Candidate Development and Legal Committee, Committee and Candidates Report

1st Quarter 2018

April 7, 2018

CDLC currently has 4 active members: Charlene DiCalogero, John Andrews (co-chairs), Maureen Doyle (Administrative Secretary), Nat Fortune. We are in need of 2 to 3 new members in order to keep up with the tasks of talking to potential candidates, updating our candidate support documents, and monitoring campaigns. Anyone interested in joining CDLC should contact the co-chairs Charlene DiCalogero or John Andrews.

1. Recruitment of Candidates and Volunteers

We have been recruiting candidates, and volunteers to campaigns, through chapters, chapters in formation, and personally at events. The Team Green-Rainbow Statewide Candidates Working Group (TGR) will have a separate report.

2. Current Candidates or Potential Candidates

Nine (9) candidates are announced as running for office so far in 2018. Seven of the nine are currently collecting signatures. Four regions in the state are represented and all have active chapters. We encourage GRP members to donate to and work for these candidates, and contact people you know in the State Rep districts to alert them they have a GR choice.

*3% or more of the general election vote regains Official Party status.

3. Reporting to GPUS

We forwarded info on our current candidates to Mike Feinstein and Chantal for the GPUS database. We have not yet forwarded data for our late fall special election campaign to Mike Feinstein and Chantal .

Charlene DiCalogero, State Senator Special Election, Worcester & Middlesex: 4-way race, 1.3% of the vote

CDLC has been requested to supply names and basic info on candidates as they officially attain ballot status. While we will do the best we can, our priority is candidate support.

4. CDLC webpages and candidate support docs

We continue to update our webpages. We have created several new documents this quarter to support Depository Treasurers, help campaigns know how to obtain voter list info from city and town clerks, and other docs. We have more support docs to update.

5. Candidate List

We have about 54 people on our "Current" list of people we are mentoring. This number is considerably higher than our committee members have the ability to maintain contact with. We continue to attempt to winnow out those people who have not stayed in contact with us.

6. Current Elected and Appointed Members

We believe the following are currently in elected or appointed office as GRP. The first 8 are elected, the rest appointed.

Name                               Next election     Level/Position               Town                 Chapter if known

Respectfully submitted,

Charlene DiCalogero, co-chair