<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>The SFGP made decisions on almost all of the ballot measures at our July membership meeting. The August 25th meeting will be devoted primarily to candidates. Any candidate that returns a completed questionnaire will have an opportunity to speak at that meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry<br></div>
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Subject: [SFGP-A] BART board endorsements<br>
From: Sue Vaughan <<a href="mailto:selizabethvaughan@gmail.com">selizabethvaughan@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sat, August 07, 2010 10:46 am<br>
To: Eric Brooks <<a href="mailto:brookse32@aim.com">brookse32@aim.com</a>><br>
Cc: GPSF Sustainability Working Group <<a href="mailto:sustainability@sfgreens.org">sustainability@sfgreens.org</a>>, <br>
Green Active list <<a href="mailto:active@sfgreens.org">active@sfgreens.org</a>>, Transportation WG<br>
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<div>I'll be creating a BART questionnaire as there are</div><div>At least 3 BART candidates. When will the candidate</div><div>Endorsement be?<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Eric Brooks <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:brookse32@aim.com">brookse32@aim.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div> <style type="text/css">
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