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

[Jason Kishineff]

I don't think Green membership is down because of the 2016 race. In fact, I happen to know that even though a lot of people registered Dem to vote in the primary, more people registered Green AFTER the primary than left. There are a ton of #DemExiters in the Green Party now, including myself. 

And I don't think its correct that McLaughlin has taken corporate money. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia Santiago <miss.cynthia.santiago at gmail.com>
To: GPCA Discussion List for SGA Votes <gpca-votes at sfgreens.org>
Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2018 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 146: GPCA endorsement for Lt. Governor





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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