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Ranked Choice Vote ID	1167),
Ranked Choice Vote	Election of Green Party Senate Campaign Committe
Type	Open Ballot
Number of Seats	6
Ranked Choice Vote Administrator	Holly Hart
Phase	Closed
Discussion	11/20/2023 - 12/03/2023
Voting	12/04/2023 - 12/10/2023
Result	Results
Presens Quorum	31 0.6666
Candidates	Justin Beth Maine Green Independent Party Hunter Crow Green Party of Texas Bill Kreml Green Party of South Carolina Starlene Rankin Green Party of Washington Joshua Scheunemann Green Party of Minnesota Ronnie Anne Spang Green Party of California

Background

This election is to fill six out of a potential seven seats on the Green Senate Campaign Committee, per GHCC bylaws. A future election may be held to fill the event seat, if desired. Greens currently holding federal elected office are also automatically eligible to become members if they wish.

Green Senate Campaign Committee bylaws were adopted as part of Proposal 346:
http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=346

The following candidates have been nominated or volunteered and have accepted thier nominations:

Justin Beth (ME)
Hunter Crow (TX)
Bill Kreml (SC)
Starlene Rankin (WA)
Joshua Scheunemann (MN)
Ronnie Anne Spang (CA)
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Proposal #223, Creation of National Green Party House and Senatorial campaign committees, was adopted by the GPUS National Committee on 6/19/06. Green Senate Campaign Committee and Green House Campaign Committee bylaws were adopted as part of Proposal 346: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=346

The committees were eventually merged into one.

Amendment to the Bylaws of the Green Senatorial and House Campaign Committees
https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=346

Candidate Information

Justin Beth Maine Green Independent Party
Justin Beth (he/him) has served as a GPUS National Committee Delegate, representing Maine, since 2018. During that time, Justin has held roles on various committees (including the Presidential Campaign Support Committee and Media Committee) and served as a GPUS Co-Chair from December 2018 to July 2020. In Maine, Justin founded the Maine Green Independent Party Electoral Committee and has been committed to developing electoral strategy at all levels within the party. It is his belief that our candidates are at the core to bringing Green Party policy to the people at a time when our values are sorely needed and the historical moment we are in represents a huge opportunity to win office at levels that have previously been unattainable. He looks forward to working with like minded Greens to restart the Green Party Senatorial Campaign Committee, to pave the way to new levels of success for the party.

Hunter Crow Green Party of Texas
Hunter is a resident of Arlington Texas. He is currently a student at the University of Texas at Arlington where he is enrolled in the BA History Pre Law Program. Hunter Graduated from Tarrant County College in 2023 with an AAS Degree in Library Technician. Hunter became a member of the Green Party of the United States towards the end of 2015. He is currently the Co-Chair of the Green Party of Texas and has been a local organizer and volunteer for the Tarrant County Green Party and the Green Party of Texas since 2017. Previously Hunter was the Education Chair for the GPUS Youth Caucus. His work also includes working on the University of Texas Arlington Student Government Association as an elections supervisory Board Member where he has raised awareness on social justice issues and electoral organizing. Hunter is also a Co-Chair of the GPUS Bylaws, Rules, Policies and Procedures Committee. He is currently commissioned by the State of Texas as a Notary Public and serves his community in that capacity. He was formally the 2022 Green Party of Texas Nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner and has significant experience in working in local and state and federal elections.

