2008 Missouri Delegate Credential Application

Green Party of the United States 2008 Presidential Nomination Convention
Delegate Credential Application

Progressive Party of Missouri

1.) Please provide information for each delegate and/or alternate:

Please answer question #2 below yes or no

2.) Is your state party seeking credentialed delegates an accredited member state Green Party of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS)?  If not, has your party submitted an application to the Accreditation Committee, which demonstrates its eligibility for membership?  Is your caucus seeking credentialed delegates already been accredited as eligible for representation on the National Committee of the GPUS? If not, is it planning on doing so before the Presidential Nominating Convention?

Yes

For questions #3-#5 please attach either an .rtf or .pdf document and/or a web link to the appropriate document in your email response, and a hard copy in your postal mail response

3). Please provide copies of all portions of your state’s election law, which are relevant to the selection of delegates to a national convention, whether by primary, caucus, or petitions for national candidates.

WE ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PARTY IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI

>4). Please list the policy of your state party/caucus regarding:

(a) support of the Presidential Slate nominated by the Presidential Nominating Convention through the provision of its presidential ballot line where it exists; or, through the qualification of such nominated candidates as write-in candidates, if such is possible under the election laws of their state; and/or


WE DO NOT HAVE BALLOT STATUS IN MISSOURI

(b) support of the Presidential Slate nominated by the Presidential Nominating Convention by its Presidential Nominating Convention delegates and/or its Presidential electors; and/or,


OUR BY-LAWS STATE THAT WE WILL SUPPORT THE CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PREISDENT NOMINATED BY THE GP-US:

ARTICLE IX – RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITES STATES
2. The Progressive Party of Missouri will run the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates
selected at the National Presidential Nominating Convention of the Green Party of the United
States on its ballot line.

(c) any prohibition to the opposition of the Presidential Slate nominated by the Presidential Nominating Convention by its Presidential Nominating Convention delegates and/or its Presidential electors and/or Presidential Nominating Convention delegates;

(d) any other policy of the state party regarding its post-convention relationship to the Presidential Slate nominated by the Presidential Nominating Convention.;

(e) If there is no current policy on these subjects, the application shall state that the state Green Party has not adopted a policy on these subjects.”


THE IOWA GREEN PARTY HAS NOT ADOPTED A POLICY ON THESE SUBJECTS.

5).  Please include a copy of the approved minutes of your state convention, or other body authorized to name the delegation, which documents the delegates’ selection.  If approved minutes are not available, the Application shall include other documentation of the delegates’ selection.

See Minutes: State Convention, May 17th, 2008 , Presidential Vote May 17th, 2008

For question #6 please attach a scanned copy of your signed document (if possible) in your email response, and a signed hard copy in your postal mail response.  If you can not provide a scanned copy in your email response, please provide am .rtf or .pdf of document that includes the names of the signers, even if it does not have their signatures.

6.) Please submit a letter bearing the signature of your state party or caucus officers certifying the authenticity of the minutes.

By signing this application, your state or caucus officers certify that the delegates included in the minutes are the duly chosen delegates to the convention as provided for in the rules of the caucus or state Green Party (or grouping of Greens where there is no state party.)

Neither a signed electronic nor hard copy have yet been received.