[GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 136 - Election: Coordinating Committee, unscheduled vacancy, one male seat, remainder of July 2017 - June 2019 (secret ballot)

[james clark]

Randy Hicks is an amazing green. His continued advocacy at the state
capital is commendable. Ever since I met him during the occupy movement, he
has remained a vocal advocate for truly progressive changes at state,
county and city levels.

On Feb 14, 2018 7:59 AM, "GPCA Votes" <gpca.votes at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Discussion has begun for the following GPCA SGA ranked choice vote:
>
> Ranked Choice Vote ID #136
> Ranked Choice Vote *Election: Coordinating Committee, unscheduled
> vacancy, one male seat, 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*
>
> This election is to fill one unscheduled vacancy for one male seat on the
> GPCA Coordinating Committee http://www.cagreens.org/
> committees/coordinating, resulting from the resignation of Paul Larudee,
> elected in June 2017 http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/irvdetail?pid=125 , to
> serve the remainder of the two year term running from July 1, 2017 to June
> 30, 2019. The Coordinating Committee's Duties and Authority are found here
> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-03#Section_8-1_Duties_and_Authority
> .
>
> When such unscheduled vacancies occur, the Coordinating Committee shall
> publish a Notice of Vacancy and Call for Candidate Submissions to the
> active County Organizations, as per GPCA Bylaws 8-4.5
> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-03#Section_8-4_Elections . This
> was sent on February 15, 2015.
>
> According to GPCA Bylaws 8-2.1, "The Coordinating Committee shall be
> composed of up to 24 voting members, with 12 men and 12 women. Six men and
> six women shall be elected each year to serve staggered, two year terms"
> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-03#Section_8-2_Membership and
> 8-4.1 "Elections shall be conducted each year by the Standing Green
> Assembly using Ranked Choice Voting with a No Other Candidate option, with
> the six week discussion period beginning on the first Monday of May and the
> one week voting period commencing immediately thereafter"
> http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2016-07-03#Section_8-4_Elections .
> 8-4.3(b) adds that the election as it is posted to the Standing Green
> Assembly shall include: "A full and detailed explanation of Ranked Choice
> Voting, an explanation of the No Other Candidate option, and an
> encouragement that delegates make their choices seriously and a reminder
> that they do not have to fill all seats unless they feel there are enough
> qualified candidates."
>
> 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:*
>
> Randy Hicks
> Josh Jones
> James Lauderdale
> No Other Candidate
>
>
> *Bio and Statement - Randy Hicks*
>
> My name is Randy Hicks. I am a proud member of the Sacramento Green Party
> and of the state and national Green Party chapters. The reason that I
> joined the Green Party was due to the Democratic candidate for governor
> choosing to support the death penalty during the 2002 recall election. I
> have been involved in politics for 32 years supporting campaigns for
> various candidates who supported progressive causes. I also believe that
> after working for the Democratic party till the 2002 election, we need a
> 3rd party such as the Green Party that endorses and supports progressive
> causes such as Single Payer Health Care and Instant Runoff elections.
>
> I was born and raised in an progressive area of Iowa, which is a very
> conservative state. I moved to Minnesota, where I received my Associates of
> Art degree in Sales and Marketing. I used my degree to promote progressive
> Green Party causes.
>
> I moved to California, where I continued to support progressive causes. I
> had the opportunity to join Californians for Disability Rights, Inc., where
> I became active in supporting disability rights. I was then appointed by
> the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to sit on the Disability
> Advisory Commission. As a member of the DAC, I learned to run meetings and
> Robert's Rules of Order. In addition, I have supported many other causes
> such as, environmental and economic justice, the Older Women's League.
> Health Care for All California, America Civil Liberties Union, LGBTQ
> rights, and introduced legislation on all of these causes to the California
> State Senate and Assembly.
>
> As a member of LGBTQ community, I have worked with the Democratic party on
> LGBTQ causes. The Democratic party has only supported the LGBTQ community
> when they need our votes or are forced to support LGBTQ causes. For future
> generations of the LGBTQ community, the Green Party supports their causes.
