[Procedures] Green-Rainbow Party Presidential Nominating Convention Delegate Selection Credentials Application

[Daniel Melnechuk]

I sent this to Michael Feinstein of the Credentials committee for  
national. I think this should be added to the presidential plan for  
next time to recognize the chain of logic from state laws and our  
bylaws that prescribes why we must place the national party's  
candidates for pres and vp on the mass ballot.

Peace,
Dan

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Hi Michael,

I apologize for my late response and for not clarifying why i had  
sent the GRP PResidential Plan for 2008. In it, section 4, Selection  
of Presidential Electors, describes commonwealth law about selecting  
presidential electors. Since:

1. GRP bylaws state that we must follow commonwealth law and that we  
are a party to try to elect members of our party to office,

2. commonwealth law as stated in section 4 of the Presidential Plan  
for 2008 says the state committee shall meet to select the electors,  
with specified time constraints,

3. the elector form that we must supply to the commonwealth has on it  
spaces for the names of our party's presidential and vice  
presidential candidates and electors selected by the state committee,  
is the way the names of the Green candidates get on the ballot in  
Massachusetts,

4. that the GRP is a recognized member of GPUS both by GPUS and by  
the FEC, we recognize the GPUS as the national Green party, we are  
affiliated with the GPUS, and we are the state Green party of  
Massachusetts and recognized as such by the Secretary of the  
Commonwealth since they sent us the electors form,

it then logically follows that 2008 GRP Presidential Plan is  
describing our policy to place the candidates that our national Green  
party chooses on the ballot here in Massachusetts. Yes, an argument  
could be made that all we need is an additional statement in this  
plan to make it clear that the plan is to place the presidential and  
vice presidential candidates on the ballot, and a strong one at that.  
I will submit that for addition in 2012's plan.

I hope this has illuminated why i sent the plan in response to the  
question. I guess i should have sent the bylaws and a copy of the  
elector form we must send to the commonwealth (and of course this  
explanation). If you want those docs, please let me know.

Peace and Justice,
Daniel Melnechuk
Party Treasurer
State Committee Representative from Third Middlesex State Senate  
District
Procedures, Structures and Meetings Committee
Tech Committee
781-883-7597


On Jul 6, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Mike Feinstein wrote:
> Hi Daniel
>
> Thanks for your state's application. I have one question.
>
> On question #4(b) below, you said "please find...", but the  
> attached document had to do with the presidential primary ballot  
> line, not the general election ballot line, which is what question  
> #4 is designed to broach.
>
>
> 4.) Please list the policy of your state party/caucus regarding:
> (b) support of the Presidential Slate nominated by the Presidential
> Nominating Convention by its Presidential Nominating Convention
> delegates and/or its Presidential electors; and/or,
>
> Please find attached a document named "2008presplan.pdf"
> which specifies the process for selecting electors for our
> party's presidential candidate as selected at the nomination
> convention.
>
>
> Is there a specific policy for the general election ballot line and  
> the GPUS nominee? If so, please send.  If not, just say there is no  
> policy.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Feinstein
> Credentials Committee
>
>
>
> Daniel Melnechuk wrote:
>
>> Dear GPUS,
>> Please find attached 10 files, 9 of which are the complete Green- 
>> Rainbow Party Presidential Nominating Convention Delegate  
>> Selection Credentials Application with supporting docs (7 PDFs and  
>> 2 Excel), along with the 10th which is a zipped package of all the  
>> other 9 docs (in case you have issues with any of the other docs  
>> individually).
>> If it is not asking too much, please call 781-883-7597 to confirm  
>> receipt of this application as well as sending a reply email. The  
>> extended deadline, as was officially requested by our co-chairs,  
>> to deliver this to you was midnight tonight, 7/4/2008. We will  
>> mail two copies on July 5th 2008 to the requested address in the  
>> application unless i receive notification of another address to  
>> mail to.
>> Thank you for all the work you do! Have a great convention.
>> Peace and Justice,
>> Daniel Melnechuk
>> Treasurer
>> Green-Rainbow Party
>