November 2024 endorsements
The SF Green Party has finished making our endorsements for the November 2024 election. We will write a Green Voter Guide with the reasons behind all our endorsements, and post it here. If you can contribute to help mail a postcard to our members with a summary of our endorsements, please click the "donate" link to the left.
SF Green Party Endorsements:
National Office:
- President/VP: Drs. Jill Stein and Butch Ware
Local Offices:
- Mayor: Aaron Peskin (#1 ranked choice), Dylan Hirsch-Shell (#2 ranked choice)
- D1 Supervisor: Connie Chan
- D3 Supervisor: Sharon Lai
- D5 Supervisor: Dean Preston
- D7 Supervisor: no endorsement
- D9 Supervisor: no endorsement
- D11 Supervisor: Ernest "EJ" Jones (#1 ranked choice), Adlah Chisti (#2 ranked choice)
- District Attorney: Ryan Khojasteh
- Board of Education: Matt Alexander, Laurance Lem Lee, Virginia Cheung
- College Board: Alan Wong, Aliya Chisti
- BART Board: no endorsement
Local Ballot Measures:
- NO on A - school bonds without accountability on which projects will be funded
- NO on B - bonds for various City construction projects
- YES on C - create Inspector General under the Controller's office to investigate corruption
- NO on D - eliminating many City commissions and further empowering the Mayor
- no consensus on E - task force to create future ballot measure to eliminate City commissions
- NO on F - allows retired police to work for 5 more years and get retirement pay plus salary
- YES on G - rent subsidies for low income seniors, families, and people with disabilities
- no position on H - lower retirement age for firefighters
- YES on I - retirement credits for nurses and 911 operators
- NO on J - more mayoral control over public education funds
- NO on K - environmentally damaging park next to Ocean Beach
- YES on L - ComMUNIty Transit Act (Greens gave an early endorsement and are helping gather signatures to put this on the ballot)
- NO on M - business tax reform that would kill Prop L
- NO on N - first responder student loan forgiveness fund
- YES on O - protect abortion rights in SF
State Ballot Measures:
- NO on 2 - pay for school maintenance through bonds rather than state budget
- YES on 3 - repeals Prop 8, the CA constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage
- NO on 4 - water bond with funding for logging, ranching, and biomass-based fuel
- NO on 5 - makes it easier to spend public bond money on private luxury housing
- YES on 6 - reduces coercion of forced prison labor
- YES on 32 - increases minimum wage
- YES on 33 - allows more rent control
- NO on 34 - attack on AIDS foundation
- YES on 35 - tax on private insurance plans to fund Medical
- NO on 36 - war on drugs, longer jail sentences for nonviolent crimes
We will also post a complete Green Voter Guide explaining the reasons behind our endorsement decisions.