June 2014 Endorsements
These are the SF Green Party Endorsements for the June 2014 election. We are mailing the postcard below to all our members, so if you can donate to this effort please click the "Donate" link to the left.
Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted with longer explanations for each endorsement; see below.
SF:
- No on A, a $400 million local bond measure that claims to fund fire and police stations, but is not actually required to
- Yes on B, the right to vote on Waterfront development that exceeds the current height limits.
- Congress, D12 - Barry Hermanson (website)
- State Assembly, D17 - David Campos (website)
- Superior Court Judge, Office 20 - Daniel Flores (website)
Statewide:
- Governor - Luis Rodriguez (website)
- Lt Governor - Jena Goodman (announcement)
- Controller - Laura Wells (website)
- Treasurer - Ellen Brown (website)
- Secretary of State - David Curtis (website)
- Yes on 41, a bond measure to fund supportive housing for veterans
- Yes on 42, a requirement for local govenments to follow open meetings and public records laws
Click below to read longer explanations for each of our endorsements:
November 2013 Endorsements
The SF Green Party has endorsed the following candidates and propositions for November 2013. See below for longer explanations.
This month, we'll organize slate card distribution and Get Out the Vote efforts for the November election. If you can volunteer with either, please come to our meeting on Wednesday the 23rd, 7-9 pm at El CafeTazo (16th St between Valencia and Mission)! If you would like to help but can't make the meeting email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Barry Hermanson at 255-9494.
Supervisor, District 4: write in Mike Murphy (sole endorsement)
Don't forget to connect the arrow next to "write-in" as well.
Local Measures:
- A: NO - potential raid on retiree health trust fund
- B: NO - wall on the waterfront / more condos for millionaires
- C: NO - (similar to B) wall on the waterfront / more condos for millionaires
- D: YES - statement in favor of cheaper prescription drugs
Other Local Offices:
- Treasurer: no endorsement
- Assessor: no endorsement
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City Attorney: no endorsement
Voter Guide (detailed explanations):
November 2012 Endorsements
If you're registered Green in SF, you should have received this card in the mail:
These are our endorsements for November 2012; click on them for longer explanations:
Presidential Ticket:
State Propositions
- 30: YES - Jerry Brown Tax Plan
- 31: NO - State Spending Cuts
- 32: NO - Limit Political Contribution from Unions
- 33: NO - Increase Car Insurance Rates
- 34: YES - End Death Penalty
- 35: NO - Misleading Human Trafficking Initiative
- 36: YES - 3 Strikes Reform
- 37: YES - Label GMO Foods
- 38: NO - Munger Tax Plan
- 39: YES - Clean Energy Jobs Act
- 40: YES- Keep Citizen -drawn Districts
Local Measures
- A: YES - Save City College
- B: NO - Bond to Fund Park Privatization
- C - did not reach consensus on supporting or opposing Housing Trust
- D: NO - Fewer Elections
- E: YES - Gross Receipts Tax
- F - did not reach consensus on supporting or opposing Hetch Hetchy Study
- G: YES - Oppose Corporate Personhood
Supervisor
- D1: Eric Mar
- D3: No endorsement
- D5: #1 John Rizzo,
- #2 Julian Davis, Christina Olague (dual #2)
- D7: No endorsement
- D9: David Campos
- D11: John Avalos
School Board: Sandra Fewer, Kim Garcia-Meza, Gladys Soto & Shamann Walton
City College Board: Rafael Mandelman
BART Board, D9: Tom Radulovich
State Assembly, AD17: Tom Ammiano
State Assembly, SD11: Mark Leno
Congress, CD12: No endorsement
2012 KPFA endorsements
For those who are members of the community radio station KPFA, the SF Green Party has endorsed the United for Community Radio slate of candidates in the Local Station Board elections.
Your ballot is due in New York by December 11. It will be competing with holiday mail traffic to get there, so please send it now.
The UCR slate includes:
SF Green Party member (and former County Council member) Ramsés Téon Nichols.
East Bay Green Party members Larry Shoup, Samsarah Morgan, and Kate Tanaka.
Our full list of endorsed candidates includes:
Andrea Pritchett - Incumbent board member, community activist, teacher, Copwatch founder
Beth Seligman - JD, vegetarian occupier, permaculturist and writer
David Roach - Founder of Oakland International Film Festival and Mo Betta Foods
David Welsh - Labor organizer, delegate SF Labor Council, Haiti Action Committee, Occupy Oakland occupier
Karen Pickett - Environmental and community activist, writer and editor
Kate Tanaka - Incumbent board member, community activist, Green Party stalwart
Laurence Shoup- Author “Rulers and Rebels” & other books, Green Party stalwart, Longtime community and people’s movement activist
Oriana Saportas - Community & Labor activist, former KPFA Local Election Supervisor
Ramsés Téon Nichols - Organizing Committee Chair of Local SEIU 1021 and member of SF Green Party
Samsarah Morgan - Oakland Green Party, Occupy Oakland Activist, writer on birth health and family
Staff Candidates
David Landau - Co-host “Weekend News”
Joy Moore - Apprenticeship Program instructor, phone room supervisor
Frank Sterling- Board Operator, Apprenticeship Program instructor
June 2012 Endorsements
The SF Green Party has made the following endorsements for the June 2012 election:
(see longer explanations for the propositions below)
Prop A (garbage contract) - No
Prop B (Coit tower) - Yes
Prop 28 (term limit reform) - Yes
Prop 29 (cigarette tax) - Yes
President. Although the corporate parties have wrapped up their primaries, we still have a close contest between physician Jill Stein and actor/comedian Rosanne Barr. We generally do not make endorsements in a contested Green Party primary, but we hosted a presidential debate on May 12. You can watch the debate below and decide for yourself!
Congress, CD8 - Barry Hermanson (Green Party).
Barry Hermanson is a long-time Green activist, who is perhaps best known for his work on the Living Wage Coalition, and for co-authoring San Francisco's minimum wage ordinance. As a result of this successful ballot initiative, we now have the highest minimum wage of any big city in the US. Barry has recently been actively campaigning for Medicare for All, and for a huge decrease in US military spending (starting with an end to our foreign wars and occupations).
The top two finishers in the June election will be the only candidates on the ballot this November. Let's vote to have Barry face off against Nancy Pelosi on issues like jobs, immigration, medical cannabis, taxes, and public education, rather than some Republican!