Publish to Newswire
Add an EventFrom the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
GREEN VOTER CARD for Alameda County and Beyond . . .
The Full Alameda County Green Party Voter Guide 2006 (PDF) is available at http://www.acgreens.org/
----------------------------------------------------
GREEN VOTER CARD - Nov. 7, 2006
State Executive Offices
--------------------------
Governor - Peter Camejo
Lieutenant Governor - Donna Warren
Secretary of State - Forrest Hill
Controller - Laura Wells
Treasurer - Mehul Thakker
Attorney General - Michael Wyman
Insurance Commissioner - Larry Cafiero
Federal Offices
--------------------------
U.S. Senator - Todd Chretien
U.S. Representative, Dist. 9 - No endorsement, see write-up
U.S. Representative, Dist. 11- Vote out Pombo; see write-up
Other State Offices
--------------------------
State Board of Equalization, District 1 - David Campbell
State Assembly, District 16 - Eddie Ytuarte
Judicial Offices
--------------------------
State Supreme Court, Carol Corrigan - No
State Supreme Court, Joyce Kennard - Yes, with reservations
State Courts of Appeal, First District - No Endorsement, see write-up
Superior Court Judge, Seat 21 - Dennis Hayashi
Special School Districts
--------------------------
Peralta Community College, Area 7 - Abel Guillen
City Offices
Alameda
--------------------------
Mayor - Doug de Haan
City Council - No Endorsements, see write-up
School Board - Tracy Lynn Jensen and Mike McMahon
Albany
--------------------------
City Attorney - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council - Marjorie Atkinson and Joanne Wile
School Board - Jamie Calloway and Miriam Walden, Don't vote for John Kindle
Berkeley
--------------------------
Mayor: Don’t vote for Tom Bates, see write-up
Auditor - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council, District 1 - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council, District 4 - Dona Spring
City Council, District 7- Kriss Worthington
City Council, District 8 - Jason Overman
School Board - Karen Hemphill, Shirley Issel, and Nancy Riddle
Rent Board - Dave Blake, Howard Chong,
Chris Kavanagh, Lisa Stephens, and Pam Webster
Oakland
--------------------------
City Auditor - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council, District 2 - Aimee Allison
Special Districts
--------------------------
A.C. Transit, At-large - Rebecca Kaplan
A.C. Transit, Ward 3 - No Endorsement, see write-up
A.C. Transit, Ward 5 - No Endorsement, see write-up
EBMUD, Ward 3 - No Endorsement, see write-up
EBMUD, Ward 4 - Andy Katz
EBMUD, Ward 7 - Oppose incumbent Frank Mellon
East Bay Regional Parks, Ward 1 - Nancy Skinner
East Bay Regional Parks, Ward 5 - No Endorsement, see write-up
State Propositions
--------------------------
1A - Transportation Funding Protection - Yes
1B - Highway Bond - No
1C - Housing & Emergency Shelter Trust Fund - Yes, with standard bond reservations
1D - Kindergarten-University Public Education Bond - Yes, with standard bond reservations
1E - Disaster Preparedness & Flood Prevention Bond - No Endorsement, see write-up
83 - Residence Restrictions & Monitoring of Sex Offenders - No
84 - Water and Parks Bond - Yes, with standard bond reservations
85 - Termination of Pregnancy / Parental Notification - No
86 - Tax on Cigarettes - Yes
87 - Alternative Energy Research, Production, & Incentives - Yes
88 - Regressive Statewide Education Parcel Tax - No
89 - Public Campaign Financing - Yes
90 - Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property - No
Local Measures
--------------------------
A - Berkeley: Renewal of Berkeley Schools Educational Excellence Act (BSEP) - Yes
C - Albany: Fire Station Renovation & Expansion Bond - No Endorsement, see write-up
D - Albany: Medical Marijuana Dispensary - Yes
E - Berkeley: Rent Board Vacancies - Yes
F - Berkeley: Waterfront Plan & Gilman St. Playing Fields - Yes
G - Berkeley: Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Yes
H - Berkeley: Impeach President Bush and Vice-President Cheney -Yes
I - Berkeley: Conversion of Rental Units into Condos - No, No, No
J - Berkeley: Landmark Preservation Ordinance - Yes
M - Oakland: Police and Fire Retirement System - No Endorsement, see write-up
N - Oakland: Library sleight-of-hand Bond - No
O - Oakland: Instant Runoff Voting - Yes
Print and bring with you to the polls
(and photocopy for your friends!)
