[candidate-development] Report of CDLC to State Committee

[Yarden]

For the CDLC,

Able to remove the following applicants;
Gregory-Dean Smit  aka  Brother NorthStar, Leveret, 1st Congressional  
District
Howard Weiss,  Cambridge,  8th Congressional District
David Schwab III,  Williamstown, 1st Congressional District
from the list of those volunteers who contacted the CDLC directly for  
apportionment on the ground that Grace Ross reporting for the McKinney  
campaign stated that they were on the list appointed by the McKinney  
campaign, there remained 8 applicants to be contacted.

Having made contact with 7 of the 8 applicants, I can inform you, that  
I have received responses from all seven (7) that they are willing to  
act as uncommitted delegates or as delegates pledged to candidates on  
the GRP primary ballot who have chosen to not select their delegates,  
and thus leave the selection in the hands of the State Committee.

Those who have stated a willingness to do so have also indicated that  
they are doing so with the understanding and expectation that this  
listing of preferences will assist in their selection as delegates.   
They are:
Andrew Fitzgerald,	Somerville, 8th Congressional District
Scott Laugenour, Lenox, 1st Congressional District
Travis McGee, Danvers, 6th Congressional District
Anaelisa Vanegas, Lee, 1st Congressional District
Kenneth Duncan, Pittsfield, 1st Congressional District
Hallett German, Peabody, 6th Congressional District
Jill Stein, Lexington, 7th Congressional District
The above persons have indicated alternative choices. Thus the only  
volunteer who remains in the uncommitted camp is,
Samantha Zitola, Clinton, 3rd Congressional District

In addition to the above, indicating agreement or preference to become  
delegates pledged to Nader are:
Elie Yarden, Cambridge, 8th Congressional District
John Andrews, Lexington, 7th Congressional District

Additional GRP members have indicated a willingness to be a delegate,
Nat Fortune, Whately, 1st Congressional District
Wanda Boeke, Berkshire County, 1st Congressional District

Thus, _at this time_ the CDLC has 12 volunteer delegates to propose to  
the State Committee for approval.  Combined with the delegates being  
selected by the Candidates; 9 by Cynthia McKinney and the 1 delegate  
each already submitted to AdCom by Kent Mespaly, and Kat Swift, the  
GRP is 9 short of the number needed to meet its GPUS allocation of 32  
delegate places.

Members of the party not wishing us to fall short of having a full  
delegation have been stepping in and, as predicted by Dave England, co- 
chair of the CDLC, on the basis of what happened in 2004, there is no  
good reason to conclude that we will fail to meet the goals of our  
present delegate apportionment plan.  The chief difficulty, one  
continuously pointed out by Jamie McLaughlin, alternate delegate of  
the GRP to the NC of the GPUS, remains the problem of assisting would  
be delegates to attend the convention.  While there is no necessity  
for all appointed delegates to physically attend the convention, they  
must be accessible to provide proxies to those who will be.  It is  
definitely not in the spirit of our procedures to delay decision- 
making to the point of preventing people who might otherwise attend  
and participate, because they lack the financial means to enable late  
or last-minute decisions.  Jamie is not only pointing this out but is  
actively seeking remedies by arranging to find less expensive  
alternatives now.

Please _note!_   The names of additional volunteers will be appended  
to this list as they appear.

Elie Yarden
for the CDLC
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In accordance with the decision of the CDLC telecom meeting of June  
11, called and chaired by CDLC co-chair, Dave England and attended by  
Mike Heichman. John Andrews, Grace Ross, and Elie Yarden, and all  
those attending were given the freedom to append personal comments to  
this report, whether or not they were specific to our discussion, and  
decision.  This is intended to reflect the general commitment of the  
people involved, to enable _open_ decision making.

Thus far, the only statement thus far submitted, that of Mike  
Heichman, is hereby appended.


	From: 	mikeheichman at verizon.net
	Subject: 	CDLC proposal to The Virtual State Comm Meeting
	Date: 	June 15, 2008 5:46:15 PM EDT
	To: 	yen.yarden at verizon.net
	Cc: 	mikeheichman at verizon.net
June 15

Hi Elie:

Please add my comments to your report to the CDLC and to the State  
Committee meeting in regards to the State Comm. meeting that is  
supposed to be starting later today.

1. The State Committee should ONLY approve a plan that comes very  
close (I suggest within 2 delegates) to the diversity goals set forth  
by the GRP Plan to apportion delegates. Specifically, the diversity  
goals that I am making reference are gender, race, low-income, GLBTG  
and geography. In order for that to happen, the State Comm may have to  
recruit more diverse delegates, limit the number of delegates who do  
not meet our diverse requirements, or take other creative steps.

2. The State Comm. should only approve delegates that are pledged to  
delegates who are currently pursuing the Green Party's nomination for  
the presidency (McKinney, Swift, Mesplay and Johnson) and the rest of  
the delegation should go as Uncommitted Delegates. Specifically, no  
delegates should be sent to Chicago pledged to support Mr. Ball and  
Ms. Brown who are no longer candidates pursuing the Green Party's  
nomination or Mr. Nader, who had never publicly announced his  
candidacy for the Green Party's nomination and has instead decided to  
pursue the presidency as an Independent candidate. In my opinion it  
would be a violation of our plan to send delegates to Chicago pledged  
to Mr. Ball, Ms. Brown and Mr. Nader. I do acknowledge that there are  
other members of the Party who see things differently than me.

3. The State Committee should include in their decision a mandate that  
the State Party raise enough funds so that every low-income member of  
our delegation will have the necessary financial support that they  
will need to go to Chicago. If the State Party fails in this attempt,  
the State Comm. should mandate that no delegate from the GRP will be  
sent to represent our party to the Chicago  convention next month.

Thanks,
Mike Heichman