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Nov Election: Why You Should Boycott the Statewide Partisan Races
Boycotting the statewide partisan races is not much of a sacrifice, since only candidates of the two major wings of the money party will be on the ballot. We hope that a visible drop in the vote totals in these races will make a statement against Prop. 14 (Top Two).
The June primary has come and gone with the predictable results, desired by the establishment. Because of Prop. 14 ( the Top-Two Primary), no candidates of the small parties will be on the ballot for state-wide office in the November general election, nor for any local partisan office within Alameda County. So much for the lies of the Prop. 14 proponents about increased choices. Prop. 14 even took away the possibility of the write-in option, so the sham democracy that now exists should be obvious to anyone.
Given this shameful situation, we thought much about what our position should be regarding the partisan races for the November election. We recommend that people BOYCOTT the statewide partisan contests in the November election. (Specifically, the following 7 statewide offices: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Insurance Commissioner.) And also most of the other partisan offices: U.S. Congress, State Senate, State Assembly (unless you decide to vote in the District 15 contest - see writeup), and State Board of Equalization.
Please also note that specific information about the candidates running in these races was provided in our June primary Voter Guide, which is available on the internet, at: http://acgreens.wordpress.com/voter-guides/.
Boycotting the statewide partisan races is not much of a sacrifice, since only candidates of the two major wings of the money party will be on the ballot. We hope that a visible drop in the vote totals in these races will make a statement against Prop. 14.
In addition, California, as the Green Party has done for many years, also needs to start looking at proven alternatives to the failing electoral system we currently have. For example, most of western Europe uses the “proportional representation” election system with great success, and with high voter turnout that often exceeds 80 percent. (For more details, please see: http://www.fairvote. org/reforms/fair-representation-voting/).
We do want to be absolutely clear that we are NOT asking people not to vote at all. There are important ballot measures and worthwhile local non-partisan candidates that are worth supporting. So please DO VOTE—but with the exception of the above-listed partisan races!
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For more information on Top Two see:
Monstrous Ruling in CA Case Challenging Top Two
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/27/18720425.php
and
California’s Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals
by Ellen Brown
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/10/18757172.php
Given this shameful situation, we thought much about what our position should be regarding the partisan races for the November election. We recommend that people BOYCOTT the statewide partisan contests in the November election. (Specifically, the following 7 statewide offices: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Insurance Commissioner.) And also most of the other partisan offices: U.S. Congress, State Senate, State Assembly (unless you decide to vote in the District 15 contest - see writeup), and State Board of Equalization.
Please also note that specific information about the candidates running in these races was provided in our June primary Voter Guide, which is available on the internet, at: http://acgreens.wordpress.com/voter-guides/.
Boycotting the statewide partisan races is not much of a sacrifice, since only candidates of the two major wings of the money party will be on the ballot. We hope that a visible drop in the vote totals in these races will make a statement against Prop. 14.
In addition, California, as the Green Party has done for many years, also needs to start looking at proven alternatives to the failing electoral system we currently have. For example, most of western Europe uses the “proportional representation” election system with great success, and with high voter turnout that often exceeds 80 percent. (For more details, please see: http://www.fairvote. org/reforms/fair-representation-voting/).
We do want to be absolutely clear that we are NOT asking people not to vote at all. There are important ballot measures and worthwhile local non-partisan candidates that are worth supporting. So please DO VOTE—but with the exception of the above-listed partisan races!
------------
For more information on Top Two see:
Monstrous Ruling in CA Case Challenging Top Two
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/27/18720425.php
and
California’s Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals
by Ellen Brown
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/10/18757172.php
For more information:
http://acgreens.wordpress.com/voter-guides/
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Jerry Brown supports fracking, but he doesn't support single-payer health care, he vetoed a bill to help California have a public bank, and he wants to build huge tunnels to ship water south for agribusiness, which would destroy the delta. He clearly, obviously is taking this state in the wrong direction! I will never, ever vote for him! (And by the way, why don't we at least get to write-in an alternative candidate? How can you possibly call this a democracy if you only get to choose between just two candidates -- with both of them being from corporate-controlled political parties?!).
