SF Democrat "mayor" Newsom's palm-greasing Chinatown subway of 1.7 miles not connected to Market Street, with only 3 stops, disrupting the crucial Union Square shopping area during construction, is about to go the federal level, where his aunt, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, will demand the current (soon to be overrun, of course) $1.4 billion, while we need more buses, affordable housing, public healthcare and the like.

The latest expose of San Francisco's Big Dig (Boston's boondoggle) may be found in the excellent article by C.W. Nevius of February 21, 2008, Sf Chronicle, at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/21/BA11V61G4.DTL

The crowds on the 30 Stockton bus, the excuse for this palm-greasing construction project to and from nowhere, are to and from Market Street and Columbus at Stockton, consisting of the comparatively richer residents of the West side shopping in the Chinatown slum. The stores they think they need could be built in the West side, and in fact, there are lots of businesses in the Richmond and Sunset districts that cater to the same crowd; apparently they need more of that and more can be built on the West side. The only thing that needs to be done currently is to add more buses to the 30 Stockton line. The other long term goal is to eliminate the slum housing conditions in Chinatown and unionize all businesses in Chinatown so that they all pay decent living wages, not below minimum wage as they often do now.

This palm-greasing project is proposed to start at 4th and Brannan (the major transit hub is not there, but at 4th and Townsend), go underground to a Union Square stop, instead of connecting to the far better Market Street major transit corridor, and because it must circumvent BART, must go 95 feet or 9 stories below ground at Union Square, and then end at Washington Square Park. We can be sure the elevators and escalators will be often out of order, as they are throughout the entire transit system, so people will have to walk up and down 9 stories of stairs at Union Square to enter and exit the station. Since this very short run does not connect at Market Street, where there are the Muni Metro and BART underground and the electric trains and buses above ground, this can only be viewed as a palm-greasing project for the Newsom-Pelosi-Lennar gang that is also pushing the gentrification of Bayview-Hunters Point with a developer, Lennar, that has a terrible reputation. While this project is under construction, the already jam-packed Union Square area will be so unbearable that shopping will certainly drop to almost nothing, causing the City's tax revenue to decline. This is all brought to us courtesy the San Francisco Democratic Party.

The Board of Supervisors can be contacted as they will have to say something about this. Since most of them are termed out, every single candidate for election this November for the Board of Supervisors should be asked if they support this project or not and if they do, you should not vote for that person. This is a financial and physical disaster for San Francisco that must be opposed loudly and clearly. Hopefully, Cindy Sheehan, running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, will also come out against this palm-greasing debacle.

These same candidates for supervisor and Congress must also be asked if they oppose the Navy's Blue Death flights over San Francisco, currently during Columbus Genocide week, and if they do not oppose these flights, you should not vote for them. Nazi Newsom and all but 3 supervisors (Daly, Ammiano, Mirkarimi) support the Navy's Blue Death flights over San Francisco.

In the same week we read about the latest on this disaster, we hear that the City Health Department is doing nothing about the grossly unsanitary conditions at the homeless shelters and Nazi Newsom opposes having the illegal spy cameras now in use in the workingclass areas be used to exonerate falsely accused defendants in criminal actions. The Street Sheet, sold by the homeless for any donation, and KPFA's 6 p.m. evening news of 2/20/08 had the latest information on the unsanitary conditions in the homeless shelters. The latest on Nazi Newsom's reactionary position on the illegal cameras may be found at SF Bay Guardian, 2/20/08 at:
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=5709&catid=4&volume_id=317&issue_id=340&volume_num=42&issue_num=21