tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60440192009-06-30T13:07:09.785-07:00the once and future capital of same-sex marriage, alternative energy and progressive social policyDingonoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044019.post-26793020700376156292008-11-03T12:04:00.000-08:002008-11-03T12:41:34.072-08:00

Since it's election time, I've put together a spreadsheet compiling endorsements for the Nov 4th, 2008 San Francisco election by the following:SF Green PartySF Bay GuardianSF Democratic PartySF ChronicleSF ExaminerSF Republican PartyYou can download a printable PDF of San Francisco election endorsements here or an Excel worksheet of San Francisco election endorsements here.I've limited my "

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My friend Scott regularly works as a polling precinct manager in the Marina district and had this report on Super Tuesday. It's not encouraging.California has seven registered political parties. Two of them (the American Independent Party and the Democratic Party) have open primaries. This means that people who are not members of a political party can elect to vote in these primaries. 40% of

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It only took a month, but the results for the November 6 San Francisco municipal election are in. Props A, B, C, D, F, G, I, J and K passed, while E and H did not. As far as endorsements went, the San Francisco Democratic Party scored 100% -- accurately endorsing all 11 propositions. The San Francisco Bay Guardian scored 73% (8/11), the Examiner scored 64% (7/11), the San Francisco Chronicle

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Once again, I've put together a spreadsheet compiling endorsements for the Nov 6 San Francisco election by the following:SF Green PartySF Bay GuardianSF Democratic PartySF ChronicleSF ExaminerSF Republican PartyYou can dowload the printable PDF here.I've limited my "analysis" to color coding the propositions -- blue for liberal and red for conservative, as far as I can tell.Comments?

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Support Public Power - Community Choice AggregationThis comes from Steve Rice on Indybay:After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed Community Choice Aggregation 9-2 on Tuesday adopting a plan to put San Francisco on the way towards energy independence by financing a 360 MW solar network and making the community's power 51% renewable by 2017, rumors have circulated that Mayor Gavin Newsom

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Who Endorses Whom?I think endorsements can tell you a lot about candidates and ballot measures, who backs them and why. So for my own edification, I put together a spreadsheet compiling endorsements for the Nov 7 election by:- SF Green Party- SF Bay Guardian- SF Democratic Party- SF Chronicle- SF Republican PartyI've limited my "analysis" to color coding the propositions -- blue for liberal and

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Gavin Newsom Lets His Progressive Flag Fly?Were supporters of Matt Gonzalez's mayoral campaign mistaken about Gavin Newsom? Is Gavin Newsom really a progressive, albeit with slicked back hair and expensive suits? If he isn't, he's sure gone out of his way in the last two years to appear progressive. First he appointed women to head the Police and Fire departments, and the Board of Education.

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Plastic Bag TaxGood Enough for Dublin, Why Not San Francisco?For now, the proposed measure to levy a $.17 tax on plastic shopping bags is a "non-starter," thanks to a disinformation campaign by the American Plastics Council. Green Party Member and Board Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi proposed the measure to cut down on waste, environmental impacts and disposal costs that are ultimately absorbed by

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"The RBA Potrero sellout" San Francisco Bay GuardianWhen the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a one-year moratorium on residential development in north Potrero Hill Dec. 14, the San Francisco Chronicle portrayed it as a blow to developers. But as Rachel Brahinsky reports on page 16, the biggest and most powerful group of housing builders in the city was hardly disappointed: members of

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Surcharge on Plastic Grocery Bags Worth Considering "We have a responsibility to promote a healthy and sustainable environment, and by doing that, it means we need to help change people's patterns, and that even means their shopping patterns," said Ross Mirkarimi, who will take office in January. "This is a sensible user fee." According to the Department of the Environment, consumers lug home

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Attacks on Ranked Choice Voting Begin Don't be surprised if there are more sour grapes and baseless attacks on Ranked Choice Voting from some of the losers in last week's historic election."While some voters genuinely like this system and found it easy to use, some voters, in particular ">Chinese-speaking voters, had a very different experience," said Ben Tulchin of the polling firm Fairbank,

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I've voted in San Francisco for eight years and have never before encountered lines at my polling place. Here is my view from the back of the line at 8:30 a.m. I hope this bodes well for turnout nationwide in what has been called the most important election in our lifetime. Personally, I don't think that is overstating things. The latest election results for San Francisco can be found here.

