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

[Colt Gonzales]

What's the purpose of sending this to the GPCA-SGA-VOTES list during a
voting discussion, other than to affect the endorsement or non-endorsement
of Josh Jones?

It just seems to me that this conversation would be far more appropriate in
a more transparent setting such as the GPCA Forum if anyone finds the
conduct truly troubling, or out of bounds for the party.

If you wish for his campaign to simply change the title, did you attempt to
have this discussion one on one with the Jones campaign?  If so, what was
their response?

Did you make any attempts to resolve this issue with the Jones campaign
prior to this email?

Personally, this type of intra-party discussion where we're not working on
lifting each other up is the type of thing that turns me away from the
Green party structure.  It doesn't affect my affinity for the party itself
as the party's values are what brought me here.

I think it's a HUGE WASTE OF TIME for candidates to spend their time
fighting in emails when there's a much bigger fight to be had out there,
especially during the frigging Election season.

I hope you can all put these sorts of differences aside and realize we're
all on the same team and that our time can be much more effective if we
work together against the forces of neoliberalism instead of picking on
each other over campaigning style.

Thanks.

Colt



On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Genevieve Marcus <genevieve.marcus at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> gpca-votes mailing list
>>>> gpca-votes at sfgreens.org
>>>> https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-votes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> gpca-votes mailing list
>>>> gpca-votes at sfgreens.org
>>>> https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-votes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> gpca-votes mailing list
>> gpca-votes at sfgreens.org
>> https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-votes
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine,
> Common Sense, 1776 *
>
> --
> gpca-votes mailing list
> gpca-votes at sfgreens.org
> https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpca-votes
>
>


-- 
Colt Gonzales
Councilmember
San Joaquin County Green Party
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.sfgreens.org/pipermail/gpca-votes/attachments/20180305/e15347a3/attachment.html>