| Ranked Choice Vote ID | 261 |
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| Ranked Choice Vote | Election: GPUS Delegation, 24 members, July 2025 - June 2027 and 7 members, July 2025 - June 2026 |
| Number of seats | 31 |
| Type | Secret Ballot |
| Phase |
Closed |
| Discussion | 05/19/2025 - 06/15/2025 |
| Voting - ends at Midnight Pacific Time | 06/16/2025 - 06/22/2025 |
| Result |
For the CA Delegation to GP-US, the following 9 people were elected to two-year Delegate terms:
Delegates with terms ending in June, 2027:
1. Greg Jan
2. Rohan Sabnis
3. Mike Cordova
4. Ann Garrison
5. Orlando Johnson
6. Jared Laiti
7. Phoebe Anne Thomas
8. Rick Greenblatt
9. Victor Hernandez
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Candidates (see bios below) |
9 Candidates listed in alphabetical order
Mike Cordova
Ann Garrison
Rick Greenblatt
Victor Hernandez
Greg Jan
Orlando Johnson
Jared Laiti
Rohan Sabnis
Phoebe Anne Thomas
No Other Candidate
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Background
This election is to fill 12 Delegate seats and 19 Alternate seats on the California Delegation to the Green Party of the United States. There are 12 Delegate seats and 12 Alternate seats for two-year terms running from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027 and 7 Alternate seats for one-year terms running from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
Candidates receiving the highest rankings shall be seated as delegates until all those seats are filled, after that the alternate seats are filled. If one or more of the candidates who were elected as delegates prefer to be alternates they can change their position during the week immediately following the announcement of the results. The elected delegate in question would be made an alternate and the highest ranked willing alternate would be made a delegate.
References:
Links to relevant bylaws sections (as last amended June 29, 2024):
Article 11. Delegates to the Green Party of the United States
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Candidates for GPUS Delegation and their Bios
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My name is Mike Cordova. I live in the city of West Sacramento in Yolo County. I would like to be an active member of the delegation. I will be eligible for retirement in February and may have a more flexible schedule. I'm currently a Yolo County Council member, GA/SGA Delegate, and CA delegate to GPUS. I've been an Alternate CA delegate to GPUS and a member of the Luis J. Rodriguez for Governor campaign committee. I'm the Second Vice-Chair of the Yolo County Workforce Innovation Board (highest allowed Union position). I have a BA degree in Legal Studies and Economics Combined with a minor in Politics from UC Santa Cruz. I currently hold approximately 8 Board positions.
I became a registered Green at some point between 2000 and 2005, can't remember which year precisely, but I have been active, first as a San Francisco Green, then as an Alameda County Green. By active I mean that I have attended meetings and responded to calls for Greens to show up and speak at City Councils and Boards of Supervisors meetings.
I am a journalist, specifically a Contributing Editor to Black Agenda Report, and a contributor to the The Grayzone, the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, Black Star News, Counterpunch, Consortium News, Global Research, Pambazuka News, and Pacifica Radio. I produce news for KPFA-Berkeley and work on "Covid, Race, and Democracy," a weekly national Pacifica Radio show. I have often covered Green politics and in 2016, I co-hosted Pacifica's coverage of the Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention in Houston. When the coverage began I introduced myself as "an embedded journalist, because I'm a registered Green covering the Green Party Convention."
1. Name, etc.: Rick Greenblatt, city and county of San Diego
2. Vision: As an ecosocialist, I place a high priority on building a party that combines electoral and activist work, that advances the fight for political and economic democracy, that defends the environment, that opposes militarism and imperial war, that supports the right of self-determination for subject nations like Palestine and Ukraine, and that stands for the rights of workers, women, people of color, immigrants, and indigenous and LGBTQI+ people. Our current challenge: Find effective ways to resist the reactionary, Trump agenda.
3. Experience and Current Positions: A long-time activist, I helped organize demonstrations of thousands against the wars in Iraq an Afghanistan. I actively supported the Green Party campaigns for Peter Camejo, Jill Stein, Howie Hawkins, and Luis Rodriguez, among others. I am currently a member of the San Diego County Council, a delegate to the GPCA General Assembly, a former co-chair of the GPCA Membership and Outreach Committee, and a delegate to the GPUS National Committee. I also serve on the editorial board of New Green Horizons. You can find out more about my political ideas from my writing in New Green Horizons [1] as well as on my Substack page [2]..
[1] https://newgreenhorizons.us/
[2] https://beyondcapitalism.substack.com/My name is Victor Hernandez, resident of Anaheim, Orange County and active member. I am nominating myself/volunteering to be a delegate for GPCA to the GPUS. I have volunteered before and I am willing to do it again. My experience is minimal but open to learning as my goal is to grow the GPOC and be more active at state level. I can organize and have experience canvassing. At the state level I’d like to see more activity, maybe counties coming together for events or rallies?
