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Ranked Choice Vote ID	1228
Ranked Choice Vote	2024 Election - Steering Committee Co-chairs
Type	Secret Ballot Revealed at Close of Polls
Number of Seats	3
Ranked Choice Vote Administrator	Holly Hart
Phase	Closed
Discussion	08/05/2024 - 08/11/2024
Voting	08/12/2024 - 08/17/2024
Result	Results
Presens Quorum	30 0.6666
Candidates	Hunter Crow GPTX - YES Cassandra Lems, GPNY Charles Ostdiek, GPNE Justin Paglino, CT GP

Background

This ranked choice vote is to elect 3 Co-chairs to the Steering Committee. No write-ins are allowed.

Candidate bios and information are available below candidates' entries. More information may be posted to the national committee business ("votes") email list.

CANDIDATES
Hunter Crow, TX
Cassandra Lems, NY
Charles Ostdiek, NE
Justin Paglino, CT

About Steering Committee Elections:
http://gpus.org/bylaws/#06

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE STEERING COMMITTEE
GPUS Bylaws, Article IV. The Steering Committee:
http://gpus.org/bylaws/#04

GPUS Rules & Procedures, Article II, Steering Committee Duties and Responsibilities:
http://gpus.org/rules-procedures/#02

Candidate Information

Hunter Crow GPTX - YES
Hunter is a resident of Arlington Texas. He is currently a Senior at the University of Texas at Arlington where he is enrolled in the BA History 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. Hunter is the Media 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. 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. He has also been a volunteerĀ withĀ Ā Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism trying to launch an active Texas Chapter.Ā Ā
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Hunter Crow YES Media Chair

Cassandra Lems, GPNY
Cassandra Lems (she/her) is Co-Chair of the 2024 Credentials Committee. She and her three colleagues checked the information for all PNC delegations for completeness, which was more like wrangling kittens than she had anticipated. Cassandra also serves as Program Committee Chair for the Green Party of Nassau County (NY), as a New York State Committee member representing Nassau County, as a member at large of the Executive Committee of the Green Party of New York, and as a New York delegate to the National Committee. She ran for office four times as a Green before disgraced former Governor Cuomo took away our ballot line. Cassandra is a former paralegal specializing in foreign patents, but began her working life as an editor of books, trade magazines, and newsletters. She is a voracious reader, a skilled needleworker, and a pretty good home cook. She sometimes sings with a community choir, and has performed in 11 of the 14 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Her 1,450 day streak on Duolingo is a source of personal pride. She is running for Co-Chair because three or four different Greens asked her to run, and she believes she can make a valuable contribution using her superpowers of organization, reliability, fairness, and being able to listen to, understand and explain both sides of an argument or issue.

Charles Ostdiek, GPNE
Green Party political offices held:
Steering Committee CoChair of the Green Party of the United States, '12-'14, '14-'16
GPUS Finance Committee, '13-'20, '21-'24 (current member - term ends in '24), (Observer '20-'21)
Nebraska Green Party CoChair, '10-'12, '14-present
NGP Secretary, '12-'14
NGP Delegate to GPUS National Committee, '08-present
NGP State Council Representative, '00-'10

GPUS Committee work:
Steering Committee CoChair (2 terms: 4 yrs.), Finance (11 yrs.), Fundraising (2 yrs.), BRPP (6 yrs., including a term as CoChair)
SC Liaison work with Finance, International, Eco-Action, BRPP, Outreach, and Dispute Resolution Committees
SC Liaison to Counsel for Legal Matters, '15-'21 (2 lawsuits, GPUS, et al. v. the Commission on Presidential Debates)

NGP Committee work:
Founding member, '00
Executive Committee work listed above
Legislative Issues (CoChair), Materials and Publications (CoChair), "Green Focus" Newsletter (Editorial Review Board), "The Green Tea Party" Public Access Show (Co-Executive Producer)
Liaison to GPUS Platform Committee

Work on Campaigns for Public Office:
Campaign volunteer for virtually all Nebraska Green Party electoral races, '00-present -- https://www.gpelections.org/states/ne
Campaign volunteer in Nebraska for all GPUS candidates for U.S. President, David Cobb '04, Cynthia McKinney '08, Jill Stein '12 & '16, Howie Hawkins '20
Campaign Manager, Tonya Ward for Douglas County Board of Commissioners, '20
Campaign volunteer, Tonya Ward for Learning Community Board of Directors, '18
Campaign Manager, LaVerne Thraen for Omaha Public Power District Board of Directors, '14
Campaign volunteer, Krystle Craig for OPPD Board, '14
Campaign volunteer, Collin Smith for OPPD Board, '14
Media Director, LaVerne Thraen for OPPD Board, '12
Campaign volunteer, LaVerne Thraen for OPPD Board, '08, '10
Campaign volunteer, Tom Foster and Frances Mendenhall for OPPD Board, '02
Campaign volunteer, Ralph Nader for U.S. President, '00

Justin Paglino, CT GP
I am interested in serving on the GPUS Steering Committee because I want to help the party I strongly support and believe in. I abandoned the Democrats and the duopoly in 2019, became fully dedicated to RCV and multiparty democracy, and to the Green Party in particular, which shares my values. I have been working since then to build the Green Party here in CT, as a two-time US Congressional Candidate, a current State Party co-chair, and a chapter chair for Greater New Haven. This season I have been serving as Field Director for the Jill Stein 2024 campaign, an experience which has enable me to learn a great deal with about the workings of a national campaign and organizing in general. I am also the CT GP’s nominee for US Senate this year, and if our ballot petition efforts succeed she and I will both be on all CT ballots Nov 5. As this campaign season moves into the final months and beyond, my focus will be on how we can build a larger Green Community - committed people with ongoing relationships that are willing and able to do the work involved. There is a general sense in many states I have seen, including here in CT with our ballot access drive, that too much work is falling on too few shoulders, and my focus will be how to we grow that sense of commitment and community in our State Parties so that when there are large jobs to be done, the work can be divided more broadly, and be less onerous on the few. I think this is essential and deserving of focus and I hope to work with others to develop best approaches we can share with each other. GPUS is tasked with the role of many supportive GPUS functions, and does help coordinate and support state parties to a large extent - but I would like to see more direct collaboration specifically among state party and local party executive committee members (not just NC delegates (although they would be welcome as well)) via another route - I think likely simply via a Slack Channel or possibly discord.

I turn 51 on Friday, I have a wife, an 18 year old son and a 14 year old daughter, 1 cat and 2 kittens. I have an MD/PhD and did research on virology for 15 years but retired in 2018 to focus on Music (piano teaching and performance) and Politics. Thanks for your consideration.

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