November 2024 endorsements
These are the SF Green Party's final endorsements for the November 2024 election. We have mailed a postcard with our endorsements to all our members. If you can donate to help cover our printing and mailing costs, please use the "donate" link to the left!
Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted. Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.
President and Vice President: Jill Stein and Butch Ware (nominated at our national convention in August)
Mayor: Aaron Peskin (#1 ranked choice), Dylan Hirsch-Shell (#2 ranked choice)
SF Board of Supervisors:
- D1: Connie Chan
- D3: Sharon Lai
- D5: Dean Preston
- D7: no endorsement
- D9: no endorsement
- D11: Ernest "EJ" Jones(#1 ranked choice), Adlah Chisti (#2 ranked choice)
District Attorney: Ryan Khojasteh
School Board: Matt Alexander, Laurance Lem Lee, Virginia Cheung
College Board: Alan Wong, Aliya Chisti
BART Board: no endorsement
Local Ballot Measures:
- NO on A: school bonds without accountability on which projects will be funded
- NO on B: bonds for various City construction projects
- YES on C: create Inspector General under the Controller's office to investigate corruption
- NO on D: eliminating many City commissions and further empowering the Mayor
- no consensus on E: task force to create future ballot measure to eliminate City commissions
- NO on F: allows retired police to work for 5 more years and get retirement pay plus salary
- YES on G: rent subsidies for low income seniors, families, and people with disabilities
- no position on H: lower retirement age for firefighters
- YES on I: retirement credits for nurses and 911 operators
- NO on J: more mayoral control over public education funds
- NO on K: environmentally damaging park next to Ocean Beach
- YES on L: ComMUNIty Transit Act (Greens gave an early endorsement and are helping gather signatures to put this on the ballot)
- NO on M: business tax reform that would kill Prop L
- NO on N: first responder student loan forgiveness fund
- YES on O: protect abortion rights in SF
State Ballot Measures:
- NO on 2: pay for school maintenance through bonds rather than state budget
- YES on 3: repeals Prop 8, the CA constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage
- NO on 4: water bond with funding for logging, ranching, and biomass-based fuel
- NO on 5: makes it easier to spend public bond money on private luxury housing
- YES on 6: reduces coercion of forced prison labor
- YES on 32: increases minimum wage
- YES on 33: allows more rent control
- NO on 34: attack on AIDS foundation
- YES on 35: tax on private insurance plans to fund Medical
- NO on 36: war on drugs, longer jail sentences for nonviolent crimes
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.
Questionnaires posted for 8/28 candidate forum
Our final endorsement meeting for the November election will be on August 28, the same night as our regular members' meeting. We'll interview candidates for School Board, College Board, BART, and DA between 6:30-8:30 pm, and then try to reach consensus on endorsements between 8:30-9:30.
Our endorsement meeting will be at our office, 2973 16th St, #300, SF - note that this is across the street from our old office in the Redstone Building. The event is open to the public and all are invited!
In order to spend more time with candidates our members want to speak with, we will only interview candidates who at least 2 active members want to invite. However, all candidates are welcome to come and listen.
Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record.
School Board: Matt Alexander,Min Chang, Virginia Cheung, Lefteris Eleftheriou, Laurance Lem Lee
College Board: Aliya Chisti, Leanna Louie, Alan Wong
BART Board: Joe Sangirardi, Edward Wright
DA: Ryan Khojasteh
Questionnaires posted for 6/26 candidate forum
Our first endorsement meeting for the November election will be on June 26, the same night as our regular members' meeting. We'll interview candidates for Mayor and Supervisor between 6:30-8:30 pm, and then try to reach consensus on endorsements between 8:30-9:30.
Candidates for other offices besides Mayor and Supervisor will be considered after the filing deadline for those offices.
Our endorsement meeting will be at our office, 2973 16th St, #300, SF - note that this is across the street from our old office in the Redstone Building. The event is open to the public and all are invited!
In order to spend more time with candidates our members want to speak with, we will only interview candidates who at least 3 active members want to invite. However, all candidates are welcome to come and listen.
Please read candidates' answers to our questionnaires in advance, so we don't ask them questions they've already answered on the record.
