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A dual focus. The first focus will be on the results of last month’s primary election, especially with respect to the positions we took in our Green Voter Guide (see: https://acgreens.wordpress.com/voter-guides/ ). We’ll discuss election surprises (such as Nikki Bas’s substantial lead over John Bauters for County Supervisor, and Kathryn Lybarger’s 4th place finish behind Arreguin, Beckles, and Kalb, for State Senate); as well as disappointments (including Jennifer Esteen’s loss to Nate Miley for County Supervisor, Lupe Angulo’s loss to Janevette Cole for County School Board, and Katie Porter’s distant 3rd place finish in the U.S. Senate contest). And we’ll also discuss the victories, such as the passage of all of the ballot measures we endorsed, Margot Smith’s “Top Two” qualification for State Assembly, Angela Normand’s re-election to the County School Board, and Mark Fickes win for Superior Court Judge.
Our second focus will be on moving forward to the November general election, including the “runoff elections” between Jovanka Beckles and Jesse Arreguin for State Senate, and between Nikki Bas and John Bauters for County Supervisor. And we’ll also cover the City Council and School Board elections in Berkeley and in Oakland, Berkeley’s Mayoral race, and of course the Presidential contest.
Please join us tonight at this key moment for our collective future. As we wrote in our most recent Green Voter Guide, this is truly a year of monumental elections.
Bill Balderston is a Green Party County Council member and a regular contributor to our “Green Voter Guide”. He has been a long-time leader and organizer with the OEA, the Oakland teachers’ union, and he is also active with Alameda Labor Council, East Bay DSA, and System Change, Not Climate Change. He has been involved with peace and anti-imperialist organizing, on Vietnam, South Africa, Palestine, and Central America.
Brian Donahue is a longtime Green Party member and contributor to our “Green Voter Guide”. He has also been an activist on school and local government issues for many years, and in 2022 was a candidate for the Emeryville School Board. Brian was a co-founder of Residents United for a Livable Emeryville (RULE), which was able to elect every City Council member during their 14-year existence, and he also is the editor of the Emeryville Tattler news blog.
Greg Jan has served on the Alameda County Council for many years and is the coordinator of our “Green Voter Guide”. He is also a member of the state party’s Coordinating Committee and is co-chair of its Candidates Committee. He helped to organize the East Bay Green Alliance back in 1985 and in the early 1990’s helped with the founding of our state party. Since that time, he has also worked on a number of Green Party campaigns, including for Dona Spring, Dan Hamburg, Peter Camejo, Aimee Allison, Laura Wells, and Jill Stein.
Negeene Mosaed is deeply engaged in progressive grassroots organizing in Berkeley. She is the Chair of the Berkeley Tenants Union, serves on the steering committee of Berkeley Citizens Action, and in 2022 was a candidate for Berkeley’s Rent Board. She is of Iranian ancestry and has deep roots with the Iranian people’s movement for liberation. Negeene also is a member of Friends of Adeline and the owner of Berkeley Community Physical Therapy, the only clinic serving Medi-Cal and Medicare, and most types of insurance, and having the lowest cash pay rate in the greater Bay Area, as a commitment to serve and provide the highest quality of care to all community members. Most recently, Negeene has been involved in organizing for a ceasefire resolution in Palestine, at the Berkeley city Council, and is one of the lead organizers of this growing and very active movement in Berkeley.
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