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June 6th P&F Results in Alameda County

Local Candidates

State Senate

There are no Peace and Freedom Party candidates for State Senate in Alameda County.

U.S. House of Representatives

Dina Padilla ran as a write-in candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for House of Representatives in the 11th Congressional District, which includes parts of Alameda County (Dublin, Pleasanton, and rural areas south of Pleasanton and of Livermore and east of Altamont Pass), as well as south-central and northeastern parts of Contra Costa County, almost all of San Joaquin County, and eastern portions of Santa Clara County. She received 0 votes in Alameda County, of 1 in the entire district.

State Assembly

Eddie Ytuarte won the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for State Assembly in the 16th District, which includes most of Oakland, all of Alameda and Piedmont, and part of Emeryville. He received 133 votes, all of which were in Alameda County.

Local Non-partisan Offices

The Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party organization did not endorse any candidates for local non-partisan offices, such as Alameda County Supervisor or Oakland Mayor, City Auditor and City Council, which were voted on in the June 6th primary election.

Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees

There were 13 members of the Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees elected from Alameda County in 2004 whose terms will expire after the June 2006 elections. In addition, several people have been appointed to the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party Central Committee whose terms will also expire at that time. We have candidates for Central Committees from two of the five Supervisorial Disticts:

  • First Supervisorial District (most of Fremont, Pleasanton and Livermore): 2 seats, no candidates, election cancelled.
  • Second Supervisorial District (Hayward, Union City, Newark, part of Fremont): 3 seats, no candidates, election cancelled.
  • Third Supervisorial District (part of Oakland from Chinatown and Jack London Square to Fruitvale, Alameda, San Leandro and San Lorenzo): 4 seats, two candidates on ballot, election open for write-ins.
    • Dave Kadlecek (Oakland) LWV page (elected with 35 votes)
    • Al Sargis (Oakland) (elected with 30 votes)
  • Fourth Supervisorial District (most of East Oakland, Castro Valley, Ashland and Cherryland, Dublin): 5 seats, no candidates, election cancelled.
  • Fifth Supervisorial District (Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, Piedmont, and much of Oakland including North Oakland, West Oakland, downtown, Adams Point and Trestle Glen): 9 seats, twelve candidates qualified for ballot and two write-ins, election should have been open for write-ins.
    • John Comly (Berkeley)
    • Tom Condit (Berkeley) (automatically placed on the Central Committees by being nominated for Insurance Commissioner)
    • Albert Dragstedt (Oakland)
    • Bob Evans (Berkeley)
    • Marsha Feinland (Berkeley) (automatically placed on the Central Committees by being nominated for United States Senator)
    • Jack Harrison (Berkeley) (automatically placed on the Central Committees by being nominated for Attorney General)
    • Norma Harrison (Berkeley)
    • Ron Hoffman (Berkeley)
    • Antonio Salas (Oakland)
    • Gerald Sanders (Oakland) (automatically placed on the Central Committees by being nominated for State Treasurer)
    • Stan Woods (Oakland)
    • Eddie Ytuarte (Oakland) (automatically placed on the Central Committees by being nominated for State Assembly)

    • Jon Crowder (Berkeley) (write-in)
    • Roger Rudd (Oakland) (write-in)

    The Alameda County Registrar of Voters office mistakenly cancelled the election for Peace and Freedom Party Central Committees in the 5th Supervisorial District, by comparing only the candidates for Central Committees only to the number of seats. We didn't learn this until our members received sample ballots in mid-May. We pointed out their error, and the county admitted that the election shouldn't have been cancelled, but said that it was too late to actually hold it as scheduled because the ballots had already been printed and some absentee and early voters had already voted. We tried to work out a way in which the candidates who would have run as write-ins could be elected to the Central Committees, but ended up just having the other 12 declared elected without an election.

