November 2020 Endorsements
These are the SF Green Party's final endorsements for the November 2020 election. We have mailed a postcard with 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.
President and Vice President: Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker (nominated at our national convention in July)
SF Board of Supervisors:
- D1: no endorsement
- D3: no endorsement
- D5: Dean Preston (#1 ranked choice), Daniel Landry (#2 ranked choice)
- D7: no endorsement
- D9: no endorsement
- D11: John Avalos
School Board: Matt Alexander, Kevine Boggess, Mark Sanchez
College Board: Aliya Chisti, Anita Martinez, Geramye Teeter
BART Board: no endorsement
Local Ballot Measures:
- NO on A: bond to fund Mayor's slush fund
- YES on B: split Sanitation and Streets department off from Public Works
- YES on C: Allow non-citizens to serve on City commissions
- YES on D: Sheriff oversight
- NO on E: ineffective police staffing proposal
- YES on F: makes business taxes more progressive
- YES on G: Youth voting (16 year olds in local elections)
- NO on H: Neighborhood gentrification districts
- YES on I: Increase real estate transfer tax on most expensive properties
- NO on J: repeal and replace parcel tax for SFUSD (we like the current parcel tax for teachers)
- YES on K: Permit 10,000 units of social housing
- YES on L: tax on companies where executives make 100x as much as workers
- NO on RR: regressive sales tax for Caltrain (should be free to riders, paid for by state or local budgets)
State Ballot Measures:
- NO on 14: regressive bonds for stem cell research (should be part of state budget)
- YES on 15: Split tax rolls for commercial and residential property
- YES on 16: Repeal prop 209; allow affirmative action
- YES on 17: Voting rights for people on parole
- YES on 18: Youth voting (17 year olds to vote in primaries if they will be 18 by the general election)
- no position on Prop 19: Allows transfer of property tax basis to all counties in CA, changes taxes on inherited properties
- NO on 20: fascist proposal to lock up more people and collect DNA from people convicted of misdemeanors
- YES on 21: More rent control
- NO on 22: Allows Uber and Lyft to continue classifying their drivers as "contractors" in order to avoid taxes and regulations
- YES on 23: dialysis regulation, to help SEIU-UHW West
- NO on 24: water down consumer privacy laws
- YES on 25: keep laws eliminating cash bail (but we call on Democrats in the CA legislature to do this in a less racist way)
Other Contests:
- US Congress: no endorsement
- State Senate: no endorsement
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.
Questionnaires posted for Aug 26 candidate forum
Because of COVID, and the fact that many of our members don't have reliable internet access, we've changed our endorsement process this year. We'll schedule a 10-minute Zoom interview with each candidate on Wednesday, August 26, preferably between 7 and 9 pm. However, rather than making the decision that night as we usually do, we'll record the interviews and post them on our Youtube channel for our members who may be able to watch it later. We'll make our decisions online by early September.
All SF Green Party members are invited to ask questions at the forum. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for login information.
Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record:
School Board Candidates: Matt Alexander, Kevine Boggess, Alida Fisher, Jenny Lam, Mark Sanchez
College Board Candidates: Aliya Chisti, Anita Martinez, Jeanette Quick, Geramye Teeter, Alan Wong, Han Zou
BART Board Candidates: Patrick Mortiere
The questionnaires below were submitted for our July candidate forum. You can also see the recordings of those candidate interviews here.
Supervisorial candidates (D1): Connie Chan, Veronica Shinzato
Supervisorial candidates (D3): Danny Sauter
Supervisorial candidates (D5): Vallie Brown, Daniel Landry, Dean Preston
Supervisorial candidates (D7): Stephen Martin-Pinto, Myrna Melgar, Vilaska Nguyen
Supervisorial candidates (D5): Hillary Ronen
Supervisorial candidates (D11): John Avalos
Greens call for Rent/Mortgage Moratorium
SF Green Party Calls for Moratorium on Rent and Mortgage Payments
In the midst of the world’s greatest viral pandemic in modern times, the San Francisco Green Party is supporting calls to halt rent and mortgage payments until people are able to return to work and recover their economic stability.
This unprecedented mass shutdown of normal operations is leaving many already on a tight budget struggling to make ends meet and in order to avoid a more serious crisis, relief must come immediately.
Furthermore, this relief must not be just a delay of payments but a cancellation, as people cannot be reasonably expected to be able to make up for months of lost work whenever this is over.
