<div><div dir="auto">Another major concern is breaking up our parties voting base. We need to all get behind someone and that someone hopefully will reach out and get votes from independents, progressives and possibly bernicrats. Otherwise were not in itvto win it, so then whats the point? We have a such a small percentage of green voters to make a win, why should we split that? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also i beliwve that this process should be started 6 months ago, so we could already be backing a unified candidate.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:41 PM james clark <<a href="mailto:faygodrinkit@gmail.com">faygodrinkit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 15, 2018 11:14 AM, "Victoria Ashley" <<a href="mailto:victronix01@gmail.com" target="_blank">victronix01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:20 AM, John-Marc Chandonia <span><<a href="mailto:jmc@sfgreens.org" target="_blank">jmc@sfgreens.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:25:47PM -0800, james clark wrote:<br>
> I feel it is not in the best interests of the party to follow through with<br>
> this ill timed endorsement process. If we were to perform such a process it<br>
> should have been done prior to candidates reaching their ballot access<br>
> goals. To do so at this juncture will only create animosity and division,<br>
> and will not effect candidates placement on the ballot.<br>
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</span>Don't they have until March 9 to raise funds for the ballot? If<br>
that's the case, we should know by the time the SGA votes who is in<br>
and who is out. I agree that we should not make an endorsement before<br>
then, because we haven't had any process for informing Greens about<br>
all the Green candidates running.<br>
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