(DRAFT) VOTERS UNION BYLAWS AND MISSION STATEMENT
    Revised August 27, 2008


    I. The Voters Union of Mendocino County is a nonpartisan organization of environmentalists for cannabis decriminalization.
        a) Registered voters of Mendocino County, political campaign workers and contributors commit to Campaigns, Platforms and these Bylaws and thereby qualify as members.
        b). No candidate for public office in Mendocino County may have membership priveleges in the VU during their respective campaigns.

    II. a) The Primary Mission of the Voters Union of Mendocino County is to obtain, wield and increase local political power for and by its  members.
    b) The  Secondary Mission of the Voters Union of Mendocino County is to  take office in the existing government, and to administer its institutions to realize our values within our lifetime, or to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as shall seems most likely to effect such realization.

    III. a) The Primary Objective of the Voters Union is to continually replace Mendocino County supervisors until the board is entirely occupied by true environmentalist freedom defenders.
    b) The Secondary Objective of the Voters Union of Mendocino County is to empower marginalized populations and enable them to assume their equal status as voting and/or participating citizens here. Among these are cannabis identified residents, Native Americans, Chinese people and Latinos of Mendocino County..

    IV. The Voters Union will  adopt Platforms to advance our mission and recruit candidates for local office who commit to enact such Platforms if elected.

    V. The policies of the Voters Union include
    a) The Ten Key Values of the Green Party of California
    b) Such Platforms as may be adopted from time to time in specific local campaigns;
    c) The cultivation and use of cannabis shall be protected in Mendocino County.
    d) Mendocino County should be a bilingual, bicultural jurisdiction embracing both the English speaking US and the Spanish speaking Mexican populations.
    VI. The Voters Union will support a candidate only to the extent that they continually affirm allegiance to the adopted Voters Union Platform in all their public speech and actions. The Platform is primary, the candidate is secondary.

    VII: Richard Johnson of Ukiah is the founder of the Voters Union and shall attend all meetings of the Union as long as he is able.

    IIIX: Decisions of the Voters Union shall only be by consensus of its members expressed in a general membership meeting.

    IX: The assets of the Voters Union consist of the goodwill of its constituents, the constituent contact data documents and such bank accounts as it shall establish.
 
    X: The Voters Union shall obey all pertinent campaign laws including Fair Political Practices regulations and campaign finance reporting requirements.