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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Dear SGA delegates</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">I am very disturbed by the Green Party Sex Tape video (</span></span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg" target="_blank" style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">) 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.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">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.)</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">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.</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">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.</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">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.</span></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">Angelica Dueñas</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px"><br></span></span></span></p>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Angelica M. Duenas, M.A. </div>

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</div><div><br></div><div><span><font style="background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" </em>- John Lennon </font></font></font></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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