>
> As a proud member of the Sacramento Green Party, I believe that I can
> represent the key values of the party at the local and state levels. In
> addition, I ran for the Green Party council and won the seat. I am one of
> the few Green Party members who are currently sitting on an appointed or
> elected seat in Sacramento County.
>
> What do I wish to accomplish on the Coordinating Council?
>
> I am running for the Green Party Coordinating Council with new progressive
> ideas and bring a sense of order to the GPCA. As a member of the
> Coordinating Council, I also want to endorse the causes that serve all of
> our Green Party members at the local, state, national levels. I also wish
> to uphold all of the 10 key values of the Green Party.
>
> As someone who has sat on the Sacramento Green Party Council and has ran
> successfully as a candidate for the Sacramento County Green Party Council,
> I have served all of the counties of California as a Green Party delegate
> in order bring change, progress, and viability to the Green Party.
>
> I also believe that as a member of various county and state non profits
> and boards, I understand the processes needed to run a successful and
> organized campaign that represents and serves the interests of members of
> these organizations.
>
> As a volunteer for various local and state government organizations who
> has ran successful campaigns for elected seat, I believe that I have the
> knowledge, experience, and knowhow to help the Green Party to be the party
> of the future.
>
> I would be proud to represent the Green Party of California at the local
> and state levels.
>
>
> *Bio and Statement - Josh Jones*
>
> I have been active in political organizing for many years. Though a
> Californian, in 2008 I canvassed door to door for weeks in Reno, NV. In
> 2009 I advocated for Single Payer Healthcare, writing a letter of support
> to all of the U.S. Congress, the vice President and President - I was
> appalled when the ACA essentially became the Heritage Foundation proposal.
> I was in Occupy Davis in the winter of 2011, and was frequently on the news
> dismantling the concepts of "trickle down" and "corporate personhood". I
> protested at Monsanto headquarters in 2012. Some of my friends are now
> known as the Monsanto 10, and I've gone to support them in court - I think
> they will prevail!
>
> During July 2015 I noticed a person named Bernie Sanders running for
> President. His lefty rhetoric appealed to me and I threw in with that
> campaign. I knew he was probably shilling for the Democrats, but the
> opportunity to pull the masses to the left was too good to pass up! I
> founded Davis for Bernie and eventually got 300 volunteers. Our local
> campaign won Yolo for Bernie with $5000, to the Dems $130,000 - with a
> lefty message for the people and people power. After campaigning in Reno,
> NV in Oct and Nov, before the campaign, and Utah, helping run the Caucus
> there, I was asked by the campaign to be Convener of the Congressional
> District 3 Bernie Delegate election on May 1st 2016. After the ill-fated
> primary, we went to protest at the DNC. "Jill not Hill!" was the rallying
> cry.
>
> I attended the Green Party rally for Dr. Jill Stein in Davis, and
> immediately asked, "Is there an active Yolo County Green Party?" The answer
> was, "No." Then let's start it! As a result I was a founding member of Yolo
> Green Party County Council. Though through frustration l dipped my toe into
> the Dem Party with the ADEMs, recruited 10 lefties to invade the Dem
> Party(where we got 10x voter turn-out), became a Dem Party leader for 3
> months, disgusted with obvious cheating and moving-the-goal-post, I
> returned to the Green Party stronger and with much learned experience. I am
> now a member of the Yolo Green Party County Council.
>
> I have always been a strong advocate of sustainable energy, and worked for
> 4 years as a photovoltaic large array designer, as Lead Designer, at a
> solar electric engineering firm. In 2010 I created the industry standard
> for distributed energy generation, known on engineering plan sets as a "W"
> sheet - the discipline designation. "W" stands for wind, water, and sun, in
> comparison to "S" for structural sheets, or "P" for plumbing. I worked on a
> committee of 113 top building industry people to do this, with, for
> example, a Major in the Army Corps of Engineers, and an owner of an
> architectural firm in Chicago, et al. I hope, with all of us, that
> sustainable energy will prevail - I know it will.
