List Committee. A ballot will be provided if the requester has met the CTGP membership requirements. All ballots, whether mailed or voted in person at the election, had to be placed in a sealed envelope with the voter?s name and address written on the outside. This is to ensure people only vote once and that only eligible voters participate. To save time mailed ballots may be verified against the membership prior to the Annual Meeting. People voting in person at the convention are instructed to seal their ballots and write their name and address on the outside. A sealed box should be available for the members to depot their ballots. At least 3 election clerks will appointed at the prior SCC meeting prior to the Annual Meeting participants. At the close of voting the elections clerks will open the ballot box and separated all mailed ballots that had already been verified, ballots lacking names and addresses, and ballots that had not yet been verified. Then look up all ballots with names and addresses to verify they are from eligible voters. Finally, take the number of ballots that either lacked names or were from people not on the mailing list. Open the former to see if there was any name inside the envelope. If not, the ballot is to be excluded as invalid. Then take the ballots from people not on our mailing list and check with the Membership List Committee to verify eligibility. For all contested races enter the rankings from all the ballots into a program called Elect, which is freely available from www.VotingSolutions.com. Keep the configuration files and output files are available for inspection. Use ChoicePlus Pro -- Version 2.3.2, which is freely available, open source software for tallying STV elections. Details for the election are as follows: Drop threshold equal to [votes / (seats + 1)] + 1 vote, disregard decimals was used. Fractional transfer of surplus votes from all ballots. Duplicate rankings (e.g., more than one candidate ranked #1) were handled by fractionally diving the ballot between the duplicate-ranked candidates. This produces some fractional votes in the first round. The instructions stated that any rankings following ?Abstain? or ?None of the above? would be disregarded, so any such rankings were not entered. ?Abstain? was treated like a candidate, except that the candidate was excluded, because votes for abstain have no effect on the outcome. To simplify slightly, ?None of the above? affects the outcome if, in the final round, it has more votes than a human candidate, meaning that it is the ?last candidate standing.? To check this, run the STV tally and then inspected the results. The following data should be retained by the Secretary of the CT Green Party for future use: The actual paper ballots, envelopes and other materials mailed back/ Scanned tif images of all the ballots/ The rankings on the ballots that we entered/ Round-by-round STV results./ The data entry program (elect.exe) and all the configuration files./ The configuration files for Choice Plus Pro and all output files./ Party Membership Meeting Including the Annual Meeting All the election data shall be given to the Secretary of the Green Party of CT, at the close of the Annual Meeting. The Agenda for all general membership meeting of the Party must be mailed to each member with a notice of all resolutions that the SCC plans to bring before the membership. The notice must also include a caution that resolutions are subject to amendments from the floor and that new resolutions can also be raised by the attending members. Choices: a) No amendments from the floor. b) Amendments from the floor require 2/3 vote from those voting. A Rules Committee will suggest rules for the running of the meeting to the membership as the first order of business. . b) From the EC: temporary Budget Committee members to be EC members; C. Reports: 1. (15 minutes): Development of Internal Elections Committee. 2. (10 minutes): Committee to support Green Party of CT candidates re: a) petitioning volunteers, b) Party Designation Committee, c) Ballot Access Committee. d) campaign issues. 3. (15-20 minutes): GPUS reports from: Cliff Thornton, Co-chairperson of GPUS, CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury and National Committee Members: Amy Vas Nunes and S. Michael DeRosa. a) Criteria for CT delegates to the 7-08 Green Party Presidential Convention and what instructions will the CTGP give to their 20 delegates? b) Arizona Green Party petition drive. 4. (5 minutes): Political issues the GP of CT has addressed with legislators during the 2008 Legislative Session: Fight the Hike/universal health coverage. 5. (5 minutes): Reports from absent chapters. 6. (2 minutes): CT Green Times newspaper. 7. (5 minutes): Recruitment of potential candidates for state offices, Register of Voters. 8. (5 minutes): ACLU lawsuit. 9. (2-5 minutes, each): other Chapter reports. 10. Date, place and time for next SCC meeting 2-26-08 and date, place and time of next EC meeting in 2-08. 11. Any additions Green Party Key Values: non-violence, respect for diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, ecological wisdom, decentralization, community-based economics and economic justice, future focus and sustainability, personal and global responsibility, feminism and gender equality. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.15/1249 - Release Date: 1/29/2008 9:51 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.duffee at gmail.com Thu Jan 31 00:41:09 2008 From: richard.duffee at gmail.com (Richard Duffee) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:41:09 -0500 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Apply by February 21 for campaign funds In-Reply-To: <10859a090801301944l198128cya885a99fa3a5fc7f@mail.gmail.com> References: <10859a090801301944l198128cya885a99fa3a5fc7f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <21f4f7390801302141h51ec761cr729eca58323cd297@mail.gmail.com> Charlie, Has anyone come to a conclusive answer on this, so that we don't fumble around repeating each others' work, sometimes incorrectly, spiralling ourselves for aimless rumors into massive confusion? "2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to offer support to their campaign." Richard On Jan 30, 2008 10:44 PM, Charlie Pillsbury wrote: > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > fyi, charlie > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Greg Gerritt > Date: Jan 29, 2008 12:13 PM > Subject: [usgp-nc] Resources for Green candidates > To: national comm votes > > > NC delegates, please forward to everyone in your state party involved in > campaigns. Greg Gerritt GPRI CCC > > > Apply by February 21 for campaign funds to be allocated in Mid March > > Please Forward Widely > > > Greens, now that the CCC has been seated it is time to open up the > application process so that the CCC get get resources into the hands of > local candidates around the country. Right now we have in the data base 92 > local candidates for 2008. Our goal is 1000. We can not get to this goal > without you. > > The CCC can help with candidate recruitment, but primarily as an instigator > and resource. The recruitment is going to go on in your local communities. > The tools we offer are varied, but maybe the most important is this. If you > know any candidate or potential candidate who can use advice on how to get a > campaign up and running, can use a conversation with an experienced campaign > consultant, wants help interviewing a campaign manager or treasurer, needs > someone to review written materials, get them up to speed on media work, or > just needs someone to talk to about a campaign or potential campaign, the > CCC has someone who will talk to the candidate and help them figure it out. > We can help candidates run better races, and be a sounding board for someone > mulling a campaign, trying to figure out if they can pull together what it > needs. > > That ought to give you a better recruiting tool, but you still have to > recruit. Then give them a CCC contact, either through the website or the > national office, and maybe we can finish the deal, let them know we stand > behind them. In addition to talking to any candidate or potential candidate > who comes our way, something we have been doing more and more of, we have > started calling state parties to make sure that not only NC members are > aware of our existence and services, but also state officers. In the next > few weeks nearly every state will get a call so we can talk up what we do. > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee was actually created to give away money > to Green candidates, and while we mostly do consulting these days, we still > give away money when we can. We can not guarantee at this point what the > National Committee will allocate for spring candidates support, but the Tier > ONE budget calls for $4000 to be allocated this year. The committee has had > a preliminary discussion about how to allocate the money. Do we donate > $2000 now and $2000 in the fall? (assuming the CCC gets it full allocation) > Or do we spend some now, but keep more than 50% of the yearly allocation for > the fall, when more candidates are running and the races are bigger. The > committee is leaning towards holding back more money for fall, but we are > unsure of exactly how it will shake out. > > In any case the CCC hereby opens up the application period for Green > candidates to apply for funds. The application is included below as is the > link to the application on the website and should be returned to us by > February 21. It states on the applications where they ought to be sent. > There actually two applications, a short one for candidates seeking website > templates, advice, and other non monetary resources, and a longer one for > candidates seeking monetary resources. The application is designed so that > it can be useful to candidates to fill out even if they do not garner any > cash from us. It asks candidates to write down their campaign and > fundraising plans. Every candidate ought to have a well thought out written > plan, written so it can be shared with appropriate campaign workers and > volunteers, and the act of writing the plan stimulates further thought about > the campaign and helps the candidates be more aware and better candidates. > The CCC promises that it will review every campaign plan sent, and beyond > scoring them and allocating resources, we shall have a discussion about the > plan with every Green candidate who desires that conversation. > > We have added two conditions to the awarding of resources this year. > > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > election cycle. > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign. > > So please distribute this note widely and recruit some great candidates. > > > > The Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee > > > > > > > http://gp.org/committees/campaign/quest.shtml > > > The short two part application to be used if seeking non monetary resources > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > Completed application and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > Introduction > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee is able to offer Green Party candidates > the following types of support. > > 1. Website Template - Several website templates are available for candidate > websites. Please fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to the > website templates > > 2. Media support -Press releases may be reviewed by a media savvy Green and > press releases from a campaign may be posted on the national website. Please > fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to Media Support. > > 3. Use of National Donor Lists for district or selected zip codes - Lists of > donors that have donated to the national party are available for candidates. > Use of donor lists by a candidate is subject to state party approval. Please > fill out Part 1 and 2 of this questionnaire to gain access to the donor > lists. > > 4. Use of volunteer lists - The CCC collects lists of persons who have > volunteered through the national party website in each state. Lists of > volunteers may be made available to candidates. Please fill out Part 1 and 2 > of this questionnaire to gain access to these volunteer lists. > > 5. Advice regarding the campaign's ballot access plan, fundraising plan, > field plan, and media plan - Please fill out parts 1 and 2 of this > questionnaire and the worksheet on which ever plan the campaign needs advice > on. The plan will be reviewed by a member of the CCC. > > Every candidate accepting resources or advice from the CCC is also expected > to abide by the following conditions > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > election cycle. > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign. > > > Check all types of support you are requesting: > > _____ Website templates > _____ Use of national donor list for district or selected zip codes (subject > to state party approval) > _____ Volunteer lists through Green Wave > _____ Media Support > _____ Advice regarding _______________________ > _____ Other Support. Please describe _________________________________ > > Part 1. General Information > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Official name and address of campaign committee: > > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > > Campaign web site: > > Number of candidates for this office: > > Number of seats: > > Date of primary: > > Date of general election: > > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > > Is the candidate a write-in? > > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > Part 2: About the Candidate (optional) > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > affiliation at the time. > > Is the candidate: > ___ A person of color? > ___ Female? > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > ___ Under 30? > ___ Disabled? > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and > not registered in any other party)? > If not, please explain: > > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If > not, explain. > > Optional: > If you are requesting media support, please provide any information that you > feel might help the media committee cover your campaign. > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > > > > > > Full Candidate Questionnaire - 7 Parts > To be used if seeking financial support. > > Green Party of the United States Coordinated Campaign Committee > > Campaign Resources Questionnaire -- 7 Parts > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > Introduction > > By filling out this application, the campaign automatically agrees to the > following: > > 1. Any candidate that receives matching funds will be required to share > their donor lists with the CCC to help future candidates. > > 2. By accepting matching funds, the campaign consents to an audit by the > Finance Committee if requested by the CCC and agrees to provide any > documentation the CCC or the Finance Committee may require (including, at a > minimum, a post-campaign report detailing the use of the funds). > > 3. Currently, the CCC is unable to make donations greater than $500. In > addition, the CCC's contributions program may be cancelled at any time due > to lack of funds. > > 4. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > election cycle. > > 5. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign. > > > Part 1. General Information > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Official name and address of campaign committee: > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > Campaign web site: > Number of candidates for this office: > Number of seats: > Date of primary: > Date of general election: > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > Is the candidate a write-in? > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > Part 2: About the Candidate > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > affiliation at the time. > > Is the candidate: > ___ A person of color? > ___ Female? > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > ___ Under 30? > ___ Disabled? > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and > not registered in any other party)? > If not, please explain: > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If > not, explain. > > Optional: Please include the candidate's bio or resume. > > Part 3: Field Plan > > How many votes does the campaign expect to get? > How many votes will it take to win this election? > Is this the first time a Green Party candidate has sought this office? > Will this race affect ballot access for future Green candidates in the state > or jurisdiction? How? > How much time will the candidate devote to the campaign on a daily basis? > List endorsements received and endorsements sought or expected. > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to identify and turn out the number > of voters needed to achieve its goals. This document should reflect detailed > analysis of previous elections for the same office; previous elections for > the top-of-the-ticket race in other years when this office has been on the > ballot; political histories of the opponents in this election and the > candidates for this office in the last election; voter ID efforts; > applicable campaign tactics and get-out-the-vote plans and how many votes > each tactical approach is expected to yield; timelines; and the structure of > the campaign organization, including qualifications of key campaign staff > and the number and activities of volunteers. (This will usually require 500 > words or more.) > > Part 4: Media > > Explain how the campaign expects to make use of earned media. Include the > press secretary's resume or bio. > > If available, please include (or provide web links to): > Samples of campaign materials or speeches > Press clips > > Part 5: Budget > > How much money does the campaign expect to raise? > How much money have winning candidates spent on the same race in previous > elections? > List any legal limits or any limits the campaign has set for contributions. > Is there a Clean Money law or other mechanism for public financing in > effect? > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to raise the amount of money needed > to achieve its goals. This document should include the campaign budget and > should reflect detailed analysis of the campaign's expenses in every phase > from exploratory to election day and wrapup; appropriate fundraising tactics > and how much money each tactical approach is expected to yield; legal and > political constraints on fundraising; and the role of advertising in the > campaign. (This will usually require 300-500 words.) > Part 6: GPUS Contributions > > Explain in detail how GPUS contributions will be used by the campaign. > > If not already states, is there any state or local law, or any state or > local Green Party policy, that limits the size or nature of contributions > from the Green National Committee to the campaign? > > Part 7: References > > List at least three references, including phone numbers and e-mail > addresses. At least one reference should be associated with a Green > organization. > 1. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > 2. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > 3. