[GNC] I have the McKinney info for how to get involved! Re: New York Times

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

Ellie- I agree about fundriasing - luckily, no one has to start from scratch 
on gettinginformation about the McKinney campaignin Massachusetts.   There are 
a number of listservs, and teleconferences taht people interested in the 
various aspects of the campaign can be involved in-

Contact me and I'll get you hooked up...

And encourage folks to put the negativity behind you - the work of those of 
us whohave been supporting McKinney for a while - although it has been pretty 
low-level, is a perfectly good springboard...

We don't have time to waste re-inventing the wheel because some people are 
more committed to villainizing than working together!

Be in touch!   Yours, Grace
I also have a BUNCH of signs and bumperstickers.....
In a message dated 7/14/08 10:03:21 AM, yen.yarden at verizon.net writes:


> Scott,
> Thank you for all your work.  It must have been difficult, and I 
> genuinely overjoyed that you overcame your initiation with enthusiasm 
> for our goals.  I had similar experiences when I first joined the 
> Green Party's Mystic River Green local, about 9 years ago.  But I was 
> much older and seen much worse in U. S. political life.  Working in 
> academia for some years, I became familiar with the difficulty that a 
> group of people intellectually critical had enormous difficulty in 
> altering dysfunctional social behaviors no matter how good they were 
> critiquing them.  But the worst was always when the unspoken 
> justification -- they had learned enough anthropology to not say it -- 
> was, "Well, that's just human nature."  I never got the chance to say, 
> "I don't care. If what I see around me is human nature,  I am going to 
> commit unnatural acts."
> 
> The best thing to do right now, I believe is to complete the McKinney 
> fundraising for Federal matching funds.
> You can, of course, ask Wanda for help on how to go about going this.  
> But also the most immediate thing to do is go to the McKonney website, 
> e-mail or telephone the appropriate person on the staff and find out 
> how much money is needed from Massachusetts for this purpose.  You may 
> be able to download the special forms that you will need, and also 
> find out how to send large contributions directly to the Campaign.  
> There is a deadline to qualify.  Less than two weeks.
> Elie Yarden
> 
> On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Scott Laugenour wrote:
> 
> > I looked at the online version of the New York Times yesterday to 
> > see what coverage, if any, there was on the Green Party Convention 
> > in Chicago.  I used the site's search function - typing GREEN 
> > PARTY.  The NY Times published an article yesterday about 
> > progressives who have been disenchanted with Obama.  The article 
> > falsely stated that the Green Party's nominee is Ralph Nader!
> >
> > I sent a note directly to the writer, William Yardley, on the link 
> > provided.  I also drafted the following letter to the Editor:
> >
> > --------------
> > To the editor of the NY Times:
> >
> > William Yardley erroneous states that Ralph Nader is the Green Party 
> > presidential candidate this year.  This error of fact appeared in 
> > your July 13 article about the disenchanted progressives who are 
> > turning away from Obama following his "move to the center."
> >
> > One day prior to the publication of this story (July 12), in Chicago 
> > at the Green Party national convention, Cynthia McKinney was voted 
> > enthusiastically as the Green Party presidential candidate.  Ralph 
> > Nader was not on the convention ballot.  It has been several months 
> > since he publicly stated that he was not seeking the Green Party 
> > nomination.
> > --------------
> >
> > In the next few days I'll draft a press release to my local paper 
> > with notes from the GPUS press release about the convention.  I hope 
> > it's OK to continue to use the list serve for post-convention 
> > organizing.  (Let me know if there's another means/format that may 
> > be better.)
> >
> > A meeting of 7 of us in Chicago (4 on site and 3 on the phone) voted 
> > me to be the spokesperson for the delegation on the convention floor 
> > on Saturday.  Thank you for giving me that opportunity.  This was my 
> > first convention.  I return home with a great experience, a lot of 
> > learning, and a lot of enthusiasm for the ticket and for the 
> > direction of the national party.
> >
> > I look forward to working with you through the year to promote the 
> > national candidacy and to build local registrations and 
> > candidacies.  To me, the two are critically related.  Some of us 
> > didn't have a lot of time to get together in Chicago, not to mention 
> > getting together before Chicago.  I hope we can remedy that in these 
> > critical post-convention months.  I'll be tabling for the Green-
> > Rainbow Party and for Cynthia McKinney in Pittsfield this Thursday 
> > evening on the 400 block of North Street from 5-8 pm.  Stop by if 
> > you can.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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