[Platform] [adcom] Minutes of 8-25-07 GRP Convention in Boston (new note added)

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

Larry - Please coorrect the notes.   Cynthia did not say she was running as a 
Green, at that point she had not decided if she was going to run.   She may 
have said that if she ran, she would run as a Green.   I know this because when 
we went out to dinner after, the whole conversation was about whether she 
should run and she was still on her tour to retire her old campaign debts - 

Thanks, Grace


In a message dated 1/23/08 9:45:10 AM, tetrahedrons at crocker.com writes:


> Minutes from the Green-Rainbow Party Convention Saturday, August 25, 2007
> Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston
> 
> { These minutes only cover the afternoon session after I arrived at c. 2:15
> pm - Larry Ely, Secretary }
> 
> {{ Note added 1-23-08: I sent these minutes in the body of the email on
> 9-12-07 to: AdCom at green-rainbow.org and to
>     isis at isisdesign.com. I am now resending them to AdCom, StateCom, and
> Platform - and also to Mike Heichman, who just requested them in an email
> to me. I am also sending them to Grace Ross, John Walsh, Bill Cunningham,
> Elie Yarden, and Wanda Boeke just to be sure they get them, as they have
> been recent active engagers in GRP conversations across various topics re
> the up-coming StateCom and I wasn't sure if all of these persons would get
> this email via a committee email address. }}
> 
> Mike Heichman presented an article entitled "REVISING THE JANUARY 21, 2007
> DECISION BY THE STATE COMMITTEE; ISSUE: WHO WILL AND WILL NOT BE PLACED ON
> THE GRP LINE FOR PRESIDENT DURING THE MARCH 4, 2008 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY".
> He had expressed reservation to Elie about the language adopted on January
> 21, and inserted language then that the decision to bar an independent from
> the Green-Rainbow Party line should be reconsidered at the next Convention.
> Item #3 on January 21 stated: "We will not, as a party, endorse or give
> support to independent candidates of candidates of other parties." His
> article before the Convention wanted to change Item #3 to read: "We will
> not, as a party, endorse or give support to candidates of other parties." A
> lot of confusion followed, and lots of debate. For example, there is in
> Massachusetts an Independent Party and this was confused with "independent
> candidates." On the fly his article #3 was reworded (but I do not have the
> exact language) to be recast as to whether to allow unenrolled to appear on
> the Green ballot or not to allow unenrolled to appear on the Green ballot.
> A vote was taken and the result was:
>     4 votes for "only Green, not unenrolled"
>    25 votes for "Green or unenrolled"
> Debate ensued in which Wanda, Elie, Grace, and Jen spoke at some length.
> The vote was taken again.as a straw poll. This time is was:
>    7 votes for "only Green, not unenrolled"
>   20 votes for "Green or unenrolled"
> Final vote:
>    7 votes for "only Green, not unenrolled"
>   21 votes for "Green or unenrolled"
> 
> Greg Garrit of Rhode Island, on the GPUS Presidential Campaign Support
> Committee asked whether the Green-Rainbow Party was clear on the procedure
> for communicating its decisions to GPUS (did not catch the specific detail
> here).
> 
> Jerry Kann, a Green of New York state spoke on behalf of Nader as running
> as a Green.
> 
> Cynthia McKinney is running as a Green, and spoke on her candidacy.
> 
> New elected officers were announced:
> 
> male co-chair: Nat Fortune
> female co-chair Merelice
> communications dir. Eli Beckerman
> secretary Larry Ely
> fundraising dir. nobody ran, nobody drafted, nobody elected
> membership dir. James O'Keefe
> treasurer  Dan Melnechuk
> 
> National reps. to GPUS
> 
>            Elie Yarden
>            John Walsh
>            Annie Butler
>            Martina Robinson
>            Patricia O'Brien
>           Jamie McLaughlin (alternate)
> 
> Submitted: 9-12-07 by Larry Ely, Secretary
> 
> 
> 
> 
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