[Platform] [statecom-discuss] next meeting of the Platform Comm.-pleaserespond

[Larry Ely]

Mike,

Fish or cut bait.  Please leave those alone who are fishing.  Nobody is 
stopping you from fishing but yourself.

Larry

At 09:55 PM 6/12/08, mikeheichman at verizon.net wrote:

>Hi Merelice,
>
>Thanks for your feedback, both positive and constructive. When I joined the
>Platform Comm., I thought that Jill and
>John were the "leaders" (and maybe the co-chairs) of the Platform Comm. I
>have been meeting with the ABWG Project
>and John Andrews (no title) has been the major force within the
>subcommittee. I talked with him briefly a couple of
>times and discovered that there were no co-chairs.
>
>I have been very busy and I know that Jill has also been very busy with
>major projects and deadlines. I had sent Jill
>and John numerous e-mail messages, but had not received a response. I have
>had a similar experiences with the co-
>chairs of the CDLC (Dave and Jill).
>
>Despite this explanation, I agree with you that I should have attempted to
>contacted Jill by phone. What I decided to
>do was to stop complaining and take action by calling a meeting.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Heichman
>
>
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Merelice merelice at gmail.com
>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:33:57 -0400
>To: statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org, adcom at green-rainbow.org,
>platform at green-rainbow.org
>Subject: Re: [statecom-discuss] next meeting of the Platform
>Comm.-pleaserespond
>
>
>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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