WHO SHOULD YOU VOTE FOR?

With a month to go to the primaries, this week we are focusing on the
elections and how you can actively participate in electing legislators that
care about California Health Rights. From AVFCA's three emails this week
you will learn about registration, legislators and how to support campaigns.

As non-profit, A Voice for Choice Advocacy cannot endorse a candidate or
tell you who to vote for, but we can tell you how to work out who in your
districts will further California Health Rights and vaccine choice. The
fate of many of those running who are on our side will be determined in the
March 3 primary. Team up with people in your district and work out the
viable candidates together (see below for instructions). Christina and a
few others are working on a Voter Guide outside of AVFCA, so if you identify
candidates in your district for State Assembly or Senate who support Health
Rights and Vaccine Choice, please enter them here:
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[link removed] or send
an email with their name and district to
<mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]. We need your input to make it
successful.

How to work out who to support.
In California, every Assembly district is up for election and half the
Senate districts are up for election - the odd numbered districts, even
numbered are in 2022.
* Find your Assembly district number and your Senate district number
by typing your address into this link:
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* Then find your Assembly and Senate (odd numbers only) district
number in the Certified List of Candidates in this link:
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candidates.pdf (CA Senate starts on page 21)
* Note down the list of candidates. If an incumbent is running (has a
* by their name), look up if they voted yes on SB276 by finding their name
on this link:
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200SB276. If they voted No or NVR, then they are on our side of Health
Rights and vaccine choice. If they voted Aye, then you want to look at the
other candidates running.
* Go to [link removed] and type in "California State Senate
District X" and "California Assembly District X" where "X" corresponds to
the numbers of your districts, and look at the voting history in your
district. Look at whether your district has been primarily Democrat or
Republican. Districts usually have similar percentage of voters from each
party vote.
* Go to the each of the candidates that are running in your districts
website or facebook page - you can find them by googling their name and
"assembly" or "senate" depending on what they are running for. Research
them. Find out who are they and what they stand for?
o Most Republicans believe in parental rights and are on our side on
vaccine choice, but there are some that are not. While most Democrats
believe that the government knows best and in the past many Democrats have
been for vaccine mandates, more and more understand the issue. So it is
important to find out where all candidates running in your districts stand
on Health Rights and vaccine mandates.
* Go to each candidate's public events. Candidates may not want to be
on record for being against vaccine mandates because they are worried about
being slandered as "anti-vaxxers" by their opponents. So listen to what
they have to say and either ask publically or one on one, in a professional
manner, where they stand on vaccine mandates. They may not be aware of the
issue, in which case ask if you can have a longer meeting with them to
discuss the issue.
* Once you have done this for all candidates, if there is only one
candidate that is against vaccine mandates, vote for them and do everything
you can to support their campaign.
If there is more than one candidate running that is against vaccine
mandates, work out who is the better one to support in the primary - this
may not be the one who you ultimately support in the general election. It
is about manipulating the system to have the best two candidates in the
general election.
o From the voting history of your district you can see the % that voted
for one party or another. You can assume that the % voting for that party
will be similar from the last election. If there are two or more candidates
running from one party in your district, then it is likely the vote that
party got in the last election will be split somewhat between them. If
there is only one candidate running from a party, then it is likely that
they will get the votes that party got in the last election.
o It may make sense to support the one than you think will get fewer
votes, to try to get them into the general election, so those two candidates
run off against one another and it won't matter which wins because it will
be a win against vaccine mandates.
* Once you have determined who you are going to vote for, find out
what else you can do to support their campaign. That may be walking for
them, fundraising, calling, polling, getting ballots to polling stations,
etc.
* And of course, make sure you are registered to vote and do vote on
March 3rd.

Remember , if you identify candidates in your district for State Assembly or
Senate who support Health Rights and Vaccine Choice, please enter them here:
[link removed] or send
them to [email protected].

Christina

P.S. If you found this xxxxxxrmation helpful and appreciate the work A Voice
for Choice Advocacy is doing, please support us by making a donation today.
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Christina Hildebrand
President/Founder
A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.
www.avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org <[link removed]>
408 835 9353

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