Our specific call is for our home of San Francisco, but we believe similar action should be taken statewide and nationwide.
A Green New Deal for San Francisco
The "Green New Deal" has long been a key part of Green Party platforms. The idea was first popularized by European Greens in 2006, and was introduced to the US by various Green campaigns, including Howie Hawkins for NY Governor in 2010 and Jill Stein's campaigns for President in 2012 and 2016. It's a major plank in Hawkins' campaign for President as a Green in 2020. Progressive Democrats have also picked up the idea: Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has her own version, as does Senator Bernie Sanders.
What would a Green New Deal look like for San Franciscans? The SF Green Party believes that implementing the following policies would set San Francisco on a path towards a more sustainable, ecosocialist economy, and we urge San Francisco politicians to enact as many of these as possible without waiting on the state or federal government (or other countries) to rescue us from our current trajectory of ecological collapse.
- Fare-free Muni/BART for everybody (as Greens accomplished in Luxembourg). Build citywide rapid rail subways.
- Social housing - public housing for San Franciscans of all income levels, as proposed in the SF Community Housing Act.
- SF Municipal bank, which will offer deposit accounts and loans to San Franciscans, capitalized by removing all SF funds from commercial banks.
- Municipalize PG&E, towards 100% carbon/nuclear/dam-free energy.
- Municipal utilities must give hiring preferences to people from areas subject to environmental injustice.
- Reparations for historical victims of environmental injustice in the SE quadrant.
- Lower voting age to 16, so those impacted by climate change cannot be dismissed.
- Ban on new construction at elevations likely to be flooded within 100
years. - Anti-speculator measures - housing as a right, vacancy/flipping fees.
- Improved Medicare for All San Franciscans. No co-pays, no deductibles, no out of pocket costs when you need care. Eyeglasses, dental, mental health and long term care is included.
- Fully fund eviction protection measures.
- Free rent for Treasure Island residents.
- Save Free City College, no class cuts.
- Toxic cleanup - radiation, heavy metals, gas tanks, etc. BV/TI focus.
- Subsidies to replace fossil fuel infrastructure (e.g., gas lines in old houses) with renewables.
- Transit tax on large corporations, on parking spaces in new office and residential projects, on Uber/Lyft/other fake taxis, and on private shuttle buses.
March 2020 Endorsements
These are the SF Green Party Endorsements for the March 3, 2020 election.
Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted. Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.
Since we have a contested Presidential primary, Green voters will decide on our nominee and strategy for the November election. The national Green Party has a page on the candidates here, and most of them answered detailed questionnaires, available here.
The SF Green Party has met with several outstanding candidates, but we feel that it is our members' right to make a choice without our thumb on the scales. Please read the questionnaires above, and pick the candidate who will best represent our Party in November.
SF Ballot Measures:
- YES on Prop A (City college bond)
- no consensus on Prop B (Emergency response bond)
- YES on Prop C (Retirement benefits)
- YES on Prop D (Vacancy tax)
- NO on Prop E (Office development)
State Ballot Measures:
- NO on Prop 13 (School bond and lower developer fees)
SF Candidates:
- Congress: no endorsement
- State Senate: no endorsement
- Judges:
- Superior Court Judge, Seat 1: Maria Evangelista
- Superior Court Judge, Seat 18: Dorothy Chou Proudfoot and Michelle Tong (dual endorsement)
- Superior Court Judge, Seat 21: Rani Singh and Carolyn Gold (dual endorsement)
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.
November 2019 Endorsements
These are the SF Green Party Endorsements for the November 2019 election.
We are handing out postcard-sized copies like the one shown on the right. If you can help distribute these, 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.
SF Candidates:
- Mayor - Joel Ventresca (sole endorsement)
- District Attorney - Chesa Boudin (sole endorsement)
- Public Defender - Mano Raju (sole endorsement)
- Supervisor, District 5 - Dean Preston (#1 endorsement), Vallie Brown (#2 endorsement)
- School Board - no endorsement
- College Board - no endorsement
- Sheriff - no endorsement
- City Attorney - no endorsement
- Treasurer - no endorsement
SF Ballot Measures:
- NO on A (housing bonds for mostly private housing)
- no position on B (tiny changes to a commission name and appointments)
- NO on C (JUUL ballot measure)
- NO on D (Uber/Lyft ballot measure)
- NO on E (allow private development on public open space in SF)
- YES on F ("sunshine on dark money")
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.