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

[Pam Spevy]

I'm all for this video and humor that raises our core Green Party values
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On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Angelica Duenas <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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