Endorsements Issues Subcommittee

[Angyl]

ENDORSEMENTS ISSUES SUBCOMMITTEE

Our first subcommittee will be on the topic of Endorsements.

I have too much info in one place below so your most important action items are here at the top. Hopefully most of your questions will be answered in the rest. If not, please ask.

This Subcommittee will consist of all declared King County Democrats who sign up by taking the Doodle for the Conflict of Interest Deadline Meeting timeslot by March 8. (Or emailing and asking, if they have an aversion to Doodle.)

ACTION ITEMS in order of priority:

1. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE SUBCOMMITTEE, FILL OUT THIS DOODLE FOR THE DECISION DEADLINE MEETING BY MARCH 8 (final scheduling will be evaluated March 6): https://doodle.com/poll/mquanzyvarzsin99?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
   By filling out this Doodle, you are declaring Intent to join the KCDCC BRC Endorsements Subcommittee. Most work will be asynchronous and digital beforehand. This meeting will determine and open final Subcommittee Voting on the final recommendation to the EBoard. Your address is requested in case voter registration check is required for credentialing.

2. PLEASE DOODLE HERE BY MARCH 2 IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN OR HELP RUN THE PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION:: https://doodle.com/poll/47k848wtk4dfdv5y?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

3. PLEASE DOODLE HERE BY MARCH 2 FOR THE FIRST ENDORSEMENTS SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING (NO VOTING): https://doodle.com/poll/tg9zkf8fk3zcv3xu?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

ABOUT THE TIMELINE AND CONTENT

TIMELINE BASICS: The next KCDCC Meeting is March 23rd, and we can have the Conflict of Interest done in time for that by finalizing our work by the 15th. It’s really not super complicated, just needs to be a little less mushy and be made of clear words. We don’t want to be butts and send out a final recommendation late. So our schedule options for this work are bound by when we need to deliver.

CONTENT / CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The Conflict of Interest Policy is the Priority Business. This document outlines notes from the initial discussion, and is intended to be a starting place to argue around, not a final decision.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17yPj8F8CzihPYcUhj49Aq3I5GvmPSvL98HR97OMWV-M

Please feel free to add comments to the document, or discuss it in email here on this list.

(If you don’t have access permissions to comment right now, and you’re a member of this google group, please let me know quickly so I can figure out what’s wrong. If you are not a member of this google group, please join it first.)

CONTENT / VOTEBUILDER BYLAWS REFERRAL

I also want to start discussion on the VoteBulder issue that was referred to Committee at Reorg. (I’d appreciate having Sophia drive discussion and fact-finding on this topic because of her established relationships with State please.) The most important thing we need to do right now is polling. (I super want Julia to drive all our initial polling with Super Julia Powers please.)

The PCO Override Bylaw exists specifically to caution against using Executive Board action unless it’s really clear that the PCOs support the change. Also, it sounds like April might be a month off from EBoard meetings, and if we passed it through EBoard in May it wouldn’t take effect immediately and that would be a mess. So basically the Executive Board path only works if there’s an April meeting. The other path is taking it to the PCOs, which would probably imply an event in late April or early May.

Also also, it might not even be a problem anymore by then because it’s a hot topic at State right now. So, we should maybe have other things for Bylawsapalooza, including maybe a backup plan for the VoteBuilder Bylaw if things change at a higher level. (Fortunately, I have at least one other Bylaws submission so we would be covered there.)

If we are going to aim for Bylawsapalooza in April/May, we’ll hit up the subcommittee system again. I actually think Bylaws in particular should always work with an expanded participation because they ultimately belong to the PCOs anyway.

If the VoteBuilder issue resolves itself at a higher level and we determine that we don’t need to load Bylaws this soon, I think we should maybe instead aim for a summer slot for Bylaws, and let the rest of KCDCC work up concurrent committee recruiting or other such things on a less stressful timeline.

My working document for the VoteBuilder issue is here, and hasn’t gone through an initial discussion session or tuning yet:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KuPFcmq2vrUKeKDYNQl7lZqYUH-oe6wiqOBwFjpSg0U/edit

TIMELINE / DETAILED

So I figure we’ll have two subcommittee meetings and a public comment session before the 15th.

