On November 9, the San Francisco Elections Department released additional election returns data, which makes it a virtual certainty that Ross Mirkarimi won the November 8 election for Sheriff of San Francisco County. Mirkarimi was one of the founders of the California Green Party, and while he was a registered member of the Green Party, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. However, in March 2010 he changed his registration from “Green” to “Democratic.”
Has R.M. been deemed a turncoat traitor by the G.P. top folks — by using the G.P. folks like pawns ???
While some may feel let down or perhaps even betrayed by Ross leaving the active Green Party, others including myself, believe he’s done a fine job on the Board of Supervisors and are pleased to see him as Sheriff. Both posts are supposedly non-partisan posts, by the way.
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John, you seem to be in the know. Can you shed some light as to why many notable Greens, like Ross, have left the GP?