[statecom-discuss] (different plans and strategies...)

[Ron Francis]

I do plan to participate and I think teh people discussing Local Ballots 2008 will most likely bring something to alny and all strategy discussions... why not ?
   
  In the meantime plannign goes forward.  It will probably take two months of research and planning to begin to execute this plan and we needed to get started yesterday !
   
  We need to understand that we as statecom, are only a small subset of a 10,000 member party, and we  do not control the members.  We control the shared state-level resources and that is about it.
   
  already there are 6 non-statecom people who have responded.  That's great but it also shows that there are people out there who are nonstatecom people who are ready to do some serious planning.
   
  If 100 people are interested in dong this plan then it will probably get done with or without staecom and that is the way our party should operate.  Working with any subset of the party is optional and not compulsory; give some space for people who aren't interested in the map that you want to follow.  There are several roads to the promise land.
   
  There is no need to stop planning and organizing becuase a certain subset is interested in stalking strategy.  We've been talking strategy in membership committee for two years.
   
  Should we also stop other strategic efforts like making a platform or updating our brochure.  Everything we do has strategic implications and there is counterproductive to suggest that people should not be planning just because one subset of teh party called a strategy meeting.
   
  Mike is right.  Let's let 100 flowers bloom adn provide fertile grond as well.  I'll see you at some strategy meetings and hope you participate in Sundays' phone conference.
   
  Also would appreciate feedback on Local Ballots 2008 if you cannot make the phonecall.  Help us mold a good plan to give teh plan the highest chance of being accepted by as many people as possible, statecommers or not.  Lift every voice.
   
  The challenge is to craft a fundamentsl social change ballot question !  like we did in Somerivlle.
   
  It's very encouraging to hear that people want to get moving.
   
  Ron

Merelice <merelice at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 2/16/07, Ron Francis wrote:
> We should be careful with this....Outreach can become difficult if it involves mutliple items being thrown at people simultaneously... people can get confused and time can be limited too.


My point exactly, Ron. That is why the strategy committee seems like
such a good idea. It will help get folks on the same page, reinforcing
each other's efforts instead of willy-nilly going in a dozen
directions on the issue-du-jour.

I would like to show genuine enthusiasm for what you are doing.
Unfortunately my enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that I deeply want
a GRP plan that has some coherence and I don't understand why you
don't want to participate in that process instead of preempting that
process. Don't you see that if you start recruiting and calling
people, it will be confusing (and may have already caused confusion)
when the strategy committee also gets in touch with them? Once again,
the party will look as if it can't get its act together.

Won't you consider presenting your program for consideration by the
strategy committee whose findings and recommendations will be brought
to the next StateCom meeting? Then the expectation is that
implementing the plan will become a core part of this year's State
Convention. This doesn't stop people from organizing in their own
locales. Quite the contrary: It will take local organizing to feed
into the strategy work. This is a bottom-up, not a top-down, process.

Merelice
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