GREEN VOTER CARD - Nov. 7, 2006
State Executive Offices
--------------------------
Governor - Peter Camejo
Lieutenant Governor - Donna Warren
Secretary of State - Forrest Hill
Controller - Laura Wells
Treasurer - Mehul Thakker
Attorney General - Michael Wyman
Insurance Commissioner - Larry Cafiero
Federal Offices
--------------------------
U.S. Senator - Todd Chretien
U.S. Representative, Dist. 9 - No endorsement, see write-up
U.S. Representative, Dist. 11- Vote out Pombo; see write-up
Other State Offices
--------------------------
State Board of Equalization, District 1 - David Campbell
State Assembly, District 16 - Eddie Ytuarte
Judicial Offices
--------------------------
State Supreme Court, Carol Corrigan - No
State Supreme Court, Joyce Kennard - Yes, with reservations
State Courts of Appeal, First District - No Endorsement, see write-up
Superior Court Judge, Seat 21 - Dennis Hayashi
Special School Districts
--------------------------
Peralta Community College, Area 7 - Abel Guillen
City Offices
Alameda
--------------------------
Mayor - Doug de Haan
City Council - No Endorsements, see write-up
School Board - Tracy Lynn Jensen and Mike McMahon
Albany
--------------------------
City Attorney - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council - Marjorie Atkinson and Joanne Wile
School Board - Jamie Calloway and Miriam Walden, Don't vote for John Kindle
Berkeley
--------------------------
Mayor: Don’t vote for Tom Bates, see write-up
Auditor - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council, District 1 - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council, District 4 - Dona Spring
City Council, District 7- Kriss Worthington
City Council, District 8 - Jason Overman
School Board - Karen Hemphill, Shirley Issel, and Nancy Riddle
Rent Board - Dave Blake, Howard Chong,
Chris Kavanagh, Lisa Stephens, and Pam Webster
Oakland
--------------------------
City Auditor - No Endorsement, see write-up
City Council, District 2 - Aimee Allison
Special Districts
--------------------------
A.C. Transit, At-large - Rebecca Kaplan
A.C. Transit, Ward 3 - No Endorsement, see write-up
A.C. Transit, Ward 5 - No Endorsement, see write-up
EBMUD, Ward 3 - No Endorsement, see write-up
EBMUD, Ward 4 - Andy Katz
EBMUD, Ward 7 - Oppose incumbent Frank Mellon
East Bay Regional Parks, Ward 1 - Nancy Skinner
East Bay Regional Parks, Ward 5 - No Endorsement, see write-up
State Propositions
--------------------------
1A - Transportation Funding Protection - Yes
1B - Highway Bond - No
1C - Housing & Emergency Shelter Trust Fund - Yes, with standard bond reservations
1D - Kindergarten-University Public Education Bond - Yes, with standard bond reservations
1E - Disaster Preparedness & Flood Prevention Bond - No Endorsement, see write-up
83 - Residence Restrictions & Monitoring of Sex Offenders - No
84 - Water and Parks Bond - Yes, with standard bond reservations
85 - Termination of Pregnancy / Parental Notification - No
86 - Tax on Cigarettes - Yes
87 - Alternative Energy Research, Production, & Incentives - Yes
88 - Regressive Statewide Education Parcel Tax - No
89 - Public Campaign Financing - Yes
90 - Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property - No
Local Measures
--------------------------
A - Berkeley: Renewal of Berkeley Schools Educational Excellence Act (BSEP) - Yes
C - Albany: Fire Station Renovation & Expansion Bond - No Endorsement, see write-up
D - Albany: Medical Marijuana Dispensary - Yes
E - Berkeley: Rent Board Vacancies - Yes
F - Berkeley: Waterfront Plan & Gilman St. Playing Fields - Yes
G - Berkeley: Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Yes
H - Berkeley: Impeach President Bush and Vice-President Cheney -Yes
I - Berkeley: Conversion of Rental Units into Condos - No, No, No
J - Berkeley: Landmark Preservation Ordinance - Yes
M - Oakland: Police and Fire Retirement System - No Endorsement, see write-up
N - Oakland: Library sleight-of-hand Bond - No
O - Oakland: Instant Runoff Voting - Yes
Print and bring with you to the polls
(and photocopy for your friends!)
