This is all I have left to say about last week's WTF—I hope. (In this case, WTF stands for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.)
Anybody, regardless of political affinity or physical location, can sign up on the GPTX website to get email updates, to volunteer, or to donate. When you sign up, your name and any contact information you share go into the database. Being listed in the database does not make you a member; according to the GPTX Bylaws, you have to show up and participate in your local county party's meetings and activities, and attest that you are in general agreement with the Ten Key Values to be considered a member.
Voting Green also does not make one a member of any Green Party organization. Hundreds of thousands of Texas residents have voted for Green candidates just in the past few election cycles; however, are actual membership statewide runs in the low three digits.
- There was a healthy diversity of opinion among Texas Green insiders on how (or whether) the Green Party of Texas should respond to the shower of toxicity from right-wingers on the Party's Facebook page. Some saw Kino Jiménez as an anti-racist comrade in need of solidarity; others, as just some dude who unwisely crossed a line and assaulted a juvenile in a public place. In the end, co-chair Wes Gaige opted for a middle-ground approach that seemed to pacify the critics.
- Almost everybody involved in the controversy, including yours truly, was speaking and acting from incomplete or inaccurate information through most of it, which is kind of sad. It certainly didn't help that San Antonio's CBS affiliate posted an unverified witness account, which it later retracted, and that Raw Story propagated it.
Anybody, regardless of political affinity or physical location, can sign up on the GPTX website to get email updates, to volunteer, or to donate. When you sign up, your name and any contact information you share go into the database. Being listed in the database does not make you a member; according to the GPTX Bylaws, you have to show up and participate in your local county party's meetings and activities, and attest that you are in general agreement with the Ten Key Values to be considered a member.
Voting Green also does not make one a member of any Green Party organization. Hundreds of thousands of Texas residents have voted for Green candidates just in the past few election cycles; however, are actual membership statewide runs in the low three digits.
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