[External Relations] FW: [BRPP] represntation

[Owen Broadhurst]

Greg Gerritt is floating a trial balloon with regards to state 
representation on the GPUS CC. For some odd reason, I don't find myself 
favoring his suggestion- but can't quite put my finger on why.

What may folks here think? Any suggestions I should run by the BRPP?

Keep in mind: This is a trial balloon for internal BRPP discussion only.

Nothing set in stone as any proposal yet, nor has there been any 
determination that BRPP should make any proposal regarding this. Seems more 
like a brainstorming session.

OB

----Original Message Follows----
From: Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>
Reply-To: brpp at gp-us.org
To: BRPP list <brpp at gp-us.org>
Subject: [BRPP] represntation
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:41:31 -0400

Trial balloon

Representation on the CC should begin with 100 delegates divided up with a
delegation for each state based on their percentage of the population.  1
percent, one delegate, 10 percent 10 delegates.  Half the states will get
zero delgates using this formula.  The second 102 delegates can be based on
two for each state.  Total of 202 delegates.  current model is based on no
more than 150 delegates without setting an actual number.

Populations approximate and possibly wrong, but irrelevant.

Examples  RI 1 million people, less than 1 percent of the US  population 2
delegates.
California  36 million people 13% of US population  15 delgates
Texas  20 million  8 percent of US population  10 delegates
Michigan  10 million  3% of US population 5 delegates

Currently in 110 or so delegates CA has 13, which is almost exactly their
percentage of the population.  RI and all the other small population states
are over represented, but if we have a floor of two seats per state, unless
we have 800 delegates they will not even be allocated one.  Our floor ought
to be two so as to have some diversity in delegations.

Currently the underrepresented states are mid sized such as IL, WI, GA, etc.

Thoughts?  greg


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