Write-in campaign: Mark Greene for Sheriff of King County, November 3rd election - 2009.
Marine veteran, Mark Greene will put in safety programs and enact policies that will protect our county, and he will uphold the law and our state and national constitutions with integrity.
Besides his two-year active duty tenure in the Marine Corps for which he received an honorable discharge in 1975, Mark is also a paralegal and a playwright, and he needs voters to write in his name for sheriff in the general election. Please, write/e-mail if you would be interested in signing Mark's election candidacy petition for sheriff. We will need a couple of thousand signatures; the sooner the candidacy petition is turned in to the Elections Department, the better. If you would like to contribute a few dollars to the campaign, mail check to committee post office box (find address near bottom of this page).
If you would like to become a volunteer for the campaign, see link to the right. If you would like to help fund our campaign coffers, please, send a small contribution to the address below.
The Party of Commons has helped to energize Commoner America through advocacy for economic progressivism and generally traditional culture, strong environmental change, including protection of our forest lands, mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods and a national health insurance program, with an emphasis on preventive health care. Our party also stands for common sense defense, and generally a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Please, keep our campaigns' word-of-mouth strategy going by telling your friends about the campaigns.
Prepared by the Mark Greene for Sheriff Committee (campaign for sheriff).
P.O. Box 612, Bellevue, WA 98009.
Contributions to sheriff campaign can be made by check to the above named committee.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Journal of 2003-2006
Journal of the Commoner Local Affairs Campaign Committee, formerly called "C. Mark Journal".
Topics:
- Prologue;
- Unethical Embryo Research;
- The No Checks-and-Balances Congress;
- Empire or Democracy;
- Government Fiddles While Global Warming Warnings Heat Up;
- Foreign Policy;
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty;
- Defending the Bill of Rights (and more ...).
Prologue:
--- Almost all of the articles on C. Mark Journal, if not actually all, have aged by at least a few years. I will be updating this journal, shortly, by making revisions, possibly deleting some material, and writing about new topics. Your feedback about the important matters discussed on C. Mark Journal can be made through e-mail or postal mail. Thank you for your interest as we must take up the task of winning the vote, one by one, so that we can finally bring about a new era of economic progressivism, and respect for ecology and general traditional culture. Please, consider becoming a member of the Party of Commons.
- C. Mark Greene
Unethical Embryo Research:
--- The surge in interest among some scientists for embryonic stem cell research, not to be confused with other practically noncontroversial stem cell research, has become a big political debate. All human beings start out as embryos. To use embryos for scientific experimentation is immoral. Human beings are not conceived or should not be conceived for the purpose of scientific experimentation, regardless of utilitarian reasons. This is a resort to a baneful unenlightenment that is surely a step back from a respectful consciousness for life or for the dead that have been elements of fundamental human morality since time immemorial.
The No Checks-and-Balances Congress:
--- When will this Congress decide that unrestrained executive war powers, secret gulags, detentions and imprisonment without judicial review (habeas corpus), and domestic spying without the sanction of the court is beyond the pale? Apparently, never.
Empire or Democracy:
--- It is not the job of the U.S. to root out unpopular regimes in the world unless there is an adequate justification. Anti-treaty, ultra-militaristic world policies are bringing the world closer to disaster. Our nation should maintain our status as a republic, following the Washington Farewell Address Doctrine of staying out of foreign entanglements rather than policing the world.
Government Fiddles While Global Warming Warnings Heat Up:
--- Long after the rejection of the Kyoto Treaty, the most ambitious treaty to date to deal with the problem of global warming, most scientists who are expert in the field of climatic studies now say that the earth faces catastrophic changes unless politicians act quickly to reduce the various greenhouse gases that effect global warming. Instead, the politicians fiddle while glaciers melt, sea levels rise and other climatic changes become precursors to widespread environmental damage.
--- The Kyoto Treaty should be re-negotiated and modified, not altogether rejected, and it is past time that the government started paying more attention to what may become the most serious problem on the planet. Among U.S. politicians, only Chairman C. Mark Greene of the Committee of Commons & Political Affairs and a few others are leading the campaign to make changes in environmental policy before calamity befalls us.
Foreign Policy:
--- The present course of foreign policy is unwise and badly off course, as was the foreign policy of the amoral Clinton Administration of the 90's, which also failed to grasp coherent policies in the national interest. One of the most glaring examples in Clinton's tenure was that of failing to dramatically improve America's relationship with Russia. Instead of doing more to improve and bring about momentous arm control treaties with Russia, that had recently made dramatic political changes, the Clinton Administration antagonized the Russian republic striving to build new democratic institutions.