Local Measures

There were a number of county, municipal and regional measures that were on the ballot June 6th in Alameda County, but the Peace and Freedom Party only considered five and took positions on none:

  • Measure A (Peralta Community College District): Authorize $390 million in bonds for the acquisition, construction, repair and equipping of facilities for the district's four colleges. Peace and Freedom did not take a position on this measure, because we generally oppose bond financing as regressive, but we realize that these are for a good purpose. The bonds passed by a vote of 97,685 to 31,421.
  • Measure B (Oakland Unified School District): Authorize $435 million in bonds for the construction and repair of facilities for Oakland public schools. Peace and Freedom did not take a position on this measure, because we generally oppose bond financing as regressive, but we realize that these are for a good purpose. The bonds passed by a vote of 62,559 to 17,672.
  • Measure E (Tracy Joint Unified School District): Authorize $51 million in bonds for the construction, modernization repair of high schools in the Tracy school district (which, while mostly in San Joaquin County, also includes some rural portions of eastern Alameda County). Peace and Freedom did not take a position on this measure, because we generally oppose bond financing as regressive, but we realize that these are for a good purpose. The bonds passed by a vote of 7,230 to 3,414 districtwide, 26 to 10 in Alameda County.
  • Measure F (Albany): Approve $96 per unit parcel tax for street paving and storm drain repairs. Peace and Freedom did not take a position on this measure, because we generally oppose parcel taxes as regressive, but we realize that this one is for a good purpose. The measure passed by a vote of 3,119 to 1,266.
  • Measure G (Albany): Approve $24 per unit parcel tax for library services. Peace and Freedom did not take a position on this measure, because we generally oppose parcel taxes as regressive, but we realize that this one is for a good purpose. The measure passed by a vote of 3,186 to 1,218.

Regional Candidate

Dave Campbell is running for Board of Equalization in the 1st Board of Equalization District, which includes all of Alameda County. He received 351 votes in Alameda County, of 1,508 in the entire district.

Statewide Candidates

The slate of Peace and Freedom Party candidates for statewide partisan public offices are:

  • Governor: Janice Jordan (3,849 statewide, 338 in Alameda County)
  • Lieutenant Governor: Stewart Alexander (3,549 statewide, 318 in Alameda County)
  • Secretary of State: Margie Akin (3,929 statewide, 350 in Alameda County)
  • Treasurer: Gerald Sanders (3,681 statewide, 339 in Alameda County)
  • Controller: Liz Barrón (4,047 statewide, 357 in Alameda County)
  • Attorney General: Jack Harrison (3,736 statewide, 335 in Alameda County)
  • Insurance Commissioner: Tom Condit (3,850 statewide, 362 in Alameda County)
  • U.S. Senator: Marsha Feinland (4,109 statewide, 368 in Alameda County)

The Peace and Freedom Party also recommended a vote for Sarah Knopp for Superintendent of Public Instruction. She is a teacher and a socialist, though not a P&F member, who came in second of five candidates with 695,372 votes (17.3%) statewide for this nominally non-partisan position. In Alameda County, she got 42,929 votes (20.7%).

Statewide Measures

There were two propositions on the statewide ballot June 6th, assigned proposition numbers 81 and 82. At its April 1st-2nd State Central Committee meeting, the Peace and Freedom Party took a position on one of measures.

  • Proposition 81 (the voter pamphlet's summary, analysis, arguments for and rebuttal, arguments against and rebuttal, and the full text are available as PDFs): "California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2006." This measure would have issued $600 million of bonds to renovate existing library buildings and build new libraries. Because we are generally opposed to bond measures, but in favor of building more libraries, the Peace and Freedom Party neither supported nor opposed Proposition 81. The bonds were defeated by a statewide vote of 2,326,305 (47.3%) to 2,590,954 (52.7%). In Alameda County, the vote was 155,940 (61.4%) to 98,402 (38.6%).
  • Proposition 82 (the voter pamphlet's summary, analysis, arguments for and rebuttal, arguments against and rebuttal, and the full text are available as PDFs): "Preschool Education. Tax on Incomes Over $400,000 for Individuals; $800,000 for Couples. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute." This measure would have raised the income tax on the rich by 1.7% and used the money raised to fund universal preschool programs for four-year olds. The Peace and Freedom Party urged that you vote YES on 82. The measure was defeated by a statewide vote of 1,958,200 (39.2%) to 3,036,217 (60.8%). In Alameda County, the vote was 141,575 (54.8%) to 116,841 (45.2%).

 

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