[statecom-discuss] [candidate-development] [adcom] GRP lists for Draft Nader.

[Mike Heichman]

Hi Everyone,

I have been too busy to partiipate in this discussion.

Let me summarize my understanding:

1. We mistakenly have given our list of members to Ms. McKinney.

2.My guess is that this was because our policy had not been well 
developed enough to take account the difference between our campaigns in 
MA and a national campaign for President.

3. We have not given our list to Mr. Mesplay's and Ms. Swift's campaign 
because they did not request these lists.

4. We did not give this list to Mr. Nader because he didn't request it.

5. We didn't give this to Mr. Nader's Exploratory Committee because of a 
lack of a request.

6. We gave our list to the Draft Nader Committee, even though this 
formation has made it very clear that they have not and do not speak for 
Mr. Nader.

Any comments about my understanding?

I am open to other information. However, it is my point of view that Mr. 
Nader, his Exploratory Comm. and the Draft Nader Committee should not 
have received our party's list because Mr. Nader has not yet complied 
with the requirements to be placed on our ballot.

Once again, a decision has been made which says that we have one set of 
rules for everyone and no rules for those who support Mr. Nader.

Does anyone know the meaning of a "level playing field"?

Mike Heichman

PS I think that I have been unfair towards Mr. Nader. The reason why is, 
that to the best of my knowledge, he has not made any requests to our 
state party about this year's presidential campaign. We always say "YES" 
to people who want Mr. Nader to act in a certain matter. I believe that 
most (maybe all) of them sincerely want Mr. Nader to seek the Green 
Party's nomination.  However, the bottom line  is that Mr.  Nader  has 
not  yet  complied with  our requirements to be placed on our  ballot  
and it is a mistake  to forget/deny that and instead comply with 
requests with others who want Mr. Nader to seek the Green Party's 
nomination for President.





Nat Fortune wrote:

>Jamie --- thank you for resolving this issue in such a fair and  
>forthright manner.
>
>Nat Fortune
>
>
>
>On Feb 2, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Jamie O'Keefe wrote:
>
>Dear John, Nigel and Omar,
>
>After reviewing the GRP Database Access and Use Policy, Dan Melnechuk
>and I found that we had granted the McKinney data request in error.
>Sadly sometimes four eyes are not better than two.  Dan will send an
>explanation to the relevant committee list servs.
>
>To rectify this error we believe that there are two choices:
>
>1.  We could tell the McKinney campaign to delete all of the data that
>we gave them.
>
>2.  We could grant your request for the Draft Nader campaign.
>
>Since the Draft Nader campaign needs this data promptly and has not
>been able to have their request dealt with, though I was only made
>aware of the Draft Nader campaign's need this week, the fair solution
>appears to be the second choice.  Dan and I are agreed that we can
>fulfill the Draft Nader campaign's request promptly once we receive
>the GRP Agents Agreement that I mentioned would need to be filled out
>when I emailed you yesterday.  As a reminder, you can find the Agents
>Agreement at:
>
>http://www.green-rainbow.org/Committees/Technology
>
>We still require that it be sent to us by postal mail, but we will
>accept a scanned copy via email to expedite the data transfer.  Please
>call or txt me at 617-447-0210 when you send it so that I know to look
>at my email and perform the extraction and transfer promptly.  Email
>may not be able to handle the size of the data, so I put it up on our
>web site for a limited time.
>
>I am happy to talk with you about what the different fields mean since
>I performed this function for the McKinney' campaign's database
>administrator.
>
>Please note that our policy does prevent the transfer of our data to
>other parties by the recipient.  Should Nader be our nominee, then his
>campaign can request our data.
>
>If you feel that you do not have enough time to use the data
>productively, then I will notify the McKinney campaign that they must
>cease using the data we granted. I trust that they will comply
>promptly, but sadly have no direct control over their actions.
>However, I will pester until it is done.
>
>I will txt Nigel once this email has been sent to notify him of this
>email.  While I am not always at it, I can also be reached via AIM at
>jamiepokeefe .
>
>Please accept my apologies for our error.  Good luck with your calling.
>
>Jamie
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