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

[BillCunningham]

That does it, no more GRP emial lists for me

-----Original Message-----
>From: Merelice <merelice at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 11, 2008 5:33 PM
>To: Discussion List for StateCom members <statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org>
>Cc: "Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) Administrative Committee" <adcom at green-rainbow.org>, Platform Committee <platform at green-rainbow.org>
>Subject: Re: [Platform] next meeting of the Platform Comm.-please respond
>
>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
>>
>>
>>
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Bill Cunningham