[GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 145: GPCA endorsement for Governor

[Erik]

CADEM has 8 million members and corporate media. GPCA has 100,000 and
social media. Our primary process was taken from us by Top Two. We are not
garaunteed a candidate in the General Election anymore. If we don’t create
a system to choose the strongest candidate then we risk multiple green
candidates splitting the vote and we could lose party status by not having
any statewide candidates reach 2% of the vote.

We also want to actually win a Top Two Primary so keeping the state party
from endorsing and fundraising for statewide candidates is political
suicide. Some long time Greens suggest that GPCA never raises funds for
candidates. And we wonder why we have had zero statewide candidates in
office ever.

Time to stop continuing failed strategies and take electoral politics
seriously. We are out numbered by capitalist parties and we have to focus
our power is we want to actually break the two party system. This
endorsement process is long overdue.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:41 PM james clark <faygodrinkit at gmail.com> wrote:

> One major concern is that this process would take power out of the voters
> hands to decide which candidate best represents their values. It seems to
> much the DNC and their delegates picking who people get to vote for. Not to
> mention at several candidates already have their names on the ballot.
>
> On Feb 15, 2018 11:14 AM, "Victoria Ashley" <victronix01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since the vote doesn't start until late March, that would give some time
>> to send out a list of all the GP candidates on the Inform List.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:20 AM, John-Marc Chandonia <jmc at sfgreens.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:25:47PM -0800, james clark wrote:
>>> > I feel it is not in the best interests of the party to follow through
>>> with
>>> > this ill timed endorsement process. If we were to perform such a
>>> process it
>>> > should have been done prior to candidates reaching their ballot access
>>> > goals. To do so at this juncture will only create animosity and
>>> division,
>>> > and will not effect candidates placement on the ballot.
>>>
>>> Don't they have until March 9 to raise funds for the ballot?  If
>>> that's the case, we should know by the time the SGA votes who is in
>>> and who is out.  I agree that we should not make an endorsement before
>>> then, because we haven't had any process for informing Greens about
>>> all the Green candidates running.
>>>
>>> JMC
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*Erik Rydberg *

*Green Party of California(GPCA) Spokesperson*


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