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What are we?
The Coordinated Campaign Committee (CCC) is a standing
committee of the USGP that cooperates with state and local
chapters in the support of federal, state, and local Green
Party electoral campaigns.
The CCC is here to…
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provide material support to
campaigns when possible;
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help train chapters in running
successful campaigns (from finding the right candidate
to getting people to the polls on election day);
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keep various campaigns in
communication with each other, so that resources and
wisdom can be shared;
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help determine which races are
most important in a state or region; to help states
attain and maintain ballot access;
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learn from previous campaigns and
build for future ones; and
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advise candidates and campaign
support people to the best of our ability, or to link
them up with experts when needed.
What do we do?
The CCC is pursuing many different programs and paths
to increase the number of Green officeholders nationwide,
including…
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targeting specific campaigns
(based on written applications) that are winnable,
strategically important, or otherwise noteworthy, and
providing those campaigns with matching funds or other
support;
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maintaining a campaign hotline
which candidates and campaign managers can call with
specific questions;
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linking up aspiring interns with
interested campaigns;
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maintaining a campaign manual
(available for downloading from this website), with
information specifically geared to running grassroots
Green campaigns;
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helping states to recruit
candidates, or to develop strategies for recruitment;
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assisting financially and
otherwise in running regional campaign training
schools (and helping with statewide trainings without
committing financial resources);
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forming a network of state
associates, to keep information about states' campaign
efforts as current as possible and readily available
to other states;
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conducting a ballot access
campaign for interested states, through our Ballot
Access Working Group
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maintaining a database of
candidates and officeholders on our website, to
increase public awareness of Green campaigns and
victories; and
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assembling and analyzing data from
past and current campaigns, to assess our strengths
and weaknesses and to aid the Green Party in becoming
an electoral force, from the local to the national
level.
Who are we?
The Coordinated Campaign Committee is composed of 10
voting members drawn from affiliated state parties. CCC
members are selected annually by the members of the
Coordinating Committee, and may be members of that
committee or of an affiliated state party; no state shall
have in excess of one member on the CCC. Vacancies on the
CCC are filled by the Steering Committee. The members of
the CCC annually elect up to three co-chairs from among
its members.
The Coordinated Campaign Committee works with a pool of
CCC Associates; these include one liaison from each
affiliated state party not already represented on the CCC
as well as staff or other persons necessary to the
productivity of the CCC who shall be chosen as deemed
appropriate by the CCC. Associates may participate in CCC
discussions and meetings as needed but are not regular
voting members of the CCC.
For more info on the CCC please
contact Tom
Sevigny.
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