-- From building the groundwork to expand NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) eastward, starting a war in the Balkans and, generally, infuriating a republic that we need to be our partner in bringing international cohesion and controlling weapons of mass destruction, the Clinton Administration missed the opportunity to bring exceptionally harmonious relations with the new Russia. Not only were plans for the needless expansion of NATO drawn up, but the Clinton Administration re-packaged "Star Wars," thereby preparing the way for the end of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and they failed to take advantage of the best opportunity since the Truman era to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
--- An increasing imperial world-view in recent years, pushed forward by the current U.S. administration is strengthening the hand of extremists around the world who may not be in power today, but who may take power in the future. This does not bode well for a world chock-full of weapons of mass destruction.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:
--- C. Mark Greene understands that the worldwide nuclear arms problem must be solved politically, not by war, but through international cooperation in nuclear arms control accords, particularly the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This means that the entire world, including our own nation, must adhere to the treaties, which would ensure confidence around the world that the treaties are serious-minded, with no double standards.
Defending the Bill of Rights:
--- Citizens-at-large who support the Constitution must be prepared to defend the principles of the Constitution. The Greene campaigns ardently supports the 10 Bill of Rights. Our military services and national officials have an obligation, by oath, to uphold and defend the Constitution, a testament of liberty.
21st Century Dilemma:
--- Unfortunately, leading politicians in Washington state unconditionally support the burgeoning biotech industry, a field of science that is leading the world into a cycle of menaces unseen since the conjuring of the atom bomb, a nuclear genie that most sane people well wish could be put back into the bottle. Unrestrained biotechnology is setting the path for belligerent use like atomic power, has led to debauchery such as tinkering with human embryos in scientists' laboratories; manipulation of genes so that human DNA is mixed with the DNA of animals in the hope of producing some incongruous species or chimeras; genetically modified agriculture, which has caused damaging crop mutations and has made the general population of America involuntary guinea pigs. The government must set clear ethical mandates for biotechnology.
Committee of Commons & Political Affairs Played Major Part in Getting the "Top Two" Primary Initiative Passed:
--- The Committee of Commons & Political Affairs, under the leadership of Chairman C. Mark Greene, was instrumental in getting passage of the "Top Two" Primary initiative, the modified blanket primary which allows voters to choose any candidate they want in state primaries, regardless of party, affiliation or independent status, with the top two candidates reaching the General Election. The CCPA got about 500 signatures from various registered voters to help put the measure on the ballot, an initiative that strengthens Commoner Washington's rights in a democracy. The law was challenged and thrown out by a federal court judge; that ruling was sustained by the 9th Circuit Appeals Court, but the law was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in March, 2008!
William Jennings Bryan: Turning Defeat Into Triumph:
--- No major party candidate has lost more presidential elections than William Jennings Bryan, who lost three (the elections of 1896, 1900 & 1908), but Bryan's defeats ultimately proved to be the bellwether for populist economic reform in America and encapsulated the staying power of social conservatism. Mr. Bryan, although failing in popular majority votes, nevertheless, kept the loyal opposition together, along with a popular resistance to the laissez-faire, no holds bar economic policies of the time, that were little inclined to pull up the great masses. Few politicians with as little elective political success as Mr. Bryan managed to hold the magnitude of the "Great Commoner."
Campaign Endorsement:
--- Congressional candidate C. Mark Greene was endorsed by the Human Life Political Action Committee in the Ninth District congressional campaign of 2004.
Guinea Pig II:
--- First, it was the greatly enhanced acceptance of genetically modified foods into the U.S. food chain; now, the Food & Drug Administration, with little research, has assented to the use of animals bred from cloning for food.
Surveillance America, Orwell's "1984" Abounds:
--- Computer spy programs that are focused on the citizenry-at-large, illegal (without court authorization) surveillance; electronic bugging of Philadelphia Mayor's Office; harassment of dissenters at Drake University .... If elected to represent Washington state in the United States Senate, C. Mark Greene will vote for policies that do not run counter to our nation's libertarian heritage.
Recommended Books:
--- "Fatal Choice," by Richard Butler; "The New Nuclear Danger," by Dr. Helen Caldicott; "Democracy Matters," by Cornel West; "Seeds of Deception," by Jeffrey Smith (website at www.seedsofdeception.com).
[The Greene campaigns/CCPA does not necessarily agree with particular opinions in these books.]
[revised on 6/12/13]
Topics:
- Prologue;
- Unethical Embryo Research;
- The No Checks-and-Balances Congress;
- Empire or Democracy;
- Government Fiddles While Global Warming Warnings Heat Up;
- Foreign Policy;
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty;
- Defending the Bill of Rights (and more ...).
