GPCA Coordinating Committee Candidate Bio (Two-Year Term)

Sanda Everette, San Mateo

I am applying for a position for a two year at-large seat for the GPCA
Coordinating Committee. I have been a Green Party member for about 14 years.
I have served four-2 year terms as an elected county council member in San
Mateo and have attended 20 or so state meetings as a delegate from my county
and have served on the state credential committee twice and participated in
delegate election committees four times.

I have also been very active at the GPUS level, and have been on the GPCA
delegation for 7 years and five years as its co-chair.  I have attended
national meetings and presidential conventions every year since 2003.  I am
active on several GPUS committees.  There are some inaccurate perceptions
about GPCA on the national level and I work hard and painfully to try to
make them more accurate.  I also feel a need to see our state party grow to
be the giant that it is sometimes perceived as being at the national level,
but also to be the party we want to see it become, a model of the imperative
of an alternative political party.  I also believe it is important for there
to be more of a bridge between GPUS and GPCA and can function in that role.

Politically, some of my particular passions that lead me to want to get
Greens in office are single payer health care, electoral reform (including
proportional representation, ranked choice voting, and publicly financed
fair elections--get the corporate money out of the government), ending war
and imperialism that passes as war,  fair taxation (tax the wealthy and
corporations), climate change issues (I attended the UN Climate Change
Conference in Cancun), and almost any environmental issues you could name.

I also have become quite involved with on-line networking.  I would like to
see a more interactive up-to-date web presence, greater participation in
social networking sites, and perhaps a GPCA Livestream show.  I am learning
how to produce on while working on the GPUS media committee.

In the rest of my life, I retired from teaching in 2009, permaculture
designer, political/social activist since the 70's, and co-creator of the
San Mateo Ecovillage. See www.greensolutions.org for more about me. I think
of myself as a planetary citizen, love to travel, and am fortunate that my
husband works for United Airlines.