Greentings, <br> After an important June election, with mixed results, it's time to look at how it went, where we stand, where we go from here and start thinking about the next one which is right around the corner.<br>
<br><u><b>GET INVOLVED:</b></u><br>We're looking for volunteers to help register Greens at public events throughout the summer. We've hired a part-time volunteer coordinator to help schedule people for specific events, so please email <a href="mailto:cc@sfgreens.org">cc@sfgreens.org</a> with your contact info if you can help us out!<br>
<br>In the next few weeks, we're looking for volunteers to help with <b>our booth at Pride (June 26-27) at the corner of Larkin and Grove</b> and our <b>table at Dolores Park during the Mime Troupe's opening weekend (July 3-4).</b><br>
<br><br><b>Mixed election results</b><br>While primaries tend to draw more people from the two major parties, where there is a lot of "competition", Green turnout matched that of the overall turnout, but was 1-1/2 to twice as high as the other 3rd parties!<br>
<br>We distributed 10,000 SFGP Voter Guides by mail and by hand and are very grateful for the many people who made the guide possible! These include our donors who paid for printing and mailing, volunteer Dan Strickland who designed the voter guide, and numerous other volunteers who helped distribute it! <br>
The voter guide were likely a big part of the high voter turn-out among Greens. We hope to have enough funds for voter guides in every election. There are always important ballot initiatives being decided, and forces like PG&E count on folks like us not going to the polls. They were wrong this time!<br>
<br><b>Kudos goes to SF Greens Bruce Wolfe and Eric Brooks who were a big part of the No on Prop 16 campaign and led us to victory against PG&E!</b> PG&E wasted $46-47 million of ratepayer money - $25 per vote they got, while the grassroots opposition won by spending only a nickel for every vote we got!<br>
<br>And although Prop 14's passage threatens the ballot status of all independent, non-corporate parties, there may be a silver lining. <b>Since everybody will now vote in the same primary, there's no reason not to register with the political party that best reflects your values and beliefs.</b><br>
<br>============================<br><br>Wednesday, June 23 7:00 - 9:00pm<br><b>SFGP Monthly Meeting</b><br>Meet fellow Greens and get more involved at our monthly meeting. Open to
the public.<br><br><b>El Cafetazo</b><br>3087 16th St<br>(between Mission & Valencia St)<br><br><b>Agenda</b>:<br>Facilitator: Paul P and Barry<br>Notes: Rich S<br>Welcome/Introductions (5 min)<br>Cell phone towers (Eric B, 10 min)<br>
Parkmerced development (Eric B, 10 min)<br>Election Analysis, pending data availability (Mark Soloman 10-30 min)<br>Update candidate questionnaires (college board, school board, and supes) (JMC 30 min)<br>Tabling report (Rich 5-10 min)<br>
November proposition triage and possible early endorsements of easy ones (JMC 10 min)<br>Tabling Schedule for Summer 2010 (10 min)<br>Announcements (5-10 min)<br><br>============================<br><br><b>Upcoming Monthly Meetings</b><br>
July (7/28) - Endorsements for Propositions, Welcome new CC members.<br>August (8/25)- Endorsements for Supes, college board and school board. <br><br>============================<br><br><b>Find us on Facebook:</b><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62534706497">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62534706497</a><br>
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