Prologue:
--- Almost all of the articles on C. Mark Journal, if not actually all, have aged by at least a few years. I will be updating this journal, shortly, by making revisions, possibly deleting some material, and writing about new topics. Your feedback about the important matters discussed on C. Mark Journal can be made through e-mail or postal mail. Thank you for your interest as we must take up the task of winning the vote, one by one, so that we can finally bring about a new era of economic progressivism, and respect for ecology and general traditional culture. Please, consider becoming a member of the Party of Commons.
- C. Mark Greene
Unethical Embryo Research:
--- The surge in interest among some scientists for embryonic stem cell research, not to be confused with other practically noncontroversial stem cell research, has become a big political debate. All human beings start out as embryos. To use embryos for scientific experimentation is immoral. Human beings are not conceived or should not be conceived for the purpose of scientific experimentation, regardless of utilitarian reasons. This is a resort to a baneful unenlightenment that is surely a step back from a respectful consciousness for life or for the dead that have been elements of fundamental human morality since time immemorial.
The No Checks-and-Balances Congress:
--- When will this Congress decide that unrestrained executive war powers, secret gulags, detentions and imprisonment without judicial review (habeas corpus), and domestic spying without the sanction of the court is beyond the pale? Apparently, never.
Empire or Democracy:
--- It is not the job of the U.S. to root out unpopular regimes in the world unless there is an adequate justification. Anti-treaty, ultra-militaristic world policies are bringing the world closer to disaster. Our nation should maintain our status as a republic, following the Washington Farewell Address Doctrine of staying out of foreign entanglements rather than policing the world.
Government Fiddles While Global Warming Warnings Heat Up:
--- Long after the rejection of the Kyoto Treaty, the most ambitious treaty to date to deal with the problem of global warming, most scientists who are expert in the field of climatic studies now say that the earth faces catastrophic changes unless politicians act quickly to reduce the various greenhouse gases that effect global warming. Instead, the politicians fiddle while glaciers melt, sea levels rise and other climatic changes become precursors to widespread environmental damage.
--- The Kyoto Treaty should be re-negotiated and modified, not altogether rejected, and it is past time that the government started paying more attention to what may become the most serious problem on the planet. Among U.S. politicians, only Chairman C. Mark Greene of the Committee of Commons & Political Affairs and a few others are leading the campaign to make changes in environmental policy before calamity befalls us.
Foreign Policy:
--- The present course of foreign policy is unwise and badly off course, as was the foreign policy of the amoral Clinton Administration of the 90's, which also failed to grasp coherent policies in the national interest. One of the most glaring examples in Clinton's tenure was that of failing to dramatically improve America's relationship with Russia. Instead of doing more to improve and bring about momentous arm control treaties with Russia, that had recently made dramatic political changes, the Clinton Administration antagonized the Russian republic striving to build new democratic institutions.
-- From building the groundwork to expand NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) eastward, starting a war in the Balkans and, generally, infuriating a republic that we need to be our partner in bringing international cohesion and controlling weapons of mass destruction, the Clinton Administration missed the opportunity to bring exceptionally harmonious relations with the new Russia. Not only were plans for the needless expansion of NATO drawn up, but the Clinton Administration re-packaged "Star Wars," thereby preparing the way for the end of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and they failed to take advantage of the best opportunity since the Truman era to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
--- An increasing imperial world-view in recent years, pushed forward by the current U.S. administration is strengthening the hand of extremists around the world who may not be in power today, but who may take power in the future. This does not bode well for a world chock-full of weapons of mass destruction.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:
--- C. Mark Greene understands that the worldwide nuclear arms problem must be solved politically, not by war, but through international cooperation in nuclear arms control accords, particularly the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This means that the entire world, including our own nation, must adhere to the treaties, which would ensure confidence around the world that the treaties are serious-minded, with no double standards.
Defending the Bill of Rights:
--- Citizens-at-large who support the Constitution must be prepared to defend the principles of the Constitution. The Greene campaigns ardently supports the 10 Bill of Rights. Our military services and national officials have an obligation, by oath, to uphold and defend the Constitution, a testament of liberty.
21st Century Dilemma:
--- Unfortunately, leading politicians in Washington state unconditionally support the burgeoning biotech industry, a field of science that is leading the world into a cycle of menaces unseen since the conjuring of the atom bomb, a nuclear genie that most sane people well wish could be put back into the bottle. Unrestrained biotechnology is setting the path for belligerent use like atomic power, has led to debauchery such as tinkering with human embryos in scientists' laboratories; manipulation of genes so that human DNA is mixed with the DNA of animals in the hope of producing some incongruous species or chimeras; genetically modified agriculture, which has caused damaging crop mutations and has made the general population of America involuntary guinea pigs. The government must set clear ethical mandates for biotechnology.
