Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Green Party Internal Elections

Its time for the election of the Green Party national Executive. Some positions have only a single candidate, others have none and have been reopened. The following are contested.

External Communications
Tracy Dighton-Brown is standing again. Caroline Lucas, Jenny Jones, Derek Wall & Jean Lambert are said to support her.
Two well known Green campaigners and bloggers Rupert Read and Jason Kitcat are standing as a jobshare.

I will be voting for Rupert and Jason, as I know them, and they have a lot to bring to the position.

I met Jason 10 years ago working at Sunseed; it can be a small world sometimes. I was very impressed with Rupert in the Norwich North by election, he became a candidate with little notice, and ran a very strong campaign. They represent some of the strongest of recent Green sucesses; Brighton and Norwich.



There is also a contest for Chair;
Jayne Forbes has the support of Caroline Lucas, Jenny Jones & Jean Lambert.
Rayyan Mirza Green campaigners and blogger.

Again I'm voting for Rayyan as I've known him as a blogger, and met him campaigning in Norwich recently. Jayne also sounds like a good candidate.

I like that Rayyan has given a link to Jayne on his blog, Jayne has not yet reciprocated.
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5 comments:

  1. Unknown6 August 2009 at 04:32

    Hi Adrian, thanks for your vote - I really appreciate it. Hope you had a good time up in Norwich!

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  2. Jason Kitcat6 August 2009 at 12:06

    Thanks Adrian, I hope it's ok that we've posted this on our site...

    http://rupertjason.wordpress.com/endorsements/

    See you soon,
    Jason

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  3. Derek Wall10 August 2009 at 13:42

    Hi Adrian,

    There were some very very big problems with the External Comms person in post before Tracy.

    I have found Tracy really excellent to work with and I would be greatly disappointed if she was to forced out of her role,

    I also agree with Caroline Lucas who notes 'As we enter a General Election year, it would be very damaging to risk disrupting all the good work she has done – I hope very much she will be re-elected to GPEX.'

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  4. Red Green Nick13 August 2009 at 13:17

    Unfortunately there has been a bit of mudslinging (not directly from any of the candidates) so looks like the Ex Coms election will be suspended.
    I voted for the ther candidates, but all of them look like they can do the job - I was quite impressed with how responsive Tracy B-D was.

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  5. Red Green Nick13 August 2009 at 13:18

    that should be other candidates!

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