2009 candidates 3

I am Frederick Bays.
I am running for the Alt rep to the NC and the brpp.
I am 60 years of age and Bisexual. At this time my significant other is female.

In 1968 I joined the army and ended up spending 1970 In Vietnam serving there with the 101st Airborne Div (Yes I jump out of perfectly good ariplanes.)

I got a BEST (Bachelor of Science Electronics Technologist) in Dec 1974. Having gotten my degree right in the middle of Tricky Dicky's recession so there was no work in the field. It was four years before I found work in my field.

In 1995 I admitted that I had PTSS and applied for veterans pension and finely got it in 2004. To say the least it was not an easy life living with this Syndrome. I never held a job more the 18 months and most less then six. I lived on the street for three years in the late '70's.

With this as my back ground I think that I will bring a unique prospective to the NC, one that comes from a life of hardship yet of joy for I never saw my hardships as disadvantageous because I am a non-believer and so have no belief system to tell me so being was bring these on me for my so called sins.

As the Alt Rep to the NC I will work to bring the issues you, this caucus, fine to be Lavender issues. My voice will be yours. I will bring all issues brought before the NC to this caucus for its collective views. My own will be second to that of this caucus. This I think is what I rep should do and not just go by her/his views.

As to why I would like to be a member of the brpp I would like to be a voice that is one of simplicity to the complications now being put forth by this committee. I would live to see the one state one vote rule on GPUS NC subcommittees changed to one person one vote or at least do some form of factional voting. I would like to see some major changes in the Bylaws and Rules of the GPUS. There are to many to enumerate here but would answer any question on this or any other subject to the best of my abilities so please ask.

I see in the Bylaws and Rules of the GPUS many parts that should be policy or procedure not a bylaw or rule. Once more there are to many of these to even begin to go into here.

So this is me. Vote for me or not it is your choose but remember if this caucus wants a voice on brpp or a alt rep to the NC I am the only one willing to even begin to do the work.

Fred Bays, Steuben Greens, NYS

My name is Tracy Nectoux, and I'm running for Alternate Delegate to the National Committee. I guess you could Google me and learn everything you'd like to know (and more) about me and my beliefs/activism/temperament. I'll try to keep this brief, but I doubt I'll be able to.

I've lived in Champaign, Illinois since 2001, and will probably die here. I am 43 years old, white, and the cliche bisexual woman married to an understanding, indulgent, open-minded straight man. My undergraduate degree is in English, and I have a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, a Master of Philosophy in English Literature, and a Master of Library and Information Science. I'm a librarian, a cataloger at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I enjoy a very cushy, privileged, pampered life.

I've been active in gay civil rights since before I understood or accepted my own orientation, even during my closeted days. Most recently, I volunteered for my Illinois' downstate LGBT newspaper, The Prairie Flame, as the Champaign Bureau Chief. The paper ceased publication in February 2009, but when I volunteered for it I wrote a column on bisexuality, and I also wrote about the Green Party and interviewed Green candidates, including Tom Abram, Phil Huckelberry, and Rich Whitney.

I was the Secretary for my area's local chapter, the Prairie Greens, for two years. I am no longer Secretary, but I am my district's Precinct Committeeperson, and regularly table at our local Farmers Market, and I also canvassed for Walter Pituc for County Board. I admit, however, that most of my "volunteer work" for the Prairie Greens these days is financial.

Though (due to time constraints) I'm not as active in the Green Party as much as I'd to be, I devote much of my time working on "green" issues in my work in librarianship. I'm a member of two Round Tables in the American Library Association that are devoted to both gay civil rights and progressive causes: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table, for which I am Secretary and Book Review Editor (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/index.cfm) and the Social Responsibilities Round Table (http://libr.org/srrt/), for which I am a regular book reviewer. I am also active in the Progressive Librarians Guild (http://libr.org/plg/index.php), for which I am a member of the Coordinating Committee.

I have written for progressive library publications, and on progressive issues within librarianship. I have two forthcoming publications on LGBT issues: (1) an article on the special concerns of cataloging gay and lesbian erotica, and (2) editing an anthology of personal accounts of being LGBT librarians.

I've been devoted to the Green Party since I first discovered it in the late 90s, and officially joined in 2004. I joined for a very simple reason: I believe in and agree with every plank in our platform. No exceptions. Simply put: the world would be a better place if our platform was the status quo. The vision of the Green Party is how I see a best, most just world. So I'm loyal to it.

I'm going to stop here. I'll be happy to answer questions you may have.

Peace,
Tracy