Committee of Commons & Political Affairs Played Major Part in Getting the "Top Two" Primary Initiative Passed:
--- The Committee of Commons & Political Affairs, under the leadership of Chairman C. Mark Greene, was instrumental in getting passage of the "Top Two" Primary initiative, the modified blanket primary which allows voters to choose any candidate they want in state primaries, regardless of party, affiliation or independent status, with the top two candidates reaching the General Election. The CCPA got about 500 signatures from various registered voters to help put the measure on the ballot, an initiative that strengthens Commoner Washington's rights in a democracy. The law was challenged and thrown out by a federal court judge; that ruling was sustained by the 9th Circuit Appeals Court, but the law was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in March, 2008!
William Jennings Bryan: Turning Defeat Into Triumph:
--- No major party candidate has lost more presidential elections than William Jennings Bryan, who lost three (the elections of 1896, 1900 & 1908), but Bryan's defeats ultimately proved to be the bellwether for populist economic reform in America and encapsulated the staying power of social conservatism. Mr. Bryan, although failing in popular majority votes, nevertheless, kept the loyal opposition together, along with a popular resistance to the laissez-faire, no holds bar economic policies of the time, that were little inclined to pull up the great masses. Few politicians with as little elective political success as Mr. Bryan managed to hold the magnitude of the "Great Commoner."
Campaign Endorsement:
--- Congressional candidate C. Mark Greene was endorsed by the Human Life Political Action Committee in the Ninth District congressional campaign of 2004.
Guinea Pig II:
--- First, it was the greatly enhanced acceptance of genetically modified foods into the U.S. food chain; now, the Food & Drug Administration, with little research, has assented to the use of animals bred from cloning for food.
Surveillance America, Orwell's "1984" Abounds:
--- Computer spy programs that are focused on the citizenry-at-large, illegal (without court authorization) surveillance; electronic bugging of Philadelphia Mayor's Office; harassment of dissenters at Drake University .... If elected to represent Washington state in the United States Senate, C. Mark Greene will vote for policies that do not run counter to our nation's libertarian heritage.
Recommended Books:
--- "Fatal Choice," by Richard Butler; "The New Nuclear Danger," by Dr. Helen Caldicott; "Democracy Matters," by Cornel West; "Seeds of Deception," by Jeffrey Smith (website at www.seedsofdeception.com).
[The Greene campaigns/CCPA does not necessarily agree with particular opinions in these books.]
[revised on 6/12/13]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
State Powers
As Mark and the Party of Commons get ready for a courtroom showdown on behalf of Mark's interests and by extension the interests of commoners in politics, the big powers of the State of Washington are preparing to use every legal trick in the book to thwart Mark's attempt to have the court find a state statute that has effectively kept common candidates from running for office unconstitutional, with "Uncle Sam" and his proxies in the background using the powers of illegal surveillance to possibly assist the state.
Just today, Mark learned that the defendant in this case, the director of the King County Elections Department, has enlisted the Republican county prosecutor's office as her legal counsel. The Republican state attorney general's office is positioning in the background, probably about to intervene on behalf of the aforementioned state statute.
The state and county powers have big money, fancy lawyers, the institutional infrastructure at their beck and call and of course the corporate mainstream news media to help them uphold the status quo.
Mark and "Commons" will need all the help we can get to stave off these big powers.
Please, send a contribution to the Mark Greene for Sheriff Committee, P.O. Box 612, Bellevue, WA 98009.
[Originally posted on "Commoner" on Oct. 1, 2009.]
The Party of Commons does not sponsor or produce advertising.
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Just today, Mark learned that the defendant in this case, the director of the King County Elections Department, has enlisted the Republican county prosecutor's office as her legal counsel. The Republican state attorney general's office is positioning in the background, probably about to intervene on behalf of the aforementioned state statute.
The state and county powers have big money, fancy lawyers, the institutional infrastructure at their beck and call and of course the corporate mainstream news media to help them uphold the status quo.
Mark and "Commons" will need all the help we can get to stave off these big powers.
Please, send a contribution to the Mark Greene for Sheriff Committee, P.O. Box 612, Bellevue, WA 98009.
[Originally posted on "Commoner" on Oct. 1, 2009.]
The Party of Commons does not sponsor or produce advertising.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Statesman
Greene for Metropolitan King County Council (9th District) campaign made great strides in East King County, Washington over the weekend, as "Commons" handed out scores of pieces of literature trying to get the P.O.C. chairman, Mark Greene, elected. This statesman is trying to make economic progress for the citizens of our county (King) and trying to improve the ecological fortunes of our planet, among other political goals.
[First posted in "Commoner" on or around 8/3/09; revised on 8/9/09.]
The Party of Commons does not sponsor or produce advertising.
