Green Party of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sunday, December 17, 2023

CONTACT: 

Chris Robinson, Communication Team Co-Leader

215-843-4256 and [email protected]

Green Party To Add Delegates to PA State Committee

At the State Committee meeting of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA, www.gpofpa.org) on November 12, the 30 elected delegates voted by consensus to change the Rules (think “by-laws”) of the party to include more elected delegates from unorganized parts of the Commonwealth. Before this vote, around thirty percent of the GPPA’s 10,000 registered members lived in unorganized counties.

GPPA Co-Chair Jeremy Griffin (Delaware), explained, “The main reason this amendment had to be passed was to insure that we give a voice to unorganized Greens, no matter in which county they live. The amendment was discussed and approved by the Steering Committee, and I believe it will strengthen the GPPA’s democratic process at the state level.”

Green Party of Lancaster County Chair Tim Runkle, said: “The GPPA State Committee is both the governing body of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) and the representation of Greens across our Commonwealth. Our Green Party rules had been built in a way which ensures local representation through organized county committees. The rules, however, have failed to provide the vast unorganized areas of the Commonwealth a voice on the State Committee. The rule change proposed by the delegation from Lancaster County intended to resolve that issue as well as to preserve the intent of local representation. This change permits any registered Green in PA to participate in the State Committee while holding true the Green Party's Four Pillars of grassroots democracy and the Ten Key Values of decentralization.”

GPPA Communication Team Co-chair Chris Robinson (Philadelphia) predicted, "This will be the first step in building new Green Party Chapters in our Commonwealth's 50 unorganized counties. With a presidential election in 2024, it will be important to give a voice to every Green Party member."

The Rules of the Green Party of Pennsylvania, Rule II State Committee, Section 2.b)  has been amended to read:

“All State Committee members shall be elected as determined by the rules of the County Committee of the county of their residence to one year terms, or a part thereof. Registered Greens who have no organized County Committee in their county of residence shall be elected by the State Committee during the first meeting of the calendar year. The number of members permitted for unorganized County members shall be no more than two per county.” 

The Green Party of PA, https://www.gpofpa.org, is an independent political party which stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. GPPA candidates promote public policy based on the Green Party’s Four Pillars: grassroots democracy, nonviolence, ecological wisdom, and social justice/equal opportunity. For further information about GPPA, please email [email protected]. Please follow GPPA on social media: Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/gpofpa/; Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/pagreenparty/; and Twitter, https://twitter.com/GreenPartyofPA.

For More Information Please see:

Ten Key Values, Green Party of the U.S., https://www.gp.org/ten_key_values 

The Rules of the Green Party of Pennsylvania, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G4U0TsI0fzoQY4akq4TeRpsMmE9XQcIh 

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2023 GPPA Goals

[Drafted by GPPA Co-chair Jay Walker for the GPPA State Meeting on 11/13/22. It was discussed and passed by the delegates. It still needs a GPPA GROWTH COMMITTEE to follow through with implementation.]

County parties are our cornerstone. They support our petitioning efforts, our candidates, and our local actions.

We need to make sure it's easy to run one and that there's lots of guidance. I want everyone to ask themselves, “is this thing I'm doing for the party helping to build my county chapter?” 

Overall Goals

• 10 well functioning county parties
• $20,000 raised to hire ballot access coordinator in 2024
• 7500 signatures gathered around the state
• 300 Greens registered
• 12 Greenstars

County Party Goals each with at least

• 4 meetings (Quarterly)
• 1 local candidate
• 5 heavily involved members
• 10 active members
• 500 signatures gathered
• 3 GPPA State Committee watch parties
• 1 2024 state house candidate identified in each county
• 100% GPPA state committee delegation
• 4 direct actions participated in

Team Goals

• 1 meeting per month
• 2 Co-leader, and vice leader

Communications Team

• 12 Greenstar a month
• 24 news releases
• 1 updated media contact database

Core Team

• 10 mailing lists for county parties
• 36 scheduled emails for county party meetings
• 30 Greens trains on NationBuilder
• 12 phonebanks for turnout to events (monthly)
• 1 updated 2023 Delegate/Officer spreadsheet
• 2 Agenda/Facilitator/Notetaker training
• 1 onboarding system developed
• 1000 disconnected registered Greens reached out to

Finance Team

• 200 dues paid members
• 2 in-person fundraisers
• 6 phonebanks to Greens to get them to become dues payers
• 1 report to Department of State

Greenwave Team

• 1 campaign training
• 4 candidate phonebanks

Green Party of PA

• 1 Green Party of PA Black caucus
• 4 regional meetings
• 90% of state committee delegates on slack
• Competitive 2024 Green Party of PA internal elections