PLEASE DO VOTE as the propositions need your vote. As to the candidates, SKIP ALL REGISTERED DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS, regardless of whether their office is non-partisan or not, as they represent the same capitalist class. They proudly state they have no difference in foreign policy, and thus they cannot have any difference at home since we cannot have guns and butter. They are the twin parties of war and fascism, including every candidate being 100% pro-Israel, the American military base in the Middle East to protect US oil profits, paid for by the same capitalist corporations to carry out the same capitalist agenda: maximization of profits for the capitalist class. The Democrats only exist to make sure we never vote Red (socialist) or Green, so they mouth a few decent phrases at election time, but when elected, carry out the same capitalist agenda as the Republicans as that is what the capitalist corporations paid them to do. Jerry Brown is obvious as he is and has always been a member of the capitalist class. No millionaire can represent the workingclass, the 80% of us who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year. Less obvious, but with the same agenda, are the local "non-partisan" races and the State Assembly and Senate. The easiest way to see it all is their reaction to the latest US/Israel massacre of Palestinians this past summer. NOT ONE Democrat running in any state or local race had anything to say in support of the Palestinians. The US Congress, both houses, is 100% pro-Israel, and that includes the phony socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A good litmus test is their position on Zionist Israel.
This writer does not agree with all of the positions of Peace and Freedom Party on the propositions but every proposition is worth voting on. You are needed and you have a responsibility to vote for those who cannot, such as prisoners, and the vast majority of the workingclass who have insufficient education to comprehend the voter handbook and thus never vote in any election. People died for our right to vote and we must exercise our right to vote if we are to have it at all.
Recommendations:
NO ON ALL BONDS, SALES TAXES, PARKING METERS, TOWING FINES, ANTI-FOURTH AMENDMENT RED LIGHT RUNNING CAMERAS; DIVERSION SCHEMES AND GAMBLING.
CALIFORNIA: No on 1, 2, 48; Yes on all the rest.
SAN FRANCISCO: No on A, E and I; Yes on all the rest.
Propositions-SAN FRANCISCO
No on A-a bond. Tenants can be forced to pay for bonds.
Yes on B for public transportation.
Yes on C for education and youth programs
Yes on D for labor.
No on E-San Francisco-effectively a sales tax, regressive and anti-workingclass by definition, and a SLUSH FUND supported by most of the Board of Stupidvisors of San Francisco, all Democrats, demonstrating TOTAL CONTEMPT for the people of San Francisco. This city and its Democratic Party machine views the people of San Francisco and visitors as suckers to be milked dry.
http://www.affordablesf.com/
http://www.affordablesf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SanFran-Report-Sugar-Bev-Tax.pdf
Yes on F
http://www.pier70sf.com/
Yes on G-stop the evictions. There have been 10,000 evictions under the Ellis Act since 1997.
http://www.speculationfreesf.com/
Yes on H-No artificial grass and late night stadium lights in Golden Gate Park
No on I No artificial grass and late night stadium lights in Golden Gate Park
Yes on J-Minimum Wage Increase
http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Referred_Measure,_Proposition_J_(November_2014)
Yes on K-suggestion of affordable housing-where have they been?
http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Additional_Affordable_Housing_Policy,_Proposition_K_(November_2014)
Yes on L. There is no adequate public transportation outside San Francisco, so almost 80% of San Franciscans have cars. If you want to change that fact, you have to transfer the entire military budget to all social services, including public transportation. Parking meters are by definition a REGRESSIVE TAX, and should never be used for funding a city, as they are now. Parking and towing tickets are also outrageous and REGRESSIVE TAXES. Paying $74 in downtown SF and $64 elsewhere AND UP for a parking ticket, making San Francisco the worst in the nation when it comes to parking tickets is outrageous. Paying the high cab fare and $557 for the towing fine to retrieve your car is GRAND LARCENY, and sends EVERYONE WHO CAN AWAY FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Another person on the website below paid $533 for the tow truck, which sit around like predators in the Financial District, plus $110 for a parking ticket IS DESPICABLE. THEY EVEN TOW SCOOTERS for $430. AVOIDING SAN FRANCISCO IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE IN THE BAY AREA DO. The rest of the Bay Area has excellent restaurants, stores; and entertainment. If you do not work, go to school or live in San Francisco, there is very little reason to be in San Francisco. See:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/autoreturn-san-francisco (Please read ALL the complaints on this site.)
and
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-parking-fines-to-rise-Monday-4638367.php
and
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/09/san-francisco-autoreturn-tow-tourism.html?page=all
The Anti-Fourth Amendment Red Light Running Cameras can result in an outrageous $490 fine statewide, and most people who run the red light do so accidentally, if at all, since the equipment can be wrong. Basing an economy on tickets and meters is REACTIONARY since this is a REGRESSIVE TAX. Taxing the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year, with the progressive income tax, is how this city, state and country should function.
