Thank you all for a lively discussion.
I am very much in favor of reinstating the GPCA endorsement process and will be voting YES on endorsements for all proposals being discussed.I encourage all interested in growing GPCA to consider the clear disadvantages in not putting support and endorsement behind ONE candidate for each office (ideally a slate of candidates) to break the 2% threshold. Otherwise the math simply doesn’t add up in our favor. In this case 1% + 1% + 1% isn’t better than 2%!
I fully agree with Wanda about representing our local Greens. The notion that only ‘a select few’ make a decision on endorsement is false unless an SGA delegate intentionally makes it their exclusive decision.
As SGA delegates, it is our responsibility to bring discussions on pending SGA votes to our county meetings for discussion and input. This is what we do in Santa Clara, and I encourage all SGAs to do the same = decentralization.
The current timelines in no way impede the efforts of any candidates (endorsed or not) in continuing their campaign and efforts in growing awareness about GPCA. As mentioned before, candidates are obviously not removed from the ballot due to our endorsement. Greens are free to vote for the candidate they believe best represents our values and best serves the future of GPCA.
Nor do these timelines hinder us as SGA to make informed decisions, especially using the thoughtful and flexible voting system put in place for the endorsement process - thank you June for clarifying.
I want to express my appreciation for the efforts many have put forth in making this happen for 2018 elections.
I hope we can continue to improve the process, get started a bit earlier and most importantly, coordinate and organize running a slate in future elections.
Peace,
Nassim Nouri
County Council
Green Party of Santa Clara County
The SGA voting period is “03/26/2018 - 04/01/2018.” And the primary is on June 5, 2018. And, per June’s earlier message, we can choose to endorse 1 or more candidates or no candidates. It’s our call.
Mimi Newton
Marin Greens
I dont understand why you wouldnt want to endorse someone on the primary... the party is creating political suicide by not having an endorsed candidate. This coversation makes no sense. We need one candidate to get behind or its pointless. We need to win the primary not just run candidates all over the place. At this juncture timing is off and we need to do this earlier in the future elections.
Thanks June! This is very helpful information and may serve to defuse some of the arguments on a number of “endorsement” related SGA Voting threads - it also means that we, as Greens, can decide for ourselves where we might want to endorse more than one candidate for an election or even endorse just one candidate where more than one is running (as in your Neo-Nazi Green example below). Lotsa choice here, folks!
Go Greens!
If several racist nazis somehow decided to run as Greens, we could use this process to withhold endorsements, or even "Oppose" those candidates.
Giving a candidate an endorsement allows the GPCA to promote endorsed candidates on the website etc....
Since any citizen can go and register and run as a Green whether or not they agree with the Green 10 key values, it's good there's a way to identify all the candidates that should be promoted by the GPCA.
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