SPONSOR: Green Issues Working Group or CC

PRESENTERS/CONTACTS: Presenter Glenn Hopkins; Contact Elisabeth Green, info@green247.org

SUBJECT: Green Party USA, a Shadow Government with a Shadow Cabinet

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: We need to place our shadow cabinet on the cagreens.org website along with other evidence that the Green Party can operate the U.S. government.
We and our structures should be immediately less arcane and more understandable to the public. We are looking for them to join us in the logic of the ten key values, that we can run the Untied States government better than the GOP. A bicameral national body does this.

PROPOSAL: That…
1. Greens immediately reframe their national governing body into a Senate of sorts, where each state has two grandfalloon representatives, and a House of Representatives by population in which "one person, one vote" is honored as much as constitutionally possible. Proportional representation means congress-members represent the people, while senators represent the environment. Or, vice verse. The whole country is represented.
2. Green Party U.S. parallel the national government (money bills start in the house, the Senate advises and consents on a shadow cabinet, etc.)
3. After we pass this proposal, it will be proposed to the GPUS.
4. Internally, we will vote for our “senators” and “representatives” by instant runoff ballot. We will conduct statewide elections later. For now, we the General Assembly, will nominate a Green for every seat in the Green Shadow Government.

REFERENCES: You'll notice I use Kurt Vonnegut's term for "president of the club who wears the funny hat." Maybe if the Green Party's Senators are called the Grandfalloons both we and they will bear in mind that the enemy is patriarchy and an unthinking "herd mentality."

COMMITTEE DECISION: presented to the Westside Greens local, which lacked quorum for decision on Oct. 1, 2005
Presented to Agenda Team on Oct 8 for time request.

TIME LINE: Total workshop time request – 5 minutes
a. Presentation – 3 minutes
b. Decision by instant runoff voting – 2 minute

RESOURCES: We need one 6’x6’ or larger overhead projector or bulletin board, a means of posting nameplates by the whole General Assembly. Timekeeper. Microphone. Ballot collector, counter and tabulator. Ballots.