[candidate-development] Proposal for vetting and or sponsorship by CDLC

[Yarden]

At the suggestion of Mike Heichman, I am sending this draft proposal, 
already placed for discussion on the StateCom lists, CDLC for 
discussion, vetting and sponsorship.  If you wish to discuss, amend it, 
or sponsor it, let's do it so that it can be a proposal on the agenda 
of the upcoming State Committee meeting.  Let me know if you consider a 
prediscussion in the CDLC to be important, and I will try to get there.
Peace,
Elie


The following is a corrected and amended version of the Draft Proposal 
first submitted on 12/20, and should be substituted for that one for 
further discussion.  If it is to be listed as a proposal for the coming 
State Committee meeting, it will require sponsorship.  It  is far from 
early for deciding such matters.
Elie
Cambridge Green-Rainbow


Presenter:   Elie Yarden, and _____________,_________,_________

Contact:         Elie Yarden
                 143 Pleasant Street,
                 Cambridge, MA 02139
                 617-491-5350 yen.yarden at verizon.net Subject:  Green 
Party National Candidacies for President of the U. S. in 2008
elections.

Background and Purpose:  Conversation on the presidential elections has
begun in a number of  state parties.  Two Green Party members have
already announced their candidacies, and while these are not yet
'official' their web-sites are up.  Discussion of various other matters
in the National Committee (NC) is infected and confused by irrelevant
intentions, whether fully, or poorly, formed or not, concerning
participation in state primaries and caucuses, qualifications,
desirability of having a Green candidate at all.  It can only help our
cause and internal political activity of the party, if concerns are
discussed openly and fully.

Draft Proposal:
1.  We, the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts declare, with regard
to the upcoming Presidential election, 2008, that we will place in 
nomination candidates on the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow primary ballot.
2.  We will consider as candidates only those who wish to have their
names placed on the ballot, and will select delegates to the Green Party
Nominating Convention by the same, or improved, apportionment methods 
that were used in the election of 2004.
3.  We will not, as a party, support independent candidates or 
candidates
of other parties.



References:  Members of the Green-Rainbow Party who wish to inform
themselves more fully of the concerns that have led to the draft
proposal being submitted for discussion at this time may find useful:
"Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate" edited by Howie
Hawkins.  Haymarket Books, Chicago 2006.  Also informative are the NC
listserve e-mails on this subject as well as the discussions concerning
the report of the Committee on Apportionment of Delegates (DAC) to the
National Committee.