Bill Kreml Green Party of South Carolina
Employment:

Northern Illinois University - Asst. Professor of. Business Law 1965-1966
University of Tennessee - Asst. Professor of Business law 1966-1968
Indiana University - Teaching Associate - Political Science - 1968-1971
University of South Carolina - Asst. Prof - Political Science -1971-1976
University of South Carolina - Assoc. Prof - Political Science - !976-1981
University of South Carolina - Professor - Political Science - 1981-1996
Visiting Professor - University of Peking - Political Science - 1994 & 1997
Visiting Professor - DePaul University - Political Science - 2004-2006

Publications:

Nine single authored non-edited books on American Government, Constitutional Law, and an Original Political Philosophy known as the Natural Left
Various articles and book chapters

Public Service:

US Army Reserve - June, 1959 - December, 1962
Candidate - U. S. Senate - Democratic Primary - South Carolina - 1980
Candidate - Selected Democratic Primaries - President of the United States - 1984
Principal Drafter - National Democratic Party Charter - 1984
Candidate - President of the United States - Green Party Primaries - 2016

Creative Work:

Various Paintings
Design and current construction of a circular building based upon the yin/yang configuration, it being built in the Four Rivers area of the country. It It is to be labelled PEACE.

1959-1963 – US Army Reserve – Four promotions in three years and seven months

1967-68 – Psychologies of Hamilton and Jefferson compared – MA Thesis

1968-1971 – Mentored by the political economist Elinor Ostrom, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, returning to the classical forms in contradistinction to previous U. of Chicago winners.

1973-74 – Principal drafter of the national Democratic Party charter – the first constitution of a major political party in American history

1979 – The Anti-Authoritarian Personality – Hans Eysenck Series – Pergamon – London

1980 – US Senate Campaign – Call for Constitutional review at bicentennial – Covered in TRB column of The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, WAPO and other journals

1981 – Co-Founder of The Committee on the Constitutional System with presidential counsel Lloyd Cutler; Eisenhower and Kennedy cabinet member C. Douglas Dillon; Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Franklin Roosevelt James MacGregor Burns; Senator Nancy Kassebaum; Bill Fulbright et al.

1984 – Relativism and the Natural Left, New York University Press, New York

1984 – Entered selected Democratic presidential primaries in New England, New York, and Montana. Speeches at M.I.T., Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Smith, Syracuse, U. of Montana, and others

1986 – Review of Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Personality, by H. D. Forbes, Sept. 1986 American Political Science Review

1987 - Report of CCS – Front Page NYT, WAPO, et al, with recommendations for four-year House term, legislators in the cabinet, and others. Ignored by both the Democratic and Republican parties.

1991 – The De-Democratization of America – M.E. Sharpe, Armonk

1991 – Psychology, Relativism, and Politics, New York University Press, New York

1992 – Speaking tour from University of Maryland to The Thomas Jefferson Society at UVA

1992 – Panel on Ethnic Violence, with Mikhail Gorbachev, H. H. The Dalai Lama, and others, sponsored by The Newport Institute, The Committee for Science and Culture of the Russian Parliament, and The Center for the study of Psychology in the Nuclear Age of The Harvard Medical School, Moscow

1994 – Review of Morality and American Foreign Policy – Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Kenneth W. Thompson, Mar. 1994, The American Political Science Review,

1994 & 1997 – Visiting Professor of political science – The University of Peking, Beijing

1996 – The Twenty-First Century Left – Cognitions in the Constitution and Why Buckley Was Wrong, Carolina Academic Press, Durham

1997 – America's Middle Class – From Subsidy to Abandonment, Carolina Academic Press, Durham

1999 – Guest Speaker, Princeton University, hosted by Professors Fred Greenstein and Richard Falk

2000 – The Public and Private Sectors in American Politics – University of South Carolina Press, Columbia

2002 – Organized picket of Bank of America protesting late ‘90s Clinton deregulation of banks, Charlotte

2006 to Present, Active in the Green Party and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

2014 – The Bias of Temperament in American Politics, 2nd Edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2014

Starlene Rankin Green Party of Washington
I'd like to help our Congressional Candidates get elected! I want to help create a fundraising plan to raise money for our National Candidates and then, along with the other GSCC members, work hard to carry out that plan. I have good administrative and project management skills and have experience with the "tech" side of fundraising. Proficient in NationBuilder.

