August 26 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, This is a reminder about our candidate forum this Wednesday night (details below). We've invited the following candidates who returned our candidate questionnaires and our seeking our endorsement: Supervisorial Candidates: Juan-Antonio Carballo (D2), Jane Kim (D6), Michael Nulty (D6), John Nulty (D8), Michael Petrelis (D8), Tony Kelly (D10). BART candidate: Nick Josefowitz Board of Education candidates: Trevor McNeil, Emily Murase, Mark Murphy, Shamann Walton College Board candidates: Wendy Aragon, Amy Bacharach, Brigitte Davila, Anita Grier, John Rizzo, Thea Selby All members of the public are welcome to attend and ask questions of the candidates. We'll have about 10 minutes for each candidate, and will start promptly at 6 pm since several candidates have tight schedules. Please read the questionnaires posted on our website so we don't ask questions they've already answered: http://sfgreenparty.org/11-news/65-questionnaires-posted-for-827-candidate-f... Although we don't have a questionnaire for the office of Public Defender, we've also invited Jeff Adachi for an interview. *===========================* SF Green Party Monthly Members Meeting and Candidate Forum Wed, August 27 - 6-10 pm Redstone Building, Room 302 2940 16th Street (between Mission and South Van Ness) We hold monthly meetings on the 4th Wednesday of every month. We will interview candidates who return our candidate questionnaires at our August meeting from 6-9 pm, and make endorsements from 9-10 pm afterwards. Returned candidate questionnaires are posted here: http://sfgreenparty.org/11-news/65-questionnaires-posted-for-827-candidate-f... If you're a candidate, and we missed your questionnaire, please re-send it to us ASAP or call 337-1499. If anybody thinks we should endorse candidates for Supervisor, BART, School Board or College Board who have NOT returned questionnaires, please encourage them to send theirs in. All candidates received questionnaires over two weeks ago. If you want to ask questions of the candidates or find out more about ballot initiatives and the Green arguments in favor or against, come to our meeting this month! All our meetings are open to the public, so come if you're a new member or thinking of joining us. Please read the candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, because we'll only have about 10 minutes per candidate and we don't want to ask them the same thing twice. *===========================* SF Green Party Special Endorsement Meeting Wed, September 3 - 7-9 pm Redstone Building, Room 302 2940 16th Street (between Mission and South Van Ness) Although we have started making endorsements on propositions, there are still many more to consider, and we finish looking at these on a special endorsement meeting on 9/3. We'll consider the following propositions: Prop A - transportation bond Prop B - Muni funding tied to population growth Prop C - Children's fund Prop D - Retiree Health Care Prop E - Soda Tax Prop F - Pier 70 Prop J - Minimum Wage Increase Prop K - Affordable Housing Policy Prop 48 - Casino Referendum Full text for all local props is posted here: http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2969 State props are here: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures.ht... If you want to find out more about any of these, come ask a question! All our meetings are open to the public, so come if you're a new member or thinking of joining us. *===========================* Our endorsements so far: Local Props: * YES on G - anti-speculation real estate transfer tax * YES on H - keeping Golden Gate Park natural grass * NO on I - would allow nighttime lighting and fake turf on all parks * NO on L - the "transportation balance" proposal Local Candidates: * David Campos for Assembly * Daniel Flores for Judge State Props: * NO on 43 - anti-environmental water bond * NO on 44 - rainy day fund, when we should be stimulating the local economy * YES on 45 - limits on health insurance rate increases * NO on 46 - we support raising the malpractice award cap, but strongly oppose random drug testing * YES on 47 - changing some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors * YES on 49 - statement opposing unlimited corporate bribes *===========================* Paid contractor wanted: SF Green Party Fundraiser/Volunteer Coordinator (a part time independent contractor (1099) position): http://sfgreenparty.org/help-wanted *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.