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By my count 6 chapters participated in this and by my removing my ill and mistaken BLOCK that means that the proposal was agreed to in time. So Do we agree that the Colorado Green Party has endorsed Amendment 69??
Again, I see no other BLOCK on this Proposal Agreement Seeking for 003. Thus, since I have removed by BLOCK the only issue is whether sufficient local groups have spoken. Brittany, please verify and if not I will reach out to some more chapters.
AS I said before the comment that included BLOCK by myself was not supposed to be regarding this endorsement but was in regard to the proposal to can Bill. I seriously don't know how that happened. Brain Freeze. Lets get Amendment 69 endorsed now!
Now that Bill has resigned as co-chair who will be his replacement. Any volunteers? Lets get on with the task at hand — supporting Arn and Jill's campaign as best we can with positive responses to the negativity being sown by so called Progressive folks and the lies and uninformed prejudices being pandered to by the Republican party.
Stand Aside–While I agree that being publicly drunk and disorderly while in a Green Party booth– admittedly so drunk he can't remember what he said or did –is an impeachable offense when it comes to a representative of the party, I am chagrined that this issue was brought up so late and within the context of the disagreement between Arn, Bill, and Andrea over Amendment 69. This too should have been brought to a proposal much earlier since the Green Party (and me as US Senate Candidate in 2008 and 2010) have endorsed single payer and sought the elective support of HCAC as the only party really committed to their agenda. How that slipped under the rug at the State Meeting is beyond me but I think I remember Bill saying that Andrea didn't want to deal with it then and kept it off the agenda. I do believe that this issue is a part of the animus that led Bill to act out because he believed we should have been endorsing it at that time but allowed that discussion to be put off. Then Arn felt unsupported in his stance in favor of ColoradoCare. In my opinion we had a responsibility to deal with this issue. My judgement is that Bill has done a lot of good things for the party taking leadership along with Art when we were at a very difficult place. Now we are back at square one hurling personal charges at each other rather than working together while privately disciplining Bill. I also believe that Andrea has added incredible organizational skills and leadership (I can't understand how she can be Denver co-chair, State co-chair, National Rep and now national co-chair and keep it all together. but she seems to be functioning well though she seems to have some detractors.) Bottom line, I think it is irresponsible for us to be dealing with this important but divisive matter rather than attempting to get our campaign responsibilities as efficient and effective as possible these last 50 days. I have spent too much time reading all this stuff trying to sort through fact from hurt feelings, rather than on what I wanted to be doing to forward Jill and Arn's campaigns. At least the GP-PPR has managed to study ColoradoCare and to finally vote to endorse it. My phone banking hasn't happened, but we have held 3 honk and wave signings so far with signs for ARN and JILL and REGISTER GREEN-VOTE GREEN! It would be nice for there to be some reporting about how our efforts are going and how we are welcoming the Berners into the party.
BlockThis is not the time for this proposal. It divides our efforts and energy to infighting rather than electing our candidates. I cannot believe this was put forward 6 weeks prior to the election. Was it to create a melee just to do that? To divert us from our common purpose? We have no way of carrying out an impeachment process via this forum that guarantees a fair trial. We have no time to be fair about this while we are working on the Stein and Menconi campaign. And so far as I am concerned there is no evidence that any attempts were made to hear out Bill by the complainants or attempts to resolve the situation in a timely fashion. The timing of this is extremely suspicious.