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[First posted in "Commoner" on or around 8/3/09; revised on 8/9/09.]
The Party of Commons does not sponsor or produce advertising.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Authoritarian-style Elections
While the King County Executive candidates ... well, at least those selected by the corporate intelligentsia ... are being invited to all kinds of candidate forums by the corporate establishment in King County, virtually no one is inviting Mark Greene to any forums at all. The corporate establishment in King County has decided that no one should have the temerity to challenge a Republican "prince" or the council rung, as opposed to the executive rung, of the Hutchison-Dunn slate. So the community organizations that are portraying themselves as bastions of democracy are, in actuality, running nothing but an authoritarian-style election, where some candidates are considered persona non grata and incumbents ordained as "princes" are sheltered from interviews, questions and debates. The little Seattle area bloggers that cover politics, by and large, and who like to portray themselves as some sort of a triumphal alternative to mainstream news, are no better than their wealthier and more established counterparts.
[First posted on "Commoner" on 7/20/09; revised same day.]
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[First posted on "Commoner" on 7/20/09; revised same day.]
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Elections and the Media
With another foreign election controversy, the media, here, is again suggesting or claiming that shenanigans are at play. The corporate media never misses an opportunity to talk or write about alleged unfair elections in other countries, which of course, only happens in other countries, especially countries that appear to be a little too independent for Uncle Sam's taste. The truth of the matter is that the truth about these foreign controversies is hard to get at.
What is really unbelievable is when the corporate media starts talking about the unfair press in other countries, such as when they don't cover certain candidates, usually the opposition candidates, and allegedly give all the attention to the party in power. Yet, the media does not seem to appreciate irony very well, because it is ironic for them to criticize subtly (or otherwise) the same acts in which they, themselves, are guilty of. The Seattle print media, by and large, never even printed the Party of Commons's chairman's (a candidate) name in their papers for the 2008 Secretary of State "Top 2" Primary. The television and radio media are worst, a backwater for democracy.
There is a lot of unfairness, here, and media companies and organizations sometimes could care less about democracy and fairness in the United States of America, but they do "care" about the far away foreign locales that they like to report about.
[Written on 6/15/09 and first posted on "Commoner" under the title, "The Sanctimonious Media."]
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What is really unbelievable is when the corporate media starts talking about the unfair press in other countries, such as when they don't cover certain candidates, usually the opposition candidates, and allegedly give all the attention to the party in power. Yet, the media does not seem to appreciate irony very well, because it is ironic for them to criticize subtly (or otherwise) the same acts in which they, themselves, are guilty of. The Seattle print media, by and large, never even printed the Party of Commons's chairman's (a candidate) name in their papers for the 2008 Secretary of State "Top 2" Primary. The television and radio media are worst, a backwater for democracy.
There is a lot of unfairness, here, and media companies and organizations sometimes could care less about democracy and fairness in the United States of America, but they do "care" about the far away foreign locales that they like to report about.
[Written on 6/15/09 and first posted on "Commoner" under the title, "The Sanctimonious Media."]
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Divisions
The Party of Commons has six divisions for our political party for which members of our party can be assigned to according to their political interests and specialties. The six divisions are as follows:
Division of Commons: Constitutional matters, state issues, legal rights, fairness issues, equality of people. - [Commoner]
Ecological Division: Environmental issues - [Evergreen]
Service Division: Educational, housing, health and general welfare issues. - [Coliseum]
Philosophical Division: Platform, ideas, and ethics & rules guidelines for the party. - [Platform/Manifesto]
Watch Division: Watchguard of the party. - [Contrarian]
Senate: General senate issues such as party elections, and national and international issues. - [Senator]
[revised on 10/30/09]
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Division of Commons: Constitutional matters, state issues, legal rights, fairness issues, equality of people. - [Commoner]
Ecological Division: Environmental issues - [Evergreen]
Service Division: Educational, housing, health and general welfare issues. - [Coliseum]
Philosophical Division: Platform, ideas, and ethics & rules guidelines for the party. - [Platform/Manifesto]
Watch Division: Watchguard of the party. - [Contrarian]
Senate: General senate issues such as party elections, and national and international issues. - [Senator]
[revised on 10/30/09]
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Mark is Running for King County Council
Mark Greene, chairman of the Party of Commons, has decided not to run for the school board, after all. Mark has decided to run for King County Council, instead, simultaneously with his run for the United States Senate. This announcement, on May 6th, 2009, leaves Mark with two weeks from this date to file paperwork with the appropriate state regulatory agency.
Mark is the strongest environmentalist candidate running for King county council in Washington this year. If you would like to donate to this campaign; please, send a check to "Mark Greene for Council" to the address further below. Thank you.