CALIFORNIA
No on Prop 1-a bond
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)#Opponents
No on Prop 2-theft of funds for schools
http://www.2badforkids.org/
From the No on 2 website:
This is a perfect example of why children always come last in Sacramento (lest we forget, we are 50th by a LARGE margin in student-teacher, student-counselor AND student-librarian ratios, not to mention at or near the bottom in the nation in per pupil funding - yes even AFTER Proposition 30). Children have no lobby, and no money. And they cannot vote. They need us to be our voice. Do you want to give children a voice? Vote NO on Prop 2, for starters.
Proposition 2 breeches the minimum guarantee Californians made to our schoolchildren – a guarantee that the Governor and the Legislature assured schools would protect them. Remember, the state diverts BILLIONS of local school property taxes that are allocated to public education each year -- $8.4 billion this year alone -- to pay its debts.
Now the State is saying it won’t necessarily replace those funds. That’s unfair. As if that were not already devastating to schools, the Legislature decided to require local school districts to spend all but three weeks of their savings the minute the state saves a nickel. It did this without public comment or LAO analysis. We see this as unfair to schools and schoolchildren and extraordinarily fiscally irresponsible.
Yes on 45 for healthcare
http://www.yeson45.org/yes-prop-45
Yes on 46 for healthcare
http://www.yeson46.org/facts/
Yes on 47
http://safetyandschools.com/
No on 48-another gambling initiative. Gambling is ALWAYS taking from the needy and giving to the greedy.
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_48,_Referendum_on_Indian_Gaming_Compacts_(2014)
This writer does not agree with all of the positions of Peace and Freedom Party on the propositions but every proposition is worth voting on. You are needed and you have a responsibility to vote for those who cannot, such as prisoners, and the vast majority of the workingclass who have insufficient education to comprehend the voter handbook and thus never vote in any election. People died for our right to vote and we must exercise our right to vote if we are to have it at all.
Recommendations:
NO ON ALL BONDS, SALES TAXES, PARKING METERS, TOWING FINES, ANTI-FOURTH AMENDMENT RED LIGHT RUNNING CAMERAS; DIVERSION SCHEMES AND GAMBLING.
CALIFORNIA: No on 1, 2, 48; Yes on all the rest.
SAN FRANCISCO: No on A, E and I; Yes on all the rest.
Propositions-SAN FRANCISCO
No on A-a bond. Tenants can be forced to pay for bonds.
Yes on B for public transportation.
Yes on C for education and youth programs
Yes on D for labor.
No on E-San Francisco-effectively a sales tax, regressive and anti-workingclass by definition, and a SLUSH FUND supported by most of the Board of Stupidvisors of San Francisco, all Democrats, demonstrating TOTAL CONTEMPT for the people of San Francisco. This city and its Democratic Party machine views the people of San Francisco and visitors as suckers to be milked dry.
http://www.affordablesf.com/
http://www.affordablesf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SanFran-Report-Sugar-Bev-Tax.pdf
Yes on F
http://www.pier70sf.com/
Yes on G-stop the evictions. There have been 10,000 evictions under the Ellis Act since 1997.
http://www.speculationfreesf.com/
Yes on H-No artificial grass and late night stadium lights in Golden Gate Park
No on I No artificial grass and late night stadium lights in Golden Gate Park
Yes on J-Minimum Wage Increase
http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Referred_Measure,_Proposition_J_(November_2014)
Yes on K-suggestion of affordable housing-where have they been?
