[GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 146: GPCA endorsement for Lt. Governor

[Cynthia Santiago]

>
>
> I am forwarding this email because apparently Mike Feinstein's emails are
not being sent to this list, despite him posting them to this list a couple
of hours ago, as you can see below.

Cynthia Santiago
Gardena, Los Angeles County

> *From: *Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein at feinstein.org>
> *Subject: **Re: [GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 146: GPCA endorsement for Lt.
> Governor*
> *Date: *March 30, 2018 at 10:58:02 AM PDT
> *To: *GPCA-SGA-Vote discussion <gpca-votes at sfgreens.org>
>
> First of all, none of these so-called ‘endorsements’ of non-Greens are
> valid,  because the rule change that would effectuate this is not in place
> now, and hence there is no basis for the SGA administrators to place
> non-Greens on the current SGA ballot.  There is just no way around that. So
> we are all wasting our time voting on any race that isn’t the Gov and SoS
> race, where at least there are Greens running.
>
> Second, one of the ironies with the proposal that would change the
> endorsement rules, is that it says that the GPCA could not endorse any
> candidates that are members of parties that take corporate donations - yet
> Gayle Mclaughlin has done just that, endorsing a Democrat in the 2018 SoS
> race.
>
> That endorsement isn’t meaningless. In fact it could cost the GPCA its
> ballot status.
>
> The SoS race is where the GPCA is most likely to get 2%, as there are 28
> candidates in the Gov race, but only eight for SoS.
>
> The McLaughlin campaign is targeting people who are our base, and is
> emailing to them aggressively, including her endorsement of a Democrat in
> the SoS race.
>
> So while she is only reaching a small percent of the electorate with her
> campaign, she is reaching a much larger percent of people likely to vote
> Green.
>
> If we do not get 2% in the SoS race, in 2020 the Sanders prez campaign (or
> whomever else is the lesser evil in the D primary) will again aggressively
> pursue registered Greens to unregister Green to vote in the D primary.
>
> We lost 30% of our membership to the Sanders campaign in 2016.  If we lose
> another 30% in 2020, and we don’t get 2% in a statewide race in 2018, we’ll
> be off the ballot.
>
> Great alliance building, huh?
>
> Mike Feinstein
> SGA Delegate, GPCA
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2018, at 7:12 PM, Eric Brooks <brookse32 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, and Gayle McLaughlin will be on our SGA ballot when it goes out this
> week.
>
> Eric Brooks
> SGA Vote Administrator
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2018, at 11:07 AM, Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein at feinstein.org>
> wrote:
>
> No Green has qualified for the ballot for Lt. Governor.  This item should
> be deleted from the voting software. Has it been?
>
> Mike Feinstein
> Santa Monica
> GPLAC SGA Delegate
>
>
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