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Harry,If I'm not mistaken Council Facilitator is NOT an officer position. http://www.coloradogreenparty.org/about/bylaws
There is a correlation there for sure, but A) Could those resources have been better utilized on running local races, that in effect would have brought us even more Greens and B) Those are times where our numbers should naturally go up(Times of great political awareness, mid terms and general election). As Arn has pointed out on many occasions, we aren't able to fully support state-wide candidates. It would be a disservice to a good candidate to haphazardly run them, and equally a disservice to the Party to run a candidate who is knowingly unable to be competitive. It's embarrassing watching ineffectual, incompetent, half-baked campaigns flounder.
I personally recommend that we sit out all statewide and federal races in 2018. We do not have the structures in place to run a legitimate candidate at that level. I believe any success we have at that level will only come after we have secured seats in the State Legislature. I am also of the opinion that we are just a handful of Green State Reps/Senators away from being able to seriously pull legislation in a progressive direction. A focus on a few competitive local races would allow the Party to use the campaigns to continue to build up support for Local Parties and to focus the collective power to have a greater effect on races that we actually have a shot in.
Better yet we could just stream the meeting, and use something like https://electionbuddy.com/ and have everyone vote electronically.
Why couldn't we allow E-Participation? Use Skype conferencing or something similar. It would be much easier to get someone to a Computer than across the state. For those unable or unwilling to make the trip of course. That would allow us to be strategic about where we hold the meeting. For instance, if Grand Junction is new and eager than maybe they should host.
