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

[james clark]

It's mocking sex workers...

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 10:29 PM F Lambert <boatrocker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a comedy and a plea for Greens to start supporting GP candidates with
> money, for God's sake!  Stop being so prudish.  The DemoRATS and the
> Repulsives have done more harm to this country and the world and are
> psyching the uninformed and willfully ignorant American people for a
> confrontation with Russia and the start of World War Three and the
> destruction of planet Earth.
>
> $.14 cents a day per the 100,000 or so registered Greens in California and
> they wouldn't have to make an unusual plea for $$$ like this. Yes, $51.50 a
> year (or more, if you're sincere about the Green Party) would give us over
> five million dollars in our state treasury. Not hardly much to ask for.
>
> BTW, I didn't see anything lewd or sexual at all on the above video. Did
> anybody else?
>
> Frank Lambert
> Monterey County
>
> On Sun, 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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