Denver
Green Party / Jefferson Greens Joint Monthly Business Meeting
Location: The Construct, 3519 Brighton Blvd.
8/17/04
In
attendence:
Tom Kelly - DGP
Allen Butcher - DGP
Bruce Meyer - DGP
Lanny Kness - DGP
Rick VanWie - DGP
Kent Holcomb - JG
Dave Chandler - JG
Tanya Ishikawa - JG
Agenda:
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1) Ishikawa Fundraiser Dinner Party (Ishikawa)
Ishikawa has campaign t-shirts for sale. She will have them at the
fundraiser dinner on the August 18th. She is still trying to determine
if she will have the late September fundraising event. Butcher suggests
getting in contact with Judy and Larry Trompeter to help with phone
calls. Butcher has a sample phone script used in the Nader campaign
that he will send to Kness, who will scan it and send it to Ishikawa.
2)
Starting the Douglas Green Party local (Chad McCool)
Could not make it to the meeting. He will make the next one.
3)
Starting the Arapahoe Green party local (Tom Kelly)
Kelly will head up getting this local going and research what paperwork
needs to be filled out. Bylaws will also need to be created. Kness
will send to Kelly all the Arapahoe Greens in an Excel spreadsheet.
Kness will research what is required by the GPCO. Fred Badger may
be from Arapahoe.
4)
DGP termination with the state
The Colorado SOS terminated the DGP and its electronic fillings. They
have determined we should not file with them. Meyer must go to the
Denver County Clerk and set up the local party there. It is indeterminate
how this will affect the multiple county coverage of the DGP.
Holcomb is working thru getting the Jeffco Greens set up in Jefferson
County. He has filed some of the paperwork, and is waiting for documents
back.
5)
DGP / JG Town Hall meeting featuring candidates, etc. (Chandler)
Chandler is proposing a quarterly meeting of the locals to promote
the candidates and locals. He is thinking late September early October.
We need to find out if LaMarche is going to make it into the State
around that time frame. We need to get this confirmed.
6)
Including auto-posts on DGP / JG officer contact info. Done once per
month on DGP lists. (Butcher)
Butcher will check the discuss-denverGreens settings and see if there
is an auto-announce setup. If there is, he will remove it.
7)
Consider other meeting places (Meyer - Speakeasy Cafe near 38th Ave
and Tennyson)
Meyer proposed that we try out the Speakeasy on tennyson and 38th
for the next meeting. He said it is quiet in the evening, and they
have break out rooms. This was agreed to by consensus. At each meeting,
we will consider where to meet next until we find a place we are comfortable
in.
8)
Go Green! Rally recap (Kness)
The rally was successful with 60 individuals attending.
9)
DGP needs 2 additional officers
10)
Phone bank organization to reach DGP / JG greens - Need to get this
going.
Ishikawa is going to head up getting names out to poeple to call.
Kelly work handle Arapahoe county.
For
next meeting:
11)
Publicizing the meetings (Kness, Ishikawa)
12) Create proposal to have GPUS establish a Congressional Oversight
Committee. (Kness)
13) Discuss the FasTracks proposal. Decide whether or not to endorse
it.
