Erik,

"CADEM has 8 million members and corporate media. GPCA has 100,000 and social media."
According to Secretary of State, 91,631 as of January 2, 2018. 94,720 as of February 10, 2017.
We have lost 3,000 party members in less than 1 year.
94,647 in Nov 16.
77,868 in May 16.
109,836 in Feb 15.
110,511 in Nov 14.
109,674 in May 14.
108,785 in Dec 13.

All of these statistics show growth/decline in the party since the last gubernatorial election in 2014.
In 2014 that the Green Party of California tried the exact strategy you are supporting now.
Feeling been robbed of a primary, a single candidate was endorsed for each statewide office.
Comparing Jan 2018 to Dec 2013, we are seeing a loss of (108,785 - 91,631) 17,154 registered voters.

That amounts to a net loss of 15%.

If we continue forward with the same strategy we tried in the 2014 election, we stand to lose another 15%,
and by compare the May 2014 total to the May 2016 to say we could lose another 29% of what we have today.
That would leave the Green Party sitting at an approximate registration of 67,250 going into May 2020.

We have tried this strategy before and it has failed to generate growth in the party. In 2014 our single Green Governors Candidate Luis J. Rodriguez received 66,872 total votes (Wikipedia) totaling 1.54%. If all registered Greens had voted, Luis would have earned 2.5% of the vote. Meanwhile, over in the controller race, Laura Wells snagged 231,352 votes, almost two for every one registered Green. Where is Luis now? And why did he not receive the votes of all 109,674 registered Greens at the time? Is a Green running in a Controller race?

On to the 2010 Primary, that we were robbed of. Only 19% of registered Greens (22,081) turned out to vote. Laura Wells went on to claim 129,231 votes, (1.2%) against the establishment parties in the General Election. Laura received 15,400 votes above the 113,835 tally of registered Greens, a 1.2% voteshare. Rodriguez improved upon her voteshare by 22%.

If you believe that a single candidate can truly win a seat in the top two Governor's primary, or the Secretary of State's, the Greens carried 1.54% in 2014 under top-two, and 1.2% in 2010 with an official state primary. We have no data suggesting one Green will fare better starting with fewer registered voters.

The SF Berniecrats endorsed Delaine Eastin after Josh Jones approached them for support.

Mad respect,
Chris Carlson






On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Erik <erikrydberg34@gmail.com> wrote:
CADEM has 8 million members and corporate media. GPCA has 100,000 and social media. Our primary process was taken from us by Top Two. We are not garaunteed a candidate in the General Election anymore. If we don’t create a system to choose the strongest candidate then we risk multiple green candidates splitting the vote and we could lose party status by not having any statewide candidates reach 2% of the vote. 

We also want to actually win a Top Two Primary so keeping the state party from endorsing and fundraising for statewide candidates is political suicide. Some long time Greens suggest that GPCA never raises funds for candidates. And we wonder why we have had zero statewide candidates in office ever. 

Time to stop continuing failed strategies and take electoral politics seriously. We are out numbered by capitalist parties and we have to focus our power is we want to actually break the two party system. This endorsement process is long overdue. 

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:41 PM james clark <faygodrinkit@gmail.com> wrote:
One major concern is that this process would take power out of the voters hands to decide which candidate best represents their values. It seems to much the DNC and their delegates picking who people get to vote for. Not to mention at several candidates already have their names on the ballot.

On Feb 15, 2018 11:14 AM, "Victoria Ashley" <victronix01@gmail.com> wrote:
Since the vote doesn't start until late March, that would give some time to send out a list of all the GP candidates on the Inform List.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:20 AM, John-Marc Chandonia <jmc@sfgreens.org> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:25:47PM -0800, james clark wrote:
> I feel it is not in the best interests of the party to follow through with
> this ill timed endorsement process. If we were to perform such a process it
> should have been done prior to candidates reaching their ballot access
> goals. To do so at this juncture will only create animosity and division,
> and will not effect candidates placement on the ballot.

Don't they have until March 9 to raise funds for the ballot?  If
that's the case, we should know by the time the SGA votes who is in
and who is out.  I agree that we should not make an endorsement before
then, because we haven't had any process for informing Greens about
all the Green candidates running.

JMC
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