[SFGP] Greenzine: Upcoming endorsement meetings

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August 23
GREENZINE
SF Green Party Weekly News and Events

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Dear Greens,

    Please join us for our monthly meeting next week!  Details are
below.  Note that we're interviewing Mayoral candidate Joel Ventresca
near the beginning of the meeting, so please come on time.

    We submitted an official opponent's argument to the Department
of Elections in opposition to Prop D (the misleadingly named "traffic
congestion mitigation tax").  We lost the lottery to the Republicans,
so we will not be the official opponents.  However, our argument is
on our website, here:
  http://sfgreenparty.org/endorsements/90-november-2019-endorsements

    We will release an expanded version of that argument in our
Voter Guide, to be published after we finish making our endorsements.

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What:  SF Green Party Monthly Meeting (and endorsements)
Where:  Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF
When:  Wed, August 28, 7-9 pm

Agenda:

* Introductions

* Mayoral candidate interviews; see questionnaire from
  challenger Joel Ventresca, here:
  http://sfgreens.org/questionnaires/2019/ventresca_mayor.html
  Ventresca is scheduled to interview with us early in our
  meeting, around 7 or 7:30.  Please read his questionnaire
  and bring your follow-up questions!
  
  Both Mayor Breed and challenger Ellen Zhou declined to answer
  our questionnaire, but sent statements instead.  Other mayoral
  candidates did not respond.

* Endorsements of remaining propositions (A, B, E, and F).
  Text of those propositions is here:
  https://sfelections.sfgov.org/measures

* D5 Supervisor candidate interviews; see questionnaires from
  Supervisor Vallie Brown and challenger Dean Preston, here:
  http://sfgreens.org/questionnaires/2019/brown_d5.html
  http://sfgreens.org/questionnaires/2019/preston_d5.html

  Other D5 candidates either did not respond, or emailed
  abusive messages to our volunteers.

* Endorsements for Mayor and D5 Supe; members may choose to
  make those endorsements at this meeting, or postpone a
  decision until the meeting on Sep 18.

Every 4th Wednesday the SF Green Party meets to discuss issues of
concern, listen to interesting speakers, endorse events, plan outreach
and more!  Everyone welcome.  All meetings are wheelchair accessible.
To make a presentation or gain the SFGP endorsement of events and
issues, please contact our SFGP County Council at: cc at sfgreens.org

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What:  SF Green Party Endorsement Meeting
Where:  Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) SF
When:  Wed, Sep 18, 7-9 pm

We will interview candidates for offices other than D5 Supervisor and
Mayor at this meeting, and will finish making all our endorsement
decisions.

Questionnaires have been sent to all candidates for School Board,
College Board, District Attorney, and Public Defender.  The
candidates' answers will be posted on our website after the due date
of September 12.

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What:  Save the Date - SF Green Party Monthly Meeting
Where:  Redstone Bldg (2940 16th Street, near South Van Ness) #301, SF
When:  Wed, Sep 25, 7-9 pm

The detailed agenda will be set later.  However, at this time,
we have:

* Visit and Discussion with Howie Hawkins, who is campaigning
  for the Green Party's Presidential nomination in 2020.
  Howie Hawkins is from NY, and is the original author of
  the Green New Deal.

* Finalize our Green Voter Guide and plan campaign outreach
  and events through the November election.

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To submit events for our newsletter, please email a short blurb to
news at sfgreens.org.  Messages to a mailing list will be rejected.