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > > Please ask a reference associated with a Green organization to fill out the > reference questions below and e-mail them to brent at gp.org. > > 1. How long have you known the candidate? > > 2. To your knowledge, is this candidate a member of the Green Party and not > also a member of any other party? > > 3. Please list the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate and his/her > campaign. > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > > > To be removed please mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. 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Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > From creilly1952 at hotmail.com Thu Jan 31 09:55:54 2008 From: creilly1952 at hotmail.com (Christopher Reilly) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:55:54 -0500 Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Apply by February 21 for campaign funds In-Reply-To: <21f4f7390801302141h51ec761cr729eca58323cd297@mail.gmail.com> References: <10859a090801301944l198128cya885a99fa3a5fc7f@mail.gmail.com> <21f4f7390801302141h51ec761cr729eca58323cd297@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Richard: I looked into your question and here is the results of my research into the legality of the national Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee donating to Connecticut GP candidates for state office. 1. Contributions from national Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee directly to CT/GP state (non-federal) candidates: "Contributions from a national committee of a political party are prohibited." [from page 16 of "Guide for Municipal Candidates" -http://www.ct.gov/seec/lib/seec/muni_guide_2007_final.pdf] My comments: This excerpt is from the municipal candidate guide and not the state candidate guide which hasn't been published yet but when it is publish it will contain the same prohibition. Please note that this does not apply to CT federal candidates for congress which is covered by federal law. 2. Contributions from national Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee to the CT/GP State Central Committee: "Contributions from a national committee of a political party may be accepted without limit provided that any such contribution is from the national party committee?s federal account on file with the Federal Election Commission and that such federal account contains only funds subject to the disclosure and contribution limits prescribed in the Federal Election Campaign Act. (No transfers from "soft money" accounts.)" [from page 14 of "Guide for Party (Town and State Central) Committees" - http://www.ct.gov/seec/lib/seec/party_guide_2007.pdf ] My comments: The national Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee should know whether or not their money is from a FEC account. If it is and the national GP CCC donates to the CT/GP state central committee, the CT/GP state central committee can, in turn, donate that money to the CT candidates both local and federal. The CT/GP state central committee is allowed by law to give up to $5000 (state rep.), $10,000 (state senate) or unlimited (Congressional candidate). Hope this helps. --Chris Reilly > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:41:09 -0500 > From: richard.duffee at gmail.com > To: chapillsbury at gmail.com > Subject: Re: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Apply by February 21 for campaign funds > CC: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > Charlie, > Has anyone come to a conclusive answer on this, so that we don't > fumble around repeating each others' work, sometimes incorrectly, > spiralling ourselves for aimless rumors into massive confusion? > "2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign." > Richard > > On Jan 30, 2008 10:44 PM, Charlie Pillsbury wrote: > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > > > to unsubscribe click here > > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > fyi, charlie > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Greg Gerritt > > Date: Jan 29, 2008 12:13 PM > > Subject: [usgp-nc] Resources for Green candidates > > To: national comm votes > > > > > > NC delegates, please forward to everyone in your state party involved in > > campaigns. Greg Gerritt GPRI CCC > > > > > > Apply by February 21 for campaign funds to be allocated in Mid March > > > > Please Forward Widely > > > > > > Greens, now that the CCC has been seated it is time to open up the > > application process so that the CCC get get resources into the hands of > > local candidates around the country. Right now we have in the data base 92 > > local candidates for 2008. Our goal is 1000. We can not get to this goal > > without you. > > > > The CCC can help with candidate recruitment, but primarily as an instigator > > and resource. The recruitment is going to go on in your local communities. > > The tools we offer are varied, but maybe the most important is this. If you > > know any candidate or potential candidate who can use advice on how to get a > > campaign up and running, can use a conversation with an experienced campaign > > consultant, wants help interviewing a campaign manager or treasurer, needs > > someone to review written materials, get them up to speed on media work, or > > just needs someone to talk to about a campaign or potential campaign, the > > CCC has someone who will talk to the candidate and help them figure it out. > > We can help candidates run better races, and be a sounding board for someone > > mulling a campaign, trying to figure out if they can pull together what it > > needs. > > > > That ought to give you a better recruiting tool, but you still have to > > recruit. Then give them a CCC contact, either through the website or the > > national office, and maybe we can finish the deal, let them know we stand > > behind them. In addition to talking to any candidate or potential candidate > > who comes our way, something we have been doing more and more of, we have > > started calling state parties to make sure that not only NC members are > > aware of our existence and services, but also state officers. In the next > > few weeks nearly every state will get a call so we can talk up what we do. > > > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee was actually created to give away money > > to Green candidates, and while we mostly do consulting these days, we still > > give away money when we can. We can not guarantee at this point what the > > National Committee will allocate for spring candidates support, but the Tier > > ONE budget calls for $4000 to be allocated this year. The committee has had > > a preliminary discussion about how to allocate the money. Do we donate > > $2000 now and $2000 in the fall? (assuming the CCC gets it full allocation) > > Or do we spend some now, but keep more than 50% of the yearly allocation for > > the fall, when more candidates are running and the races are bigger. The > > committee is leaning towards holding back more money for fall, but we are > > unsure of exactly how it will shake out. > > > > In any case the CCC hereby opens up the application period for Green > > candidates to apply for funds. The application is included below as is the > > link to the application on the website and should be returned to us by > > February 21. It states on the applications where they ought to be sent. > > There actually two applications, a short one for candidates seeking website > > templates, advice, and other non monetary resources, and a longer one for > > candidates seeking monetary resources. The application is designed so that > > it can be useful to candidates to fill out even if they do not garner any > > cash from us. It asks candidates to write down their campaign and > > fundraising plans. Every candidate ought to have a well thought out written > > plan, written so it can be shared with appropriate campaign workers and > > volunteers, and the act of writing the plan stimulates further thought about > > the campaign and helps the candidates be more aware and better candidates. > > The CCC promises that it will review every campaign plan sent, and beyond > > scoring them and allocating resources, we shall have a discussion about the > > plan with every Green candidate who desires that conversation. > > > > We have added two conditions to the awarding of resources this year. > > > > > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > > election cycle. > > > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > offer support to their campaign. > > > > So please distribute this note widely and recruit some great candidates. > > > > > > > > The Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://gp.org/committees/campaign/quest.shtml > > > > > > The short two part application to be used if seeking non monetary resources > > > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your > > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate > > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, > > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties > > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that > > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > > > Completed application and supporting material should be sent to > > brent at gp.org. > > > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > > > Introduction > > > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee is able to offer Green Party candidates > > the following types of support. > > > > 1. Website Template - Several website templates are available for candidate > > websites. Please fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to the > > website templates > > > > 2. Media support -Press releases may be reviewed by a media savvy Green and > > press releases from a campaign may be posted on the national website. Please > > fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to Media Support. > > > > 3. Use of National Donor Lists for district or selected zip codes - Lists of > > donors that have donated to the national party are available for candidates. > > Use of donor lists by a candidate is subject to state party approval. Please > > fill out Part 1 and 2 of this questionnaire to gain access to the donor > > lists. > > > > 4. Use of volunteer lists - The CCC collects lists of persons who have > > volunteered through the national party website in each state. Lists of > > volunteers may be made available to candidates. Please fill out Part 1 and 2 > > of this questionnaire to gain access to these volunteer lists. > > > > 5. Advice regarding the campaign's ballot access plan, fundraising plan, > > field plan, and media plan - Please fill out parts 1 and 2 of this > > questionnaire and the worksheet on which ever plan the campaign needs advice > > on. The plan will be reviewed by a member of the CCC. > > > > Every candidate accepting resources or advice from the CCC is also expected > > to abide by the following conditions > > > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > > election cycle. > > > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > offer support to their campaign. > > > > > > Check all types of support you are requesting: > > > > _____ Website templates > > _____ Use of national donor list for district or selected zip codes (subject > > to state party approval) > > _____ Volunteer lists through Green Wave > > _____ Media Support > > _____ Advice regarding _______________________ > > _____ Other Support. Please describe _________________________________ > > > > Part 1. General Information > > > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > > > > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > Official name and address of campaign committee: > > > > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > > > > Campaign web site: > > > > Number of candidates for this office: > > > > Number of seats: > > > > Date of primary: > > > > Date of general election: > > > > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > > > > Is the candidate a write-in? > > > > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > > > Part 2: About the Candidate (optional) > > > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > > > > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > > affiliation at the time. > > > > Is the candidate: > > ___ A person of color? > > ___ Female? > > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > > ___ Under 30? > > ___ Disabled? > > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in > > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and > > not registered in any other party)? > > If not, please explain: > > > > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > > > > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If > > not, explain. > > > > Optional: > > If you are requesting media support, please provide any information that you > > feel might help the media committee cover your campaign. > > > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > > brent at gp.org. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Full Candidate Questionnaire - 7 Parts > > To be used if seeking financial support. > > > > Green Party of the United States Coordinated Campaign Committee > > > > Campaign Resources Questionnaire -- 7 Parts > > > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your > > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate > > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, > > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties > > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that > > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > > brent at gp.org. > > > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > > > Introduction > > > > By filling out this application, the campaign automatically agrees to the > > following: > > > > 1. Any candidate that receives matching funds will be required to share > > their donor lists with the CCC to help future candidates. > > > > 2. By accepting matching funds, the campaign consents to an audit by the > > Finance Committee if requested by the CCC and agrees to provide any > > documentation the CCC or the Finance Committee may require (including, at a > > minimum, a post-campaign report detailing the use of the funds). > > > > 3. Currently, the CCC is unable to make donations greater than $500. In > > addition, the CCC's contributions program may be cancelled at any time due > > to lack of funds. > > > > 4. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > > election cycle. > > > > 5. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > offer support to their campaign. > > > > > > Part 1. General Information > > > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Official name and address of campaign committee: > > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > > Campaign web site: > > Number of candidates for this office: > > Number of seats: > > Date of primary: > > Date of general election: > > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > > Is the candidate a write-in? > > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > > > Part 2: About the Candidate > > > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > > affiliation at the time. > > > > Is the candidate: > > ___ A person of color? > > ___ Female? > > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > > ___ Under 30? > > ___ Disabled? > > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in > > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and > > not registered in any other party)? > > If not, please explain: > > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If > > not, explain. > > > > Optional: Please include the candidate's bio or resume. > > > > Part 3: Field Plan > > > > How many votes does the campaign expect to get? > > How many votes will it take to win this election? > > Is this the first time a Green Party candidate has sought this office? > > Will this race affect ballot access for future Green candidates in the state > > or jurisdiction? How? > > How much time will the candidate devote to the campaign on a daily basis? > > List endorsements received and endorsements sought or expected. > > > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to identify and turn out the number > > of voters needed to achieve its goals. This document should reflect detailed > > analysis of previous elections for the same office; previous elections for > > the top-of-the-ticket race in other years when this office has been on the > > ballot; political histories of the opponents in this election and the > > candidates for this office in the last election; voter ID efforts; > > applicable campaign tactics and get-out-the-vote plans and how many votes > > each tactical approach is expected to yield; timelines; and the structure of > > the campaign organization, including qualifications of key campaign staff > > and the number and activities of volunteers. (This will usually require 500 > > words or more.) > > > > Part 4: Media > > > > Explain how the campaign expects to make use of earned media. Include the > > press secretary's resume or bio. > > > > If available, please include (or provide web links to): > > Samples of campaign materials or speeches > > Press clips > > > > Part 5: Budget > > > > How much money does the campaign expect to raise? > > How much money have winning candidates spent on the same race in previous > > elections? > > List any legal limits or any limits the campaign has set for contributions. > > Is there a Clean Money law or other mechanism for public financing in > > effect? > > > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to raise the amount of money needed > > to achieve its goals. This document should include the campaign budget and > > should reflect detailed analysis of the campaign's expenses in every phase > > from exploratory to election day and wrapup; appropriate fundraising tactics > > and how much money each tactical approach is expected to yield; legal and > > political constraints on fundraising; and the role of advertising in the > > campaign. (This will usually require 300-500 words.) > > Part 6: GPUS Contributions > > > > Explain in detail how GPUS contributions will be used by the campaign. > > > > If not already states, is there any state or local law, or any state or > > local Green Party policy, that limits the size or nature of contributions > > from the Green National Committee to the campaign? > > > > Part 7: References > > > > List at least three references, including phone numbers and e-mail > > addresses. At least one reference should be associated with a Green > > organization. > > 1. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > 2. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > 3. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > > > > > Please ask a reference associated with a Green organization to fill out the > > reference questions below and e-mail them to brent at gp.org. > > > > 1. How long have you known the candidate? > > > > 2. To your knowledge, is this candidate a member of the Green Party and not > > also a member of any other party? > > > > 3. 