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September 17, 2021

Texas Green Party "purge" or whatever we should call it

Texas Green Party didn't respond to me about this, but based on its current executive committee membership, indeed, TyKisha Murphy appears to have gotten the boot from that. Word I have is that she was up for a hearing of some sort, said that date didn't work, had the rest of the state party brass hold the hearing on that date without her and good-bye.

It's more puzzling yet because the Texas Greens' website list her as APPOINTED to the banking committee as of a July appointment date! And, nationally, she's listed as one of three Texas delegates to the Ballot Access Committee of the GPUS, BUT BUT BUT ... unlike the other two, no appointment dates listed.

Alan Alan and Bernardine Williams were also reportedly booted; unclear if that's from the state party or Harris County. Reasons unknown. Williams was at one time three years ago shunned if not booted from the Harris County Greens; David Bruce Collins and Brains disagreed on why.

Speaking of, DBC has nothing on these new events. Harris County Greens have a FB page, but a non-functional website.

Anyway, something has happened ... but how connected it is, or is not, to the Georgia Green Party's deaccreditation is unknown. Quite possibly there's little to no connection; it's easy to frame everything as a "purge," and claim it's connected when it's not. The Alaska GP getting the boot, and the Rhode Island GP withdrawing rather than getting the boot, are totally unconnected to Georgia, for example.

Update, Oct. 9, 2023: More weirdly yet, re Murphy, she's listed with GPUS as on the Ballot Access Committee. And, identifying as a Black Green, she got elected to a minor Galveston County position in 2022, and used the chance to diss state Greens and thank Dallas Greens.

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That said, there's a flip side. Five Greens involved with the "Dialogue not Expulsion" group are protesting the Nevada GP's resolution 1064 to "deaccredit" them as individuals. But??? Hugh Esco is already de facto disaccredited as he belongs to a no-longer-operative state party. (And, David Keil's term was scheduled to end at the end of this month or something anyway.)

And? All the five are gender-critical radical feminists, and they basically still don't accept that not everybody in the DnE wants to follow them down their road. That said, some in the DnE who don't want to go down their road are still fine with "politics makes strange bedfellows" as who they will include among intellectual support, rather than my stance that "sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, including on the issue at hand, just an enemy from another angle."

To riff on Angel Eyes and Tuco in "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," if you're not getting shot, I can still tell you to dig AND cut you out of any of the treasure afterward.

(Update: It looks like 1064 will fall short of its necessary two-thirds, but it will get a majority.)

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