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From: "Dyna Sluyter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Green Party crashers (was Re: [Mpls] DFL Exclusion)
> Actually we Democrats have been quite tolerant of Dean Z. and
> his Naderite ilk given the way they have trashed our party- I suspect
> the Republicans would have simply detailed a couple of big guys to
> literally throw him out of their convention. And I wonder, how I, a
> green Democrat, would be treated at a Green Party event if I merely
> appeared, never mind asked to speak at their small
> gatherings?
As a matter of fact, there is a recent concrete example of a similar
situation at the last Green Party endorsement meeting. It was believed that
Cam Gordon was the only candidate seeking the Green endorsement for the 2nd
Ward (the seat held by Joan Campbell, whose latest laundary list of
corporate sell-outs is her being the point person for the Ryan
Construction/Padilla Spears deal). Paul Zerby attended the meeting without
having followed the Green party rules and procedures for participating in
the endorsement process (i.e. filling out a candidate questionnaire and
attending a screening meeting). Paul Zerby was nevertheless allowed as much
time as he wanted to give a speech about his candidacy. Even though he
announced that he was a loyal DFLer and opposed to Nader's candidacy, the
Green audience politely listened (and perhaps even applauded - i cannot
definitely recall). Participants in the meeting then debated on whether the
rules should be changed to open the process for any candidate to seek
endorsement at any time. As the group was unable to reach consensus, Mr.
Zerby stated that he was impressed with how the group responded to him under
the circumstances.
It appears that Dyna Sluyter's hypothesis about how the Greens would treat a
green Democratic has already been refuted. In addition, there are many
participants in the Green party who are still somewhat divided between the
Greens and the DFL. Annie Young, an elected official, is loyal to both.
Many of us rank-in-file members participate to some degree in both parties.
No one to my knowledge has been excluded from the Greens based on
participation with the DLF-Replubs.
That is not to say that the Greens to not have their dogmatists and purists.
However, there is no manipulation and exclusion that could be in any way
remotely compared to the DFL party machinery.
Jordan Kushner
Ward 8, Powderhorn
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