[Northampton-GP] BEats for Peace

[Susan Lantz]

Jim, I could do early hours (a couple) if needed.
susan

Jim Bosman wrote:

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> [Locals] Fwd: Committee begins contacting candidates slowly
> From:
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> gary hicks <gooberthink06 at yahoo.com>
> Date:
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> Mon, 5 May 2003 09:59:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> massgreens needtoknow <needtoknow at massgreens.org>, massgreens locals 
> <locals at massgreens.org>, statecom discussion 
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> gary hicks <big_g19462002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>     Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 09:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
>     From: gary hicks
>     Subject: Committee begins contacting candidates slowly
>     To: gooberthink06 at yahoo.com
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>     Committee begins contacting candidates slowly
>     As the Green Party of the United States begins the
>     process that will culminate in the selection of a
>     candidate for president in the summer of 2004, there
>     is a committee charged with helping to facilitate the
>     this process. The PEC, made up of 14 members from
>     states across the nation, has been working on this
>     project since March of 2002.
>     Wed 01/01/03
>     by Adam Waxman
>     GreenPages, Vol 6, No.4
>
>     As the Presidential Exploratory Committee (PEC) of the
>     Green Party of
>     the United States settled in to its Sunday meeting at
>     the Green Party's
>     national convention in Philadelphia, committee member
>     John Rensenbrink
>     remarked, "I thought there was supposed to be calm in
>     the eye of the
>     hurricane."
>
>     As the Green Party of the United States begins the
>     process that will
>     culminate in the selection of a candidate for
>     president in the summer of
>     2004, there is a committee charged with helping to
>     facilitate the this
>     process. The PEC, made up of 14 members from states
>     across the nation,
>     has been working on this project since March of 2002.
>
>     The process, as defined by the Charter of the PEC that
>     was passed by the
>     Green Party Coordinating Committee, started when the
>     committee began
>     working on a questionnaire seeking guidance from the
>     state parties in
>     regards to the qualifications of potential candidates.
>     The
>     questionnaire, which was sent to the state parties in
>     August, contained
>     a dozen questions about the qualities of a potential
>     candidate. The PEC
>     received the responses to the questionnaires in late
>     September.
>
>     The current task of the PEC is to study the responses
>     to the state
>     questionnaire and do several things with them. The PEC
>     must develop a
>     summary report for the Coordinating Committee.
>
>     They also plan to develop a questionnaire that will be
>     sent to potential
>     candidates. The timeline for this task is set for from
>     December of 2002
>     to January of 2004. At the same time, the Presidential
>     Exploratory
>     Committee will be contacting potential candidates that
>     have been
>     recommended by the state parties.
>
>     The PEC will also be responsible for interviewing
>     potential candidates
>     on behalf of the Green Party of the United States and
>     will make
>     recommendations to the Coordinating Committee
>     beginning in August of
>     2003.
>
>     Beyond the recommendation, PEC co-chair Jane M. Hunter
>     emphasized that
>     the PEC will have little or nothing to do with the
>     actual selection of a
>     candidate.
>
>     "The reality is, we set this process up to allow for
>     as much state and
>     local input as possible," she said.
>
>     Some Greens, however, do not see it that way. There
>     are some who have
>     been upset with what they see to be a very slow
>     process.
>
>     "My misgivings about PEC have a lot to do with
>     timing," remarked Evan
>     Davis, an organizer with the Green Party of Ohio.
>
>     "I feel the lag time between when the survey was
>     collected and when it
>     will be published suggests that the PEC may be relying
>     on the familiar
>     structure of the (Nader 2000) campaign, where we did a
>     lot at the last
>     minute, which is not what I want in a presidential
>     campaign."
>     Davis also said he fears that such reliance on this
>     structure might
>     favor one candidate over another.
>
>     Hunter dismisses charges that the PEC is manipulating
>     the process and
>     that this supposed manipulation might favor particular
>     candidates:
>     "One of the reasons we are moving so deliberately is
>     to ensure that we
>     treat all candidates and potential candidates fairly,"
>     she said.
>
>     "Also, remember that there aren't that many people
>     clamoring to be Green
>     Party presidential candidates, and we don't have a
>     cumbersome primary
>     that major-party candidates face.
>
>     "But we are being mindful of the schedule for state
>     primaries, where
>     they exist."
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