Strike the tortured and moot process requiring chapters to agree on endorsements — The halcyon days of yore when the PGP had big thriving chapters are long past. Portland Metro once had a budget larger than the entire party does now. Lane once was a registered business with its own payroll. …

On December 10, 30 days before the Jan 9 convention, I submitted to the SCC proposals to change the bylaws and constitution, and I and others submitted proposals to change the platform. These are in advance of any deadline for prior notice. Now I’ll start going over my proposals issue…

Constitution proposals here, Bylaws proposals here I called set 3, the parts about freeing up group organization, the “most important.” But actually this one’s the most important too. Now we deal with the other side of the coin of our inverted process: stopping the “coordinating” committee from overstepping its role. …

PGP Convention Jan 9 2021 Deletions indicated by s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶, and insertions by bold. Bylaws Article III — Membership A. For purposes of voting on Green Party matters at the conventions (particularly candidates and bylaw changes) a Supporting Green Party member shall be defined as any person registered as a Green Party member at the Secretary…

The Pacific Green Party is dying, or at best treading water, running on fumes. Since I joined 4 1/2 years ago, its voter #’s have dropped from about 11,000 to 8,000. Something has to be done now to turn it around and get it growing again! Of my constitution and…

The Oregon senate seat occupied by Jeff Merkley, normally considered safe blue due to his progressive fan base, is unusually vulnerable in 2020 to a popular candidate on his left flank. Ibrahim Taher, 30, has secured the ballot slots of both the Pacific Green and Progressive parties and brings a…