{"id":1099,"date":"2018-09-11T23:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:23:32","slug":"endorsements-for-district-7-and-berkeley-measures-by-bca-bpa-and-btu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Endorsements for District 7 and Berkeley Measures by BCA, BPA and BTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sat. Sept. 15 @ 2pm, at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>East\u00a0 Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Stree<\/strong><strong>t<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join our members for a joint endorsement meeting on Berkeley ballot measures &amp; District 7 council endorsements. Council candidates include Aidan Hill, Rigel Robinson &amp; Ces Rosales. Speakers also include Gus Newport, Gail McLaughlin, plus George Lippman will present on his vision for police accountability moving forward. Kriss Worthington will provide closing remarks.<\/p>\n<p>We will also\u00a0consider endorsement for the city auditor position.\u00a0In March the vote of progressives was evenly split between candidates Jenny Wong\u00a0and Steve Levine, so no endorsement could be made. Steve Levine has since dropped out and endorsed Jenny Wong, so we are reconsidering this office. Vladislav Davidzon is also running, however responded that he does not want any endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>We will be re-looking at our endorsement of\u00a0<a title=\"Rent Ordinance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofberkeley.info\/uploadedFiles\/Clerk\/Elections\/Rent%20Ordinance%20-%20All_Ballot%20Question%20and%20Full%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure Q Amendments to the Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause\u00a0Ordinance<\/a>\u00a0and considering the following Berkeley measures:\u00a0<a title=\"Measure 2: Transfer Tax Measure\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofberkeley.info\/uploadedFiles\/Clerk\/Elections\/Transfer%20Tax%20-%20All_Ballot%20Question%20and%20Full%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure P Transfer Tax <\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Advisory Measure Vision 2050\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofberkeley.info\/uploadedFiles\/Clerk\/Elections\/Berkeley%20Advisory%20Measure%20-%20All_Question%20and%20Full%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure R Advisory Measure &#8211; Vision 2050<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, BTU members will vote on finalized candidate endorsements for Districts 1, 4, &amp; 8 (their steering committee had previously made interim recommendations).<\/p>\n<p>If your membership for any of the three organizations has expired, don&#8217;t worry\u2026 You can pay the current years dues at the door. You can even join BTU without the usual 30 day wait by participating in our canvass earlier that day (see link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/468405853658281\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>See below for Candidates\u00a0responses \u00a0to our questionnaire<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candidates for District 7 councilmember:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_GT_w-hEq_ONGtPaUlfZk5aWjVpOG9oaG9YRXVYUEpFa1NB\/view?usp=sharing\">Aidan Hill<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B_GT_w-hEq_OdkJ0YWhhZzVBVjlGcUxnalpXMW41MDJ4MnBV\">Rigel Robinson<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B_GT_w-hEq_OR0RSbXNkeGRYNkpXWVpTaHNFQzRmSnhNa1lr\">Ces Rosales<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candidate for City Auditor:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_GT_w-hEq_OaTVuT3JOOEYxOWV5WHlfNlNDaDdCYUtyTVBn\/view?usp=sharing\">Jenny Wong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sat. Sept. 15 @ 2pm, at\u00a0East\u00a0 Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street Join our members for a joint endorsement meeting on Berkeley ballot measures &amp; District 7 council endorsements. Council candidates include Aidan Hill, Rigel Robinson &amp; Ces Rosales. Speakers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=1099\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Endorsements for District 7 and Berkeley Measures by BCA, BPA and BTU<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}