[GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 137 - Election: GPUS Delegation, unscheduled vacancy, three alternates, remainder of July 2017 - June 2019

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Discussion has begun for the following GPCA SGA ranked choice vote

Ranked Choice Vote ID #137
Ranked Choice Vote *Election: GPUS Delegation, unscheduled vacancy, three
alternates, remainder of July 2017 - June 2019*
Number of Seats 1
Ranked Choice Vote Administrators: Victoria Ashley, Brian Good, Laura
Wells, Eric Brooks, Mike Goldbeck
Discussion  02/12/2018 - 03/25/2018
Voting  03/26/2018 - 04/01/2018
Voting ends at Midnight Pacific Time

*Background*

According to the Delegate Apportionment Formula in Section 8-6 of GPUS
Rules and Procedures Article VIII National Committee Size and Delegate
Allocation (http://gpus.org/rules-procedures/#08 ), the Green Party of
California (GPCA) is entitled to 25 delegates on the 150 member National
Committee of the Green Party of the United States.

According to GPCA bylaws, the GPCA elects its GPUS delegates and alternates
to staggered, two-year terms via the Standing General Assembly, during the
same time period as elections to the GPCA Coordinating Committee (
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-03#Section_8-2_Membership ).

This election is for 12 alternate seats on the GPUS Delegation, for two
year terms running from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2019. The election is
conducted by Ranked Choice Voting. Ranked Choice Voting is explained here
http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/fair-representation-voting/choice-voting •
http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/instant-runoff-voting •
http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=876 • http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv.
Ranking 'No Other Candidate' (NOC) means once NOC passed the approval
threshold, no further candidates will be elected, other than those (if any)
who have already been elected before NOC reached the threshold.

*Candidates*

Rodolfo Cortes Barragan
Timeka Drew
Adam Siegel
Jesse Townley
No Other Candidate


*Bio and Statement - Rodolfo Cortes Barragan*

(1) Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, Bellflower, LA County

(2) I would like to apply for GPCA GPUS Alternate Delegate because I am
committed and involved in growing the Green Party in California so that the
Greens may achieve national victory over the two party system. I will
collaborate with all Greens who want to help the effort to achieve a Green
New Deal.

(3) I am the Campaign Manager for the Recall Rendon campaign. I am in
charge of making sure we succeed in triggering an election to replace
Anthony Rendon, who has blocked SB 562 and thereby deprived Californians of
guaranteed healthcare. The recall will be a key test of the Democratic
establishment's "blue wall" in the heart of Latinx Los Angeles. Previously,
I helped with the campaign to elect Kenneth Mejia to the U.S Congress.
Before that, I was involved with the Jill 2016 campaign, joining the Green
Party after Bernie spoke at the DNC.


*Bio and Statement - Timeka Drew*

(1) My name is Timeka Drew and I live in the city of Los Angeles located
within Los Angeles county.

(2) My vision for serving as an alternate GPUS delegate is to bring my
passion for convergence and cooperation to my state Green Party that I have
been supporting as a voting member, but am now committed to doing more to
help not only build and grow the party by recruiting newcomers, but to also
focus on strengthening the party from within. I have been a dedicated
member of the party since serving as Media Coordinator for the Cheri
Honkala campaign for Sheriff of Philadelphia in 2011 and I look forward to
serving this party for years to come.

(3) I am currently the National Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation for
the Democratic Revolution, of which many prominent Greens serve as Board
Members and Fellows - our mission is to support the grassroots democracy
movement. I have been a climate democracy and democracy movement organizer
nationally since 2014, beginning with the Global Climate Convergence
campaign of which I was the lead organizer. This year, we sponsored and
were the lead organizers of the Democracy Convention, which brought
together dedicated democracy organizers and activists across different
areas of focus, building across conferences to create unity and cohesion
within our movement.

I am a long time member of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign
and am a member of the LA Tenant's Union. I am a mother who believes in
inter-generational movement building and the importance of integrating the
youth perspective and leadership into our organizing and strategies.


*Bio and Statement - Adam Siegel*

(1) Adam Siegel, Davis, Yolo County

(2) I would like to serve as a GPUS alternate delegate because I am
passionately committed to continuing to advance the building of the Green
Party as a serious political force in the United States at a time when this
country finds itself at a true turning point (i.e., crisis). I intend to
faithfully reflect the will of California Greens and the GPCA while serving
as an alternate delegate, and will be transparent and forthright in
representing and expressing the views of California Greens and their party.

(3) After decades of registering NPP (despite voting Green as far back as
1996), I re-registered Green in 2016. Since becoming active in the GPCA, I
helped reactivate the Yolo County Organization in the fall of 2016, and
currently serve on the Yolo County Council. I served as a delegate for the
2017 Kern General Assembly and attended the 2017 Ventura GA. I currently
serve as a 2017-2018 SGA delegate. I was appointed to the GPCA Byaws
Committee last year, and was recently elected Co-Co. I also currently serve
as a GPCA member of the GPUS Platform Committee. As a Green activist, I
helped organize last year's Central Regional Gathering in Davis. Outside my
Green life, I have been a delegate for a number of statewide organizations
over the years: California Federation of Teachers, Sacramento Central Labor
Council, and the Librarians Association of the University of California. I
have worked for the University of California for many years (as a
librarian), and am a dual card (IWW/UC-AFT) rank-and-file shop steward.


