When one candidate receives the majority of the vote to endorse them... Erik Rydberg for Secretary of State and the other candidate receives the majority of the vote to oppose them... Michael Feinstein for Secretary of State and the result is that the Green Party of California endorses no one... changes must be made. We are going to grow as a party exponentially. There will be more and more candidates running for the same seats. This is why I suggest creating an internal primary system where endorsing more than one candidate is not an option. Endorsing two candidates for the same office is meaningless... and not endorsing anyone when you clearly have a candidate that the party is in favor of is hindering. Now GPCA cannot do anything for either candidate. 75% is too high of a threshold when you have two candidates running for the same seat. Especially if both candidates are highly liked by the party which is not the case in this scenario... it was a landslide for one candidate over the other... but if it was a close race, it would be a much tighter in percentages and neither candidate would come out with an endorsement every time. We need to prepare ourselves for multiple good candidates in the same race in the future. We need to take back our primaries that were taken from us by Top Two. We need this internal primary system to be conducted early, well before the filing date closes. We need to lower our endorsement threshold so that we never have a "No Endorsement" outcome and we must never endorse more than one candidate. If we make these kind of changes we will empower our state party to be ahead of the game in terms of campaigning for endorsed candidates, in terms of fundraising for them and in terms of submitting our endorsements to the California Voter Information Guide on time. We cannot afford to be behind the curve when we're running against capitalist funded parties. I hope everyone has paid close attention to who it is among us that fought these endorsements every step of the way. We have to make bold changes if we want bold results. I am very proud that GPCA is going to send a loud signal to Peace and Freedom Party and all socialist and Corporate Free Independent Candidates that we will be inclusive and endorse them. It's the least we can do for Peace and Freedom seeing as they endorsed 5 Greens in comparison the 4 Peace and Freedom candidates we endorsed. This is a step in the right direction. We have a lot more work left to do. I couldn't be happier to be doing this work alongside every member of Green Party CA who wants to grow and build the party. Thank you to every SGA Delegates that voted for me and to those that didn't you will see in time that I am here to help grow the party and take our power back rich capitalists and corporations. Solidarity "Dream big, but it's always one step at a time." - C.T. Lawrence Butler(Food Not Bombs/Green Committees of Correspondence) -- *Erik Rydberg * *Green Party of California(GPCA) Spokesperson* *erikrydberg34@gmail.com <erikrydberg34@gmail.com>530-781-2903* cagreens.org