My guess is that they will interpret it to mean that saying the group is Democratic or Republican or Libertarian is ok as long as the word “party” is not included. The law does not prohibit groups of Dems, Reps or Libs from supporting or opposing ballot measures, but it does prohibit parties from doing so. Probably the only way to get around this would be to start a group “San Francisco Libertarian Activists”. Someone could be an activist, but not necessarily a party member. I am not sure what the logic is behind prohibiting political parties from supporting or opposing measures: after all the purpose of a political party is to engage in politics. But apparently someone thought up a reason.
Old age is definitely catching up with me. I don’t get out too much these days. One of the biggest problems is hearing loss. I have always been hard of hearing due to a childhood illness. I don’t whether it was the illness itself or the medications that caused a near total hearing loss in high frequencies. Now I am totally deaf to sound above 1200 cps (cycles per second). I can hear lots of sound, but speech is very hard to follow. I cannot hear any voiceless consonants (p, t, k, ch, s, f, th). Voiced consonants are audible, but hard to distinguish. I cannot hear the difference between "name, main, maim). I have a captioning service on the phone or I would not be able to understand anything.
Starchild
August 19 |
Hi Les,
Good to hear from you, it’s been a while! I saw that language, and personally feel like it could be plausibly interpreted either way with regard to the inclusion of party clubs, caucuses, and the like. The question for us seems to be how those making decisions at the San Francisco Elections Department will choose to interpret it, and I don’t know the answer to that. Presumably they’ll get back to me and let me know. Depending on the rationale they give, it may offer us some kind of opening to have some kind of Libertarian-named entity be listed as an opponent in future ballot arguments.
How have you been? Will we be seeing you at our meetings again?
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
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Les On Monday, August 19, 2024 at 08:32:36 AM PDT, Starchild via LPSF Forum noreply@forum.lpsf.org wrote: