Steve Novick,

I'm the elections administrator of the Pacific Green Party of 
Oregon, and I've followed your campaign with interest. A number of 
our members have donated to your campaign as a strategy within the 
Democratic Party as a hedge that the Democratic Party will still 
restrict ballot accessibility and continue to suppress third 
parties. I know we both despise what the Democratic National 
Committee and their DLC/New Democrat-types have done to your party, 
and the Green Party has gained a lot of traction as a voice for 
those made voiceless by the DNC's corporate takeover, but if we can 
get a commitment that you'll champion Section 16 of the Oregon 
Constitution with your fellow Democrats, which enables preference 
voting and proportional representation, in particular, preference 
voting, perhaps the Greens can gain some traction in getting 
preference voting implemented at the local level. Bill Bradbury, our 
Democratic Secretary of State has been opposing our local campaigns 
vigorously to get things like IRV into local jurisdictions like 
cities and counties, and even a bill in the state legislature, which 
he was instrumental in killing.

I'm not old enough to run for U.S. Senate against the Dems, but I 
can find somebody who will, particularly if you fail in the primary.

If you're really part of the Democratic wing of the Democratic 
Party, then the Green Party needs your help to help keep the 
Democrats honest to their core values without having to force 
Democrats to "spoil" our elections against Republicans. As you know, 
if there are only two viable parties in a first-past-the-post 
system, they will get as close to indistinguishable as possible in 
an effort to grab the middle of the political gamut. That's basic 
game theory. A preference voting system would enable people like you 
to take back your own party. If you fail in this effort, know that 
the Green Party is here for people like you. We're the ones out 
trying to change the system so that people like you can get elected 
without being gamed by centrists.

I'll get to my point, though. We're inclined to stay out of the race 
if you win the primary, but if we don't hear anything from any of 
the candidates on the ideas of election reform, including you, we 
will run a candidate. Teresa Keane (I was on her campaign committee) 
got fifty thousand votes in a two month campaign against Ron Wyden 
and Al King. If it comes to it, we'll run another candidate and 
point out that we need election reform, now.

Regardless of what we believe in, without election reform to enable 
true representation of the people, regardless of view or party, 
nothing we believe in will get traction, because the game theory 
shows us that it's really just centrists that get elected and never 
any outside voices.

You've spent your life fighting for the little guy. Well, the little 
guy has no voice because Oregon won't enact Section 16 of the Oregon 
Constitution, which was put in place in 1908 to enable us to be 
truly representative. You can help by making it a part of your 
public view. You don't have to make press releases or anything, but 
if people view your website and it covers this issue, it would 
greatly help inform people of the eventual need to be more open and 
accessible about their voting system, without any of Phil's absurd 
open-primary lunacy.