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Endorsements for the November 2, 2004 Election United States Representative, District 8 WRITE-IN Terry Baum United States Representative, District 12 Pat Gray Member, State Assembly, 13th District Mark Leno Board of Supervisors, District 1 Jake McGoldrick Board of Supervisors, District 2 David Pascal Board of Supervisors, District 5 Ross Mirkarimi (Bay

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Newsom Appointee Grandstands for Free Campaign Publicity SF Chronicle Happy to Provide It In case you missed it, the front page of yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle read, "Smoking ban in S.F. parks proposed: Law would affect recreation areas regulated by city," along with a photo of Gavin Newsom's appointee in District 2, Michela Alioto-Pier. Nice photo and nice timing -- less than six weeks

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Good News for the Sunset and Pacifica?The latest projections by the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C., suggest that in a worst-case scenario, San Francisco can expect 55 heat- wave days -- three or more consecutive days of temperatures above 79 degrees -- a year by the 2050s and up to 135 such days a year by the 2090s, compared with only 10 to 15 heat-wave days in the 1990s.

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Matt Gonzalez Endorses Ross Mirkarimi San Francisco's District 5 promises to be an interesting test of the city's new IRV system -- instant runoff or ranked choice voting. With three Green Party candidates and several progressive Democrats running for the seat left vacant by Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez, there is no shortage of good choices to represent the part of the City that

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SAN FRANCISCO / 'Ranked' vote gets fanciful scenarios / Analyst predicts a change in the political culture:"'It's very important for the strategy of a candidate to know who is going to come in last and who is going to come in first and second,' Stearns said. 'In D5 it's likely that Robert Haaland and Ross Mirkarimi will come in at one or two.' Assuming Haaland and Mirkarimi would come in at the

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Green Appointed to Planning Commission Matt Gonzalez appointed Christina Olague to the Planning Commission. Olague is the first tenant organizer to be appointed to the commission, which is surprising given that 70% of San Francisco residents are renters. More here.

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Willie Brown Warned About 9/11? LORIE VAN AUKEN, WIDOW OF 9/11 ATTACK:  We also know that people stopped flying domestically.  Ashcroft stopped flying.  Pentagon officials stop flying the day before September 11.  They were warned not to fly on September 11.  We think San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was told not to fly.  That’s all domestic.  You know, everybody keeps telling us how they were

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What next for Terry Baum? This morning I attended the third Terry Baum press conference in as many weeks. At the last two, reporters turned out from KPFA and the San Francisco Examiner. This time the Examiner's Adriel Hampton -- who has done a yeoman's job reporting this story while the Chronicle and local television stations have ignored it -- passed us by for another story. It dawned on me

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How Much Do You Make? I'm in the wrong business! Thanks to Willie Brown, civil service pays damn well.In 2003, 2,693 employees earned more than $100,000, up from 952 in 2000. About half of those earning in excess of $100,000 last year did it by working hundreds of hours of overtime. They include police officers, firefighters, public health and transit workers and sheriff's deputies. That

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Matt Gonzalez Bows Out I was at the Temple Bar Saturday night, where Matt Gonzalez read from the Declaration of Independence to a hushed group of delegates from the Green Party of California's General Assembly. It was an inspiring moment, listening to the rising Green star put the party's efforts into historical context. Then came the news this morning: Supe walks away, Gonzalez decides

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Green Party Locked Out of November Ballot I believe that the right to vote is one of our most important. ACLU President and New York Law Professor Nadine Strossen has said:"Our constitutional democracy rests on certain core principles. Every vote should be counted accurately, every vote should be counted equally, and no one should be denied the right to vote based on the color of his or her

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The House That Gavin Razed Last Friday, Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoed an anti-demolition ordinance, passed by the Board of Supervisors, that forbids property owners from demolishing habitable buildings containing 20 or more residential units.The immediate target of the legislation was Trinity Plaza, a 377-unit, rent-controlled building at Eighth and Market streets that is home to a group of

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Slate for March 2, 2004 Election // President // HOWARD DEAN // US Senator // BARBARA BOXER // US Representative, District 8 // Write-in: TERRY BAUM // State Senator // CAROLE MIGDEN // State Assembly, District 13 // MARK LENO // State Propositions // YES on Prop 55: Education Facilities Bond Act YES on Prop 56: State Budget, Related Taxes, Penalties NO on Prop 57: Gov Schwarzenegger's

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