On August 21, 2006, the CC passed the following resolution by a vote of 12 to 1 during an "executive session" meeting: The GPCA CC takes full responsibility for unequivocal challenge of those individuals who have resorted to slanders, speculations, and gossip about the sexual behavior of women in the party to demean and discredit those women. Such statements defame the targeted women, impugn their credibility, their capacity for independent thought, and the quality of their positions and perspectives, and result in diminishing the role that women are willing to play within the Green Party. All forms of sexist, racist, or bigoted slander are expressly against the values (personal responsibility and feminism) and platform of this party.