[statecom-discuss] Proposal on 2008 National Elections for State Committee meeting Jan. 21

[Yarden]

> Sponsors:   Elie Yarden, Jamie McLaughlin, Gary Hicks, Owen Broadhurst
>
> Contact:    Elie Yarden
>                 143 Pleasant Street,
>                 Cambridge, MA 02139
>                 617-491-5350
> yen.yarden at verizon.net
>
> Subject:  Green Party National Candidacies for President of the U. S. 
> in 2008 elections.
>
> Background and Purpose:  Conversation on the presidential elections 
> has begun in a number of  state parties.  A few Green Party members 
> have already announced their candidacies, and while these are not yet 
> 'official' their web-sites are up.
> 	Discussion of various other matters in the National Committee (NC) is 
> infected and confused by irrelevant intentions, whether fully or 
> poorly formed, concerning participation in state primaries and 
> caucuses, qualifications, desirability of having a Green candidate at 
> all.
> 	It can only help our cause and improve the political activity of the 
> party, if our concerns are discussed openly and fully.
>
> Text of Proposal:
> 1.  We, the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts declare that, in the 
> upcoming Presidential election, 2008, we will place in nomination 
> candidates for the Presidency on the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow 
> primary ballot.
> 2.  We will consider as candidates only those who wish to have their 
> names placed on the ballot, and will select delegates to the Green 
> Party Nominating Convention by the same, or improved, apportionment 
> methods that were used in the election of 2004.
> 3.  We will not, as a party, endorse or give support to independent 
> candidates or candidates of other parties.
>
>
> References:  Members of the Green-Rainbow Party who wish to inform 
> themselves more fully of the concerns that have led to the draft 
> proposal being submitted for discussion at this time may find useful: 
> "Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate" edited by 
> Howie Hawkins.  Haymarket Books, Chicago 2006.  Also informative are 
> the NC listserve e-mails on this subject as well as the discussions 
> concerning the report of the Committee on Apportionment of Delegates 
> (DAC) to the National Committee.