November 2008 Plan C Endorsement Slate - Voter Guide
Based on votes by our members, the following are Plan C's endorsements for the November 2008 election.
We encourage you to support these moderate candidates and ballot measures. Have discussions with your friends, neighbors and family. Let them know where you stand and who you are voting for. And by all means cast your vote on November 4 so your voice can be heard at City Hall.
Ranked Choice Voting - USE IT We encourage you to use the ranked-choice voting option in the SF supervisor elections. In most cases, it makes sense to vote for more than one candidate, to make sure your voice counts.
Ted Loewenberg 16.OCT.09 Confused about the best voting strategy with ranked choice voting? We recently saw the best explanation ever of how to effectively cast your votes under ranked choice voting. Plan C member Ted Loewenberg wrote the piece below for the Small Property Owners newsletter, and has graciously agreed to let us reproduce it here. We recommend that you follow Ted's advice to maximize the chance that your vote will count!
About 27% of voters in 2004 and 2006 San Francisco supervisorial elections didn't have to bother casting a vote at all. Why? Because they "exhausted their ballots" and thus did not help to decide who was actually elected Supervisor in their district. "Exhausted ballot" is the Dept. of Elections' term for casting all three of your votes for candidates where none of those people were among the contenders when a winner attained a 50% plus one majority. Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), adopted by the City in 2002, has effectively kept one quarter to one third of the voters out of the decision making process. [read more]
Meet a D11 Candidate for Supervisor - Ahsha Safai
Meet a D3 Candidate for Supervisor - Joe Alioto Jr.
Meet a D1 Candidate for Supervisor - Sue Lee
We can't all get to see the candidates speak at a rally, a forum or a debate so we at Plan C have pulled together videos from several of the candidates running this November to give you more of an intimate look into their races.
Vote On Final November 08 Election Endorsements
The Plan C
Board has reviewed the final ballot measures and candidates for the San
Francisco School Board and Community College Board for the upcoming
November 2008 election.
We invite all members of Plan C to cast their votes on these recommendations by clicking here to place your vote.
Only paid Plan C members' votes will count toward the formal Plan C
endorsement but we welcome input from all members, so please feel free
to vote whether you are a paid member or not.
Click here to view the final endorsement slate for the SF Supervisor races.
If
you have made a minimum $25 donation to Plan C this year you are a paid
member. If you are unsure of your membership status email us at info@plancsf.org.
Plan C Sponsors School Board Candidates Forum
Plan C, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd and Supervisor Carmen Chu invite you to a School Board Candidates Forum, Thursday September 25.
You will have a chance to hear from those running for school board and have the opportunity to ask them questions directly. Information tables will be provided where you can talk further with the candidates and pick up their campaign information
Translation services will be provided and if you would like to bring your kids, we'll provide coloring tools and other fun stuff to play with in the auditorium!
Please join us for what is sure to be an informational evening.
School Board Candidate Forum Thursday, September 25th Lincoln High School Auditorium 2162 24th Avenue @ Quintara 6:30-8:30 pm
Group Formed to Register 10,000 New SF Voters
The
Coalition for Responsible Growth (CRG), Plan C and other organizations created
the "10K Strong campaign" to identify 10,000 voters in San Francisco
and turn them out to vote for real change. The CRG and Plan C have teamed up with
other organizations to help turn out the vote.
Through door-to-door canvassing and voter contact, they will identify
10,000 San Franciscans and ensure that they vote in November. They are
fed up with business as usual at City Hall - it is time to emphasize
common sense solutions that put policy over politics.
"We started the '10K Strong campaign' to find and engage
10,000 like minded residents throughout San Francisco," said CRG
President Rodrigo Santos. "We are identifying people willing to roll up
their sleeves on everyday issues important to most San Franciscans. We
will engage them in the political process in order to put an end to the
ideological approach that exists in City Hall."
"We represent the silent majority of San Franciscans who
cannot attend Board hearings every week due to our jobs and families
and felt it was about time our collective voices were heard."
For more information about the "10K Strong" campaign visit www.10kstrong.org
There will be much written about the candidate races and ballot measures as we get closer to November, but it is already beginning. Check out some of the current news articles that are starting to flood the papers regarding issues such as legalized prostitution, neighborhood schools, election public financing and the antics of the DCCC. [read more]
