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by adam
May 23rd, 2005 at 9:16 am
The brochure notes that the GP needs 1% of registered voters (31,000) to affiliate as Green in Maryland to maintain ballot status, and that there are currently about 7,500 GP members. How is the GP trying to increase that number? Does each local have a recruitment goal?
May 26th, 2005 at 7:07 am
Hi Scout,
The Maryland Green Party grew by 1,000 in the 3 months before last November’s election. I suspect most of those came on their own. However, we do staff tables at every appropriate event that we can, hand out literature and provide forms for people who want to switch. There are no recruitment goals, other than that we want more members. Beyond that it’s pretty much up to each local to provide what effort it can. And, as I said, I suspect that most people are switching because they decide that they are Greens rather than because we persuade them that they are Greens.
May 26th, 2005 at 10:58 am
It’s also worth noting that there is an outreach committee who is primarily tasked with growing the membership.
May 26th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
The description of your process helps me understand what’s going on, but is there anything wrong with actively persuading people to join? In the interests of total disclosure–I had been a GDI (without party affililation) from September 1992 until last Monday (when I registered Green). I might not have been out there for so long if a GP member had tried to persuade me to join.
It strikes me that Outreach would be very important if there’s a deadline by which 31,000 has to be reached or the GP has to hit the pavement again and recollect thousands of signatures.
May 26th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
Outreach is very important. The more we do the better. But, of course, we all have other lives to live as well. And–though I may be a bit pessemistic on this–when the tsumani of peak oil hits (sometime in the next two year by all the number that I am seeing), political parties will be less important than the ability of a community to spread information on how to survive the crisis.
I have no idea exactly how I’m going to do it, but I am over the initial depression that people typically encounter when they realize the reality of the end of cheap energy in a still growing world. There are many people–a dispraportionate number in small businesses and as individuals–working on answers. I have decided that my task is to publicize anything that comes along so that as many people as possible may be prepared.
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