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

[Linda Piera-Avila]

Still another email from Mike Feinstein that hasn't gotten through to 
this list

Linda

> *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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