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

[Jane Jarlsberg]

i meant to address this question to Sadie Fulton.  Jane

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Jane Jarlsberg <jjarlsberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> i guess the bottom line on this thread is did this satire help raise funds
> for your campaigns?!  peace, Jane
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:13 AM, Sadie Fulton <sadie.fulton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Angelica,
>> When you raised your objection to this video you had not even watched it.
>> Have you watched it yet?
>> Sadie
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 02:05 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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