[Platform] [statecom] [adcom] Minutes of 8-25-07 GRP Convention in Boston(new note added)
John Walsh
john.walsh at umassmed.edu
Wed Jan 23 12:03:13 EST 2008
PLEASE FORWARD.
Ebony left us, because of the back room scheming against Elaine Brown
on the part of the national office and the likes of Greg Gerritt.
They have both admitted it now. Liz Arnone, the national co-chair
who blew the whistle on this, is now subject to censorship on the
national voters list!!!
In addition Greg Gerritt is now a McKinney supporter. I hope she
dissociates herself from this guy very soon. Some of us have called
for his resignation as co-chair of the Presidential Campaign Support
Committee. (In addition to the attack on Brown, he also sent a
letter to Ralph Nader, identifying himself as co-chair of the PCSC,
asking Nader not to run as a candidate but instead to work for
Cynthia as a ballot access lawyer. This statement was not voted on
or vetted by the PCSC - and Gerritt apologized for it (sort of) ONLY
after it came to light.)
This stuff has got to stop.
john walsh
On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:46 AM, David Barkley wrote:
> Please remove me from the list serve Thanks much Ebony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: statecom-bounces at green-rainbow.org
> [mailto:statecom-bounces at green-rainbow.org] On Behalf Of
> Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:31 AM
> To: AdCom at green-rainbow.org; statecom at green-rainbow.org;
> platform at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: Re: [statecom] [adcom] Minutes of 8-25-07 GRP Convention in
> Boston(new note added)
>
> 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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