Mayor: Dylan Hirsch-Shell, Nelson Mei, Aaron Peskin, Shahram Shariati, Ellen Lee Zhou, Keith Freedman (received 6/28)
D1 Supe: Connie Chan
D3 Supe: Wendy Chau, Moe Jamil, Sharon Lai
D5 Supe: Autumn Looijen, Dean Preston
D7 Supe: The incumbent, Myrna Melgar, is not seeking our endorsement. Other candidates did not respond to our questionnaire.
D9 Supe: Jackie Fielder
D11 Supe: Adlah Chisti, Ernest EJ Jones
March 2024 Endorsements
These are the SF Green Party's final endorsements for the March 2024 election.
Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted. Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.
- NO on A: "Affordable" Housing Bond
- NO on B: More Police
- NO on C: Developer Tax Break
- YES on D: Ethics Reform
- NO on E: Let Cops Do Anything
- NO on F: Drug Test Poor People
- YES on G: Algebra
- NO on 1: Behavioral Health Facilities Bond
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.
Matt for Mayor 20th Anniversary Reunion
The San Francisco Green Party is proud to announce what is certain
to be the event of the year: the 20 Year Reunion of the Historic 2003
Matt Gonzalez for Mayor of San Francisco Campaign!
Reminisce with us about shared moments and amazing memories.
Re-connect with old friends. Discover recent efforts of staff and
volunteers from back in 2003.
Organized as a social event, the idea started with a volunteer
coming by our booth at the Haight Street Fair in early September.
Matt Gonzalez agreed to participate. A volunteer reserved the epic
111 Minna Gallery as our venue, which we all remember from the
headline-grabbing 2003 campaign challenging now-Governor Gavin Newsom.
- Saturday, December 9, 2023
- 111 Minna Gallery at 111 Minnna Street, (Minna is a half street between Mission and Howard Streets and Second Street and New Montgomery Streets)
- 8 pm until 11 pm
- Special Appearance by Matt Gonzalez!
- No-Host bar
- 21+
111 Minna is accessible via mass transit: BART Montgomery Station,
in addition to various MUNI lines.
We ask for a $10-20 donation (sliding scale) to cover our costs;
however, nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions or suggestions.
We are mailing a postcard to all current Greens to let them know
about the event; if you can help contribute to mailing costs, please
donate using the "Donate" link on the left.
November 2022 Endorsements
These are the SF Green Party's final endorsements for the November 2022 election. We have mailed a postcard with our endorsements to all our members. If you can donate to help cover our printing and mailing costs, please use the "donate" link to the left!
Our complete Green Voter Guide is now posted. Click "read more" to see full explanations of the reasons behind our endorsements.
- District Attorney: John Hamasaki
- Public Defender: Rebecca Susan Feng Young
- Community College Board: William Walker
- Board of Education: No endorsements
- BART Board: No endorsement
- No endorsement
- D2 Supervisor: No endorsement
- D4 Supervisor: No endorsement
- D6 Supervisor: No endorsement
- D8 Supervisor: No endorsement
- D10 Supervisor: Shamann Walton
- NO on A: Limits increases in pensions for some City retirees
- NO on B: Reverses voter-approved changes to create Department of Sanitation and Streets
- YES on C: Homelessness oversight commission
- NO on D: Redefines luxury housing as "affordable"
- NO on E: Skips environmental review of "affordable" housing development
- YES on F: Extend library preservation fund
- YES on G: Minor increase to school funding
- NO on H: Eliminates elections in odd numbered years, giving more power to the Mayor
- NO on I: Cars everywhere
- YES on J: Car-free JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park
- NO on K: "Amazon Tax" that wouldn't apply to Amazon (removed from ballot)
- YES on L: Keep sales tax to fund transit
- YES on M: Tax on keeping residential apartments vacant
- YES on N: Take over Golden Gate Park garage
- YES on O: Parcel tax to fund City College (restoring some of the classes that were cut)
- YES on 1: Protect abortion rights
- NO on 26: Regressive tax on addicts, loss of tribal sovereignty, supports animal cruelty
- NO on 27: Just like 26, but with some window dressing for homeless services
- YES on 28: Minor net increase in art and music funding for K-12 schools
- YES on 29: Another battle between SEIU-UHW and corporations that run dialysis clinics
- NO on 30: Lyft-sponsored proposition to defund public transit, subsidize electric cars and clear-cut forests
- YES on 31: Uphold the ban on flavored tobacco products
Click below to read our complete Green Voter Guide.