Thursday, May 18, 2006
A Request from the Presidential Campaign Support Committee
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Dear United States Greens,
Now is the time to lend your talents, passion, and energy to the Grassroots Movement, more ready than ever, for a shift in the US political landscape towards the values of Non-Violence, Ecological Wisdom, Social and Economic Justice, and Grassroots Democracy.
The Green Party of the United States Presidential Campaign Support Committee works to bring those values to the people and government by supporting the work of Greens in bringing the American people an effective Green Party Presidential campaign. We have work to do. We need your help.
As a standing committee of the Green Party of the United States, the committee is made up of dedicated Green volunteers from State Green Parties. Each state party is entitled to nominate members to represent and support their efforts at building the Green Party and offering the American people Green options at the National level
through the work of this committee.
Much of the work is done by committee over email, and monthly teleconference meetings. The following are our committee's objectives:
A. The PCSC will liaison between candidates and Ballot Access Working Group to formulate and implement ballot access strategy;
B. The PCSC will create and maintain a list of initial points of contact, bylaws, and election laws for each state and caucus to provide as resource to the candidates (before the convention) and nominee (after the convention);
C. The PCSC will assist state parties in creating and conducting a process that gets grassroots input into determining presidential preference and selecting delegates to the nominating convention. [Prior to the Nominating Convention the PCSC will assist
state parties in polling their membership to determine potential candidates and will publish the results of the poll, as well as sending a letter to all potential candidates consisting of the results of the poll and our contact information as a committee so that potential candidates may reach us to make use of our available
support services];
D. The PCSC will coordinate public debates between candidates for the GPUS nomination;
E. The PCSC will lead and organize efforts to open the presidential debates to Green Candidates and work to raise awareness of open debates.
F. The PCSC will lead and liaison between the ANMC, Media Committee and candidates on coordination of a pre-nomination candidate forum and post nomination campaign launch at the National Nominating Convention.
G. In cooperation with ANMC, Media Committee and Webmaster, the PCSC will create and maintain an official pre-Convention web site to provide candidate information, resource links and tracking of the delegate selection process, and a post-convention web site to display the results of the nominating convention and provide links to the
presidential candidate's official web site.
H. The PCSC will provide coordination for communication between the GPUS committees and the candidates (before the convention) and nominee (after the convention);
I. The PCSC will assemble legal resources and advisors on issues of federal election law where appropriate and necessary;
J. The PCSC will provide coordination with the CCC regarding cooperation between nominee and down-ticket candidacies.
K. The PCSC will develop, and administer GPUS candidate questionnaire to potential candidates and make available candidate responses to State Parties through the GPUS web site, National Committee delegates, Caucus delegates, and State Chairs.
If any or all of these activities are of interest to you, please consider joining us! We are readying ourselves for an important and lively 2008 Presidential season, and need the help and input of all Greens.
To join, contact your State Party to let them know you are interested in representing your state on the GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee. You can contact Co-Chair Phil Huckelberry at phil @ mcleancountygreens.org for more information about the committee and how to join.
In Service to the Green Electorate,
The GPUS PCSC
Dear United States Greens,
Now is the time to lend your talents, passion, and energy to the Grassroots Movement, more ready than ever, for a shift in the US political landscape towards the values of Non-Violence, Ecological Wisdom, Social and Economic Justice, and Grassroots Democracy.
The Green Party of the United States Presidential Campaign Support Committee works to bring those values to the people and government by supporting the work of Greens in bringing the American people an effective Green Party Presidential campaign. We have work to do. We need your help.
As a standing committee of the Green Party of the United States, the committee is made up of dedicated Green volunteers from State Green Parties. Each state party is entitled to nominate members to represent and support their efforts at building the Green Party and offering the American people Green options at the National level
through the work of this committee.
Much of the work is done by committee over email, and monthly teleconference meetings. The following are our committee's objectives:
A. The PCSC will liaison between candidates and Ballot Access Working Group to formulate and implement ballot access strategy;
B. The PCSC will create and maintain a list of initial points of contact, bylaws, and election laws for each state and caucus to provide as resource to the candidates (before the convention) and nominee (after the convention);
C. The PCSC will assist state parties in creating and conducting a process that gets grassroots input into determining presidential preference and selecting delegates to the nominating convention. [Prior to the Nominating Convention the PCSC will assist
state parties in polling their membership to determine potential candidates and will publish the results of the poll, as well as sending a letter to all potential candidates consisting of the results of the poll and our contact information as a committee so that potential candidates may reach us to make use of our available
support services];
D. The PCSC will coordinate public debates between candidates for the GPUS nomination;
E. The PCSC will lead and organize efforts to open the presidential debates to Green Candidates and work to raise awareness of open debates.
F. The PCSC will lead and liaison between the ANMC, Media Committee and candidates on coordination of a pre-nomination candidate forum and post nomination campaign launch at the National Nominating Convention.
G. In cooperation with ANMC, Media Committee and Webmaster, the PCSC will create and maintain an official pre-Convention web site to provide candidate information, resource links and tracking of the delegate selection process, and a post-convention web site to display the results of the nominating convention and provide links to the
presidential candidate's official web site.
H. The PCSC will provide coordination for communication between the GPUS committees and the candidates (before the convention) and nominee (after the convention);
I. The PCSC will assemble legal resources and advisors on issues of federal election law where appropriate and necessary;
J. The PCSC will provide coordination with the CCC regarding cooperation between nominee and down-ticket candidacies.
K. The PCSC will develop, and administer GPUS candidate questionnaire to potential candidates and make available candidate responses to State Parties through the GPUS web site, National Committee delegates, Caucus delegates, and State Chairs.
If any or all of these activities are of interest to you, please consider joining us! We are readying ourselves for an important and lively 2008 Presidential season, and need the help and input of all Greens.
To join, contact your State Party to let them know you are interested in representing your state on the GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee. You can contact Co-Chair Phil Huckelberry at phil @ mcleancountygreens.org for more information about the committee and how to join.
In Service to the Green Electorate,
The GPUS PCSC
// posted by Gregg Jocoy @ 9:56 AM 