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URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Thu Jan 31 10:48:18 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:48:18 -0500 Subject: {news} Apply by February 21 for campaign funds In-Reply-To: <21f4f7390801302141h51ec761cr729eca58323cd297@mail.gmail.com> References: <10859a090801301944l198128cya885a99fa3a5fc7f@mail.gmail.com> <21f4f7390801302141h51ec761cr729eca58323cd297@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <003301c86420$b4ba52e0$1e2ef8a0$@org> Richard, et al: Check with our Treasurer Chris Reilly, who I think has the best understanding of the state's campaign contribution laws. -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Richard Duffee Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:41 AM To: Charlie Pillsbury Cc: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: Re: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Apply by February 21 for campaign funds Charlie, "2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to offer support to their campaign." Has anyone come to a conclusive answer on this, so that we don't fumble around repeating each others' work, sometimes incorrectly, spiralling ourselves for aimless rumors into massive confusion? Richard On Jan 30, 2008 10:44 PM, Charlie Pillsbury wrote: > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > fyi, charlie > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Greg Gerritt > Date: Jan 29, 2008 12:13 PM > Subject: [usgp-nc] Resources for Green candidates > To: national comm votes > > > NC delegates, please forward to everyone in your state party involved in > campaigns. Greg Gerritt GPRI CCC > > > Apply by February 21 for campaign funds to be allocated in Mid March > > Please Forward Widely > > > Greens, now that the CCC has been seated it is time to open up the > application process so that the CCC get get resources into the hands of > local candidates around the country. Right now we have in the data base 92 > local candidates for 2008. Our goal is 1000. We can not get to this goal > without you. > > The CCC can help with candidate recruitment, but primarily as an instigator > and resource. The recruitment is going to go on in your local communities. > The tools we offer are varied, but maybe the most important is this. If you > know any candidate or potential candidate who can use advice on how to get a > campaign up and running, can use a conversation with an experienced campaign > consultant, wants help interviewing a campaign manager or treasurer, needs > someone to review written materials, get them up to speed on media work, or > just needs someone to talk to about a campaign or potential campaign, the > CCC has someone who will talk to the candidate and help them figure it out. > We can help candidates run better races, and be a sounding board for someone > mulling a campaign, trying to figure out if they can pull together what it > needs. > > That ought to give you a better recruiting tool, but you still have to > recruit. Then give them a CCC contact, either through the website or the > national office, and maybe we can finish the deal, let them know we stand > behind them. In addition to talking to any candidate or potential candidate > who comes our way, something we have been doing more and more of, we have > started calling state parties to make sure that not only NC members are > aware of our existence and services, but also state officers. In the next > few weeks nearly every state will get a call so we can talk up what we do. > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee was actually created to give away money > to Green candidates, and while we mostly do consulting these days, we still > give away money when we can. We can not guarantee at this point what the > National Committee will allocate for spring candidates support, but the Tier > ONE budget calls for $4000 to be allocated this year. The committee has had > a preliminary discussion about how to allocate the money. Do we donate > $2000 now and $2000 in the fall? (assuming the CCC gets it full allocation) > Or do we spend some now, but keep more than 50% of the yearly allocation for > the fall, when more candidates are running and the races are bigger. The > committee is leaning towards holding back more money for fall, but we are > unsure of exactly how it will shake out. > > In any case the CCC hereby opens up the application period for Green > candidates to apply for funds. The application is included below as is the > link to the application on the website and should be returned to us by > February 21. It states on the applications where they ought to be sent. > There actually two applications, a short one for candidates seeking website > templates, advice, and other non monetary resources, and a longer one for > candidates seeking monetary resources. The application is designed so that > it can be useful to candidates to fill out even if they do not garner any > cash from us. It asks candidates to write down their campaign and > fundraising plans. Every candidate ought to have a well thought out written > plan, written so it can be shared with appropriate campaign workers and > volunteers, and the act of writing the plan stimulates further thought about > the campaign and helps the candidates be more aware and better candidates. > The CCC promises that it will review every campaign plan sent, and beyond > scoring them and allocating resources, we shall have a discussion about the > plan with every Green candidate who desires that conversation. > > We have added two conditions to the awarding of resources this year. > > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > election cycle. > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign. > > So please distribute this note widely and recruit some great candidates. > > > > The Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee > > > > > > > http://gp.org/committees/campaign/quest.shtml > > > The short two part application to be used if seeking non monetary resources > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > Completed application and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > Introduction > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee is able to offer Green Party candidates > the following types of support. > > 1. Website Template - Several website templates are available for candidate > websites. Please fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to the > website templates > > 2. Media support -Press releases may be reviewed by a media savvy Green and > press releases from a campaign may be posted on the national website. Please > fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to Media Support. > > 3. Use of National Donor Lists for district or selected zip codes - Lists of > donors that have donated to the national party are available for candidates. > Use of donor lists by a candidate is subject to state party approval. Please > fill out Part 1 and 2 of this questionnaire to gain access to the donor > lists. > > 4. Use of volunteer lists - The CCC collects lists of persons who have > volunteered through the national party website in each state. Lists of > volunteers may be made available to candidates. Please fill out Part 1 and 2 > of this questionnaire to gain access to these volunteer lists. > > 5. Advice regarding the campaign's ballot access plan, fundraising plan, > field plan, and media plan - Please fill out parts 1 and 2 of this > questionnaire and the worksheet on which ever plan the campaign needs advice > on. The plan will be reviewed by a member of the CCC. > > Every candidate accepting resources or advice from the CCC is also expected > to abide by the following conditions > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > election cycle. > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign. > > > Check all types of support you are requesting: > > _____ Website templates > _____ Use of national donor list for district or selected zip codes (subject > to state party approval) > _____ Volunteer lists through Green Wave > _____ Media Support > _____ Advice regarding _______________________ > _____ Other Support. Please describe _________________________________ > > Part 1. General Information > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > Official name and address of campaign committee: > > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > > Campaign web site: > > Number of candidates for this office: > > Number of seats: > > Date of primary: > > Date of general election: > > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > > Is the candidate a write-in? > > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > Part 2: About the Candidate (optional) > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > affiliation at the time. > > Is the candidate: > ___ A person of color? > ___ Female? > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > ___ Under 30? > ___ Disabled? > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and > not registered in any other party)? > If not, please explain: > > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If > not, explain. > > Optional: > If you are requesting media support, please provide any information that you > feel might help the media committee cover your campaign. > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > > > > > > Full Candidate Questionnaire - 7 Parts > To be used if seeking financial support. > > Green Party of the United States Coordinated Campaign Committee > > Campaign Resources Questionnaire -- 7 Parts > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in your > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please indicate > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, endorsements, > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green Parties > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies that > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > Introduction > > By filling out this application, the campaign automatically agrees to the > following: > > 1. Any candidate that receives matching funds will be required to share > their donor lists with the CCC to help future candidates. > > 2. By accepting matching funds, the campaign consents to an audit by the > Finance Committee if requested by the CCC and agrees to provide any > documentation the CCC or the Finance Committee may require (including, at a > minimum, a post-campaign report detailing the use of the funds). > > 3. Currently, the CCC is unable to make donations greater than $500. In > addition, the CCC's contributions program may be cancelled at any time due > to lack of funds. > > 4. