<html><head></head><body name="Mail Message Editor" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">To the </font></span><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">GA</font></span>/SGA</font></span><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-
serif; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">/CCWG</font></span><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">/</font></span>CC</font></span></font></span></font></span>: <div class="yui_3_13_0_1_1384274672017_108201" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span yui_3_13_0_1_1384274672017_108202"><br></span></div><div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">At the regular County Council meeting of the Green Party of Al
ameda County (GPAC), on November 10, 2013, we agreed, by consensus, that we consider both Deacon Alexander and Luis Rodriguez to be qualified to represent the GPCA as candidates for Governor (in the 2014 election). Specifically, we think it would be great for <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">both of them</span> to be campaigning as endorsed Green Party Governor candidates next year. We therefore would like a choice to be added so that SGA delegates can co-endorse, or dual-endorse, both Deacon and Luis. (And since this will be a ranked-choice vote, providing this option won't hurt anyone's preferences, rather, it will be fully inclusive of the complete range of voting possibilities). <br><div><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span">Because it is unlikely that any of our statewide candidates will advance past the Primary to the November 2014 General Election,
the Primary season is our candidates' chance to address the public in the role of candidate. It would benefit the Green Party for five candidates, rather than four, to be able to play that role. This is in the Green Party spirit of "more voices, more choices." Let's expand our horizons and give ourselves the option -- and the potential -- of <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">both</span> </span><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">Deacon Alexander and Luis Rodriguez jointly being our officially endorsed Green Party Governor candidates.<br></font></span><div><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span">Jan Arnold<div><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span">For the GPAC County Council</span></div><div><span class="yiv5176615354Apple-style-span"><br></span></div></span>
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