Green Party of California

Application for Member, Delegation to Green Party of the United States
(job description)
received March 25th, 2007

Name  -  Warner Bloomberg
City -
County  - Santa Clara
Contact information - (408) 295-9353
WB4D23@aol.com
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This email serves as my notice of availability to serve as a GPCA GPUS Delegate or alternate -- with the following understandings and qualifications: I am submitting this "application" with significant reluctance and reservations due to existing responsibilities in my GPCA work as CCWG Coordinator and an active ERWG participant (each of which is expected to continue for the next two years). Accordingly, I have serious concerns about the amount of time and focus I actually may have for additional GPCA commitments. I am submitting this application on the basis that I will agree to be a delegate or alternate only if filling that position is necessary to provide the GPCA delegation with its full complement of delegates under present or future GPUS rules.

If I were to become a delegate or alternate, I would expect my focus to be as a California contact for the GPUS Coordinated Campaigns Committee. I already have advised Greg Gerritt and Brent McMillan that I am willing to act in that capacity (particularly since there is no one in the GPCA Delegation who has volunteered to do so for more than a year) because it seems consistent with my work in the CCWG. My expectations for the delegation are that it be able to act collectively in a collaborative fashion, that each delegate and alternate participate in at least one GPUS committee, and that the delegation (including alternates) provide at least one delegation liaison to each GPCA SC/WG.

A partial summary of my background and experience is as follows:

Green Party Activities

1998-2001 Green Party of Santa Clara County County Council
2000 GPCA Delegate to ASGP Presidential Nominating Convention (Denver, CO)
1998-2007 Participation in Campaigns and Candidates Working Group, including working on proposals re endorsement procedures (2003) and GPUS nominating convention delegates (2003-2004)
2005-2007 Sole CCWG Coordinator
2001-2007 Participation in Electoral Reform Working Group (Elections Code subcommittee; Redistricting issues; Development of Presidential nominating convention delegates selection procedures)
2002; 2004 Candidate for State Assembly District 23 (San Jose, CA)

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois BA 1976 (Social Sciences)
Santa Clara University, School of Law, Santa Clara, California JD 1979
San Jose State University/CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, San Jose, California Certificate Program in nonprofit management 1999-2001

Work Experience

1972-1976 Clerical worker, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago
1979-1980 Part-time office worker for the Santa Clara Valley National Lawyers Guild
1980-2007 General practice attorney
1999-2000 Interim Director for United Neighborhoods of Santa Clara County

Volunteer Activities

1971-1972 Draft counselor, Quaker House, Chicago, Illinois
1972-1975 Clerical Workers of America, District 65, organizing campaign
1976-1978 Soledad Habeas Corpus Project (prisoner legal assistance)
1979-1980 (City of) Santa Clara Tenants Association
1983-1993 Santa Clara Valley New Jewish Agenda
1988-1998 Peninsula Peace & Justice Center, Coordinating Council
1990-1999 Jackson-Taylor Neighborhood Association
1994-1998 Jewish Arab Muslim Americans Association (JAMAA)
1994-1999 Board member and officer of United Neighborhoods of Santa Clara County
2000-2007 Japantown Neighborhood Association
2002-2006 Southbay Jewish Voice for Peace

Shalom! Warner S. Bloomberg III