King County Council - District 9
Campaign Committee Name & Address:
Mark Greene for Council
P.O. Box 612
Bellevue, WA 98009
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Mark is the strongest environmentalist candidate running for King county council in Washington this year. If you would like to donate to this campaign; please, send a check to "Mark Greene for Council" to the address further below. Thank you.
King County Council - District 9
Campaign Committee Name & Address:
Mark Greene for Council
P.O. Box 612
Bellevue, WA 98009
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Revision of Chapter Organization
-- One of America's newest national political parties, the Party of Commons, will be starting 60 chapter offices for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the 9 territories of the United States. This is a revision of the previous organization in which there were 10 regions instead of the separate state and territorial divisions that are now presently in place. With the exception of the headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and thus the Washington Chapter, all of these offices are presently vacant, but we will be looking for 59 more state, district and territorial chapter directors to help build the Party of Commons in our nation.
-- Particular prospective chapter directors must live in the state, district or territorial area of the chapter that they are assigned to and be interviewed in Seattle/Bellevue by the chairman before taking the post. The personal interview provision may be waived if a party campaign director or any chapter director can interview you or knows you, personally; you may be assigned as a provisional chapter director until you are conferred with regular chapter director status. A special waiver may also be given for prospective chapter directors based on on-line and telephonic communications, and those accepted will be assigned as provisional chapter directors. A provisional chapter director shall be in an unofficial status until they meet the criteria for being an official chapter director. For now, with the exception of Washington, the Party of Commons will designate the state and territorial capitals as the headquarter locations for our national chapters, but it is possible that these will change based on the residence of the assigned volunteer chapter director. In other words, the headquarters of particular chapters are not static, and could be in a big city or a small town, or a county township. The Party of Commons, after all, will be representative of all geographical areas of the United States.
Other positions, besides chapter directors, are listed further below on this page.
CHAPTERS:
One in every state, territory and the District of Columbia for a total of 60 (headquarters in state or territorial capitals, nominally, until appointment).
National Headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.
Minimal qualifications necessary to be a chapter director or a provisional chapter director:
At least, 18 years old.
More or less agree with the Party of Commons's platform.
Knowledge of government, civic affairs and political science, and some management or supervisory skills, but not necessarily supervisory experience.
No political experience necessary (students ok).
Personal interview with the chairman in Seattle/Bellevue area (may be waived if the chairman or a party campaign/chapter director can travel to your area to meet with you).
Send an e-mail -- partyofcommons@yahoo.com -- or a letter if you are interested in being a Party of Commons chapter director. Please, write "Chapter Director" in the subject heading of an e-mail.
OTHER POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN THE PARTY OF COMMONS:
The new Party of Commons is looking for people to fill the following positions (be at least 16 years old, 16 -17 with permission from a parent or a guardian, no experience necessary; there are general volunteer positions for those at least 15 years of age, 15 -17 with parental permission):
County Chairperson (WA): We are seeking 39 persons for these positions, one for each of Washington's 39 counties (you must be a resident of the county that you represent). Your job will be to establish the Party of Commons in your county by public outreach, communicating with the news media in your county, recruiting party volunteers and potential members from your county, and holding meetings.
Election Information Director: Your job will be to learn all about the technical procedures of elections in Washington state and how they pertain to candidates, generally, and minor parties in particular. You will need to become well-informed about ballot access issues, candidate qualifications, campaign finance matters, etc. You should like libraries, books and civic affairs. You will work closely with the Campaign Director.
Finance Director: Your job will be to learn about finance issues and how to get legal contributions to the party and to the party's candidates. You will need to become an expert in Washington state and federal campaign finance laws and rules.
Campaign Director: Your job will be to work closely with Party of Commons candidates, devise campaign strategies, within the guidelines of the Party of Commons's platform and directive on ethics (which you will help write and implement), and to report to the chairman on how individual campaigns are doing. You must make it known that the Party of Commons will abide by the letter of the law and set a high standard for ethics.
Administrative Director: Your job will be to provide administrative assistance to the chairman (and directors as needed), schedule party meetings, and essentially to keep track of everything that is going on with the Party of Commons, and to report to the chairman regularly.
Assistant Communications Director: Your job will be to assist in facilitating our publicity program, including a word-of-mouth strategy, and to work on media relations. This includes getting our message out to the public with a limited budget and to get our candidates in the broadcast and print media through setting up media interviews and sending out press releases. The chairman is the primary communications director.
Candidates: We need plenty of candidates for state and federal offices. Our goal is to run a candidate in every state and congressional district. Student candidates are welcome to apply, male or female. You must show some basic governmental and political knowledge, and more-or-less agree with the platform of the Party of Commons.
Disclaimer: The Party of Commons's candidates are not obligated to file with state regulatory agencies when campaigning for federal office only, unless otherwise directed by state laws.
