[candidate-development] Link to the Minority Opinion

[Jamie O'Keefe]

Friends,

Below is a link for those who have not had equal access to the report
that has been under discussion:

    http://saintkermit.com/greenopinion/

The action we seek is a resolution of the assigning of delegates.  We
still seek that resolution and are VERY ready to have any conversation
about possible resolutions.

Please don't hesitate to contact any of us, although our agreed upon
spokespeople have been Martina Robinson, Jamie O'Keefe and Jim
Henderson.

Resolutions:

"A call was put out for anyone interested and seeking resolutions to
the delegate apportionment issues not covered in the present delegate
selection plan - unforeseen areas.  A group of four people answered
that call -

They came up with two proposals:

1) That we define "candidates" to mean those presently seeking the
nomination of the Green Party for President, in which case the only
remaining language change that they believed was needed was: that
write-ins eligible for delegates would have to be contacted to agree
to be seeking the nomination before they were assigned delegates.

2) That since we can get the lists of everyone who voted 'J' in the
Primary, that we get those lists and send out a new ballot configured
like the other ballots (so would include 'no preference' and space for
write-ins) with Mesplay, Swift, and McKinney (and possibly Johnson) on
it.  They believe the plan would still need an additional change, that
delegates were not bound to candidates who were not at the convention
(related to their choices about participating in the nomination
process, not because they were sick or something).

peace,

James O'Keefe (on behalf of the Minority Opinion signatories)