{news} Approved minutes from the 7PM 5-27-08 SCC CTGP meeting Quorum was met.

Wed Jun 25 21:44:44 EDT 2008

Approved minutes from the 7PM    5-27-08 SCC CTGP meeting        Quorum was
met.

Location: Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverley Avenue, Portland, CT 06480
Phone: 860-342-6760       

Facilitator:  Tim McKee.

Voting Attendees by Chapter: Central: Vic Lancia, Fairfield: David Bedell
and Richard Duffee; Greater Hartford: Barbara

Barry, Secretary of CTGP; Co-chairpersons: Steve Fournier and S. Michael
DeRosa, Treasurer: Christopher Reilly;

New Haven: Jerry Martin; Northeast: Co-chairperson: Phoebe Godfrey. Scott
Deshefy;  Tolland: Tim McKee.   

Non-voting attendee: Tina Shirshac of Northeast.

A.      Preliminaries:

1.       Introductions of voting/non-voting attendees; chapters; quorum was
met; timekeeper=V. Lancia; ground rules.

2.       Approval of tonight’s proposed agenda, no deletions or additions.

3.       Approval of minutes of 3-25-08 SCC meeting with the inclusion of
written comments by Jerry Martin.

4.     Acceptance of the minutes of the 5-19-08 EC meeting.

5.     Treasurer’s report from Christopher Reilly: balance as of 5-31-08:
$1626.97

Consensus: authorization of $40 to Vic Lancia for printing of about 500 CTGP
pamphlets to assist with petitioning.

B.     PROPOSAL from Fairfield County chapter. 

CONTACT:  David Bedell, 12 Ardsley Rd, Stamford, CT 06906, 203-581-3193,
dbedellgreen(at)hotmail.com    

SUBJECT: Definition of party membership. 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: At its February 2008 meeting, the Fairfield chapter
adopted a somewhat stricter definition of membership than that in the state
bylaws. New Haven has also adopted a stricter definition. The purpose of
this proposal is to make party membership contingent on a simple written
declaration, just like membership in the major parties, instead of the
current definition, which includes vague criteria such as what constitutes a
volunteer activity or what is a "coalition partner." This proposal also
addresses the contingency of losing minor party status, which happened in
some towns during 2004-2006. Further comments can be read at HYPERLINK
"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839"http://grou
ps.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldCountyGreens/message/839

PROPOSAL: In the CT Green Party bylaws (HYPERLINK
"http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml"http://www.ctgreens.org/bylaws.shtml
), the section under "Individual Membership" shall be revised to read:

If the Green Party has minor party status in a town, then: A person enrolled
on their town voter list as a Green Party member is a member of the Green
Party for all purposes.

If the Green Party does not have minor party status in a town, then a person
may become a member of the Green Party under the following conditions:

1. The person must be an unaffiliated voter and must not have been
registered with any other party affiliation during the past ninety (90)
days.

2. The person shall fill out and sign a CT Voter Registration Form declaring
enrollment in the Green Party and submit this to an officer of the local or
state Green Party.

3. Upon submission of such declaration, the person's membership in the Green
Party will be effective after ten business days.

A person not yet old enough to vote under state law may become a member of
the Green Party under the following conditions:

1. The person will turn 18 and be eligible to vote before the next General
Election Day.

2. The person has applied to vote by filling out and signing a Voter
Registration Form with declaration of enrollment in the Green Party and
submitted this to their town hall or to an officer of the local or state
Green Party.

3. If the form is submitted to a local or state Green Party officer,
membership in the Green Party will be effective after ten business days.

Party members shall receive announcements of State Party general meetings,
and shall be entitled to vote when attending State Party general meetings.

When an active Member of a Chapter, the member shall be entitled to vote at
all general meetings of the Chapter. No member, however, shall be entitled
to vote in more than one Chapter. Chapters may institute their own
requirements for membership different from those for State Party membership.

Consensus regarding all the above provisions: approval.

BAB: Email from New London chapter which reminds this SCC body to have the
above provisions returned to the chapters so chapters may vote on this
proposal on 6-24-08 SCC meeting.

C. Reports:

1. GPUS reports from: a) Tim McKee, CTGP representative, GPUS platform is
being developed; might be hard for the GPUS to get on ballot in GA.  b)
Cliff Thornton, GPUS Co-chairperson and Charlie Pillsbury, GPUS
representative were both absent;

c) National Committee Members: S. M. DeRosa of GPUS Ballot Access Committee:
of the $10,000 allotted for petitioning across the US, $2000 has been
allotted for WV; and $1000 was used by HI to get on the ballot. Phil
Huckleberry, Co-chair of this Ballot Access Committee has indicated that no
further money will be available in the future. He also did not call any more
meetings. Committee members called the last meeting on 5-26-08. At the
7-10-08 GPUS Convention some workshops may have to be combined or only
allotted 10minutes.  Proxy votes do not represent named delegates but rather
CTGP people. 

