Aug 26 GREENZINE SF Green Party Weekly News and Events www.sfgreenparty.org twitter.com/sfgreenparty www.facebook.com/groups/SFGreenParty/ Dear Greens, Our candidate forum / endorsement meeting is tonight, and we're starting at 6 pm! See our announcement below. Also, for KPFA members, we've endorsed the United for Community Radio slate of candidates for the upcoming station board elections (http://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/). If you want to vote online and save the station money, you can sign up to vote online here: http://elections.pacifica.org/wordpress/vote-online/ *===========================* What: Candidate forum and endorsement meeting When: Wed, Aug 26, 6-9 pm Where: Redstone Building, 2940 16th Street, at S Van Ness Ave, Room #302 We emailed questionnaires to all candidates for Supervisor, Mayor, and College Board who gave their contact info to the Department of Elections. We have invited all candidates who return completed questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting, on Wednesday, August 26 from 6-9 pm (note new start time). This forum is open to the public, and everybody is invited! Our forum and endorsement meeting will take place in room 302 of Redstone Building, located at 2940 16th Street (between Mission and South Van Ness, 1 block from 16th St BART). We've already made early endorsements of Francisco Herrera for Mayor and Ross Mirkarimi for Sheriff. We will consider endorsing other candidates and ballot propositions at this meeting. Ballot propositions and their text are on the Department of Elections website, and linked from our website (see below). We'll have outside presenters for some of the more difficult ones, and have shorter discussions on others. We received the questionnaires from the following candidates seeking our endorsement. Please read them before the meeting so you can follow up on anything of particular interest. Mayoral candidates: Amy Farah Weiss, Reed Martin (write-in) College Board candiates: Wendy Aragon, Alex Randolph, Tom Temprano, Jason Zeng Supervisor: No candidates from District 3 are seeking our endorsement. All questionnaires and initiatives are linked from our website: http://sfgreenparty.org/2-uncategorised/71-candidate-forum-on-august-26 *===========================* To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to news@sfgreens.org. Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.