[candidate-development] [Locals] In regards to the failure to posta minority opinion asrequired by our By-laws

Mon Mar 3 14:10:05 EST 2008

Hi Elie,

I think that it is significant that our Secretary has listened to the
co-chairs and has failed to follow our by-laws and 
published our report. 

I find that it is significant that this failure to follow the by-laws or
execute the decisions made by the policy-making 
bodies of our party is not abnormal behavior by some of the officers of our
party.

I think that this whole thing has been significant--both in terms of the
content of the issue (The role of our party in 
selecting the Green Party's nomination for the president), the major
disagreements over the process that has been 
followed which has led a growing number of us believing that something
terrible has gone wrong), and the terrible 
process and bad feelings that have developed over the handling this
controversy that is threatening to tear our 
party apart. I think that all of this is significant.

I think that our "small band" has "suddenly seemed" to have grown. I think
that it is significant that 3 of our 
candidates for statewide office (Grace, Martina and Jamie) have co-signed
the Minority Report. I think that it is 
significant that 9 members of State Comm. have signed this document. 

I think that it is significant that so many of us have decided to take this
step. I think that it is significant that the 
so-called "majority" continues to do all that it can to censor our voices.

I think that it is curious that you would question the significance of the
Minority Report. 

I think that it will be significant when more of our members will actually
read the contents of the Minority Report.

Significantly Yours,

Mike Heichman

Original Message:
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From: Yarden yen.yarden at verizon.net
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:46:54 -0500
To: mikeheichman at verizon.net, candidate-development at green-rainbow.org,
adcom at green-rainbow.org
Subject: Re: [candidate-development] [Locals] In regards to the failure
to	posta minority opinion asrequired by 
our By-laws

Mike,
I regret that I find myself in the position of having to establish for 
you that I do know how to read.
> This section of the By-laws states: "Minority Opinions. Significant
> minority opinions within the Green-Rainbow Party will be recorded and
> communicated to other national and regional Green organizations as
> appropriate."
I am sure that the quoted statement means exactly what is written, and 
that it was deliberately written in such a manner as to preclude abuse 
of process.  Let us not ignore the phrases, "Significant .   .   .", 
and, another phrase, ".   .   . as appropriate."

Do you favor leaving the interpretation of two critical qualifications 
to a single individual?  Or would you prefer a consensus of, say, the 
Adcom.

But my real question is very different.  Your e-mail, the third such, 
gives rise to this  How, in your view does the content of this message 
advance the expressed desire, to convince people of the need for 
another way of doing something that you wish accomplished, by 
reasonable discourse within a small group committed to discovering ways 
establishing a consensus that would be found reasonable by other 
members of the party with whom you disagree?

It would perhaps be easier on me personally, if you could explain this 
to us all.  I have no wish to silence anyone, or to exclude anyone from 
the group of people committed to talking to one another with the 
purpose of finding ground for consensus.  Or compelling anyone to join 
it.  People have all kinds of motives for being where they are or 
leaving, and people like us, perhaps more advanced in years, must have 
seen enough to not wonder at it.

A 'growing dissent' might cause the Church of England to relent and 
permit the dissenters their own way.  But I doubt that even the GRP, 
loaded as it is private personal agendas, would take seriously the 
mimicking of Duopoly politics, with people coming and going as they 
choose, and should choose, as an argument for achieving any unworkable 
consensus.  Reality does rule.  And only critical awareness and 
self-criticism help us in discovering what that reality is.
Peace,
Elie Yarden
MRGRA (and all other locals)

On Monday, March 3, 2008, at 10:16  AM, mikeheichman at verizon.net wrote:

>
> Hi CDLC
>
> FYI
>
> Mike Heichman
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Jamie O'Keefe jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:40 -0500
> To: locals at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: [Locals] In regards to the failure to post a minority opinion
> asrequired by our By-laws
>
>
> Dear contacts for our local chapters,
>
> This email is simply to inform you that eleven (and growing) of your
> fellow GRP members submitted a statement: "regarding 2008 presidential
> primary ballot history and urgent request for solving problems" in
> accordance with Section 11.4 of the By-Laws.
>
> This section of the By-laws states: "Minority Opinions. Significant
> minority opinions within the Green-Rainbow Party will be recorded and
> communicated to other national and regional Green organizations as
> appropriate."
>
> It was sent to the Secretary of the GRP this past Thursday, February
> 28th, 2008, as the person responsible for recording our documents and
> requested to be communicated to you.
>
> We understand from the Secretary that while he understands that this
> bylaw says "will be communicated" that he is not doing so because he
> was so requested by the co-chairs.
>
> The only duties that the co-chairs perform without the full
> participation of all adcom members that we can find in the bylaws are
> listed under 9.10 and do not include deciding about the communication
> of minority opinions (they include official spokespeople, set adcom
> agendas, arranging various facilitation, notifying adcom members of
> meetings and ensuring adcom members are doing their duties).
>
> We hope that you receive the Statement with the history and urgent
> request for action soon.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> James O'Keefe (on behalf of the signers of the aforementioned minority
> opinion)
> Membership Director, Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
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