[gpva-ic] Motion To Call For An Election for Delegate to GPUS National Committee
Don Mackler
dmackler at vt.edu
Wed Mar 21 07:05:01 EDT 2007
NRV will vote yes.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:gpva-ic-admin at vagreenparty.org]On Behalf Of E Sheffield
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [gpva-ic] Motion To Call For An Election for Delegate to
GPUS National Committee
Rockbridge will vote yes.
Eric
On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Audrey Clement wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I second the motion for an interim appointment of an acting
> delegate to the GPUS National Committee (NC). There's nothing in
> the GPVA bylaws to stop it. In fact there's nothing in the GPVA
> bylaws on the subject of delegates to the NC at all.
>
> I nominate Charlie Jordan to the post. He's an alternate on the NC
> right now, and he's from the southwestern part of the state, which
> has not been represented on the NC for quite a while.
>
> Audrey Clement
> GPVA
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Sheffield" <eric at rockbridge.net>
> To: <gpva-ic at vagreenparty.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [gpva-ic] Motion To Call For An Election for Delegate
> to GPUS National Committee
>
>
>> Hello Interim committee,
>>
>> It does seem like an argument can be made that this position
>> should be filled before the next GPVA meeting, and therefore
>> should be acted upon by the interim committee. I suggest that we
>> call this an appointment rather than an election, and that it be
>> in effect only until the next meeting.
>>
>> I'm not really comfortable calling for nominations from a
>> listserve. The person in this position need to be pretty
>> familiar with GPVA and should be somewhat familiar with GPUS, and
>> should be someone we know and have confidence in. Do we know
>> someone like that who is willing to serve? If so, let's just
>> appoint them (by vote of the IC) and get on to the next crisis.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Audrey Clement wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Interim Committee Members:
>>>
>>> At the quarterly business meeting held in Charlottesville on
>>> Sunday, March 4, GPVA adopted a Record of Local Affiliation
>>> which avers that GPVA has organized locals in ten of Virginia's
>>> eleven congressional districts. According to the Bylaws of GPUS,
>>> each state member party is entitled to one delegate to the GPUS
>>> National Committee (NC) for every four congressional districts
>>> in which it has an organized local or major fraction thereof.
>>> GPVA is therefore entitled to 10/4 = 2.5 or with rounding 3
>>> delegates to the NC.
>>>
>>> Currently GPVA has two elected representatives on the NC, the
>>> remaining seat being vacant. I propose that GPVA conduct an
>>> election to fill the third seat with an acting delegate until
>>> the annual election for GPVA delegates currently scheduled for
>>> the third quarterly business meeting. I ask for unanimous
>>> consent to this proposal. If obtained, I will call for
>>> nominations on the Business listserv for the office of NC
>>> delegate to GPUS for one week beginning Sunday, March 25.
>>>
>>> Audrey Clement
>>> co-chair
>>>
>>>
>>>
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