Meeting notes for Real Democracy Party first organizational meeting, May 20, 2018:

Notes by:  John Medeiros  (after review)

 

Attending:  John Medeiros, Beverly Elander, Henry and Tracy Fuller, Leslie Hyland.  (Mascots:  Maggie the Terrier, Stormy the Super Cat)

 

Participation:  Those attending are committed only to discussion, suggestions, and thoughts on planning, until next meeting.  Composed mission statement.

 

Mission Statement

The Real Democracy Party shall: 

(1)  Provide the citizens all of the United States, beginning with New York, an opportunity to vote, in each two-year general election, against the two-party system and for a multi-party system that employs party coalitions and vote sharing (between major and minor parties) so that candidates and platforms can win elections by margins far greater than 50 per cent;

 

(2)  Encourage the healthy development of genuine political competition and the constructive practices of political negotiation and compromise among diverse factions in order to secure the effective performance of the duties of government, which is paid for by the people.

 

(3)  Remain open to suggested alternative legal means to achieve the same goal of providing voters with the option to vote against the two-party system.

 

Discussion:  Question:  How can we engage in political competition with no money? -- You need millions of dollars.  Response:  The people believe that if a candidate is given a million dollars by a rich donor, that must mean he/she is a credible candidate.  Comment:  But this is the game the two-party scam has created.  We will not play the same game.  All we can do is keep faith that citizens will come to understand the value of our mission, especially those who don't vote (40%) because they don't trust the two-party system to provide real political choices.  The two-party system engages not only in voter suppression, they are a successful conspiracy to suppress political party competition.  The success of the two-party minority in manipulation of 60% of the voters enables minority rule and the exclusion of any serious competing political factions. 

 

To do next:  Nominate Schenectady County Committee; nominate New York State Committee; next:  elect members; next elect officers; next: within statutory time period, report to County Board of Elections and State Board of Elections; next: develop contacts to establish chapters of the RDP in other states; at appropriate time, nominate and elect a national committee.  Discuss avenues to positive publicity. 

 

Financial Information:  To date, the RDP does not have a bank account or any funds that are identified as funds of the organization.  Incidental expenses are carried by individual donors who donate in-kind.  Such in-kind donations will be officially recorded as recommended by the Schenectady County Committee.