In a post at their website, the Colorado Green Party is promoting the Transpartisan Alliance, which claims to be a way to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians, greens, independents and everyone else together.
Transpartisanship acknowledges the validity of truths across a range of political perspectives and seeks to synthesize them into an inclusive, pragmatic whole beyond typical political dualities.
Sponsors include the League of Women Voters, who often refuse to allow smaller party and independent candidates to participate in the debates they sponsor, the Liberty Coalition, a Ron Paul off-shoot, Common Cause, Mobilize.org, and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.
The website lists a number of individuals and groups involved. Here is a list of the group’s “Advisors”, including the Green Party’s political director, Brent McMillan.
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1 Ian Wilder // Nov 16, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Common Cause is even worse on the issue of third parties with the Un-”Fair Elections Act”. Again, Common Cause, The Brennan Center, Public Citizen & US PIRG are trying to fund Democrats & Republicans while shutting out citizen candidates. Here is their report promoting the law that does so. Strangely enough, the report does not explain the two-tiered system for candidates. It only labels non-corporate party candidates as “fringe” candidates. http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/{FB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665}/BREAKING%20FREE%20FOR%20FAIR%20ELECTIONS.PDF
The act requires Third Party and Independent candidates to obtain 150% of the contributions required for Democrats & Republicans to get the same financing. But you won’t find that anywhere on their Stop the Money Chase website. they actually have the gall to state that “Fair Elections will add more voices to our political system, level the playing field”
Here is the actual law. Read section 505 to find out about the unequal treatment. Tell these organizations you’ve had enough.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:s1285is.txt.pdf
More info at my post here: http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/stop-the-un-fair-elections-act-now/#more-1836
2 Claire Ryder // Nov 16, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Actually the GPOC is NOT PROMOTING anything. You clearly don’t read the NC of the Green Party list. Maybe whoever is you NC delegate from your state can fill you in on the discussion. Brent McMillan, who is the political director of the Green Party (national) put this out on the list and made a call for delegates. Many people, myself included, have a problem with Greens being involved in this conference.You need to get over the fact that many Colorado Greens did not support McKinney and stopd trashing us on your web site
3 Tom Kelly // Nov 16, 2008 at 2:35 pm
The GPOC does not support the American Citizens Summit. We haven’t even discussed it. Some unauthorized person put this on our website. It has been removed.
4 Sam Marsh // Nov 16, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I’m a little puzzled as to why anyone would be troubled by the Greens participating in this conference. I would think that finding common ground among disparate groups would be a good thing. Don’t all of these groups share a common enemy in corporate fascism? I don’t think that pointing out a link on your website (apparently now removed) is “trashing” anyone. As a Virginia libertarian, I have nothing against Colorado greens. I voted for a Green candidate for Congress because I thought that was my best available option in opposition to the RepoCrats. Was I wrong?
5 Campaign for Liberty, Libertarians, Greens, Independents and more in Transpartisan Alliance American Citizens’ Summit // Nov 16, 2008 at 4:47 pm
[...] at Green Party Watch In a post at their website, the Colorado Green Party is promoting the Transpartisan Alliance, [...]
6 Brent McMillan // Nov 16, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I believe that it is important that we go to this event as advocates.
Advocating for the dissolution of corporate personhood is a very appropriate position for us to take. To say that the rest of the participants are there with us yet is another matter. We should discuss what it is that we want to advocate and how do we want to do that. For example do we want to distribute any publications to all of the participants in support of our position. Charlie Cray’s book, “The Peoples Business” is arguably the best book ever written on corporate reform, Nader himself has said so. I know that I could get a good deal from Charlie on purchasing a large quantity of this book for distribution at the event. This is only one of many possible examples.
7 Ross // Nov 16, 2008 at 6:24 pm
This isn’t really related, but I was just wondering: does the Green Party have an official policy on the National Initiative for Democracy ( http://www.ni4d.us )? It seems to fit in with grassroots democracy.
I know one of the co-founders of the GP has endorsed it, as well. There’s a list of endorsers on the website.
8 Gregg Jocoy // Nov 16, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Claire and Tom,
You are being WAY too sensitive. In no way did I “trash” the GPOC. This site has supported and reported on Greens from every state. I simply reported on something that was on your state’s website. I consider posting a full article about the event to be promoting it. I can’t for the life of me understand why someone without authorization to do so was able to post this to your site.
I have said often that one of the things we Greens have to differentiate us from the other parties is decentralization. Some see this as a “conservative” Green value, but I see the choices you made in Colorado, as foolish as I think they were, as *your* business, not mine. The national Green Party can do just fine with or without one of another collection of Greens in my opinion.
The question of whether Greens should or should not participate in this conference is not even addressed in my post.
9 Bryan // Nov 16, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Claire,
Gregg would not “trash” the GP nor any of it’s affiliates. It is my experience that he intended the article as promotion of the position and your site.
While Gregg did promote the McKinney campaign, he never tried to force the issue on CO or anyone else, he kept it positive, agree or disagree that’s the way it is.
I too have to wonder why it is possible for someone to post “unofficial” info on your website.
10 Ronald Hardy // Nov 17, 2008 at 1:41 pm
The Colorado Green Party is not promoting the Transpartisan Alliance. The post on their website regarding it has been removed.
Many state parties now have websites using content management systems that allow multiple people to update content to allow for locals and affiliation groups to update their own information in a shared environment. Whomever posted the information about the Transpartisan Alliance likely did so to inform only, and made a mistake.
However, other than the statement about the Colorado Green Party in the story above, there is nothing controversial or misleading in this story. There has been online debate about the Transpartisan Alliance on the GPUS National Committee list, one that doesn’t seem resolved.
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