{news} Minutes of the 4-26-08 CT Green Party Annual Meeting

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Minutes of the 4-26-08 CT Green Party Annual Meeting

 

 

11am to 12noon: Social hour; ability to order box lunch from Jerry Martin
for $15; review literature and any merchandise. Monitors reviewed
credentials for anyone seeking a ballot.

 

 

Noon to 12:10PM: Greetings by facilitator, Scot Deshefy, CT Green Party
Candidate for 2nd Congressional District. Timekeeper was Vic Lancia. Agenda
was approved. Review of the election procedures and explanation of today’s
voting process for internal officers for CT Green Party, Representatives
from CTGP(CT Green Party) to GPUS (Green Party of U.S.) and vote for
member’s presidential preference for GPUS Presidential Convention in
Chicago, starting July 10, 2008.

 

12:10PM to 1:15PM: a) there were no nominations from the floor for CT Green
Party Officers or for GPUS Representatives. Five (5) minutes were allotted
to each of the following candidates to speak and answer any questions from
meeting participants. Candidates were: Three (3) Co-chairpersons: Phoebe
Godfrey, S. Michael DeRosa, Steve Fournier; Secretary: Barbara Barry;
Treasurer: Christopher Reilly; Five (5) GPUS National Party representatives:
Richard Duffee, Tim McKee, S. Michael DeRosa, Steve Fournier. Charlie
Pillsbury did not attend.

 

1:30PM to 1:45PM   Break for lunch. 

 

1:45PM to 2:00PM: No discussion of the presidential candidates for GPUS was
held.  The GPUS endorsed candidates are: Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney,
Kent P. Mesplay, PhD. and Kat Swift.

 

2PM: The start of counting of the provided ballots by the Internal Elections
Committee of the CTGP with monitors.

 

2PM to 2:10PM:  Speech by Allan Brison, Green Party New Haven Alderman
followed by a question and answer period.

 

2:10PM to 2:25PM: Speech by Paula Panzarella, from Fight the Hike. A
questions and answer period followed.

 

2:25PM to 2:40PM: Speech by Green Party member: Jean deSmet, First
Selectperson for Windham followed by a question and answer period.

 

2:40PM to 2:55PM: Speech by S. Michael DeRosa about the CT Green Party’s
lawsuit against the State of CT  2005 Campaign Finance Reform Law, followed
by a question and answer period.

 

2:55PM to 3:05PM: Speech by Steve Fournier, endorsed CT Green Party 1st
Congressional District candidate, followed by a question and answer period.

 

3:05PM to 3:15PM: Speech by Scott Deshefy, endorsed CT Green Party 2nd
Congressional District candidate, followed by a question and answer period.

 

3:15PM to 3:25PM:  Speech by Richard Duffee, endorsed CT Green Party 4th
Congressional District candidate, followed by a question and answer period.

(3:25PM to 3:35PM: Deleted: Speech by Harold Burbank, running for CT Green
Party 5th Congressional District candidacy, who did not attend this
meeting.)

 

   3:25PM:  Results of: a) internal elections for CTGP and b) number of
votes received for GPUS Presidential candidate.

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

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

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

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

A number of write-in votes 

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 

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50 – TOTAL

 

CTGP elected officers: Co-chairpersons: S. Michael DeRosa, Phoebe Godfrey,
Steven Fournier; Treasurer: Christopher Reilly; Secretary: Barbara Barry.

and for GPUS Representatives:  Richard Duffee, Tim McKee, S. Michael DeRosa,
Steve Fournier. Charlie Pillsbury. 

 

 


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