Thursday 4:30-9PM @ Ashby BART: Give a Small Donation so the Rent Board Slate Can Use Public Financing and Get on the Ballot!

We need everyone who’s a registered Berkeley voter to come out and make donations to/sign matching fund forms for Negeene, Soli, Ida, Nathan, and Vanessa! Each member of the Berkeley Rent Board slate needs to submit at least 30 donations of at least $10 from registered Berkeley voter by Friday, or else they’ll be locked out of public financing!

You can come to the Ashby BART Station parking lot in South Berkeley THIS THURSDAY (8/11) between 4:30PM and 9PM to drop off checks and sign the matching funds forms.

In order to use public financing, each candidate needs to collect and submit by Friday by 30 donations by Berkeley voters of at least $10 (along with a signed form from the donor), for a total dollar amount of at least $580. If any candidate fails to do so, they will be locked out out of public financing, putting them at a massive disadvantage. (Public financing matches donations 6:1. So for instance, if you donate the $10, the candidates receives $60. If you donate $20, the candidate receives $120.)  Each candidate needs to qualify separately, so please consider donating at least $10 to each of the five candidates.

(The candidates will also be collecting signatures for their nominating papers; if they can’t get enough signatures from Berkeley voters, they won’t even be allowed to appear on the ballot!)

This event will be conducted outdoors in a safe, socially distanced manner. Please wear a mask.

Please bring your friends and roommates to make donations too! Make sure to invite all your friends who are registered to vote in Berkeley and will be in the Bay Area on Thursday evening.  Folks can also get the word out by sharing the Facebook event.

Every election year since 1994, the Rent Board Convention selects the progressive, pro-tenant slate for the seats up for election on the Berkeley Rent Board. The 2022 Convention was sponsored by the Berkeley Tenants Union, Friends of Adeline, the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America, the Young Democratic Socialists of America – UC Berkeley, Our Revolution East Bay, Healthy Black Families, Berkeley Citizens Action, the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, the Gray Panthers, the Green Party, SEIU 1021, the Center for Independent Living, and the new Berkeley Progressive Alliance. For more information about the Berkeley Rent Board Convention or the 2022 Rent Board Slate, please email berkeleytenantsconvention@gmail.com.