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-- Particular prospective chapter directors must live in the state, district or territorial area of the chapter that they are assigned to and be interviewed in Seattle/Bellevue by the chairman before taking the post. The personal interview provision may be waived if a party campaign director or any chapter director can interview you or knows you, personally; you may be assigned as a provisional chapter director until you are conferred with regular chapter director status. A special waiver may also be given for prospective chapter directors based on on-line and telephonic communications, and those accepted will be assigned as provisional chapter directors. A provisional chapter director shall be in an unofficial status until they meet the criteria for being an official chapter director. For now, with the exception of Washington, the Party of Commons will designate the state and territorial capitals as the headquarter locations for our national chapters, but it is possible that these will change based on the residence of the assigned volunteer chapter director. In other words, the headquarters of particular chapters are not static, and could be in a big city or a small town, or a county township. The Party of Commons, after all, will be representative of all geographical areas of the United States.
Other positions, besides chapter directors, are listed further below on this page.
CHAPTERS:
One in every state, territory and the District of Columbia for a total of 60 (headquarters in state or territorial capitals, nominally, until appointment).
National Headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.
Minimal qualifications necessary to be a chapter director or a provisional chapter director:
At least, 18 years old.
More or less agree with the Party of Commons's platform.
Knowledge of government, civic affairs and political science, and some management or supervisory skills, but not necessarily supervisory experience.
No political experience necessary (students ok).
Personal interview with the chairman in Seattle/Bellevue area (may be waived if the chairman or a party campaign/chapter director can travel to your area to meet with you).
Send an e-mail -- partyofcommons@yahoo.com -- or a letter if you are interested in being a Party of Commons chapter director. Please, write "Chapter Director" in the subject heading of an e-mail.
OTHER POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN THE PARTY OF COMMONS:
The new Party of Commons is looking for people to fill the following positions (be at least 16 years old, 16 -17 with permission from a parent or a guardian, no experience necessary; there are general volunteer positions for those at least 15 years of age, 15 -17 with parental permission):
County Chairperson (WA): We are seeking 39 persons for these positions, one for each of Washington's 39 counties (you must be a resident of the county that you represent). Your job will be to establish the Party of Commons in your county by public outreach, communicating with the news media in your county, recruiting party volunteers and potential members from your county, and holding meetings.
Election Information Director: Your job will be to learn all about the technical procedures of elections in Washington state and how they pertain to candidates, generally, and minor parties in particular. You will need to become well-informed about ballot access issues, candidate qualifications, campaign finance matters, etc. You should like libraries, books and civic affairs. You will work closely with the Campaign Director.
Finance Director: Your job will be to learn about finance issues and how to get legal contributions to the party and to the party's candidates. You will need to become an expert in Washington state and federal campaign finance laws and rules.
Campaign Director: Your job will be to work closely with Party of Commons candidates, devise campaign strategies, within the guidelines of the Party of Commons's platform and directive on ethics (which you will help write and implement), and to report to the chairman on how individual campaigns are doing. You must make it known that the Party of Commons will abide by the letter of the law and set a high standard for ethics.
Administrative Director: Your job will be to provide administrative assistance to the chairman (and directors as needed), schedule party meetings, and essentially to keep track of everything that is going on with the Party of Commons, and to report to the chairman regularly.
Assistant Communications Director: Your job will be to assist in facilitating our publicity program, including a word-of-mouth strategy, and to work on media relations. This includes getting our message out to the public with a limited budget and to get our candidates in the broadcast and print media through setting up media interviews and sending out press releases. The chairman is the primary communications director.
Candidates: We need plenty of candidates for state and federal offices. Our goal is to run a candidate in every state and congressional district. Student candidates are welcome to apply, male or female. You must show some basic governmental and political knowledge, and more-or-less agree with the platform of the Party of Commons.
Disclaimer: The Party of Commons's candidates are not obligated to file with state regulatory agencies when campaigning for federal office only, unless otherwise directed by state laws.
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM (a.k.a. "Commons Party")
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"Commons" Supports Strong School Boards
The Party of Commons advocates that schools should go back to the basics regarding the education of our students, including that schools should spend more time in teaching history, government, civics and environmental studies, pay more attention to physical education, or "gym" as it is casually called, and the arts, and that there should be less emphasis on lengthy homework assignments and standardized testing. The Party of Commons will work with parents, educators, teachers, and parent and teacher associations to formulate the best policy for our students.
The Party of Commons also proposes that mandated morality classes be implemented for all elementary school grades, and that elective courses be implemented for high school grades. The morality classes would not be religious in nature, but would instruct on universal, non-controversial concepts of morality that virtually everybody agrees with. School boards, generally, should rely on parents, teachers and educators to help design a program and a curriculum to start these new morality classes as soon as possible.