Thank you
I've been involved with the Greens almost since the beginning (since 1985), helping to organize the East Bay Green Alliance here. From 1989 until 1992, I helped with the organizing to found our state party, and then worked on election campaigns, including for Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, Laura Wells, and Jill Stein. I've served many County Council terms, have helped with our county Voter Guides for decades, and am active with the state Coordinating Committee and the Candidates Committee.
Outside of the Greens, I've volunteered with peace groups, coordinated Berkeley Earth Days. was employed as Operations Director at the county food bank, and served on the Board (including as President) of Oakland's Ohana Asian Cultural Center. I was also active with Occupy Oakland, Strike Debt Bay Area, and KPFA radio elections.
I've served several terms on our GPUS delegation, was a co-chair in 2008 and 2009, participated in 6 ANMs/conventions between 2002 and 2008, and helped coordinate several of our national proposals
Although I will continue to be very busy with a range of local and state Green Party work, I would be fine with again serving as a "less active" member of our delegation to the GPUS.
Orlando Johnson, a native of Oakland, California, has been an active participant in civic affairs since 1999 when he registered as a Green.
His political journey includes a mayoral candidacy in 2006, a second attempt in 2010 (where he later withdrew to assume the role of campaign manager for Don Macleay), and subsequent involvement with the Oakland Green Party Chapter in 2011. In 2012, Johnson played a pivotal role in a coalition that successfully established the first Oakland Municipal City I.D. Card, a pioneering achievement at the national level.
Demonstrating his commitment to the Green Party cause, he served as a campaign buddy from 2012 to 2020, offering support to candidates across the spectrum. His dedication earned him a place on the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County in 2021 and subsequently, he served as a state delegate from 2021 to 2023. Building on his growing influence, Orlando Johnson reached new heights in 2023 by becoming a national delegate and securing a position on the Green Party Credentials Committee, further solidifying his impact on both local and national levels within the party.
A Green voter since I was eligible to vote, I am committed to the full political independence of the Green Party from the corporate-dominated parties and believe that we should run the strongest possible campaigns for every office. GPUS must embody our ten key values in order to draw support for them. Likewise, if we hope to change the current political system, we must challenge it at its root. We must move beyond capitalism if we are to ever live in a world based on our values.
I have been active at all levels of the party, from local to national. I currently serve as GPCA Liaison to the Secretary of State. I graduated as valedictorian from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in May 2010 and was admitted to the State Bar of California in December 2010.
I am willing to continue to serve in the interests of having a strong CA delegation to GPUS. Please re-elect me to the GPCA delegation to the GPUS so that I can help work to make the GPUS a stronger force for democratizing our current political system and a living example of our key value of grassroots democracy.
My vision for serving as either a Delegate or Alternate Delegate
I have served as a GPUS delegate or alternate since July 2019. During my service, I have voted on almost all of the GPUS proposals. I would like to continue serving as a delegate or alternate for the GPCA on the national level to ensure that the GPCA can cast its full complement of votes when needed.
Relevant Prior and Current Positions, Related Experience and Skills
GPUS Delegate 7/2019-9/2019, 7/2021-present, GPUS Alternate Delegate 9/2019-7/2021
GPCA Coordinating Committee 7/2022-present
GPCA SGA Delegate for LA County 10/2019-6/2021
Presidential Nominating Convention delegate 2020 and 2024
Since the first election in which I was eligible to vote (27 years ago), I have supported the Green Party. I have also attended most of the General Assemblies of the GPCA for the last eight years, the 2018 and 2019 Annual National Meetings (Salt Lake City, UT and Salem, MA) and the 2020 and 2024 Presidential Nominating Conventions.
I support the Land Back movement and have opposed the ongoing decades-long Palestinian genocide. I attend rallies every week in solidarity with my Palestinian comrades and have witnessed the passage of many ceasefire resolutions in the Bay Area.
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Vision for serving in the Delegation:
My vision is to work collaboratively with other delegates to grow the Green Party at all levels.
Relevant prior or current positions, related experience and skills that I can apply to this position:
I am a longterm Alameda County Councilor and have served on the CA Co-ordinating Committee, National Committee, International Committee, PAX and Dispute Resolution Committees. I twice ran for a Berkeley City Council seat, which was an excellent learning experience. For ten years I was a Commissioner for the City of Berkeley and wrote many Resolutions that the City Council passed unanimously, some that were copied by other cities nationwide. I am on the Steering Committees of Berkeley Citizens Action and the local Move to Amend chapter. I served on KPFA’s Local Station Board, an elected position, and have long chaired the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee.