I am forwarding this email because apparently Mike Feinstein's emails are
not being sent to this list, despite him posting them to this list a couple of hours ago, as you can see below. Cynthia Santiago Gardena, Los Angeles County
*From: *Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein@feinstein.org> *Subject: **Re: [GPCA-SGA-Votes] Discuss ID 146: GPCA endorsement for Lt. Governor* *Date: *March 30, 2018 at 10:58:02 AM PDT *To: *GPCA-SGA-Vote discussion <gpca-votes@sfgreens.org>
First of all, none of these so-called ‘endorsements’ of non-Greens are valid, because the rule change that would effectuate this is not in place now, and hence there is no basis for the SGA administrators to place non-Greens on the current SGA ballot. There is just no way around that. So we are all wasting our time voting on any race that isn’t the Gov and SoS race, where at least there are Greens running.
Second, one of the ironies with the proposal that would change the endorsement rules, is that it says that the GPCA could not endorse any candidates that are members of parties that take corporate donations - yet Gayle Mclaughlin has done just that, endorsing a Democrat in the 2018 SoS race.
That endorsement isn’t meaningless. In fact it could cost the GPCA its ballot status.
The SoS race is where the GPCA is most likely to get 2%, as there are 28 candidates in the Gov race, but only eight for SoS.
The McLaughlin campaign is targeting people who are our base, and is emailing to them aggressively, including her endorsement of a Democrat in the SoS race.
So while she is only reaching a small percent of the electorate with her campaign, she is reaching a much larger percent of people likely to vote Green.
If we do not get 2% in the SoS race, in 2020 the Sanders prez campaign (or whomever else is the lesser evil in the D primary) will again aggressively pursue registered Greens to unregister Green to vote in the D primary.
We lost 30% of our membership to the Sanders campaign in 2016. If we lose another 30% in 2020, and we don’t get 2% in a statewide race in 2018, we’ll be off the ballot.
Great alliance building, huh?
Mike Feinstein SGA Delegate, GPCA
On Mar 25, 2018, at 7:12 PM, Eric Brooks <brookse32@hotmail.com> wrote:
Yes, and Gayle McLaughlin will be on our SGA ballot when it goes out this week.
Eric Brooks SGA Vote Administrator
On Mar 25, 2018, at 11:07 AM, Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein@feinstein.org> wrote:
No Green has qualified for the ballot for Lt. Governor. This item should be deleted from the voting software. Has it been?
Mike Feinstein Santa Monica GPLAC SGA Delegate