Richard Duffee:  CTGP is allowed 20 delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS
Presidential Convention. CTGP has previously determined that the CTGP
delegates assigned to specific candidates are committed to vote for those
candidates in the 1st 2 rounds of voting.      

The following CTGP members have voiced a desire to be delegates at the
7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention:

Allan Brison, CTGP Alderman on the New Haven Board of Alderman; Mike DeRosa,
Richard Duffee, Steve Fournier, Vic Lancia, Tim McKee, Charlie Pillsbury,
Cliff Thornton and perhaps: Scott Deshefy and Phoebe Godfrey. (CTGP may have
a total of 20 delegates at the 7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention.)

2.  Final report about the 4-26-08 CTGP Convention from the Internal
Elections Committee: 

a) final count re: CTGP candidates for officers and GPUS Representatives: no
change from 4-26-08 CTGP  Meeting.           b) final count of how CTGP
members voted in the 4-26-08 CTGP Convention is as follows:

Candidates currently seeking the Green nomination:

33 - Cynthia McKinney - HYPERLINK
"http://www.runcynthiarun.org/"http://www.runcynthiarun.org

3 - Kat Swift - HYPERLINK
"http://www.voteswift.org/"http://www.voteswift.org

2 - Jesse Johnson - HYPERLINK
"http://www.jesse08.org/"http://www.jesse08.org

2 - Kent Mesplay - HYPERLINK "http://www.mesplay.org/"http://www.mesplay.org

A number of write-in votes were cast for others not seeking the Green
nomination. While there is a delegate bloc for Nader, the others will
probably be assigned to "Uncommitted" or "None of the Above" (NOTA):

6 - Ralph Nader - HYPERLINK
"http://www.draftnader.org/"http://www.draftnader.org

1 - Noam Chomsky

1 - Mike DeRosa

1 - Al Gore - HYPERLINK "http://www.algore.org/"http://www.algore.org

1 - Barack Obama - HYPERLINK
"http://www.barackobama.com/"http://www.barackobama.com (If it makes any
difference, the one vote for Obama was actually written "NOTA - Obama," so
might be assigned to NOTA.)

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50 – TOTAL

c) Proportionate number of votes for each presidential candidate, for each
of the 20 CTGP delegates for the 7-10-08 GPUS Convention. See 1 above, under
Duffee and Martin.

d) Criteria for the selection delegates and vetting of delegates to the
7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention from CTGP members: deferred until
6-24-08 SCC meeting.

e) Encourage chapters to bring to the 6-24-08 SCC meeting, the names of CTGP
members who would be willing to be considered to be CTGP delegates at the
7-10-08 GPUS Presidential Convention.  Final decision will be done by the
6-24-08 SCC membership.

f) petitioning for GPUS presidential candidate is a priority.

3.   Steven Fournier, endorsed 1st Congressional District CTGP candidate;
has about 120 signatures for himself. He needs help petitioning for himself
and for GPUS presidential candidate.

4.   Scott Deshefy, endorsed 2nd Congressional District CTGP candidate: has
about 1100 signatures for himself and a lesser number for GPUS presidential
candidate. 

5.   No endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District line. 

6.  Richard Duffee, endorsed 4th Congressional District CTGP candidate; has
about 1400 signatures for himself and about 250 for GPUS presidential
candidate.  Has about 25 people working for him.  Fairfield Chapter is also
seeking potential CTGP candidate for the U.S. Representative line acquired
when Nancy Burton ran two years ago.

7.  Harold Burbank, potential Green Party of CT candidate for 5th
Congressional District; petitioning sheets for the petitioning candidates,
campaign issues: deferred due to time.

8.  Report about the 2008 CT Legislative Session: S. M. DeRosa: most bills
did not get out of committees such as the energy bills proposed by Fight the
Hike.

9.   ACLU lawsuit update: S. M. DeRosa: awaiting the written report from the
judge.

10.  CT Green Times newspaper and and CT Green Times link to website: S.M.
DeRosa: need articles especially from candidates.

11.  No summer intern for GP of CT because he did not get the grant from his
college.

12.  a) Paid CTGP positions: fundraiser: deferred due to time.  

       b) Consensus: Generic CTGP pamphlets to be completed by Phoebe
Godfrey, CTGP Co-chairperson.

13.   Chapter reports. New Haven: Jerry Martin: new co-chairpersons of this
chapter are: Charlie Pillsbury and myself.

Other chapter reports: deferred due to time.

14.   Place for next SCC meeting on 6-24-08: to be determined.   Date, place
and time of next EC meeting in 6-08: to be determined.

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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