>
> I am a 4th generation Californian and have lived in California my entire
> life. I understand our state's diverse biomes and places, and the many
> types of folks who dwell here. There are many kinds of people here, both
> newcomers and people of many generations; mountain folk, desert folk, beach
> folk, and agricultural folk, both city people and countryside people, poor
> people and rich people, scientists and corporate owners, as well as Miwok,
> Pomo, and Chicanos who are often Aztlan. I think it's important to talk to
> everyone: to understand their perspectives, needs, and solutions to their
> experienced problems.
>
> I think and feel that the Green Party is the party to defeat the Duopoly.
> I view the Green Party as the party with the most moral basis; that it it's
> the party of human rights, workers rights, labor rights, and environmental
> rights. I would be honored to be elected to the Coordinating Committee of
> the California Green Party. I ask that you to vote for me - to advocate for
> the people.
>
>
> *Bio and Statement - James Lauderdale*
>
> I am 69 years old and retired.
>
> I live with my wife of 30 years in the San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles
> in the 22nd State Senatorial District. We are both active in the East LA
> Greens.
>
> I have been a registered Green since 2004, where I supported Peter Camejo
> in his several State and Federal election efforts. I had known Peter for
> over forty years. We had met and been associated in the revolutionary
> socialist movement beginning in the 1960’s.
>
>  Before retiring in 2014, I worked for seventeen years at various
> configurations of SEIU (Service Employees International Union, the largest
> union of public employees in the City and County of Los Angeles) in the
> capacity of organizer, and then doing administrative litigation. This
> latter was as lead senior civil service advocate, defending workers who
> were facing disciplinary action in the civil service system covering blue
> collar workers in the City of Los Angeles as well as thirteen other cities
> in LA County; I also handled disciplinary and contract violations that I
> litigated through the arbitration process.
>
> In the mid nineties I was the chief negotiator for the Registered Nurses
> (SEIU) bargaining unit in Los Angeles County.
> I also worked as the Arbitration Director and Negotiator for Local 132,
> Utility Workers Union at Southern California Gas.
> I was a delegate for three years to the Los Angeles County Federation of
> Labor.
>
> Prior to the union staff positions, I worked as Journeyman Union Carpenter
> for sixteen years in Colorado and California.
> I attended college at the University of Colorado but was thrown out for
> antiwar activity during the 1970 Cambodia Invasion.
> I became politically active around the Cuban Revolution and civil rights
> movement. I belonged to the Denver chapter of SNCC in 1964. I have been a
> militant, revolutionary socialist since I was fifteen.
> I am from Boulder Colorado.
>
> The work of building a ballot status, organizing party is difficult and
> extremely time consuming. It requires rethinking what it means to organize,
> and what it means to run and, occasionally, win. Our job is not to convince
> those who rule that we are trustworthy and competent, but rather to
> convince our newly emerging political base that those who rule are neither
> trustworthy or competent.
> Politics in this country is about the social alliances that are wound
> together to create and enable class rule.
> We need to stitch together a new social coalition the enables the
> transition to a new rule by a new class, the class of wage earners.
> Millions of these newly politicized people were energized and emerged out
> of the Sanders campaign, as well as new issues that have arisen and
> continue to arise. We need to organize them and enable them to exert an new
> and different kind of political power.
>
> We need to register thousands more Green voters across the state to open
> up the California Green Party to being a truly statewide party. Our
> electoral campaigns need to see this registration process as central.
> We need to fashion a national Party out of 50 statewide parties.
> We need to be an electoral vehicle for the movements that are emerging.
> We need to see the Green Party as a crucial but initial part of a process
> of building a party that can lead and activate millions. We have work to do.
>
> Full details will be available shortly at:
>
> http://www.sjcgreens.org/sga_vote_cc_vacancy_male
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