San Franciso Women's Political Committee

San Francisco’s long-awaited summer is finally here, which means that our political season is in full swing! In just 36 days, you will head to the polls with fellow San Franciscans to make critical choices about the direction of our great city. This November, we have the opportunity to elect the kind of leadership San Francisco needs right now: a diverse, gender-balanced Board of Supervisors that will ensure that going forward, our city runs like clockwork. We can’t afford to wait another 4 years.

Last month, at SFWPC’s August general membership meeting, our members voted on a fantastic slate of endorsements that highlight the common need for improvements on both the local and state levels. We are incredibly proud that this election cycle, our membership voted to endorse five inspiring, strong women candidates for the five Board of Supervisor seats.

Join the Campaign.

We know you stand behind Janet Reilly, Carmen Chu, Debra Walker, Rebecca Prozan, and Malia Cohen because you recognize how essential it is to shake up the Board of Supervisors – business as usual just won’t do anymore! But many voters out there are still in the dark about our candidates, and that is where you come in.

Show your unwavering support for gender parity in San Francisco’s leadership: email us your contact details, tell us who you are especially passionate about, and we will plug you into this epic campaign!

SFWPC has mounted an true field campaign to get these five best candidates elected. We are knocking on doors and calling voters to get the message of progress – the right kind of progress – out to the public. We need your help more than ever to get this done.

Each one of us needs to adopt a candidate and pick up the phone or hit the precincts today. SFWPC will be hosting the following evenings with candidates:

Monday: Janet Reilly

So will you help in District 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10? Email us at 5for5@sfwpc.org to join this one-of-a-kind campaign to bring gender balance to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Make sure to email us to get credit for volunteering with SFWPC. Your time in the field counts towards voting in the next election cycle, and we will recognize our most vigilant volunteers at the 2010 San Francisco Women’s Holiday Party.

In August, you spoke decisively in favor of new political leadership, gender parity, and actualized equality in San Francisco. Now it’s time to put these five women on your calendar, because if we don’t make time to get them elected now, the opportunity to create substantive change will be lost.

With a little over a month left until election day, we need to pull out all the stops and show up up for our candidates.

We’ll see you out in the field.

March, the National Women’s History Month, is drawing to a rewarding close, and there are still many opportunities to honor the courageous women leaders who have paved our path to success by endorsing, empowering, and electing the prominent women who will help to build our future.

I’m talking about your sister, daughter, best friend, mother, partner, mentor, and mentee; she will be the loud and unrelenting voice of your values, but we must first rally behind her to show that our network is strong, our members are ready for action, and our hearts are generous.

Every time you show up to an event to support a woman candidate, you’re helping to strengthen the legacy of the first woman in congress, the first female mayor of San Francisco, and the first female Speaker of the House. Every time you donate to a woman candidate, you’re becoming an active part of politics that we can all believe in.

This year, we will raise money. We will walk precincts. We will meet each other, collaborate on ideas, and enact policy. We will fight to keep women and families in San Francisco, and we will elect women.

Please join SFWPC in transforming the Women’s History Month into the Women’s History Year.

Recycle Your Old Cell Phones and Help a Woman in Need!

The Department on the Status of Women and the Department of the Environment have teamed up to launch a cell phone drive to mark October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Bring your old cell phone (working or not) to the Department on the Status of Women to be refurbished and loaded with pre-paid minutes so that a domestic violence survivor can call for help.

Two Ways to Donate:
1. Please drop off phones at the Department on the Status of Women, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 130.

For questions please call Carol Sacco at 415-252-2574 or email carol.sacco@sfgov.org.
Thank you!