[GPCA-SGA-Votes] Green Party Sex Tape video

[Bob Marsh]

It would have been nice to have better production values, but I suspect 
neighboring Sacto's Greta Gerwig was too busy down in LaLaLand.
;-)

this thread shows once again that humor isn't universal, you can't make 
everyone laugh.

Bob


On 3/5/18 08:49, Victoria Ashley wrote:
> I loved it!  Especially the comment at the comment about Monsanto and 
> Chevron.
>
> I think this is a great use of humor and creativity to address 
> corporate control of politicians.
>
> -- Victoria
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Jeff Lebow <jlebow at socal.rr.com 
> <mailto:jlebow at socal.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is this real or a hatchet job by Green opponents? If it is real,
>     it is really poor judgement and is quite disturbing. I could not
>     support a candidate taking this approach to fundraising. It’s just
>     wrong. The fair thing would be for the candidate himself to
>     explain whether this is real or why he took this extreme action.
>     Jeff Lebow
>     OC Greens
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     On Mar 4, 2018, at 10:33 PM, Angelica Duenas <angelica at aduenas.org
>     <mailto:angelica at aduenas.org>> wrote:
>
>>     Dear SGA delegates
>>
>>     I am very disturbed by the Green Party Sex Tape video
>>     (https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg) created and posted by
>>     Gubernatorial candidate Josh Jones. I find the video offensive
>>     and an example of extremely poor judgment by someone seeking to
>>     represent our party as a candidate for our state’s highest office.
>>
>>     I was first introduced face to face with the Green Party at the
>>     August 2016 Green Party national convention in Houston, which I
>>     attended as an interested observer, after being turned off by the
>>     Democratic Party (as a Berniecrat delegate at the Democratic
>>     National Convention a week earlier.)
>>
>>     At the GPUS convention, I met David Cobb, Laura Wells, Mike
>>     Feinstein, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, Cornel West (when things
>>     looked like he might Go Green) and Luis Rodriguez (the GPCA's
>>     2014 Gubernatorial candidate). Based upon those interactions, I
>>     was impressed by the Green Party, effectively going Green the
>>     following month. Since then, I have learned a lot about the Green
>>     Party and its inner workings. I love how there is a high value on
>>     internal democracy. And I love the GPCA and GPUS platforms – solid.
>>
>>     But I have to say that if I would have come across this Josh
>>     Jones Sex Tape video in 2016 prior to attending the Green Party
>>     convention, I would have not given the Green Party a chance at
>>     all. The concept and content is immature and damaging to our
>>     party.  A more thoughtful treatment could have been a great PSA
>>     moment.  Instead it is an embarrassment, plain and simple.
>>
>>     Given this, for anyone seeking our party’s endorsement, I think
>>     the video should be deleted from YouTube. But at a minimum, if
>>     this embarrassment is to remain on-line, the use of the words
>>     “Green Party” should be removed from the video's title. No one in
>>     our party has the right to post something like that,
>>     misrepresenting our party’s name in that manner.
>>
>>
>>     Disappointed in Los Angeles,
>>     Angelica Dueñas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Angelica M. Duenas, M.A.
>>     /GPLAC Councilmember/
>>     /GYG Delegate/
>>     /GPCA CC Member/
>>     /GPUS Alternate Delegate/
>>
>>     /"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" /- John
>>     Lennon
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