From davidquinley at aol.com Thu Nov 5 13:45:01 2009 From: davidquinley at aol.com (davidquinley at aol.com) Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:45:01 -0500 Subject: [Marin-d] green-party=marin has majority 3 in fairfax co., maybe 4 latter2.Curtis Robinson, leading vote-getter for the Marin County Board of Ed.-how we miss this guy Message-ID: <8CC2C785C985D96-8FE0-E3C8@webmail-m053.sysops.aol.com> In Fairfax also if Reed goes back to being green, we 4 not just 3 majority Curtis Robinson, leading vote-getter for the Marin County Board of Ed.-how we miss this guy? i was ask again if could put pam be on the council, and shes willing to be on, because really only have a council of 5, if count how communicates with us, and does anyone know Curtis Robinson, that would make 7, hey curtis u on this email? fw:News Advisory THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA www.cagreens.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Contact: Cres Vellucci, press secretary, 916.996-9170 cvellucci at cagreens. org Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 sking at cagreens. org Greens gain majority on Bay Area city council, rack up wins in local races around California in aftermath of Tuesday's elections SACRAMENTO ? Greens captured wins in five of five local elections Tuesday night ? including one in a Bay Area city where members of the Green Party of California now hold a majority on the city council. Green Pam Hartwell-Herrero was the top vote-getter in Fairfax Town Council race, and joins Greens Larry Bragman and Lew Tremaine already on the council. It's the third time Greens have held the majority on a city council in California ? Arcata (1996-1998) and Sebastopol (2000-2006) have also had Green majorities. Other Green Party victors Tuesday included: Curtis Robinson, leading vote-getter for the Marin County Board of Education; Dana Silvernale, school board in the Northern Humboldt Union High School District; Jim Harvey and Paul Perkovic, Montara Water and Sanitary District in San Mateo County. Hartwell-Herrero' s victory in Fairfax mirrors other progressive wins in Marin County and the region, including Richmond where Gayle McLaughlin is the elected mayor. Greens hold at least 39 elected and appointed posts in the state, including the offices of Supervisor in San Francisco, mayor in Richmond, Marina City and Sebastopol and numerous city council and education boards. In other races of note to the GPCA, Green Jeremy Cloward finished third in the 10th Congressional District special election, beating all but the democratic and republican candidates. "I am honored and humbled to be a part of the new establishment of local government where we understand the real issues facing our society and environment, and are not afraid to act," said Fairfax Town Council winner Hartwell-Herrero. "We will continue to represent the Green Party as a model of sustainability leadership and encourage its spread throughout the country." -30- ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Blue Cross Health Plans Quote & compare top health plans like Blue Cross, Aetna, and more! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidquinley at aol.com Fri Nov 13 10:46:12 2009 From: davidquinley at aol.com (davidquinley at aol.com) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:12 -0500 Subject: [Marin-d] we may have 2nd victory in the Novato Sanitary board election against privation with provisional ballots still to be counted Message-ID: <8CC32A8B50B0010-2218-8DEA@webmail-m028.sysops.aol.com> Novato Sanitary board race tightens Jim Welte Posted: 11/12/2009 02:19:10 PM PST The race for the third and final open seat on the Novato Sanitary District board just got closer. A count of mail-in and absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 election showed that challenger Bill Scott made up 60 votes on incumbent Bill Long, drawing to 37 votes behind him with provisional ballots still to be counted, said Elaine Ginnold, Marin County registrar of voters. Long has garnered 4,302 votes, or 15.2 percent, while Scott has tallied 4,265, or 15.1 percent. At the conclusion of election night, Scott trailed by 100 votes, and he gained only three more after initial absentee vote counts by the end of last week. "I initially didn't think there was much chance," said Scott, who was part of a three-candidate opposition slate along with Dennis Welsh, who won the election outright with 5,772 votes, or 20.4 percent. "This was the move that I needed to catch up." There are still about 1,000 to 1,500 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Marin, although it is unclear how many of those ballots are from Novato. Ginnold said she expects to be finished counting those provisional ballots by the end of the day Friday. Provisional ballots are issued at the polls to those whose eligibility to vote cannot be determined by a poll worker. "This sounds like Florida," Long said, referring to the marathon dispute over the results from that state's presidential election in 2000. "But I'm not surprised. There was a lot of campaigning at the end that brought out perhaps more Advertisement voters than otherwise." Ginnold's office is in the midst of an experimental project in conjunction with Philip Stark, a statistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, to focus on increasing the level of confidence in pre-recount elections results. The project involves manual recounts of some precincts, and Ginnold said she would be focusing on the Novato Sanitary race "because it's so close." Long and Scott would be invited to observe such a manual count next week, Ginnold said. There is no margin that would trigger an automatic full recount under California election law, but candidates can request a full recount once the results are certified, Ginnold said. Scott said he would love to join Welsh on the board in an effort to bolster their campaign to reverse the board's decision to privatize the district's wastewater treatment plant. That decision is set to be placed as a referendum on a ballot in 2010. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidquinley at aol.com Sun Nov 22 12:40:34 2009 From: davidquinley at aol.com (davidquinley at aol.com) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:40:34 -0500 Subject: [Marin-d] Lynne Stewart in Jail! Mon. Protest in SF Message-ID: <8CC39CB2CF969FC-4FB8-16594@webmail-d033.sysops.aol.com> Lynne Stewart in Jail! Protest Lynne Stewart'sincarceration! San Francisco Federal Courthouse, 7th and Mission,SF Monday, November 23, 5:00 pm For furtherinformation contact: Jeff Mackler, Coordinator, West Coast LynneStewart Defense Committee 510-268-9429 jmackler at lmi.net Mail tax freecontributions payable to National Lawyers Guild Foundation. Write inmemo box: "Lynne Stewart Defense." Mail to: Lynne StewartDefense, P.O. Box 10328, Oakland, CA 94610. http://lynnestewart.org/ source http://bapd.org/n1985.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: