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

Sat Mar 17 11:47:18 PDT 2018

It’s cute. It’s G-Rated. It makes a clear point. 

It’s intuitive and created as an alternative to the straight factual approach to voter outreach. 

Look, elections are mostly won by telling a story & connecting emotionally to voters and supporters. They are rarely swayed purely by a factual enumeration of issues and solutions. 

This tells a cute, simple, and sly story that the person-on-the-street intuitively gets. They know that celebrities sell their sex tapes for millions of dollars- it’s funny and counterintuitive that a politician would do the same. Using this storyline makes NO value judgement on the underlying practice of filming one’s own consensual intimacy, nor of profiting off of this. (It is not always as clear-cut as that last sentence, but again, there’s no value judgement in this obvious spoof of the situation)

The underlying point- that our politics are being smothered in waves of money given to the 2 major parties- is one that the person-on-the-street ALSO intuitively gets, no matter what their political orientation.

Whether or not I have any constructive critiques or value-based judgements of the piece is irrelevant- to me the important and positive thing about this is that some of our hard-working candidates are taking innovative story-based approaches to campaigning. This piece does 2 things- it connects to the voter with a story-based narrative and delivers a simple well-known political message about big money & corruption that highlights the GP’s principled stand against those things.

This piece would hold the attention of my non-political friends and contacts- and most of my political circle. I cannot remember any previous short Green political piece that would appeal to both constituencies.

tl;dr- this is an effective campaign piece. I look forward to more story-telling from these and other Green candidates.

Jesse Townley
Commissioner & former Chair, Berkeley Rent Board
3-time elected Green, wrapping up 10 years as an elected official this year!
Former GPCA NC delegate, CCWG member
Current candidate for GPCA Alternate NC delegate
Former GPUS SC member, Coordinated Campaign Committee member
Current GPUS Platform Committee & Dispute Resolution Committee member

> On Mar 14, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Matthew Leslie <approximateman at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Its amateurish. Dump it.
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> Matt Leslie
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>> On Mar 7, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Marnie Glickman <marnie.glickman at gmail.com <mailto:marnie.glickman at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Dear Green friends,
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>> I’ve been reading this thread carefully and thinking about the video over the past few days. 
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> OK…You made it this far. Let me tell you a little bit more about me.
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>> 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. I care three children at home with my partner who is also a Green. Our budget is limited. If I could, I would donate to every Green candidate in the United States.  
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>> 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.
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>> Why do I care so much? 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. Everyone I know in Marin would agree.
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>>> On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:04 PM, james clark <faygodrinkit at gmail.com <mailto:faygodrinkit at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> It's mocking sex workers...
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>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 10:29 PM F Lambert <boatrocker2 at gmail.com <mailto: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.
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>>> $.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.
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>>> BTW, I didn't see anything lewd or sexual at all on the above video. Did anybody else?
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>>> Frank Lambert
>>> Monterey County
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>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Angelica Duenas <angelica at aduenas.org <mailto:angelica at aduenas.org>> wrote:
>>> Dear SGA delegates
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>>> I am very disturbed by the Green Party Sex Tape video (https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg <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.
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>>> 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.)
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Disappointed in Los Angeles, 
>>> Angelica Dueñas
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