[ComCom] letter to Grace regarding press releases

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

I am shocked this was publicly posted - Nat, if you plan to ascribe things to 
me, and then slap me down, please do it on the phone with me first?   I will 
never do so to you, if that helps.   I will not respond here to each detailed 
implication.

Eli, if you felt undermined, I publicly apologise.

Grace
In a message dated 12/12/07 12:24:12 AM, elibeck at gmail.com writes:


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nat Fortune <nat.fortune at comcast.net>
> Date: Dec 11, 2007 11:03 PM
> Subject: letter to Grace regarding press releases
> To: comcom at green-rainbow.org
> Cc: Eli Beckerman <elibeck at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Grace, I am sorry to have to air this in front of all of adcom and com com
> but you are really trying my patience and your insinuations regarding the
> character and conduct of the Communications Committee Chair are completely
> out of line.
> I understand that you disagree with the decision Merelice and I made not to
> issue a press release right away. Nevertheless, it remains our job, as
> co-chairs, to issue press releases and otherwise generally speak on the
> party's behalf, and, in so doing, keep the best interests of the GRP and
> GPUS in mind.
> 
> We welcome the assistance of the Communications Committee in preparing such
> releases, but it is not your job to badger Com Com or its chair into issuing
> such a release, or to write it yourself.  (Are you on the Communications
> Committee as well?)
> We understand the arguments in favor of an earlier press release, and in
> fact we advanced some of those arguments in the ad com phone meeting, but
> after that discussion, in our conversations with the candidates and the
> GPUS, we were asked to wait until the 20th and we have decided, as the
> official spokespeople for the party, to abide by those requests.
> 
> This is the decision we had to make as party chairs, and we are sticking
> with it.  You are free to disagree, but not to take on the task of issuing a
> release yourself, or claim that the personal priorities of the com com chair
> are interfering with the proper conduct of party.
> 
> Personally, I would hope that you would start trying to HELP us and give us
> the benefit of the doubt on this one. Or at least save it for the ad com
> meeting instead of tying us up in continuous email.
> 
> We will be happy to clarify the FEC (and FCC) issues involved at the Dec
> 15th ad com meeting, but we do not wish to do this in an email change now.
> Please start working with us instead of against us on this mater, allow us
> to use everyones time productively, and help organize events at which
> candidates would actually be present, as you offered to do. As you yourself
> pointed out, these are the events that are most likely to get coverage.
> 
> with exasperation,
> 
> Nat Fortune
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com <Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com>
> Date: Dec 11, 2007 7:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [ComCom] Can we please get press release on Green Pres
> candidates?
> To: comcom at green-rainbow.org
> 
> 
> eli - ...
> 
> 
> ... this has nothing to do with getting a press release written within
> an existing news cycle - which, I know you know, will be gone by Dec. 15th.
> Nor did I ask you to write it - although I believe you are supposed to chair
> this committee so I did mention your name as one of the recipients of this
> request.
> 
> So what you are really saying is that no, we should not write a press
> release.   and apparently, you assume that if one gets written you
> would write it.
> And that it is your priorities that determine this committee's work?
> 
> suppose I change this email request to say - I will write it, will you have
> time to review it?   And who out there has time/know how to send it
> out?   And
> how do we find out if the FEC considers this some kind of financial
> contribution to a campaign that may not yet have formally filed with
> them?   I don't
> believe this last is a problem although I still have not heard if some
> lawyer has
> ben checked with who believes this to be the case.
> 
> Thanks, Grace
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