[Sosfbay-discuss] Green Focus requests post-election candidate's reports

[JamBoi]

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:03:52 -0800
From: Mike Feinstein 
Subject: [GPCA-CCWG] post-election report from Green Lake County
	School	Board candidate
To: gpca-ccwg at cagreens.org
Message-ID: <45620A28.7020609 at feinstein.org>
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folks

i am gathering material for the green focus article on our november 
elections

here is a response from one of our candidates, whom we gave $600 to
from 
the campaign support fund

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: GPCA post-election report
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:45:47 -0800
From: Herb Gura 
To: 

Herb Gura: Konocti Unified School District. Lake County, CA

This was my fourth time elected as a Trustee, although I was not 
officially registered as a Green Party member for the first run. These 
are four year terms so I have been a member of this board for 12 years 
and my win this time will mean that it will be 16 years when the term
is 
over.

During my years on the board, there have been 6 elections. Two other 
seats come up for election in the 2 year cycle in between my own 
elections. As a result, I have served with some 10 other Trustees over 
the years. None of them have been particularly progressive. I have been

on the board with Democrats and Republicans and there have been some 
battles over wedge issues.

School board elections are technically non-partisan so no party 
affiliation is listed on the ballot. But my green politics are well 
known around here. I am politically active on many levels and very 
outspoken.

This last election, my campaign was based on making the district more
eco-conscious, taking the emphasis away from No Child Left Behind,
supporting music and the arts in the schools, keeping pace with 
technology, and making physical improvements in our campuses.

My campaign spent about $1200. $600 came from the California Green 
Party, $100 came from the local Progressive Democratic Club, $200 came 
from an individual donor, and the balance from small individual
donations.

The money was spent on signs and on print ads in the local papers. The 
ads were mostly statements and endorsements from local educators and 
other well known local people.

I had the support of the local Sierra Club, the local Green Chapter,
and 
one of the unions in our school district.  I think I won because people

know me by now and I have built a base of supporters.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Feinstein [mailto:mfeinstein at feinstein.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:03 PM

Dear fellow California Greens,


Congratulations on your candidacy in the November 2006 elections.

I am writing articles about California Green candidates, for both our
state and national party newsletters.

What I looking from you is anything from a few sentences to a few
hundred words, about

- the issues you ran on
- how you campaigned/what you raised/spent
- why you won
- endorsements/coalitions/media
- role of Green Party in your campaign
- something interesting about you/your qualifications for running for
office

I don't need anything fancy - just send me text and I will edit it into
the articles.

Thanks so much,

Mike Feinstein
Santa Monica
http://www.feinstein.org

for info on Greens in the November 2006 elections, see

http://www.greens.org/elections
http://www.cagreens.org/history/elections_summary_by_year.html
http://www.cagreens.org/media/Election2006.shtml

___________________

JamBoi
Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer

"Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon)
http://dailyJam.blogspot.com


 
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