[adcom] Re: [statecom] Green-Rainbow Joint Meeting on Saturday

[kate harris]

I wholeheartedly and without any reservation support the proposal to seat the Rainbow Coalition Party Governing Board members with full voting rights at the Jan 12th State Committee meeting.

paz, ~ kate harris
MGP AdCom co-chair


At 10:00 PM 1/9/02, you wrote:
>I believe that the best productive future for positive change in Massachusetts is MGP and RCP merged. The last MGP convention said so - merging MGP with RCP was passed by consensus.
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>I want to be inclusive and reach out with trust and propose the following:
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>1) RCP Governing Board members are seated with discussion rights for the whole meeting -- on all subjects and proposals. I want to hear what our neighbors (and soon to be co-members) from the RCP have to say about issues we are discussing.
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>2) RCP Governing Board members would be asked only to vote on items that they feel informed enough to vote on. This is where the trust building comes in. But look at it this way, i trust that if a state committee delegate comes to the meeting uninformed on a proposal that they will not vote on that proposal and would let the rest of the committee figure out what to do. That is trust. I want to extend that same trust to the RCP Governing board. I believe if we, the MGP, does not reach out to the RCP with open arms right from the start, then we are moving forward on shaky ground.
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>Am i too trusting? There is only one way to increase trust and grow a relationship and that is to extend trust yourself. If you never do it won't happen.
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>With Trust for a Better World,
>Dan Melnechuk
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>>There has been some controversy over my proposal to seat the Rainbow
>>Coalition Party Governing Board members with full voting rights at
>>the Jan 12th State Committee meeting. I would like to address this
>>before Saturday in the interest of accomodating both sides of this
>>question.