*Bio and Statement - Jesse Townley*

I am applying to continue to be a delegate for the California Green Party.
I and 1 other long-time Greens, John Selawsky, was re-elected to the
Berkeley Rent Board in a city-wide election in November 2014 and my current
term as an elected official ends in November 2018.

I was elected as a National Delegate in 2011. Over the past years of
serving as a member of the National Committee as a Delegate from
California, I have attended the 2012 ANM & Presidential Convention in
Baltimore, the 2013 Annual National Meeting. Iowa City, IA, and the 2014
Annual National Meeting in St. Paul, MN

I have served on the Coordinated Campaign Committee, and currently serve as
a non-NC member of the Platform Committee and the Dispute Resolution
Committee. I have also been an active participant on the National
list-servs and done my best to be a level-headed participant. I was part of
an ad-hoc group who are working on moving the NC to communicate via a
message board.

I worked with other California Greens in bringing forward a proposed
Platform plank that was not added to the National Platform, as well as
worked with California and Georgia delegates on Platform planks that were
added to the National Platform.

On the CCC, we instituted a fascinating series of teleconference trainings
for current and prospective Green candidates open to any US Green. I’ve
taken part in these trainings and led one about campaign strategy based on
my experience as an activist, a candidate and an elected official.

I have been a registered Green since 1992. I spent 2 decades volunteering
at 924 Gilman Street, the all-ages volunteer-run music and art collective
that- in the mid-1990s- suddenly had to learn how to advocate for itself
and its mixed use/industrial neighborhood. It was a rude awakening to local
politics for all of us Gilman volunteers, and ultimately successful. I
realized that I loved the intricacies and details necessary to navigate
local government.

17 years ago, Green City Councilmember Dona Spring encouraged and inspired
me to jump into local Berkeley politics. I knew her through my work at
various non-profits and paratransit companies, including Easy Does It
Disability Services where I served as Executive Director & Vice-President
of the Board of Directors. (At the time of this application, I am wrapping
up a second stint as Interim Executive Director of EDI) My entry into city
politics was a combination of her encouragement and my epiphany that, a, no
one in power was as young as me (I was 30 then), and, b, that none of them
understood how important a counter-cultural landmark like 924 Gilman was in
the world-wide punk, indie, & art scenes. (Later on the successes of Gilman
alumni Green Day & their Broadway show, "American Idiot" [which started at
the Berkeley Rep] clued everyone in on Gilman's importance to music & art,
even though the collective has concentrated on more underground acts than
Green Day)

She appointed me to a city commission, the Disaster & Fire Safety
Commission (then called the Disaster Council), and a year later I ran for
City Council in 2004. While I lost in a 3-way race for an open seat, I
gained a lot of experience and name recognition. I raised $18,000 via
mostly non-traditional methods, including on-line and through art, spoken
word, and music events. In 2005 I was the Volunteer Coordinator for Green
Party member & later KPFA Morning Show host Aimee Allison's first Oakland
City Council campaign. Throughout these years I worked with Dona, fellow
City Councilmember Kriss Worthington, and many local Greens & clean
election advocates on getting Alameda County to implement Instant Runoff
Voting, which finally arrived in 2010. I have also served as the Chair &
Vice-Chair of the Disaster & Fire Safety Commission and the Chair of the
Alameda County Disaster Preparedness For Pets ad hoc group, which we formed
in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to plan for post-earthquake animal
care.

After a minor 2006 kerfluffle between Berkeley Greens and the Alameda
County Council, I helped re-start the Berkeley chapter of the Green Party,
which had lain moribund for 12 years. We updated the by-laws, held
community events, endorsed candidates, and generally increased public
awareness of the Berkeley chapter for 2 years. Eventually those of us who
helped rejuvenate the chapter needed to step back, and the chapter took a
break until fall 2010, when it again began election work. Since I was
running for reelection, I was only slightly involved, serving as the
moderator for the Berkeley Greens e-mail list (which I still administer).

All of this community work raised my political profile to the point where I
was able to join with other tenant-friendly community candidates chosen by
the Rent Board Convention to run and be elected to the Rent Board in 2008.
The Rent Board Convention is a community-run, grassroots process that
allows prospective progressive Rent Board candidates to be vetted by a
panel of Green Party, Peace & Freedom Party, progressive Democrats, Grey
Panthers, Cal Dems, and other Berkeley groups & activists, and then voted
upon by a public convention held each summer before a Rent Board election.
All of us incumbents went through the same process in 2010, showing our
clear connections to the grassroots. I served as Chair of the Rent Board
for 2 years- December 2014-December 2016.

I want to continue to bring my grassroots electoral experience and
grassroots fundraising expertise (I've also served on the Board of
Independent Arts & Media, a San Francisco non-profit supporting independent
voices, since 2007) to the state-wide Green Party in an effort to elect
more Greens to public office. I strongly believe that to effect political
change, we must amass political power at the local level. This will
naturally lead to state-wide power, and the ability to apply the Ten Key
Values across our state. Since it's one of the largest economies on the
planet, this will further Green values exponentially.

Thank you for considering my application. Please do not hesitate to contact
me with questions or comments.

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