[North-NV-Greens] From the Presidential Campaign Support Committee

[jdenzin at clarkcountygreens.org]

Dear United States Greens,

Now is the time to lend your talents, passion, and energy to the
Grassroots
Movement, more ready than ever, for a shift in the US political
landscape
towards the values of Non-Violence, Ecological Wisdom, Social and
Economic
Justice, and Grassroots Democracy.

The Green Party of the United States Presidential Campaign Support
Committee
works to bring those values to the people and government by supporting
the
work of Greens in bringing the American people an
effective Green Party Presidential campaign.  We have work to do.  We
need
your help.

As a standing committee of the Green Party of the United States, the
committee is made up of dedicated Green volunteers from State Green
Parties.
Each state party is entitled to nominate members to
represent and support their efforts at building the Green Party and
offering
the American people Green options at the National level through the work
of
this committee.

Much of the work is done by committee over email, and monthly
teleconference
meetings.  The following are our committee's objectives:

A. The PCSC will liaison between candidates and Ballot Access Working
Group
to formulate and implement ballot access strategy;

B. The PCSC will create and maintain a list of initial points of
contact,
bylaws, and election laws for each state and caucus to provide as
resource
to the candidates (before the convention) and nominee (after the
convention);

C. The PCSC will assist state parties in creating and conducting a
process
that gets grassroots input into determining presidential preference and
selecting delegates to the nominating convention. [Prior to the
Nominating
Convention the PCSC will assist state parties in polling their
membership to
determine potential
candidates and will publish the results of the poll, as well as sending
a
letter to all potential candidates consisting of the results of the poll
and
our contact information as a committee so that potential candidates may
reach us to make use of our available support services];

D. The PCSC will coordinate public debates between candidates for the
GPUS
nomination;

E. The PCSC will lead and organize efforts to open the presidential
debates
to Green candidates and work to raise awareness of open debates.

F. The PCSC will lead and liaison between the ANMC, Media Committee and
candidates on coordination of a pre-nomination candidate forum and post
nomination campaign launch at the National Nominating
Convention.

G. In cooperation with ANMC, Media Committee and Webmaster, the PCSC
will
create and maintain an official pre-Convention web site to provide
candidate
information, resource links and tracking of the
delegate selection process, and a post-convention web site to display
the
results of the nominating convention and provide links to the
presidential
candidate's official web site.

H. The PCSC will provide coordination for communication between the GPUS
committees and the candidates (before the convention) and nominee (after
the
convention);

I. The PCSC will assemble legal resources and advisors on issues of
federal
election law where appropriate and necessary;

J. The PCSC will provide coordination with the CCC regarding cooperation
between nominee and down-ticket candidacies.

K. The PCSC will develop, and administer GPUS candidate questionnaire to
potential candidates and make available candidate responses to State
Parties
through the GPUS web site, National Committee delegates, Caucus
delegates,
and State Chairs.

If any or all of these activities are of interest to you, please
consider
joining us!  We are readying ourselves for an important and lively 2008
Presidential season, and need the help and input of all Greens.

To join, contact your State Party to let them know you are interested in
representing your state on the GPUS Presidential Campaign Support
Committee.
You can contact PCSC member Jody Grage (Haug) at jody at gp.org or
206.718.1529
for more information about the committee and how to join.

In Service to the Green Electorate,
The GPUS PCSC