Convention Minutes June 2004

Sunday June 6th PGP State Convention Notes

- minutes approval from last convention was added to agenda.
- a vote was taken to approve minutes from last convention. vote passed
with no blocks no stand asides.

- Update on PUD campaings from Jeff Cropp
- Chapter presentations by JoAnn Cvar (Lincoln County), Matt Donohue
- (Linn/Benton) and Jeff Cropp (Portland Metro).
- General discussion of chapters, issues, concerns.

- Seth presented the results of the candidate nominations from Saturday.
A recor d number of candidates were endorsed. The vote results were:

Mitch Besser, US House, District 5 (53-2) = nominated
Hosanna Broderick, Benton County Commissioner, District 2 (36-0) = nominated
Lori Burton, Linn County Commissioner (54-1) = nominated
Chuck Fall, Oregon House, District 42 (54-2) = nominated
Steve Geiger, Oregon House, District 28 (56-2) = nominated
Curt Sommer, Oregon House, District 37 (55-2) = nominated
Jeff Strang, Oregon Senate, District 22 (50-4) = nominated
Liz Trojan, Oregon House, District 35 (38-1) = nominated

Voting results for US President from Saturday:

44 votes for David Cobb
7 votes for no candidate
4 votes for Lorna Salzman
4 votes for Ralph Nader
1 votes for Peter Camejo.

A proposal for a resolution against the war in Iraq was read by JoAnn Cvar and
Chris Edgar with some heated debate following.

A proposal to send the resolution to the media committee for dra fting
rework was not passed due to several blocks and stand asides.

State CC elections

The discussion of state CC elections started with no
declared candidates. The following candidates did eventually come
forward were:

Jeff Strang
Liz Trojan
Matt Donohue
George Hutchinson
Chris Edgar
Seth Woolley

Next the list of 19 delegates to the national convention who are listed
below was proposed. Those marked with an asterisk are able to attend the
convention and the others are proxies.

Peter proposed that the convention vote on the slate and a vote was taken
with no blocks and no stand asides. Slate of 19 delegates passed.

Peter then proposed we vote on the distribution of votes to the delegates.
This proposal was bind 14 of our 19 delegates to Cobb, 2 to none of the
above, 1 to Camejo, and 1 to Salzman, and 1 to Nader as per the convention
voting yesterday. no blocks no stand asi des. The proposal to distribute
the votes to delegates passed with no blocks and no stand asides.

They are:

Paul Loney*
Marnie Glickman*
Blair Bobier*
Jeff Cropp
Tim Hermach
George Delp*
Steve Geiger*
Brian Setzler*
Seth Woolley*
Liz Trojan*
Helen Umberger*
Heather Drake
Matt Donohue
Xander Patterson*
Theresa Keane*
Kurt Sommer
Michal Sonnleitner
Lori Burton
Peter Drake

Jeff Cropp proposed the PGP hold a second nominating convention before
the fall elections to give candidates more time to come forward.
A vote was taken with no blocks and no stand asides. Proposal Passes.

Evaluation of convention: what did we do well and what could be improved
on for the next convention?

Things we did well:

Scheduling, agenda packet, candidates, deadlines, media coverage,
participation.

Things we did not so well:

facilitation of contentio us issues, facilities (ie the chairs),
accessibility, requirments
for voting not well explained, not focused/chatter, promotion/socials.