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

[Angelica Duenas]

Josh and I have spoken on the phone. We expressed our points of view. And
we have made our peace.

Josh has changed the title to "Green Party Comedy Skit"
And I can appreciate that.

We consider this topic closed.

On Mar 4, 2018 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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