FIRST MEETING MARCH 4, 5 or 6

The deadline for the Doodle for the first Subcommittee meeting is tomorrow and I feel very bad about that, but fortunately our meetings are public record and I’m not planning on any voting at the first one, so no harm done. The first meeting will mostly be about making sure we have the right problem space and figuring out what we should be polling about, and kind of meta identifying any problems we need to solve in having meetings and people’s access to contributing to our work. We should be able to do most of our work via emails and shared docs, and can start work immediately.

One note on the Doodles, I will definitely be weighting the schedule choices of people that will actually be running the meetings more heavily. If you want to help, please volunteer and specify what you can help with.

PLEASE DOODLE FOR THE FIRST ENDORSEMENTS SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING (NO VOTING) HERE BY MARCH 2:

https://doodle.com/poll/tg9zkf8fk3zcv3xu?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

PUBLIC COMMENT MARCH 7

I’m going to stick the Public Comment Session on Sunday the 7th because I’m the one who admonished us about too much Saturday emphasis last time, and because the 14th throws off the dates I’d like to hit. This will be not-a-Meeting in a formal sense, so much as me and whoever is helping me run the Zoom making a timeslot for people who really want to participate by using live mouth noises. I have no idea how much interest there will actually be with the other more open access avenues available, but I want to see what happens if we make it available. If nobody has much to say about the Endorsements-related questions, I’ll open it up to whatever people want to raise. This is one of my Interesting Ideas that I just want to see what happens, really.

Julia, you’re up again, once we have the date please get it out to Comms with Good Words so The People May Be Informed.

Everyone, please only answer this Doodle if you actually intend to participate live in this session, or help me run or report out from it. If you’re planning to watch it later, let’s favor the people who really want to go. You do not have to be a Member of Committee or Subcomittee, but please be fully intending to participate if it happens during the time you indicate.

PLEASE DOODLE IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN OR RUN THE PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION HERE BY MARCH 2:

https://doodle.com/poll/47k848wtk4dfdv5y?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

If people submit video links or audio statements or whatever beforehand I’d like to see if we can figure out how to play them live if that’s feasible and there’s empty time? Not really expecting this to be a Thing based on past experiences but open to it.

Ultimately I want floor priority to be:

1) 2 minutes for anyone speaking to Endorsements Conflict of Interest Policy

2) 2 minutes for anyone speaking to Bylaws change to automatically echo LD-only Endorsements for the purpose of granting VoteBuilder access.

3) 2 minutes for anyone who hasn’t already spoken but wants to raise some other issue to the Committee’s attention.

4) 2 more minutes about anything for anybody who is not on the Committee or Subcommittee, even if they’ve already spoken.

5) Everybody chat amongst themselves about anything that can vaguely be related to the Rules Committee.

So if we’re in mode 5 and someone shows up with a 4, we stop and they get to go immediately. If we’re in mode 3, a 1 jumps in as soon as the current speaker is done.

DECISION MEETING MARCH 11, 12, or 13

We’ll then have a couple days to digest the digital and Zoom comments, and then have a meeting to open a vote to close out the Conflict of Interest recommendation and send it to the EBoard.

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS DOODLE FOR THE DECISION DEADLINE MEETING BY MARCH 8 (final scheduling will be evaluated March 6): https://doodle.com/poll/mquanzyvarzsin99?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
By filling out this Doodle, you are also declaring Intent to join the KCDCC BRC Endorsements Subcommittee. Most work will be asynchronous and digital beforehand. This meeting will determine and open Subcommittee Voting on the final recommendation to the EBoard. Your address is requested in case voter registration check is required for credentialing.

We’ll figure out the Final Form™ and details of this meeting soon in a different thread. Feel free to jump in with thoughts and ideas. One thing I’d super like to do is actually have whatever the final vote is be an online credential code vote that’s open for like 2 days starting during this meeting, with all the details and language issues worked out so it’s just a clear result to send forward.

More excessive wordiness about BRC stuff to come in a day or two, possibly along with initial Doodle results and the first two meeting times.

Regards,

Angyl “Votey McVoteface” Bender

Chair, King County Democrats Bylaws and Rules Committee