New Broom Coalition

The Carol Wolman for Congress (CW4C) campaign is picking up speed. We have been blessed with a campaign manager, Brian Varkevisser, who is currently managing Estelle Paley Clifton's campaign for 2nd District Supervisor in Mendocino County. I interviewed him in his home town of Hopland last Monday, and was quite impressed. We found ourselves in agreement on the overall direction of the campaign, and I feel that with his experience, my chances of winning in November have improved significantly.

Here is Greg Bourget's description of Brian's database skills:
Brian Varkevisser has created a unique visual interface for Microsoft Access that allows people with no database skills to access, update, and administrate an outreach database. Brian has an MS in neurobiology. Brian’s interface allows for the decentralizing of database tasks among the phone canvassers and coordinators. Such an approach eliminates the need to compensate and rely upon a specially skilled database worker.

Brian is already our data base manager, working with Greg Bourget to set up phone banking. We have obtained the complete voter list of District 1 from the Secretary of State's office, and Brian is starting to work with it. He is also serving as an advisor now, and will join the Carol Wolman for Congress campaign full-time, after the June supervisorial election.

I attended the Green CA state convention in Berkeley this weekend, and enjoyed having Dana Silvernale, Chair of the Humboldt Green CC, as house guest. This GPOC convention was in sharp contrast to recent ones- everyone got along, all business on the agenda was completed by consensus, the workshops were productive, and lots of new people volunteered to do work. The Green party is starting to roll!

I met many active Greens from around the state. Prashanth was there from Davis, and Lowell Downey and Erica Martenson of the Napa Greens will head up the Napa committee of CW4C. They will give me a formal endorsement at their meeting Thursday night.

I already have an endorsement from the Mendocino Green County Council, and I'm not sure about Humboldt and Yolo, since formal endorsements can only be given after the candidate is definitively on the ballot, which happened on March 21. Humboldt and Yolo, could your CC's endorse me at your next meeting, and send an email verifying, to me at cwolman@mcn.org, and to Brian at baugvark@yahoo.com ? Thank you. These endorsements will make the CW4C campaign eligible for some funding from the state Green party.

Tim Morgan and Tim Smith from Sonoma County are in Lynn Woolsey's district, but they know the northern Sonoma District 1 Greens, and will get us in touch with them. Michael Borenstein, whom I think is from Ventura, and very active in the GPOC, says he's eager to introduce us to Greens he knows in Del Norte. Dana Silvernale also has a good Del Norte contact. The only one of the seven counties of District 1 in which we have no contacts is Lake County, so if anyone knows Greens in Lake County, let me and Brian know.

Everyone at the convention was enthusiastic about my candidacy; I gave out about 50 flyers and received around $500 in donations.

My friend Carol Brouillet, Green candidate for Congress in CA District 14, running against blue dog Dem Anna Eshoo in Palo Alto, was also at the convention. Together we held a press conference, and also were interviewed by KCBS, KTVU, KPFA, and several private videographers.

Carol Brouillet and I first met in 2006, in front of the Grand Lake theater in Oakland, where she was tabling for 9-11 truth, and I was tabling for Impeach Bush-Cheney. We've kept in close touch since, sort of a buddy system. She's very dynamic. Paradise Cove Productions, which is producing my videos, got some good footage of the two of us talking about why we are running.

I was elected by the General Assembly to be a delegate to the GP US meeting in July. This is in Chicago, and I'll stay with Kathy Cummings, who was recently chosen by the Illinois State Greens to be their candidate for Senate. I'm networking with progressive candidates from around the country in various ways, and believe that some of us will get elected, because the country is so hungry for change.

Upcoming events:

April 12- tabling with local Greens at the Davis farmers' market

April 19- tabling with Napa Greens at Napa Valley College Earth Day

April 20th- tabling at Earth Day in Ft. Bragg

May 24th or 25th- dance party with DJ Sister Yasmin and Chris Skyhawk, at the Caspar Community Center- this event was originally scheduled for April 25th, but has been moved forward, since there's less hurry without a primary battle. Details TBA.

I've completed an email interview with Frank Hartzell, of Ft. Bragg, for the Mendocino papers, and will be interviewed this week by Ashley Bailey for the Eureka Reporter.

That's about it for now. You can see that the "to" line of this email list is growing. Because the times are so dire, and the economy is tanking, people are starting to notice that Bush and Cheney have been using Iraq to rip us off. They also notice that the Democratic party is in collusion with the war machine, and that Mike Thompson is one of the in-crowd. This gives a Green candidate a strong opportunity.

Grass roots are Green!

For a Green future,

Peace, Carol Wolman, MD

Green Candidate for Congress, CA District 1
www.carolwolmanforcongress.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/carolwolman
Coordinator, New Broom Coalition
http://newbroomcoalition.org
Cochair, Impeach Bush-Cheney
Donations may be sent to:

Carol Wolman for Congress
po box 8101.
Eureka, CA 95502