[Iowa-dx] Some Green elections results - California Greens winning elected office on November 7th

[hhart@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu]

compiled from whatever I saw today - the biggest deal in CA was the =20
Green mayor of Richmond.

there's more, of course - check out the link and see how Greens did =20
around the country....




----- Forwarded message from mfeinstein@feinstein.org -----
     Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:01:04 -0800
     From: Mike Feinstein <mfeinstein@feinstein.org>
Reply-To: mfeinstein@feinstein.org


Dear all

I=E2=80=99m working on a comprehensive post-election report at this moment.

But for an initial release, below are the eighteen California Greens who
were elected on November 7th, out of a total of 59 Greens who ran.  (For
all of calendar 2006, there were 20 California Greens who were elected,
out of a total of 72 candidates.)

Of course, all election results are found on
http://www.greens.org/elections, with final vote totals to be posted
there over the next few days and weeks as all the provisional and
absentee votes are counted.


Gayle McLaughlin
Mayor (Richmond, Alameda County)
Place: 1, 3 running for 1 seat
6243 votes, 37.24%

Alan Drusys
City Council (Yucaipa, San Bernadino County)
Incumbent
Place: 1 , 3 running for 2 seats
4615 votes, 33.87%

Larry Robinson
City Council (Sebastopol, Sonoma County)
Incumbent
3 running for 3 seats

Lauren Sinott
City Council (Point Arena, Mendocino County)
Incumbent
2 running for 2 seats

Dona Spring
City Council, District 4 (Berkeley, Alameda County)
Incumbent
Place: 1, 2 running for 1 seat
2185 votes, 70.76%

John Rizzo
Community College District, San Francisco (San Francisco, San Francisco
County)
Place: 3 , 6 running for 3 seats
47422 votes, 17.66%

Jane Kim
Board of Education (San Francisco, San Francisco County)
Place: 1, 15 running for 3 seats
44250 votes, 13.89%

Paul Franklin
School Board, Live Oak School District (Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County)
Incumbent
Place: 2 , 4 running for 3 seats
2197 votes, 26.56%

Herb Gura
School Board, Konocti Unified (Lower Lake, Lake County)
Incumbent
Place 3, 6 running for 3 seats
1966 votes, 19.6%

DeOnne Noel
Board of Education, Twin Ridges Elementary (Nevada City, Nevada County)
Incumbent
Place: 2 , 3 running for 2 seats
273 votes, 28.89%

Jim Smith
School Board of Trustees, Canyon (Canyon Township, Contra Costa County)
Incumbent
5 running for 5 seats

Rebecca Kaplan
Transit Board, At-Large (Oakland, Alameda County)
Incumbent
Place: 1 , 2 running for 1 seat
143056 votes, 82.59%

Howard Chong
Rent Stabilization Board (Berkeley, Alameda County)
Incumbent
Place: 1 , 5 running for 5 seats
12180 votes, 21.36%

Chris Kavanagh
Rent Stabilization Board (Milpitas, Alameda County)
Incumbent
Place: 2 , 5 running for 5 seats
12010 votes, 21.06%

Lisa Stephens
Rent Stabilization Board (Berkeley, Alameda County)
Place: 4, 5 running for 5 seats
10722 votes, 18.8%

Pam Webster
Rent Stabilization Board (Berkeley, Alameda County)
Place: 5, 5 running for 5 seats
10196 votes, 17.88%

Bruce Sturm
Fire District, North San Juan Protection (Nevada County)
Incumbent
3 running for 3 seats

William Bretz
Planning Group, Seat 8 (Dehesa) Crest/Dehesa/Harrison Canyon/Granite
Hills (San Diego County)
Incumbent