For more information:
http://www.acgreens.org/
Add Your Comments
Comments
(Hide Comments)
Looking at Todd's record, there is not much evidence he stands for liberation of anything much less the workers. I found this report on his underhanded duplicity with an anti-war group at SF State in his role as an ISO regional honcho: google "ISOnuts: One Stop Activism and the Gentrification of the Left" (or see link below).
His group, the ISO, for which he is currently "boring from within" as a fake Green, has also established a rep as a top down authoritarian centralized mess of opportunistic sectarianism. Check out this complaint from an IWW union that the ISO tampered with: http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_Sells_Out_Workers
And many of the anti-minutemen folks have complaints about the ISO as well:
http://deletetheborder.org/node/338
By now everyone knows of their role in attempting to control the anti-war movement:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2001/11/14/1092691.php
(There are many many reports on this online.)
As a high ranking ISO rep, Todd holds to the party line above all else as his interactions in the anti-war communities have shown. So if you are fine with someone who thinks crushing the Kronstadt rebellion was a good thing, and who finds Leninist organizational principles, such as subjecting workers' control to a centralized party control by decimation of their councils and soviets, to be peachy and vibrantly relevant to the movement today, then vote for Todd and empower the ISO within the movement. If you don't see Leninism as a legitimate basis for the pursuit of freedom, worker solidarity, anti-ideological and pro-dialectical thought, then it might be better to grapple with the hard questions toward the goal of participating in meaningful struggle in your own and others' interests.
If you apply the principles of Todd's critique of Democratic opportunism to the record of socialists in power see what you end up with. Nationalism, capitalism, wage slavery, wars, vangaurdist centralism, covert manipulations and so on. Unless people can honestly apply critique to the failures of the past, there can be no real new efforts for change of consequence. Apply the same critique to anarchists and others by all means, but don't lie yourself into feeling that Todd represents any kind of alternative. Look at his shallow analysis of the Russian Revolution, his manichaean counter revolutionary stance on "supporting the resistance", and his inexcusable management of Stalinist George Galloway's US tour, and his hypocritical focus on electoral politics while denouncing others with almost identical platforms, for a good representation of his positions. Nothing to do with revolution.
His group, the ISO, for which he is currently "boring from within" as a fake Green, has also established a rep as a top down authoritarian centralized mess of opportunistic sectarianism. Check out this complaint from an IWW union that the ISO tampered with: http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_Sells_Out_Workers
And many of the anti-minutemen folks have complaints about the ISO as well:
http://deletetheborder.org/node/338
By now everyone knows of their role in attempting to control the anti-war movement:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2001/11/14/1092691.php
(There are many many reports on this online.)
As a high ranking ISO rep, Todd holds to the party line above all else as his interactions in the anti-war communities have shown. So if you are fine with someone who thinks crushing the Kronstadt rebellion was a good thing, and who finds Leninist organizational principles, such as subjecting workers' control to a centralized party control by decimation of their councils and soviets, to be peachy and vibrantly relevant to the movement today, then vote for Todd and empower the ISO within the movement. If you don't see Leninism as a legitimate basis for the pursuit of freedom, worker solidarity, anti-ideological and pro-dialectical thought, then it might be better to grapple with the hard questions toward the goal of participating in meaningful struggle in your own and others' interests.
If you apply the principles of Todd's critique of Democratic opportunism to the record of socialists in power see what you end up with. Nationalism, capitalism, wage slavery, wars, vangaurdist centralism, covert manipulations and so on. Unless people can honestly apply critique to the failures of the past, there can be no real new efforts for change of consequence. Apply the same critique to anarchists and others by all means, but don't lie yourself into feeling that Todd represents any kind of alternative. Look at his shallow analysis of the Russian Revolution, his manichaean counter revolutionary stance on "supporting the resistance", and his inexcusable management of Stalinist George Galloway's US tour, and his hypocritical focus on electoral politics while denouncing others with almost identical platforms, for a good representation of his positions. Nothing to do with revolution.
For more information:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Emotopu/attemptf...
Here is a collection of photos of the Green Candidates for State Executive Offices
Krissy Keefer is running against Nancy Pelosi in District 8
carol Brouillet is running against Anna Eshoo in district 14
Both are excellent persons to vote for!
carol Brouillet is running against Anna Eshoo in district 14
Both are excellent persons to vote for!
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Donate
$155.00 donated
in the past month
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network