http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Additional_Affordable_Housing_Policy,_Proposition_K_(November_2014)
Yes on L. There is no adequate public transportation outside San Francisco, so almost 80% of San Franciscans have cars. If you want to change that fact, you have to transfer the entire military budget to all social services, including public transportation. Parking meters are by definition a REGRESSIVE TAX, and should never be used for funding a city, as they are now. Parking and towing tickets are also outrageous and REGRESSIVE TAXES. Paying $74 in downtown SF and $64 elsewhere AND UP for a parking ticket, making San Francisco the worst in the nation when it comes to parking tickets is outrageous. Paying the high cab fare and $557 for the towing fine to retrieve your car is GRAND LARCENY, and sends EVERYONE WHO CAN AWAY FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Another person on the website below paid $533 for the tow truck, which sit around like predators in the Financial District, plus $110 for a parking ticket IS DESPICABLE. THEY EVEN TOW SCOOTERS for $430. AVOIDING SAN FRANCISCO IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE IN THE BAY AREA DO. The rest of the Bay Area has excellent restaurants, stores; and entertainment. If you do not work, go to school or live in San Francisco, there is very little reason to be in San Francisco. See:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/autoreturn-san-francisco (Please read ALL the complaints on this site.)
and
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-parking-fines-to-rise-Monday-4638367.php
and
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/09/san-francisco-autoreturn-tow-tourism.html?page=all
The Anti-Fourth Amendment Red Light Running Cameras can result in an outrageous $490 fine statewide, and most people who run the red light do so accidentally, if at all, since the equipment can be wrong. Basing an economy on tickets and meters is REACTIONARY since this is a REGRESSIVE TAX. Taxing the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year, with the progressive income tax, is how this city, state and country should function.
CALIFORNIA
No on Prop 1-a bond
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)#Opponents
No on Prop 2-theft of funds for schools
http://www.2badforkids.org/
From the No on 2 website:
This is a perfect example of why children always come last in Sacramento (lest we forget, we are 50th by a LARGE margin in student-teacher, student-counselor AND student-librarian ratios, not to mention at or near the bottom in the nation in per pupil funding - yes even AFTER Proposition 30). Children have no lobby, and no money. And they cannot vote. They need us to be our voice. Do you want to give children a voice? Vote NO on Prop 2, for starters.
Proposition 2 breeches the minimum guarantee Californians made to our schoolchildren – a guarantee that the Governor and the Legislature assured schools would protect them. Remember, the state diverts BILLIONS of local school property taxes that are allocated to public education each year -- $8.4 billion this year alone -- to pay its debts.
Now the State is saying it won’t necessarily replace those funds. That’s unfair. As if that were not already devastating to schools, the Legislature decided to require local school districts to spend all but three weeks of their savings the minute the state saves a nickel. It did this without public comment or LAO analysis. We see this as unfair to schools and schoolchildren and extraordinarily fiscally irresponsible.
Yes on 45 for healthcare
http://www.yeson45.org/yes-prop-45
Yes on 46 for healthcare
http://www.yeson46.org/facts/
Yes on 47
http://safetyandschools.com/
No on 48-another gambling initiative. Gambling is ALWAYS taking from the needy and giving to the greedy.
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_48,_Referendum_on_Indian_Gaming_Compacts_(2014)
Somehow a candidate was put up for mayor in Oakland who has no real constituency or support and was terribly divisive, to say the least, in Occupy Oakland.
The Greens have yet to account for how Shake Anderson became their guy in Oakland this time around. They could find no one better in all of Oakland? That's hard to believe.
The Greens have yet to account for how Shake Anderson became their guy in Oakland this time around. They could find no one better in all of Oakland? That's hard to believe.
It is unjust to hold every person who identifies as an Green Party member in our county because you have issue with one candidate that one group of greens endorsed. He will be the first to tell you how little support he has received and there are other articles that say the same.
I am also a green and running as a write-in candidate for people's district 6, I live in the gateway to DEO, taught at parker elementary, and have deep love for this community. I encourage people to check my blog email me with any questions on my political resume and just look at my literature. if you are from the east you may see me handing out voter guides or walking neighborhoods.
http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014-fall
I am also a green and running as a write-in candidate for people's district 6, I live in the gateway to DEO, taught at parker elementary, and have deep love for this community. I encourage people to check my blog email me with any questions on my political resume and just look at my literature. if you are from the east you may see me handing out voter guides or walking neighborhoods.
http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2014-fall
For more information:
http://cruzthinks.blogspot.com/2014/10/wri...
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