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

Thu Mar 8 15:05:58 PST 2018

Good stuff, Marnie! I'd love to have you on my Livestream (Mana Talk with
James on Youtube) in the near future. If you can fit me that would be
fantastic.

Mahalo nui loha,

James Young

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 12:41 AM Marnie Glickman <marnie.glickman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Green friends,
>
> I am disappointed in the video because it does not appeal to the broad
> base of the CA Green Party. A founding mother of the Green Party of the US,
> Jennifer Ellingston, once said to me that a Green should always recommend a
> constructive idea when she offers a critique. I agree!
>
> We should always share at least one positive reason to donate when we
> fundraise. I love comedy, satire and creativity. I have worked for some of
> the funniest, most creative Green in the country. They always add a shred
> of truth, positivity to their presentation.
>
> OK…You made it this far. Let me tell you a little bit more about me.
>
> I am an elected official in San Rafael, CA, 18 miles north of the Golden
> Gate Bride in the Bay Area. I serve on a school board and educate 2,000
> children. It is rough to be an elected Green! At home, I care three
> children with my husband David Curtis, who twice ran statewide as a Green
> Party candidate. . Our budget is limited. If we could, we would donate to
> every Green candidate in the United States.
>
> This video does not motivate me. I feel like it blames me. The clear
> message is that the candidates only made the video because not enough
> people donated. The video feels like a punishment to Greens like me who
> haven’t donated to Josh Jones. Honestly, I’ve never met the guy. I’ve never
> talked to him by phone. Yes! 46-year-olds like me still use the telephone.
> He’s never contacted me by phone, text or email.
>
> The video is embarrassing too. In Marin County where I live, we have many
> Green elected officials and have a very affluent, very progressive
> population. Our Green elected officials struggled like warriors to get
> elected. We have some networks and sway. I would never share the video with
> my friends because it’s embarrassing and confusing and not positive. The
> Governor of California would never make this kind of video.
>
> I’m going to add in all of my titles per the request of one of the list
> administrators. I hate the titles, but maybe it provides some context to
> new Greens. Welcome to all of you! Thank you for joining our bad ass party.
>
> Peace,
> Marnie Glickman
> Dixie School Board Trustee, San Rafael, CA
> Marin Green Party County Council Member
> Former Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States
> Former Managing Director of the Green Party of California
> Former Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States Platform Committee
> Former Member of the Green Party of the United States International
> Committee
>
>
>
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>
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>
> On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:04 PM, james clark <faygodrinkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> *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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