[Platform] next meeting of the Platform Comm.-please respond

[Merelice]

Hi Mike,

Your proposed agenda for a Platform Committee meeting seems both
timely and complete.

I would suggest that you skipped an important step between your
requests/demands for a Platform meeting and your deciding to go ahead
on your own. That step would have been to pick up the phone and talk
directly with one of the co-chairs and ask whether it would be helpful
for you to organize and schedule a meeting. Given how busy they both
are, they might have welcomed the assistance -- especially since
preparation is needed for the StateCom meeting.

Then your efforts (and especially your tone!) would have come across
as cooperative rather than combative -- something which is not
welcoming to new people and which the hard-working volunteers in the
GRP don't need. Perhaps you would consider doing so now.

Merelice


On 6/11/08, mikeheichman at verizon.net <mikeheichman at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi Members of the State Comm:
>
>  I am sending you a letter that I just sent to the Platform Comm. I have
>  given up waiting for someone to call a
>  meeting, so I have done so myself.
>
>  I welcome your feedback to my action.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Mike Heichman
>
>  PS I do not have posting privileges for Adcom. Would someone forward this
>  to Adcom?
>
>  --------------------------
>
>  June 11, 2008
>
>  Dear Members of the Platform Committee:
>
>  A couple of months ago I joined the Platform Committee and have been
>  working on the ABWG Project. Every so
>  often, I have called on the "leaders" of the Platform Comm. to call a
>  general meeting.  It is my understanding that
>  the Platform Comm. does not have any elected leadership and no one has
>  responded to my request. In the
>  meantime, the work of the committee moves on and/or does not move on often
>  without adequate reports to the
>  Platform Comm. and meetings to give feedback and support to ongoing
>  projects as well as considering proposals to
>  do other work. On June 5, Merelice, the co-chair of our party, sent a
>  request to the Platform Comm. to review some
>  of our "older" statements, and there has not been a response to her
>  request. Every so often Merelice sends us a
>  request for some feedback and recommendation about supporting/endorsing an
>  issue.
>
>  I have decided that it would be foolish for me to continue to send out
>  request to the "leaders" of the Platform
>  Comm. since my requests have been ignored and/or the committee is without
>  "leaders". I am therefore deciding to
>  call a meeting (teleconference) of the Platform Comm. for next week from.
>  The meeting will start at 8:30 PM and
>  end no later than 10 PM.
>
>  Please respond and let me know which days you would make a meeting:
>
>         Monday, June 16
>         Tuesday, June 17
>         Thursday, June 19
>
>  Below are my agenda ideas. Please comment and submit your ideas what you
>  think the committee should focus its
>  energies.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Mike Heichman
>  mikeheichman at verizon.net
>  617-265-8143
>
>  Mike's Proposed Agenda—request feedback and your ideas
>
>  I.      Reports from Current Subcommittees
>
>  A.      ABWG
>  B.      Secure Green Futures
>  C.      Am I forgetting other projects?
>
>  II.     Proposals for new work
>
>  A.      Join the "Campaign for Our Communities, the statewide coalition that is
>  leading the organizing against the
>  mandatory ballot question that would repeal the state income tax.
>  B.      Come up with a process to respond to requests for issue support (from
>  Adcom, endorsed GRP candidates, ballot
>  questions, etc.)
>  C.      Other Proposals?
>
>  III.    State Committee Business
>
>  A.      Vetting any proposals for the June 29th State Comm. Meeting
>  B.      Adcom's request to play our role in the "sunset review process" (See the
>  letter below.)
>
>  IV.     Other Business
>  V.      Election of Officers
>
>
>