Previous Green Party work:
Co-founder of the Iowa Green Party in 1996
Did Green Party organizing (mostly paid) in Iowa, Massachusetts, Chicago and Northern California from 1996-2002
Co-chair of the Green/Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
Co-founder of the National Lavender Green Caucus in 2003
First Lavender Caucus National Delegate 2003-2007
Co-founder of the National Women’s Caucus
City Council Candidate in 1999 in Ames, Iowa
Clearinghouse Coordinator for G/GPUSA in Lawrence, MA 2000-2001 (paid position)
Staff member of Rebecca Kaplan's campaign for Oakland City Council in 2000 (paid position)
Staff member of Peter Camejo's campaign for Governor in 2002 (paid position)
National Committee Delegate for GPCA
Lavender Green Caucus Co-Chair
GPUS Media Committee Co-Chair
GPCA Clearinghouse Coordinator (paid position)
GPCA Standing Committee member
County Council member, Sacramento County GP
Staff Fundraiser for the Stein for President Campaign in 2016
GPUS Fundraising Tech then became the Virtual Office Manager and Volunteer Coordinator - Hired April 2015 and on staff until the end of 2020. (paid position)

Currently an Alternate Delegate to the National Green Party from Washington State and a member of the GPWA Coordinating Council. Also, I'm a quarter-time Staff Organizer for GPWA (paid).

Currently the Co-chair of the National Women’s Caucus

Identify as: Senior, Pansexual, Disabled
Education: Iowa State University. Undergrad: Religious Studies. Grad: Journalism and Mass Communication

Activism:
LGBTQIA+ Equality organizing, Food & Child care coops and alternative schools, Natural childbirth and home birthing, Anti-war and Social Justice organizing, TV/Video Media activism, Arts Council Board member, Land Trust Board member, Neighborhood Association member, Summer festival organizer.

Joshua Scheunemann Green Party of Minnesota
Current member of the GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee.

Ronnie Anne Spang Green Party of California
I am an engineer, programmer.
I am trans (LGBTQI).
Meandering career path until finding my way back into electronics & AV in 2004.

Worked history since 2005:
Renkus-Heinz 2004 & 2005 layoff
Crestron 2005-2007 fired for gender transition
GBH Communications 2007-2008 (my first invention) layoff
Yorktel (Disneyland onsite) 2008-2013 5 year contract end
GBH Communications 2014-2017 quit (company being sold)
ManTech (JPL onsite) 2018-2019 (layoff, employer lost contract)
AVDG of Guitar Center 2019-2020 layoff, AVDG bankruptcy
COVID Freelance
IBEW Crosstown 2021 quit
IATSE Disney studios Feb 2022 and hope to remain for the rest of my career. I LOVE it here.

Own a ranch where I generate average of 1.5MWh of electricity per month from electrical alone, and another 0-900KWh from wind (can be far more or less as wind turbines are far more efficient when the wind is blowing but it is quite sporadic).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronniespangcts/

Top priorities:

Anti-war
M4A including dental, medical, vision have a public option for all of these
Allow private option to DMV (insurers and car dealers should be able to register vehicles, insurers should be able to renew driver's licenses) but keep DMV as low cost public option
GND
Free Public Housing
Free Public University
Equality
Reparations
Renewable Energy
Transition to Green energy
Find Sustainable processes
LIVING minimum wage
End war on drugs
De-militarize police, hold police accountable
Legalize weed
Legalize prostitution
Make building permit process easier/cheaper
Deregulate people
Regulate politicians/corporations
Product liability
Remove fire arm ownership restrictions
Free Assange
Freedom of the press
Free speech
Maximum wage tied to a multiple of minimum wage
Tax ALL billionaires into multi-millionaire status
75% cut in military budget
De-nuclearize our arsenal
RCV
End Corruption
End Lobbying
Representative Government
Public elections, public funded elections
Close overseas military bases
Invest in US infrastructure, green transition
etc

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronniespangcts/

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