<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It’s cute. It’s G-Rated. It makes a clear point. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s intuitive and created as an alternative to the straight factual approach to voter outreach. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">tl;dr- this is an effective campaign piece. I look forward to more story-telling from these and other Green candidates.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jesse Townley</div><div class="">Commissioner & former Chair, Berkeley Rent Board</div><div class="">3-time elected Green, wrapping up 10 years as an elected official this year!</div><div class="">Former GPCA NC delegate, CCWG member</div><div class="">Current candidate for GPCA Alternate NC delegate</div><div class="">Former GPUS SC member, Coordinated Campaign Committee member</div><div class="">Current GPUS Platform Committee & Dispute Resolution Committee member</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Matthew Leslie <<a href="mailto:approximateman@earthlink.net" class="">approximateman@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Its amateurish. Dump it.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Matt Leslie<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 7, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Marnie Glickman <<a href="mailto:marnie.glickman@gmail.com" class="">marnie.glickman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Green friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been reading this thread carefully and thinking about the video over the past few days. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OK…You made it this far. Let me tell you a little bit more about me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:04 PM, james clark <<a href="mailto:faygodrinkit@gmail.com" class="">faygodrinkit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">It's mocking sex workers...</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 10:29 PM F Lambert <<a href="mailto:boatrocker2@gmail.com" class="">boatrocker2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">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 <span id="m_-6764780604828953366:11h.1" class="">DemoRATS</span> and the <span id="m_-6764780604828953366:11h.2" class="">Repulsives</span> 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.<br class=""><br class=""></div>$.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.<br class=""><br class="">BTW, I didn't see anything lewd or sexual at all on the above video. Did anybody else?<br class=""><br class=""></div>Frank Lambert<br class=""></div>Monterey County<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Angelica Duenas <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:angelica@aduenas.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">angelica@aduenas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><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" class="">Dear SGA delegates</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class=""><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<span style="background:white" class=""><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" class="">I am very disturbed by the Green Party Sex Tape video (</span></span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/dxhUS-QQPbg" style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white" class="">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" class=""><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" class="">) 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)" class=""><br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<span style="background:white" class=""><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" class="">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" class="">
<br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<span style="background:white" class=""><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" class="">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" class="">
<br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<span style="background:white" class=""><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" class="">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" class="">
<br style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px" class="">
<span style="background:white" class=""><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" class="">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" class=""></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)" class="">
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<span class=""></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)" class="">Disappointed in Los Angeles, <br class="">
<span style="background:white" class=""><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" class="">Angelica Dueñas</span></span></span></p><span class="m_-6764780604828953366HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><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)" class=""><span style="background:white" class=""><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" class=""><br class=""></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)" class=""><span style="background:white" class=""><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" class=""><br class=""></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)" class=""><span style="background:white" class=""><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" class=""><br class=""></span></span></span></p>-- <br class=""><div class="m_-6764780604828953366m_2722247273246553371gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Angelica M. Duenas, M.A. </div>
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