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

[BillCunningham]

The strategy discussion we need is not about how many options our organizing menu should have. It is about the purpose of our party, its goals, and what kind of structure it needs to succeed. 

Millions of beautiful flowers have bloomed, withered, and died over the past six years. How has that helped the party? How has that helped the people?



-----Original Message-----
>From: Merelice <merelice at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 16, 2007 3:43 PM
>To: Discussion List for StateCom members <statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org>
>Subject: Re: [statecom-discuss] (different plans and strategies...)
>
>On 2/16/07, Ron Francis <ronwf777 at yahoo.com> 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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Bill Cunningham