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Still another email from Mike Feinstein that hasn't gotten through
to this list<br>
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Linda<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
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sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span
style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike Feinstein
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mfeinstein@feinstein.org"><mfeinstein@feinstein.org></a><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
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sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Subject:<span
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: [GPCA-SGA-Votes]
Discuss ID 146: GPCA endorsement for Lt. Governor</b><br>
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sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Date:<span
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 30, 2018 at 10:58:02
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
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sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>To:<span
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style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">GPCA-SGA-Vote discussion
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gpca-votes@sfgreens.org"><gpca-votes@sfgreens.org></a><br>
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<div>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.<br
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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.<br class="">
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That endorsement isn’t meaningless. In fact it could cost the
GPCA its ballot status. <br class="">
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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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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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. <br class="">
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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.<span
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Great alliance building, huh?<br class="">
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Mike Feinstein<br class="">
SGA Delegate, GPCA<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 25, 2018, at 7:12 PM,
Eric Brooks <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brookse32@hotmail.com"><brookse32@hotmail.com></a> wrote:<br class="">
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Yes, and Gayle McLaughlin will be on our SGA ballot when it
goes out this week.<br class="">
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Eric Brooks<br class="">
SGA Vote Administrator<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 25, 2018, at 11:07
AM, Mike Feinstein <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mfeinstein@feinstein.org"><mfeinstein@feinstein.org></a> wrote:<br
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No Green has qualified for the ballot for Lt. Governor.
This item should be deleted from the voting software. Has
it been?<br class="">
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Mike Feinstein<br class="">
Santa Monica<br class="">
GPLAC SGA Delegate<br class="">
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