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

Fri Feb 16 16:59:28 PST 2018

Sorry, there were some grammar errors. *In 2014 /that, *By comparing.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Christopher Carlson <
chris at bestofbroadway.org> wrote:

> Erik,
>
> "CADEM has 8 million members and corporate media. GPCA has 100,000 and
> social media."
> According to Secretary of State, 91,631 as of January 2, 2018. 94,720 as
> of February 10, 2017.
> We have lost 3,000 party members in less than 1 year.
> 94,647 in Nov 16.
> 77,868 in May 16.
> 109,836 in Feb 15.
> 110,511 in Nov 14.
> 109,674 in May 14.
> 108,785 in Dec 13.
>
> All of these statistics show growth/decline in the party since the last
> gubernatorial election in 2014.
> In 2014 that the Green Party of California tried the exact strategy you
> are supporting now.
> Feeling been robbed of a primary, a single candidate was endorsed for each
> statewide office.
> Comparing Jan 2018 to Dec 2013, we are seeing a loss of (108,785 - 91,631)
> 17,154 registered voters.
>
> That amounts to a net loss of 15%.
>
> If we continue forward with the same strategy we tried in the 2014
> election, we stand to lose another 15%,
> and by compare the May 2014 total to the May 2016 to say we could lose
> another 29% of what we have today.
> That would leave the Green Party sitting at an approximate registration of
> 67,250 going into May 2020.
>
> We have tried this strategy before and it has failed to generate growth in
> the party. In 2014 our single Green Governors Candidate Luis J. Rodriguez
> received 66,872 total votes (Wikipedia) totaling 1.54%. If all registered
> Greens had voted, Luis would have earned 2.5% of the vote. Meanwhile, over
> in the controller race, Laura Wells snagged 231,352 votes, almost two for
> every one registered Green. Where is Luis now? And why did he not receive
> the votes of all 109,674 registered Greens at the time? Is a Green running
> in a Controller race?
>
> On to the 2010 Primary, that we were robbed of. Only 19% of registered
> Greens (22,081) turned out to vote. Laura Wells went on to claim 129,231
> votes, (1.2%) against the establishment parties in the General Election.
> Laura received 15,400 votes above the 113,835 tally of registered Greens, a
> 1.2% voteshare. Rodriguez improved upon her voteshare by 22%.
>
> If you believe that a single candidate can truly win a seat in the top two
> Governor's primary, or the Secretary of State's, the Greens carried 1.54%
> in 2014 under top-two, and 1.2% in 2010 with an official state primary. We
> have no data suggesting one Green will fare better starting with fewer
> registered voters.
>
> The SF Berniecrats endorsed Delaine Eastin after Josh Jones approached
> them for support.
>
> Mad respect,
> Chris Carlson
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Erik <erikrydberg34 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>> --
>>>>> John-Marc Chandonia (jmc at sfgreens.org)
>>>>> http://sfgreens.org/
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>> *Erik Rydberg *
>>
>> *Green Party of California(GPCA) Spokesperson*
>>
>>
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