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P&F Campaigns in San Francisco

Local Candidates

State Senate

Ian Grimes is the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for State Senate in the 3rd District, which includes the eastern half of San Francisco, all of Marin County, and part of Sonoma County. He came in third of four candidates, behind the Democrat, Carol Midgden, who was elected and the Republican, but ahead of the Libertarian. As of November 12th, he received 5,975 votes (3.40%) in San Francisco, of 10,465 (3.1%) in the district.

U.S. House of Representatives

Leilani Dowell is the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in the 8th District, which consists of all except the southwestern part of San Francisco. She finished third of four candidates, behind the Democratic incumbent, Nancy Pelosi, who was re-elected, and the Republican, but ahead of the Green write-in candidate. As of November 12th, she received 9,202 votes (3.46%).

In addition, the San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party has endorsed the Green Party candidate, Pat Gray, who is running in the 12th District, which includes the southwestern part of San Francisco and much of San Mateo County. For more information, see Pat's website at www.patgrayforcongress.org. She came in third of four candidates, behind the incumbent Democrat, Tom Lantos, who was elected and the Republican, but ahead of the Libertarian. As of November 12th, she received 7,294 votes (12.33%) in San Francisco, of 22,133 (9.1%) in the district.

State Assembly

There are no Peace and Freedom Party candidates for State Assembly in San Francisco.

Local Non-partisan Offices

The San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party endorsed Steve Zeltzer, one of its members, in his campaign for Supervisor from District 9. For more information, see Steve's website at www.stevefor9.org.

Since this was the first time out for Ranked Choice Voting, which is a method of voting strongly supported by Peace and Freedom, there was a strong feeling that we should have a second place recommendation. Therefore, we voted to endorse Renee Saucedo for the number two position. She is a long-time organizer for immigrant rights, has been running a very strong campaign, and is NOT a Democrat (she's a Green.) "Bullet voting" for Steve Zeltzer only would not help Steve's chance of election, as second and third choice votes will only be counted if Steve is eliminated from the race before any candidate has a majority. A second choice vote for Saucedo could be viewed as an opportunity to vote a second time, in an "instant runoff", against the incumbent, Ammiano, who is increasingly out of sync with this progressive district. P&F looks forward to continuing to build a progressive majority voting bloc for the future in San Francisco.

The incumbent, Tom Ammiano, was elected with a majority of first choice votes. In the first (and only) round of counting, Zeltzer finished fifth of six candidates, with, as of November 12th, 790 votes (3.24%), and Saucedo finished second of six candidates with 5,399 votes (22.12%).

We are also recommended a vote for Mark Sanchez, a Green running for re-election to the SF School Board. Mark has been leading the fight for real education reform within the SF Unified School District and doing an admirable job of fending off the efforts of political opportunist Heather Hiles (appointed to the Board by the Mayor.) Please give him your vote.

Sanchez was re-elected finishing fourth of twelve candidates running for four seats with 91,430 votes (12.11%), and Hiles was defeated, finishing fifth, 5,770 votes behind Sanchez as of November 12th.

Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees

The elected members of the Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees from San Francisco are:

Local Measures

There are a number of local and regional measures that will be on the ballot November 2nd in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party has taken a position on most of them:

Statewide Candidates

President of the United States

The Peace and Freedom Party's presidential ticket, chosen at our state convention, held the weekend of July 30th and August 1st in Los Angeles, consists of Leonard Peltier for President of the U.S. and Janice Jordan for Vice-President of the U.S.

The Peltier/Jordan ticket came in fifth of six tickets on the ballot statewide, with 24,500 votes for 0.2% as of November 12th. In San Francisco, the Peltier/Jordan ticket came in fifth with 1,119 votes for 0.32%. Write-in votes for President received 2,132 votes (0.61%) in San Francisco, so most likely the P&F ticket also finished behind the Nader/Camejo campaign in San Francisco.

United States Senator

The Peace and Freedom Party candidate for U.S. Senator is Marsha Feinland. She came in third of five candidates on the ballot statewide, as of November 12th with 213,354 votes for 1.9%. In San Francisco, she came in third, with, as of November 12th, 6,936 votes for 2.11%.

Statewide Measures

There were sixteen propositions on the statewide ballot November 2nd, assigned proposition numbers 59 to 72, plus 60A and 1A. The Peace and Freedom Party took positions on most of them.


This page was last updated on 15 November 2004.

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