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

[Genevieve Marcus]

Apparently, some people don't see it as a joke.  Perhaps the TV host should
say something at the end to clarify this.

Genevieve Marcus



On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Victoria Ashley <victronix01 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> I could not support a candidate taking this approach to fundraising
>
> It's a joke, they are highlighting the core issue of our party of taking
> no corporate donations.
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Victoria Ashley <victronix01 at gmail.com>
> 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> 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>
>>> 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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