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THE
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
Coordinated
Campaign Committee
CCC CONFERENCE CALL
Sunday, April 24, 2005, 9 PM (eastern) - 8 PM (central) - 7 PM
(mountain) - 6 PM (pacific)
Amy Heart - co-chair
Tom Sevigny - co-chair
Susan Fawcett
Jane Hunter
Rob Tufts
Jen Walling
Brent McMillan - political director
1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM PAST MEETINGS (see attached minutes
from 4/10)
Þ Approved - needs list of attendees
2. BRENT UPDATE ON ELAINE BROWN
Chesapeake Campaign School went well
Þ Brent spoke on "what every Green should know"
Þ Phil Nash spoke on campaigns online
Þ Reception for Elaine Brown raised $1800
Þ Elaine Brown gave excellent talk-officially joined Greens and
declared affiliation-talk will be re-broadcast at a later date
Þ Scott McLarty did media workshop
Þ Brent, et al., did workshop on field organizing
Þ Awesome panel on outreach to communities of color
Got a lot of press
Action Items:
Þ Brent will notify of re-broadcast schedule
Þ Can we get transcripts?
Þ Do MPEG3 for web? Talk to Ann Link…
3. BUDGET UPDATES - TIER 2?
Tier 2 release approved by SC - additional $4000 for CCC
Aimee Allison campaign election coming up May 15- agreed that we
have discretion to release funds now
4. RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE
A. ACTION ITEM - Aimee Allison request for funding support
Brent directed that they fill out parts 1 and 4, not 2 & 3
What is her budget?
If we make wait until next call, we might as well say no…
Jen - would like to know how much difference it would make
Brent - if she barely loses, we would lose a lot of credibility if
we don't fund
Jane - we should ask for follow-up impact statement
Jen - we need to ask her to fill out rest of questionnaire
Tom - this may be 25% of all matching funds - can we give less and
provide non-monetary funds?
Jane - should we have different standards for non-partisan
elections?
Tom - suggests $250
Consensus on $250 contingent on providing budget and provide
follow-up questionnaire
B. ACTION ITEM - Update of campaign manual
Final update and moving to website
5. CAMPAIGN SCHOOLS
A. ACTION ITEM - Develop template for campaign school
B. ACTION ITEM - Identify locations for campaign schools in 2005
May 7 - NE regional - Massachusetts
Þ Scott McLarty - media
Þ Brent - campaign organizing
- Cascadia School
- Ohio School
- Great Lakes School
- Others?
5. STATE ASSOCIATES PROGRAM
A. ACTION ITEM - State associate calls / check ins from mentors
Þ Send out state associates list again
B. ACTION ITEM - Schedule regional conference call with state
associates (Completion date 1/31/05; entire committee)
Tom - Northeast
Rob - Chesapeake
Jen and Cindy - Prairie - May 7
Brent - Pacific Northwest
Amy - Great Lakes - May 4
Jane and David - Southwest
Jason - Southern
6. MAINTAIN WEB PAGE/LISTSERVERS
A. ACTION ITEM - Add new templates
Þ http://green.gpus.org/cgi-bin/supporters.cgi
Þ ? Function = volunteer
Þ ? function = subscribe
Þ ? function = donate
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B. ACTION ITEM - Solve problem concerning ownership of election
databases
C. ACTION ITEM - Updates to websites
Þ Status of Jane's list - no progress
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7. SUBCOMMITTEES/LIASIONS WITH OTHER GROUPS
A. BAWG - Brent
Þ COFA activity - want a DC address - PA rep will do website
Þ GP IL proposal for BA to be standing committee
Þ UT petition drive status
B. CAMPUS GREENS - Jenn
Þ CG & GPUS merger - CG as a network of GPUS
C. OFFICEHOLDERS NETWORK - Gray, Brent, Amy
Þ Nothing new
For next meeting:
Discuss funding criteria / prioritization
Discuss Tier 2 budget allocation
Discuss state associates and mentor status
Next call May 8
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