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

[Yarden]

Dan,
Thank you!
The more accurate the information we can provide the better.  I am  
trying to help Lisa Richards to go, should she decide to do so.  
Everything is last minute.   I referred her to you in regard to  
funding or payment of registration fee by the party
Elie Yarden
CDLC

On Jul 10, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Daniel Melnechuk wrote:

> 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
>
> ---------------
>
>
> 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
>>
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