KPFA Local Station Board Endorsements 2021

If you're a KPFA member, please be sure to vote for the Rescue Pacifica candidates in the Local Station Board (LSB) election.  It is being conducted using ranked choice voting.  Ballots were sent out by email on Aug 16, and voting goes through Oct 15.  We have endorsed the nine Rescue Pacifica candidates, as listed below.  (More info about Rescue Pacifica is here: https://rescuepacifica.net/ ).

This year's election is vital to preserve democracy at KPFA and Pacifica!  Individuals involved with the opposing faction worked to gut the powers of the LSB and they've filed lawsuits to try to take control of KPFA and the Pacifica network.  Please use your democratic voting rights to maintain and strengthen the LSB by voting for the Rescue Pacifica candidates as your top nine choices!

Please vote for all nine of the following candidates as your top choices (in any order):

Rich Stone *
Daniel Borgstrom *
Don Macleay *
James McFadden *
Adisa Armand
Donna Carter
Pete Farruggio
Amber Jayanti
Elizabeth Milos

* = Registered Greens; note that Rich Stone is a County Council member here in San Francisco.

Thank you for standing up for democracy and supporting progressive, independent radio!


Endorsement against new KPFA bylaws

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.

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.

 

 

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:

State Ballot Measures:

SF Candidates:

Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.

Read more: March 2020 Endorsements

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:

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:

 

Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.

Read more: November 2020 Endorsements

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:

 

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.

 

Read more: November 2019 Endorsements