Alameda Greens call for boycott of statewide elections excluding third parties

The Alameda Greens' boycott is for the statewide PARTISAN races, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction office is "non-partisan". In fact, in their Voter Guide (on page 15, here: https://acgreens.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/gpac-vg-11-14v4.pdf) the Greens themselves say, "...we strongly urge you NOT to vote for Tuck", and "Marshall Tuck is clearly a 'corporate Democrat'." -- with their official position being, "Don't vote for Tuck". (Note: Tuck's opponent is the incumbent, Tom Torlakson, who has been endorsed by the two largest teacher's unions (the CTA and the CFT), as well as the California Nurses Association, and many others).

Maybe they should boycott their own candidate, Jason" shake" Anderson, who is running for mayor in Oakland? The guy was the center of major controversies and contentious issues during the Oakland Occupy movement, including the infamous Occupy Oakland Media article that blatantly and without merit, accused a Palestinian-Colombian Occupy activist, of being a police infiltrator, drug dealer and terrorist. Not to also mention that he has been loosely connected to various schemes and scams. Come one Alameda Greens, as a member of your party, I am extremely disappointed with "our" candidate.

If you're unhappy with a candidate -- remember we're all volunteers in the Green Party -- you could run as a candidate yourself, or make suggestions of other Greens who you think would be better and then help them to decide to run. People will listen. Greens support people who are willing to take on the incredible effort of running a campaign as an independent candidate. We are open to suggestions and we seek more candidates.

We sometimes have multiple candidates for the same position and the person whom more people support will ultimately be our candidate in the general election.

But just expressing yourself on Indybay on election day is ultimately not going to bring results -- better to get involved on the ground early on.

Personally I'm glad we had a candidate who was involved in Occupy, however imperfect he is to some. I have yet to hear of someone who did Occupy who is universally praised by all.