[Sosfbay-discuss] Jim Griffith for Sunnyvale, CA Council

[Tian Harter]

I think we should either invite both of them to speak at the beginning
of our next county meeting or host a "Sunnyvale Greens Forum" or
something like that for picking an endorsement among them. If we
do the latter we gotta do some work to build a crowd and so forth.

Tian

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
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