The SF Green Party will host several candidate forums for the November 2018 election:

• Our first forum is for all the candidates except D4 Supe candidates, and is scheduled for Wed, Aug 29 from 6-9 pm.  It will take place in the theater on the 2nd floor of the Redstone Building, located at 2940 16th Street (between Mission and South Van Ness, 1 block from 16th St BART).    Please come to ask questions to the candidates who returned questionnaires, as well as invited candidates for Assessor and Public Defender, at this forum!
• We will host a special forum / debate between D4 Supe candidates in the Sunset on Wed, September 5, at the Ortega Library (3223 Ortega St at 39th Ave) from 6:30-8:30 pm.  Other progressive organizations will also be invited to co-sponsor this event.

Active Green Party members are invited to decide on our candidate endorsements following each forum.  (Ballot measures will be considered at our regular monthly meeting on August 22.)

Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record.

Supervisorial candidates (D2):  Nick Josefowitz

Supervisorial candidates (D4): Adam Kim, Trevor McNeil, Mike Murphy.  Note that we have made an early endorsement of Green Party member Mike Murphy (see website) in this race, but we will be considering additional D4 candidates for endorsement as well!

Supervisorial candidates (D6):  Matt Haney, Christine Johnson

Supervisorial candidates (D10):  Gloria Berry, Theo Ellington, Tony Kelly, Shamann Walton

School Board candiates:  Monica Chinchilla, Allison Collins, Gabriela López, Li Miao Lovett, Martin Rawlings-Fein, Mia Satya, Faauuga Moliga (late)

Community College Board candidates:  Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo, Thea Selby

BART Board candidates:   Brian Larkin, Janice Li, Jonathan Lyens

These are the SF Green Party Endorsements for the June 2018 election.

We are handing out a bookmark version of our voter guide.  If you can help distribute bookmarks, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  We are also mailing our endorsements to all our members.  If you can donate to help cover our printing and mailing costs, please use the "donate" link to the left!

Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted.  Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.

Update, May 14: All Greens involved in making our original endorsements have reached unanimous consensus to withdraw our endorsement of Angela Alioto, after she filed a ballot initiative that would result in undocumented immigrants who are arrested under suspicion of committing a felony to be turned over to ICE, without giving the person a chance to contest the accusation.  This act is contrary to Alioto's stated positions in response to our candidate questionnaire, and we cannot support any candidate who denies an accused person's right to due process.

Local candidates

All candidates we endorsed for Mayor and D8 Supe answered our election questionnaires.  You can read their answers here.

• Mayor:  We have dual-endorsed (without ranking) two candidates:  Mark Leno and Jane Kim.  We encourage all voters to rank both of these candidates in your preferred order, in order to end more than two decades of rule by the Willie Brown machine.
• Supervisor, D8:  Rafael Mandelman
• Congress, CD12:  Barry Hermanson (Green Party)
• Judges: No endorsements (although we discuss candidates below)

Statewide candidates

• Governor:  We have endorsed multiple Greens running for Governor:  Josh Jones, Chris Carlson, and Veronika Fimbres (write-in).
• Lt. Governor:  Gayle McLaughlin
• Secretary of State:  We have dual-endorsed two Greens, Mike Feinstein and Erik Rydberg
• US Senate:  John Thompson Parker
• Controller:  Mary Lou Finley
• Treasurer:  Kevin Akin
• Insurance Commissioner:  Nathalie Hrizi

Local propositions

• YES on A:  Public utility bonds
• YES on B:  Prohibit appointed commissioners from running for office without resigning first
• YES on C:  Tax on Commercial Rents to fund Childhood Education
• NO on D:  Tax on Commercial Rents to fund Homelessness Services (because it would kill Prop C)
• YES on E:  Ban on sales of flavored tobacco products
• YES on F:  Right to an attorney for tenants facing evictions.
• YES on G:  Parcel tax to give SF teachers a pay raise.
• NO on H:  Tasers for SFPD.
• NO on I:  Advisory measure about the Warriors that will have no effect other than to decrease voters' support for the ballot initiative process.

Regional proposition

• YES on RM-3:  Raises bridge tolls to pay for more public transit (although some goes to highways, and we think all the money should go to public transit)

State propositions

• YES on 68:  $4 billion bond that mostly goes to state parks and wildlife (with our usual bond reservations).
• YES on 69:  Restrict vehicle fees to be used for transportation, with more money for transit (although we would like even more of this money to go to transit).
• NO on 70:  Raid on "Cap & Trade" fund (although we want real effort to fight climate change, not Cap & Trade).
• YES on 71:  Allows statewide ballot measures to have time delays.
• YES on 72:  Tax breaks for rainwater capture systems.

Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide

The SF Green Party will host a candidate forum on Wednesday, March 14, from 6-9 pm--come ask questions to candidates in local races.  Our forum and endorsement meeting will take place in the theater on the 2nd floor of the Redstone Building, located at 2940 16th Street (between Mission and South Van Ness, 1 block from 16th St BART).  The event is open to the public and all are invited!

Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record

Mayor:  Angela Alioto, London Breed, Jane Kim, Mark Leno, Amy Farah Weiss, Ellen Lee Zhou.  Michelle Bravo, Richie Greenberg, and write-in candidates did not respond to our questionnaire.

Supervisorial candidates (D8): Rafael Mandelman.  Jeff Sheehy did not respond to our questionnaire.  Another candidate did not provide contact information to the Department of Elections.