[WB-Discuss] Re: Call for a special meeting of the state committee?

[Aram Falsafi]

Hi folks,

I was at the meeting. Yes, it was not a particularly productive meeting. There
were a number of problems, mainly related to the fact that they are running a
40-person meeting the way they used to run a 15-person meeting. We spent (some
would say "wasted") too much time dealing w/ procedural matters and didn't get
to the substance of the meeting.

No need to get too alarmed about this. It's just growing pains. The state
committee has doubled in the past few months, the party has been thrown some
legal requirements by the state, related to our official ballot status that the
state committee is not fully used to dealing with, and there were way too many
proposals on the table for us to deal with in a one-day meeting of 40 people.

The state committee will work it out in the next few months. In the grand scheme
of things this is not a big problem.

Tony just wants to make sure that the state committee deals with these issues
before the next meeting which won't be until January.

-Aram

"Edmund R. MacKenty" wrote:
> 
> The message below was sent on the Locals mailing list.  Seems someone is
> not happy with the inability of the state committee to finish up business.
> I don't know the facts here, I'm just relaying this message.  Does anyone
> know what happened at the state committee meeting and what the proposals
> they didn't act on are about?  Do we want to take a stand on this (I think
> we should be involved), and if so, what should it be?
> 
> ============== Begin Forwarded Message ======================
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:57:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Anthony Lorenzen <greentbow at yahoo.com>
> To: locals at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: [Locals] State com has unfinished business
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I am a state committee delegate from Worcester County. At its Sept 13
> meeting on Cape Cod, the state com (for various reasons) failed to take
> action on 18 1/2 proposals before it (out of a possible 20).  Thus, in
> my opinion they need to finish their business, which is in a sense OUR
> business.
> 
> According to GRP by laws, locals can call a special meeting of the
> state committee through a vote in which 1/3 of recognized locals vote to
> call the special state com meeting.
> 
> IF the state com doesn't take action on these proposals in a timely
> manner, say a matter of weeks, Are there locals out there who are
> interested in calling a special meeting of the state com, so they are required
> to finish their (OUR) business?
> 
> What's the thought out there?
> 
> I have called for state com delegates to join me in calling for special
> meeting to finish our business, if they don't, I think the grassroots
> needs to make its voice heard on this one.
> PEACE
> Tony Lorenzen
> 
> PEACE,
> Tony Lorenzen
> Co-chair, Nashua River Green-Rainbow
> Mass Green-Rainbow Party
> State Committe Rep. / Worcester County
> 9785341373
> greentbow at yahoo.com
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> 
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