[Sosfbay-discuss] Jim Griffith for Sunnyvale, CA Council
Jim Stauffer
jims at greens.org
Fri Sep 11 14:09:54 PDT 2009
What we've done in the past for non-partisan offices is to ignore party
registration and just send a questionnaire to the candidates. We then rank the
responses on a 'Green scale' and publicize the results.
Jim
Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> I live in Sunnyvale. I have been disturbed by many things the Sunnyvale
> City Council has done. I care a great deal about getting new people on
> the council who will reflect my concerns. I read the campaign
> information about Jim Griffith and Penny Kelly. Neither of them is a
> Green, but one is a friend of a Green. I'm not sure that is enough to
> make me endorse him without actually talking to him. And if we are going
> to talk to him, I think it only fair to talk to his opponent.
> Caroline
>
> --- On *Fri, 9/11/09, Seth Alan Woolley /<seth at swoolley.homeip.net>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth at swoolley.homeip.net>
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Jim Griffith for Sunnyvale, CA Council
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 3:17 AM
>
> Hi South Bay Greens,
>
> My coworker, Jim Griffith is running for Sunnyvale City Council.
>
> He's chair of the library board right now.
>
> http://jimforcouncil.org/
>
> http://twitter.com/JimGriffith_SV
>
> He's already racked up endorsements from, for example:
>
> California League of Conservation Voters
> Sierra Club
> Silicon Valley Democratic Club
>
> He's progressive and a stamp collector. We call him stamp boy at work.
>
> You should probably interview him for an endorsement.
>
>
>
> http://www.smartvoter.org/2009/11/03/ca/scl/race/5253/
>
> This is the opponent:
>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/pennykelly
>
> www.ElectPennyKelly.com
>
> Standard right-wing rhetoric, e.g.:
>
> "Whether from loss of employment, a business that's struggling or
> fear that
> the highspeed rail or downtown building will take your property."
>
>
>
> Jim hired me at my current job, so he must make some good decisions. :)
>
> If it means anything, I'm Secretary of the Pacific Green Party
> of Oregon and Treasurer of the Portland Metro Chapter.
>
> I was the Oregon Secretary of State candidate in 2008.
>
> I don't know your policies regarding registration and endorsements.
>
> I'm pretty sure he's registered Democrat. He's no Blue Dog though.
>
> Seth
>
> --
> S E T H A L A N W O O L L E Y
> ───────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────
> pacificgreens.org: Secretary and SCC Member│deCarta, Inc. NavSDK
> Local: pdxpgp.org: Treasurer and Web Editor│Sr Software Engineer
> ──────────────────┬────────────────────────┼────────────────────
> 3403 NE Stanton St│gnupg.org key C6ED433C =│http://swoolley.org/
> Portland, OR 97212│ACB3 39BE B9A2 12A0 C073│Cell: (503) 953-3943
> USA, 97212-2744 03│4CDF 7F70 DAC6 C6ED 433C│45.5438 N 122.6295 W
> ──────────────────┴─────────────┬──────────┴────────────────────
> facebook + twitter → sethwoolley│swoolley ← Linked-In + Freenode
> ┃┃╻┃╻╻┃╻╻╻┃╻╻┃╻┃╻╻╻┃┃╻╻┃╻┃╻╻┃╻┃┃╻╻╻┃╻┃╻╻┃╻┃╻╻┃┃┃╻╻╻╻╻┃┃╻┃╻┃╻╻┃
>
> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org>
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
More information about the sosfbay-discuss
mailing list