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > election cycle. > > 5. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > offer support to their campaign. > > > Part 1. General Information > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > Official name and address of campaign committee: > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > Campaign web site: > Number of candidates for this office: > Number of seats: > Date of primary: > Date of general election: > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > Is the candidate a write-in? > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > Part 2: About the Candidate > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > affiliation at the time. > > Is the candidate: > ___ A person of color? > ___ Female? > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > ___ Under 30? > ___ Disabled? > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available in > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party and > not registered in any other party)? > If not, please explain: > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? If > not, explain. > > Optional: Please include the candidate's bio or resume. > > Part 3: Field Plan > > How many votes does the campaign expect to get? > How many votes will it take to win this election? > Is this the first time a Green Party candidate has sought this office? > Will this race affect ballot access for future Green candidates in the state > or jurisdiction? How? > How much time will the candidate devote to the campaign on a daily basis? > List endorsements received and endorsements sought or expected. > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to identify and turn out the number > of voters needed to achieve its goals. This document should reflect detailed > analysis of previous elections for the same office; previous elections for > the top-of-the-ticket race in other years when this office has been on the > ballot; political histories of the opponents in this election and the > candidates for this office in the last election; voter ID efforts; > applicable campaign tactics and get-out-the-vote plans and how many votes > each tactical approach is expected to yield; timelines; and the structure of > the campaign organization, including qualifications of key campaign staff > and the number and activities of volunteers. (This will usually require 500 > words or more.) > > Part 4: Media > > Explain how the campaign expects to make use of earned media. Include the > press secretary's resume or bio. > > If available, please include (or provide web links to): > Samples of campaign materials or speeches > Press clips > > Part 5: Budget > > How much money does the campaign expect to raise? > How much money have winning candidates spent on the same race in previous > elections? > List any legal limits or any limits the campaign has set for contributions. > Is there a Clean Money law or other mechanism for public financing in > effect? > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to raise the amount of money needed > to achieve its goals. This document should include the campaign budget and > should reflect detailed analysis of the campaign's expenses in every phase > from exploratory to election day and wrapup; appropriate fundraising tactics > and how much money each tactical approach is expected to yield; legal and > political constraints on fundraising; and the role of advertising in the > campaign. (This will usually require 300-500 words.) > Part 6: GPUS Contributions > > Explain in detail how GPUS contributions will be used by the campaign. > > If not already states, is there any state or local law, or any state or > local Green Party policy, that limits the size or nature of contributions > from the Green National Committee to the campaign? > > Part 7: References > > List at least three references, including phone numbers and e-mail > addresses. At least one reference should be associated with a Green > organization. > 1. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > 2. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > 3. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > > Please ask a reference associated with a Green organization to fill out the > reference questions below and e-mail them to brent at gp.org. > > 1. How long have you known the candidate? > > 2. To your knowledge, is this candidate a member of the Green Party and not > also a member of any other party? > > 3. Please list the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate and his/her > campaign. > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > brent at gp.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ralph Nader, who recently announced his 2008 Exploratory Committee, will speak after the candidates' forum ? Time: Saturday, February 2, at 10 am ? Location: Busboys & Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW in Washington, DC WASHINGTON, DC -- Candidates for the Green Party's nomination will participate in a public forum in Washington, DC on Saturday, February 2. ? Candidates Jesse Johnson, Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift will speak at the forum. Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowaisfza-Curry, who is seeking the Green Party's vice presidential nomination, will also speak. ? DC native Jared Ball, who withdrew from the Green presidential race to support candidate Cynthia McKinney, will speak on Ms. McKinney's behalf. ? After the candidates' forum, Ralph Nader will speak and answer questions. Mr. Nader, who recently announced his 2008 Exploratory Committee , will appear as a guest speaker. Reporters and photographers will be welcome. The event will take place 10:00 am at Busboys & Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW, near the U Street/African American Civil War Memorial Stop on the Metro Green Line. The phone number for Busboys & Poets is 202-387-POET. The February 2 event is sponsored by the DC Statehood Green Party , Maryland Green Party , and Green Party of Virginia . The DC Statehood Green Party has major party status in the District. The Green Party has opened a new web page featuring videos of Green presidential candidates and debates . The party will choose its presidential and vice presidential nominees at the 2008 Green National Nominating Convention in Chicago, July 10-13. The following candidates will be on the DC ballot in the February 12 primary: ? Jared Ball http://www.jaredball.com ? Jesse Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg ? Cynthia McKinney http://www.runcynthiarun.org http://www.americanblackout.org/ ? Kent Mesplay http://www.mesplay.org ? Ralph Nader http://www.draftnader.org (Howie Hawkins of the Green Party of New York State has consented to serve as a 'placeholder' candidate on the DC ballot until Mr. Nader announces his intentions for the 2008 election) ? Kat Swift http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez MORE INFORMATION The DC Statehood Green Party http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org ? Green candidates for the White Houseon the February 12 primary ballot DC http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=14 Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 ? Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php ? Green candidate database for 2007 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml ? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers ? 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Message-ID: <175439.84472.qm@web44811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> New Meetup Meeting wrote: From: New Meetup Meeting To: timmckee2008 at yahoo.com Subject: Announcing "The Hartford Ralph Nader February Meetup", Thursday, February 14 at 7:00PM!. Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:10:29 -0500 (EST) a, a:link, a:visited { color:#0066BB; } Meeting Announcement The Hartford Ralph Nader Meetup Group Your Meetup has a meeting Thursday, February 14 at 7:00PM! What The Hartford Ralph Nader February Meetup When Thursday, February 14 at 7:00PM Where Steve Fournier 74 Tremont Street Hartford, CT Hartford CT 06105 860 794 6718 RSVP Now YES MAYBE NO Steve Fournier Organizer of The Hartford Ralph Nader Meetup Group Meeting Description Can lower-case democrats and republicans seize power from Democrats and Republicans? Add info at meetup.com to your address book to receive all your Meetup emails. You are receiving this email because you are a member of The Hartford Ralph Nader Meetup Group. 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URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Thu Jan 31 18:07:29 2008 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:07:29 -0500 Subject: {news} RE: Apply by February 21 for campaign funds In-Reply-To: <21f4f7390801310836w69d2c925j76b37a3f87f66857@mail.gmail.com> References: <10859a090801301944l198128cya885a99fa3a5fc7f@mail.gmail.com> <21f4f7390801302141h51ec761cr729eca58323cd297@mail.gmail.com> <003301c86420$b4ba52e0$1e2ef8a0$@org> <21f4f7390801310836w69d2c925j76b37a3f87f66857@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <00c901c8645e$0e9e06c0$2bda1440$@org> Richard: Please forward me/all of us a copy of Chris' answer for future reference. Thanks, Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Richard Duffee [mailto:richard.duffee at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:37 AM To: Charlie Pillsbury Subject: Re: Apply by February 21 for campaign funds Right, Charlie, Chris has already sent me his answer. Looks like he's got it exactly right; his email should be kept as reference for future questions. Richard On Jan 31, 2008 10:48 AM, Charlie Pillsbury wrote: > > > > Richard, et al: Check with our Treasurer Chris Reilly, who I think has the > best understanding of the state's campaign contribution laws. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org > [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Richard Duffee > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:41 AM > To: Charlie Pillsbury > Cc: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org > Subject: Re: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Apply by February 21 for campaign funds > > > > Charlie, > > > > "2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > offer support to their campaign." > > > > Has anyone come to a conclusive answer on this, so that we don't > > fumble around repeating each others' work, sometimes incorrectly, > > spiralling ourselves for aimless rumors into massive confusion? > > > > Richard > > > > On Jan 30, 2008 10:44 PM, Charlie Pillsbury wrote: > > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > > > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > > > > > to unsubscribe click here > > > mailto:ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > > fyi, charlie > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: Greg Gerritt > > > Date: Jan 29, 2008 12:13 PM > > > Subject: [usgp-nc] Resources for Green candidates > > > To: national comm votes > > > > > > > > > NC delegates, please forward to everyone in your state party involved in > > > campaigns. Greg Gerritt GPRI CCC > > > > > > > > > Apply by February 21 for campaign funds to be allocated in Mid March > > > > > > Please Forward Widely > > > > > > > > > Greens, now that the CCC has been seated it is time to open up the > > > application process so that the CCC get get resources into the hands of > > > local candidates around the country. Right now we have in the data base > 92 > > > local candidates for 2008. Our goal is 1000. We can not get to this goal > > > without you. > > > > > > The CCC can help with candidate recruitment, but primarily as an > instigator > > > and resource. The recruitment is going to go on in your local > communities. > > > The tools we offer are varied, but maybe the most important is this. If > you > > > know any candidate or potential candidate who can use advice on how to get > a > > > campaign up and running, can use a conversation with an experienced > campaign > > > consultant, wants help interviewing a campaign manager or treasurer, needs > > > someone to review written materials, get them up to speed on media work, > or > > > just needs someone to talk to about a campaign or potential campaign, the > > > CCC has someone who will talk to the candidate and help them figure it > out. > > > We can help candidates run better races, and be a sounding board for > someone > > > mulling a campaign, trying to figure out if they can pull together what it > > > needs. > > > > > > That ought to give you a better recruiting tool, but you still have to > > > recruit. Then give them a CCC contact, either through the website or the > > > national office, and maybe we can finish the deal, let them know we stand > > > behind them. In addition to talking to any candidate or potential > candidate > > > who comes our way, something we have been doing more and more of, we have > > > started calling state parties to make sure that not only NC members are > > > aware of our existence and services, but also state officers. In the next > > > few weeks nearly every state will get a call so we can talk up what we do. > > > > > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee was actually created to give away money > > > to Green candidates, and while we mostly do consulting these days, we > still > > > give away money when we can. We can not guarantee at this point what the > > > National Committee will allocate for spring candidates support, but the > Tier > > > ONE budget calls for $4000 to be allocated this year. The committee has > had > > > a preliminary discussion about how to allocate the money. Do we donate > > > $2000 now and $2000 in the fall? (assuming the CCC gets it full > allocation) > > > Or do we spend some now, but keep more than 50% of the yearly allocation > for > > > the fall, when more candidates are running and the races are bigger. The > > > committee is leaning towards holding back more money for fall, but we are > > > unsure of exactly how it will shake out. > > > > > > In any case the CCC hereby opens up the application period for Green > > > candidates to apply for funds. The application is included below as is > the > > > link to the application on the website and should be returned to us by > > > February 21. It states on the applications where they ought to be sent. > > > There actually two applications, a short one for candidates seeking > website > > > templates, advice, and other non monetary resources, and a longer one for > > > candidates seeking monetary resources. The application is designed so > that > > > it can be useful to candidates to fill out even if they do not garner any > > > cash from us. It asks candidates to write down their campaign and > > > fundraising plans. Every candidate ought to have a well thought out > written > > > plan, written so it can be shared with appropriate campaign workers and > > > volunteers, and the act of writing the plan stimulates further thought > about > > > the campaign and helps the candidates be more aware and better candidates. > > > The CCC promises that it will review every campaign plan sent, and beyond > > > scoring them and allocating resources, we shall have a discussion about > the > > > plan with every Green candidate who desires that conversation. > > > > > > We have added two conditions to the awarding of resources this year. > > > > > > > > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > > > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > > > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > > > election cycle. > > > > > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > > offer support to their campaign. > > > > > > So please distribute this note widely and recruit some great candidates. > > > > > > > > > > > > The Green Party Coordinated Campaign Committee > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://gp.org/committees/campaign/quest.shtml > > > > > > > > > The short two part application to be used if seeking non monetary > resources > > > > > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in > your > > > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please > indicate > > > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, > endorsements, > > > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > > > > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green > Parties > > > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies > that > > > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > > > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > > > > > Completed application and supporting material should be sent to > > > brent at gp.org. > > > > > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > > > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > > > > > Introduction > > > > > > The Coordinated Campaign Committee is able to offer Green Party candidates > > > the following types of support. > > > > > > 1. Website Template - Several website templates are available for > candidate > > > websites. Please fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to > the > > > website templates > > > > > > 2. Media support -Press releases may be reviewed by a media savvy Green > and > > > press releases from a campaign may be posted on the national website. > Please > > > fill out Part 1 of this questionnaire to gain access to Media Support. > > > > > > 3. Use of National Donor Lists for district or selected zip codes - Lists > of > > > donors that have donated to the national party are available for > candidates. > > > Use of donor lists by a candidate is subject to state party approval. > Please > > > fill out Part 1 and 2 of this questionnaire to gain access to the donor > > > lists. > > > > > > 4. Use of volunteer lists - The CCC collects lists of persons who have > > > volunteered through the national party website in each state. Lists of > > > volunteers may be made available to candidates. Please fill out Part 1 and > 2 > > > of this questionnaire to gain access to these volunteer lists. > > > > > > 5. Advice regarding the campaign's ballot access plan, fundraising plan, > > > field plan, and media plan - Please fill out parts 1 and 2 of this > > > questionnaire and the worksheet on which ever plan the campaign needs > advice > > > on. The plan will be reviewed by a member of the CCC. > > > > > > Every candidate accepting resources or advice from the CCC is also > expected > > > to abide by the following conditions > > > > > > 1. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > > > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > > > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > > > election cycle. > > > > > > 2. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > > offer support to their campaign. > > > > > > > > > Check all types of support you are requesting: > > > > > > _____ Website templates > > > _____ Use of national donor list for district or selected zip codes > (subject > > > to state party approval) > > > _____ Volunteer lists through Green Wave > > > _____ Media Support > > > _____ Advice regarding _______________________ > > > _____ Other Support. Please describe _________________________________ > > > > > > Part 1. General Information > > > > > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > > > > > > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > > > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > > > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > > > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > > > > Official name and address of campaign committee: > > > > > > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > > > > > > Campaign web site: > > > > > > Number of candidates for this office: > > > > > > Number of seats: > > > > > > Date of primary: > > > > > > Date of general election: > > > > > > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > > > > > > Is the candidate a write-in? > > > > > > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > > > > > Part 2: About the Candidate (optional) > > > > > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > > > > > > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > > > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > > > affiliation at the time. > > > > > > Is the candidate: > > > ___ A person of color? > > > ___ Female? > > > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > > > ___ Under 30? > > > ___ Disabled? > > > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > > > > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available > in > > > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party > and > > > not registered in any other party)? > > > If not, please explain: > > > > > > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > > > > > > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? > If > > > not, explain. > > > > > > Optional: > > > If you are requesting media support, please provide any information that > you > > > feel might help the media committee cover your campaign. > > > > > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > > > brent at gp.org. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Full Candidate Questionnaire - 7 Parts > > > To be used if seeking financial support. > > > > > > Green Party of the United States Coordinated Campaign Committee > > > > > > Campaign Resources Questionnaire -- 7 Parts > > > > > > Copy and paste this form into a new e-mail message and type or paste in > your > > > responses and supporting material. If you send attachments, please > indicate > > > clearly which sections they address. If you have media clips, > endorsements, > > > candidate bios, etc., on a web site, it is sufficient to provide links. > > > > > > The term "state" is used with all due respect to the colonial Green > Parties > > > of the District of Columbia, American Samoa and any other U.S. colonies > that > > > may organize affiliates of the Green Party of the United States, and is > > > intended to apply equally to colonial Green Parties. > > > > > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > > > brent at gp.org. > > > > > > Questions should be directed to brent at gp.org OR call the CCC's Campaign > > > Management Hotline at (202) 319-7194. > > > > > > Introduction > > > > > > By filling out this application, the campaign automatically agrees to the > > > following: > > > > > > 1. Any candidate that receives matching funds will be required to share > > > their donor lists with the CCC to help future candidates. > > > > > > 2. By accepting matching funds, the campaign consents to an audit by > the > > > Finance Committee if requested by the CCC and agrees to provide any > > > documentation the CCC or the Finance Committee may require (including, at > a > > > minimum, a post-campaign report detailing the use of the funds). > > > > > > 3. Currently, the CCC is unable to make donations greater than $500. In > > > addition, the CCC's contributions program may be cancelled at any time due > > > to lack of funds. > > > > > > 4. All candidates which accept CCC support will be asked to fill out > > > a brief survey about their experiences with the CCC following their > > > campaign to help us improve our support offerings for the next > > > election cycle. > > > > > > 5. Candidates are asked to look into their state's campaign > > > contribution laws and make sure that it will be legal for the CCC to > > > offer support to their campaign. > > > > > > > > > Part 1. General Information > > > > > > Office Sought (full title including district, ward, township, etc.): > > > Candidate's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > Campaign manager's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > Press secretary's name, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > Treasurer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address: > > > Official name and address of campaign committee: > > > (Is this a campaign office? _Y _N) > > > Campaign web site: > > > Number of candidates for this office: > > > Number of seats: > > > Date of primary: > > > Date of general election: > > > Partisan or nonpartisan election? > > > Is the candidate a write-in? > > > Election agency web site (or other official site for election results): > > > > > > Part 2: About the Candidate > > > > > > Has the candidate run for office before? Y / N > > > If yes, for each previous election, please indicate the office, year, and > > > results (number and percentage of votes) and the candidate's party > > > affiliation at the time. > > > > > > Is the candidate: > > > ___ A person of color? > > > ___ Female? > > > ___ Gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender? > > > ___ Under 30? > > > ___ Disabled? > > > ___ Poor or lower class Income level? > > > > > > Is the candidate a registered Green (or, if registration is not available > in > > > the state, is the candidate an official member of the state Green Party > and > > > not registered in any other party)? > > > If not, please explain: > > > Is the candidate a member of any other political parties? Please list. > > > Is the campaign endorsed by the state Green Party and the local chapter? > If > > > not, explain. > > > > > > Optional: Please include the candidate's bio or resume. > > > > > > Part 3: Field Plan > > > > > > How many votes does the campaign expect to get? > > > How many votes will it take to win this election? > > > Is this the first time a Green Party candidate has sought this office? > > > Will this race affect ballot access for future Green candidates in the > state > > > or jurisdiction? How? > > > How much time will the candidate devote to the campaign on a daily basis? > > > List endorsements received and endorsements sought or expected. > > > > > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to identify and turn out the > number > > > of voters needed to achieve its goals. This document should reflect > detailed > > > analysis of previous elections for the same office; previous elections for > > > the top-of-the-ticket race in other years when this office has been on the > > > ballot; political histories of the opponents in this election and the > > > candidates for this office in the last election; voter ID efforts; > > > applicable campaign tactics and get-out-the-vote plans and how many votes > > > each tactical approach is expected to yield; timelines; and the structure > of > > > the campaign organization, including qualifications of key campaign staff > > > and the number and activities of volunteers. (This will usually require > 500 > > > words or more.) > > > > > > Part 4: Media > > > > > > Explain how the campaign expects to make use of earned media. Include the > > > press secretary's resume or bio. > > > > > > If available, please include (or provide web links to): > > > Samples of campaign materials or speeches > > > Press clips > > > > > > Part 5: Budget > > > > > > How much money does the campaign expect to raise? > > > How much money have winning candidates spent on the same race in previous > > > elections? > > > List any legal limits or any limits the campaign has set for > contributions. > > > Is there a Clean Money law or other mechanism for public financing in > > > effect? > > > > > > Explain in detail how the campaign plans to raise the amount of money > needed > > > to achieve its goals. This document should include the campaign budget and > > > should reflect detailed analysis of the campaign's expenses in every phase > > > from exploratory to election day and wrapup; appropriate fundraising > tactics > > > and how much money each tactical approach is expected to yield; legal and > > > political constraints on fundraising; and the role of advertising in the > > > campaign. (This will usually require 300-500 words.) > > > Part 6: GPUS Contributions > > > > > > Explain in detail how GPUS contributions will be used by the campaign. > > > > > > If not already states, is there any state or local law, or any state or > > > local Green Party policy, that limits the size or nature of contributions > > > from the Green National Committee to the campaign? > > > > > > Part 7: References > > > > > > List at least three references, including phone numbers and e-mail > > > addresses. At least one reference should be associated with a Green > > > organization. > > > 1. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > > 2. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > > 3. Name _______________ E-mail _______________ Phone _____________ > > > > > > > > > Please ask a reference associated with a Green organization to fill out > the > > > reference questions below and e-mail them to brent at gp.org. > > > > > > 1. How long have you known the candidate? > > > > > > 2. To your knowledge, is this candidate a member of the Green Party and > not > > > also a member of any other party? > > > > > > 3. Please list the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate and his/her > > > campaign. > > > > > > Completed questionnaires and supporting material should be sent to > > > brent at gp.org.