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

Tue Mar 6 17:27:07 PST 2018

Hi all,

As a Vote Admin I have to say that I think it is fine that this conversation is happening on the SGA Vote email list, because it involves a candidate who may be listed as one of our choices for endorsement on our upcoming SGA ballot.

Eric Brooks
SGA Vote Administrator

From: gpca-votes [mailto:gpca-votes-bounces at sfgreens.org] On Behalf Of Angelica Duenas
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 2:00 PM
To: GPCA-SGA-Vote discussion <gpca-votes at sfgreens.org>
Subject: Re: [GPCA-SGA-Votes] Green Party Sex Tape video

I apologize if I wrote this on the wrong list. For some reason I have some stuff under this email .. some under angelica.greenparty at gmail.com<mailto:angelica.greenparty at gmail.com>
On my phone I have multiple email accounts .... I didn't look at what account I was logged on at the time that I sent the original email.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Colt Gonzales <coltgonzales at sjcgreens.org<mailto:coltgonzales at sjcgreens.org>> wrote:
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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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On Mar 4, 2018, at 10:33 PM, Angelica Duenas <angelica at aduenas.org<mailto: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

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