[GPSCC-chat] Any Greens ran in Santa Clara County?

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Mike:


       I have the list of all the registered voters in Santa Clara 
County as of last July 29, almost 800,000 names.  There were over 100 
candidates for different races in Santa Clara County.  In 2.5 hours, 
I've covered a little over 1/3 of that list.  I've written some software 
to make it easier, but it's still pretty slow. People campaign on names 
different from the name they are registered under, and some may not even 
be registered -- if that's possible.  The most interesting race I've 
seen so far has 6 candidates competing for 3 seats on the board of the 
San Benito High School district.  All of 41 people voted in that 
election.  I could not find 5 of the 6 candidates on the voter 
registration rolls.  In another case, a Khanh Tran ran for Alum Rock 
elementary school district, San José;  there are 48 Khanh Tran's in San 
José, none of them Green.  A Joe Mitchner ran for a school board in Mt. 
View.  He's registered as "Joseph Mitchner", I think.


       I'm going to quit for now.  With luck, I'll think of something to 
make it quicker tomorrow.


       So far, I found one Green:  Heather Bass was elected to the 
Gilroy Unified School District.  After I finish this task, I plan to 
contact her, congratulate her, and see if what support she might like 
from the County party.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


On 11/8/2014 7:48 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote:
> Thanks Spencer for the quick response
>
> Do any of you have an up-to-date voter registration list that you could go through for an hour and check, one-by-one, all the people who ran in non-partisan races, to see if any of them were Green
>
> I know we normally wait to see if someone calls us, but I found about 15 candidates in other counties that never contacted us, by going through the state data base and comparing to the list of local candidates in those countries
>
> but I have not been able to do that for the whole state, and am hoping some local people can do it for theirs - Sanda Everette did it in San Mateo county and we ended up finding a Green who ran for and was elected to the Pacifica City Council!
>
> Mike
>
> On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:
>
>> Dear Mike:
>>
>>
>>       I didn't check, but no one contacted the local Green party in any substantive way.
>>
>>
>>       Spencer
>>
>>
>> p.s.  A former Green, now Democrat, ran for City Council of Milpitas.  He came in 7 in a field of 8, in which the top 2 were elected.  Beyond that, I do not recall any discussion at a monthly meeting or on our local email list of a local Green candidate. I've attended and taking minutes at most of the regular monthly meetings for several years and all of them for the past 13 months at least (I have the key to where we meet, so if I'm not there, they don't meet).  I have not read all the emails, but if that had happened.
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/2014 7:31 AM, Mike Feinstein wrote:
>>> Dear Santa Clara Greens
>>>
>>> I'm putting together the GPCA's post election report and am still trying to see if any Greens ran in any counties that I was not yet aware of
>>>
>>> Did your County Greens ever check the people who ran in non-partisan races in Santa Clara County, to see if any of them were registered Greens
>>>
>>> A clean list is here - do you have your own up to date list of registered Greens in your own county?
>>>
>>> http://classic.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/scl/ballot.html
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>

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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
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San José, CA 95126
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