San Francisco Green Party Weekly Newsletter and Special Announcements Friday, February 22, 2008 send items for the newsletter to: news@sfgreens.org Special Announcements This Week include: **Run for the San Francisco Green Party County Council **Report Voting Problems **Register for Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention Plus News and Events SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: RUN FOR THE SF GREEN PARTY COUNTY COUNCIL The SFGP County Council is up for election in June 2008. Yes, members of our County Council, like all political parties, are elected. If more than 9 people run, the election will be contested and candidates will have their names on the ballot! The deadline is March 7. Those interested must pick up nomination papers at the Department of Elections office. Please see the guide for further details. The Department of Elections is located at City Hall and is open from 8am to 5pm Monday - Friday. http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/CentralCommitte... uide2008final.pdf SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: REPORT VOTING PROBLEMS Various informal reports have been made about problems Green Party members encountered on Election Day (February 5, 2008). Those reports include being told that there were no Green Party ballots and that the Green Party did not exist. At this time anyone who had such difficulties casting a Green Party Primary Election ballot is requested to send a report to Warner Bloomberg at 867 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA 95112-5021 or by email to WB4D23@aol.com so the GPCA can send appropriate letters to local Registrars of Voters and to the Secretary of State. The following information is requested: Name of Complaining Voter; Name and Address of polling location; Precinct number (can be found on your voter's pamphlet -- send a report even if you do not have this information); and as detailed as possible a description of what happened (including name and position of offending person, if possible). These reports will be collected during the next 30 days and then a summary will be made. If you have any questions about this project, please contact Warner Bloomberg, Campaigns and Candidates Working Group Coordinator at 408-295-9353 or wsb3attyca@aol.com. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: REGISTER FOR GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATING CONVENTION The convention is scheduled for July 10-13, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Please visit the following link to register for the convention and to get the information about how to reserve your room at the 2008 headquarter hotel, the Palmer House Hilton. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?key=143448449&url_num=3&url=ht... %3A%2F%2Fwww.gp.org%2F2008-elections%2Findex.shtml Email: office@gp.org Office: PO Box 57065 Washington, D.C. 20037 202-319-7191 or toll-free (US): 866-41GREEN _____________________________________________________ NEWS: Mark Sanchez Spurred by Recent Gains http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5379#more Green Party Fundraiser and Candidates Featured in The Crackberry Chronicles; Green Party Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Honors Fillmore Documentary Photographer http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/es_crackberry_chronicles_080219.... tml SF Green Party Approves Policy on Medical Marijuana; Condemns Actions by the DEA http://www.sfgreenparty.org/news/newsitem-start.gem?idx=1645 ______________________________________________________ EVENTS: Save Rent Control When: Saturday, February 23, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Where: 558 Capp Street at 21st Street The Save Rent Control campaign will be registering tenants to vote once again this Saturday. People will be going out to large apartment buildings, where our contacts will meet them, and go door to door to talk to tenants and register those who are not registered. It may rain, so this will be a nice dry way to go door to door. Coffee and snacks will be provided. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/21/18480792.php __________________________________________________________ Transit Camp Conference When: Saturday, February 23, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Where: 655 High Street, Palo Alto TransitCampBayArea will highlight the public transit system in the Bay Area Region and will bring together transit officials and citizens to discuss stuff like: getting schedules on the go, the future of the Bay Area transit system, experiences and observations (with a focus on solutions, not complaints), the websites, cool ideas for attracting more riders, etc. http://barcamp.org/TransitCampBayArea ___________________________________________________________ Gather signatures to put the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act on the California State Ballot. This is the last weekend to gather signatures. Events for signature gathering can be found here. Please contact the coordinators. If you're in San Francisco, contact Laura Beck and tell her Rosalind Lord referred you. http://www.preventcruelty.org/events.html Signatures must be in California Humane Farms offices by the morning of February 25. The San Francisco California Humane Farms office is at Crocodiles Not Waterlilies (CNW) Entertainment, 58 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, two blocks from Union Square, which is several blocks from Powell BART station. It used to be at 268 Bush Street, but it has now moved to CNW Entertainment. If you're not in San Francisco, see the bottom of the home page of humanecalifornia.org for other California Humane Farms offices. Information about Farm Animal Cruelty Act can be found at: www.sfgreenparty.org/events/events-itemfromhome.gem?idx=1814 humanecalifornia.org ___________________________________________________________ Retired Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis Speaks Out about Torture When: Monday February 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Where: UCSF Campus http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/17/18473201.php ___________________________________________________________ Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee When: Monday, February 25, 1 PM Where: Room 263 at City Hall Legislation requiring buyers and sellers to inform tenants of their rights when an apartment building is sold will be heard by the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee. http://www.bapd.org/n9881.html ___________________________________________________________ Joint Meeting Transportation & Sustainability Working Groups When: Thursday, February 28, 6:30PM - 9:00PM Where: SFGP Office, 1028A Howard Street Discussion Items - New Version Of McGoldrick Elected MTA Board Charter Amendment - Peak Oil Taskforce Update - Maxwell/Peskin SFPUC Charter Amendment - Mayoral Shake Up Of Building Inspection Commission - Update On SFPUC - CCA Update - Combustion Turbine Update - Forming an active working group members alert list for the Sustainability WG **************Ideas to please picky eaters. 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