The Party of Commons also proposes high school elective courses on the scientific concept of intelligent design.
If you would like to run for the school board in Washington state with a "Commons" endorsement or as a member of "Commons," please, send an e-mail to the Party of Commons: partyofcommons@yahoo.com (write school board in the subject heading, please), as we support strong school boards with strong foundations.
[revised on 5/6/09]
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
The Party of Commons also proposes that mandated morality classes be implemented for all elementary school grades, and that elective courses be implemented for high school grades. The morality classes would not be religious in nature, but would instruct on universal, non-controversial concepts of morality that virtually everybody agrees with. School boards, generally, should rely on parents, teachers and educators to help design a program and a curriculum to start these new morality classes as soon as possible.
The Party of Commons also proposes high school elective courses on the scientific concept of intelligent design.
If you would like to run for the school board in Washington state with a "Commons" endorsement or as a member of "Commons," please, send an e-mail to the Party of Commons: partyofcommons@yahoo.com (write school board in the subject heading, please), as we support strong school boards with strong foundations.
[revised on 5/6/09]
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
Monday, April 27, 2009
"Coliseum" Prologue
With the news that Yahoo, Inc. will be shutting down our free websites later this year, the Party of Commons has decided to create "Coliseum," which will focus on our campaigns, our candidates and the powers-that-be that oppose us. "Coliseum" will pick up some of the slack from our Yahoo sites and explain our platforms, how we view the issues, which candidates we will put forward in the election arena, and which opponents we will have to fend off or challenge in order to win.
Our other new blog, "Senator," was previously going to be the sole election blog, but now that we have learned that we will lose some of our Yahoo sites, "Coliseum" and "Senator" will compliment each other. At the beginning, we will have to determine what will be the distinctions between these two, but the distinctions should become more obvious as time passes on.
"Senator" will probably be the blog for our manifestos, initiatives and what we think about the grand issues of the day, as well as information about our senators', from the Party of Commons Senate, campaigns and activities, whereas "Coliseum" will focus on less grandiose platforms as opposed to manifestos, more of the mundane though nonetheless important issues, and the campaigns of our rank-in-file members. This will not be a perfect separation, as "Coliseum" and "Senator" may blend together on issues and information in some instances, but we think that in due time, our readers will know what to expect from each of these blogs. "Coliseum" will probably dwell on the regions outside of the Pacific Northwest more than "Senator," as we had previously thought that "Senator" would do more of that, until we decided to create this blog.
A rundown on our other blogs:
Senator: http://commonsenate.blogspot.com
Evergreen: http://commonwash.blogspot.com
Focusing on the Pacific Northwest, generally, and the environment in particular.
Commoner: http://partyofcommons.blogspot.com
Our main blog which covers general issues and viewpoints about politics. "Commoner" has been giving a lot of information about the goings ons within the Party of Commons, but now that will be more of a function of "Senator" and "Coliseum."
Red Wings: http://360.yahoo.com/poc_senator
The biography of the chairman of the Party of Commons, Mark Greene (special entry needed in order to view blog; details are on main page).
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
Our other new blog, "Senator," was previously going to be the sole election blog, but now that we have learned that we will lose some of our Yahoo sites, "Coliseum" and "Senator" will compliment each other. At the beginning, we will have to determine what will be the distinctions between these two, but the distinctions should become more obvious as time passes on.
"Senator" will probably be the blog for our manifestos, initiatives and what we think about the grand issues of the day, as well as information about our senators', from the Party of Commons Senate, campaigns and activities, whereas "Coliseum" will focus on less grandiose platforms as opposed to manifestos, more of the mundane though nonetheless important issues, and the campaigns of our rank-in-file members. This will not be a perfect separation, as "Coliseum" and "Senator" may blend together on issues and information in some instances, but we think that in due time, our readers will know what to expect from each of these blogs. "Coliseum" will probably dwell on the regions outside of the Pacific Northwest more than "Senator," as we had previously thought that "Senator" would do more of that, until we decided to create this blog.
A rundown on our other blogs:
Senator: http://commonsenate.blogspot.com
Evergreen: http://commonwash.blogspot.com
Focusing on the Pacific Northwest, generally, and the environment in particular.
Commoner: http://partyofcommons.blogspot.com
Our main blog which covers general issues and viewpoints about politics. "Commoner" has been giving a lot of information about the goings ons within the Party of Commons, but now that will be more of a function of "Senator" and "Coliseum."
Red Wings: http://360.yahoo.com/poc_senator
The biography of the chairman of the Party of Commons, Mark Greene (special entry needed in order to view blog; details are on main page).
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
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