[GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara County Supervisor Race

[Ray Tobey]

Wes Rolley wrote:

> it is time to do some hard thinking about who Greens should vote for 
> in the County Supervisor's races

IMHO, this question is almost irrelevant. We should be asking:

    Which candidate are we Greens going to help?
    What help are we going give?

Last time this race received 129,074 votes. Typically, a Party meeting 
here has 5 attendees. Division tells us that our votes should be worth 
about 0.0039% of the total cast. If we want to have any real effect on 
our world, we must do something more than vote.

For the first time ever in San Mateo, both candidates in this June's 
Supervisor's race have asked for the Green Party endorsement. For 
months, we heard that the progressive did not want our endorsement 
presumably because we are poisonous. But when the moderate asked for the 
endorsement, the progressive relented and also asked.

This means that someone has recognized our existence, which I consider a 
huge improvement. In the past, we've mailed our endorsements to all the 
registered Greens in the county, 4,000 or so. This action is a excellent 
start on having an effect. It might be the reason these two candidates 
asked for our endorsement this time.

- Ray