From davidquinley at aol.com  Wed Nov  9 17:57:01 2011
From: davidquinley at aol.com (Greenartist)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 20:57:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Marin-d] Greens retain Town Council Majority in Fairfax,
 while a green loses in mill valley and rest of state
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Ovetz a green loses in mill valley http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_19293789


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davidquinley at aol.com all results http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=3751

 

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Subject: [GPCA-CCWG] GPCA ELECTION REPORT: Greens retain Town Council Majority in Fairfax in November 8th elections


http://d7.cagreens.org/news/green-election-results-november-2011



GPCA ELECTION REPORT:



Greens retain Town Council Majority in Fairfax in November 8th elections



reported by Mike Feinstein, as of 8am Wednesday, November 9th



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Four California Greens ran in municipal elections on November 8th.   

Two were elected to the Town Council in Fairfax (pop. 7,500) in Marin  

County   - incumbent Larry Bragman (http://www.bragmanforfairfax.com/)  

and first time candidate Ryan O'Neil (http://ryanforfairfax.com/).  

Bragman and O'Neil join fellow Green incumbent Pam Hartwell-Herrero 

(http://www.town-of-fairfax.org/html/bio_hartwell-herrero.html 

) to retain the Green majority on the five-member Town Council  there,  

showing that Fairfax voters believe that Greens have good ideas and  

can govern.



Fairfax Greens first achieved a Town Council  majority in 2009 when  

Harwell-Herrero was elected and joined Bragman and Green Lew Tremaine 

(http://www.town-of-fairfax.org/html/bio_tremaine.html 

), who was first elected to the council first in 1999 and served from  

1999-2011. Bragman was first elected in 2003 and was re-elected in 2007.



The Green majority in Fairfax is the third California city to have a  

Green majority on its city or town council, joining Sebastopol in  

Sonoma County from 2000 to 2008 and Arcata in Humboldt County, which  

had the world's first Green majority on any legislative body between  

1996 and 1998 and then again from 2000 to 2002.



Elsewhere Benecia Planning Commissioner Rick Ernst (http://benicia.patch.com/blog_posts/ernst-for-city-council-2011 



) finished 4th of four candidates for two seats on the Benecia City  

Council in Solano County and Terry Baum (http://terryjoanbaum.com/)  

received 1,214 first rankings (10th/15) in San Francisco's Ranked   

Choice Voting election for Mayor.  Ranked Choice Voting (http://www.fairvote.org/instant-runoff-voting 



) is an electoral reform that Greens support, where voters are able to  

rank their choices, rather than being compelled to express their  

preferences for only one candidate.



Ranked Choice Voting was first approved by San Francisco voters for  

use in San Francisco in 2004 after the work of by San Francisco Green  

Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, Green electoral reform leader Steve Hill and  

many others helped get it on the ballot and educate the city upon its  

benefits compared to traditional voting systems where voters can only  

cast their preferences for one candidate. Since its adoption in San  

Francisco (http://sfelections.org/demo/), it has spread to other  

California cities including Oakland and Berkeley (http://www.fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-in-bay-area-elections 



).



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ELECTION RESULTS



FAIRFAX TOWN COUNCIL



http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/rv/main/currentelection/results.htm

Town of Fairfax - Member, Town Council

Total Number of Precincts 5

Precincts Reporting 5  100.0 %

Vote For 2

Total Votes   3209



LARRY BRAGMAN                   1,408    43.88%

RYAN O'NEIL                             1,342    41.82%

CHRISTOPHER H. LANG           432    13.46%

Write-in Votes                                   27       0.84%



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BENECIA CITY COUNCIL

http://www.co.solano.ca.us/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=12087

Member, City Council CITY OF BENICIA

Vote for no more than 2

TOM CAMPBELL                            3,905 37.33

CHRISTINA STRAWBRIDGE         3,242 30.99

DAN SMITH                                     2,125 20.31

JAMES F. ERNST                          1,162 11.11

WRITE-IN                                               28 .027

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SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/08/MNTQ1LSFRS.DTL#ixzz1dDWJu08S



429 of 429 precincts reporting



Ed Lee (i) 44,451



John Avalos 26,447



Dennis Herrera 15,967



David Chiu 12,655



Leland Yee 10,595



Jeff Adachi 9,075



Bevan Dufty 6,704



Tony Hall 5,164



Michela Alioto-Pier 5,063



Joanna Rees 2,280



Terry Baum 1,214



Phil Ting 730



Cesar Ascarrunz 414



Wilma Pang 333



Emil Lawrence 288



Paul Currier 196

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