San Francisco Green Party

The San Francisco Green Party is endorsing a "no" vote on the New Day Pacifica by-laws referendum.  If you are a member of our local Pacifica station, KPFA, you should get your ballot in June, by email.

We feel that with democratic media, in the case of listener sponsored radio,
a listener’s right to vote and to participate in an arena free of commercial
corporate influence is essential to struggle for Green values—social justice,
decentralization, environmental sustainability, grassroots democracy, and
nonviolence—and the proposed bylaws are fundamentally undemocratic.  We are unsettled to see that they have no endorsers from Pacifica's East Coast stations, WBAI-New York City, and WPFW-Washington DC, which have the network's largest Black audience and staff.  We are also disturbed by the bizarre Greenbaiting by proponents of the New Day bylaws, as described by Project Censored producer Anthony Fest in "March Madness: McCarthyism at KPFA".  This seems to reflect the dangerous narrowing of permissible speech, opinion, and action in the US at this point in time.

More info is on the "Pacifica Democracy Project" website.

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.

President:

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.

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.

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.