1 week to Save Rent Control, No on 98/Yes on 99

There are lots of No on 98 activities to save rent control in California in this last important week before the June 3 election. This is followed by the crucial 4 days of GO-TV, Get Out the Vote. From preparing doorhangers, bagging literature, distributing literature, preparing signs, holding signs up all over town, getting food for campaign workers, phonebanking, knocking on tenant voter doors and more, there is something for everyone to do. Please help save the homes of millions of people in California.

The San Francisco base of activities is the San Francisco Tenants Union, 558 Capp Street, 1 block east of Mission, between 21st and 22nd Streets. As we campaign, the chant should ring everywhere: SAVE OUR CITY, SAVE OUR STATE, VOTE NO ON 98!

From the website:
http://www.sftu.org/Prop98Calendar.html

BART & MUNI Flyering May 27-May 30
Help flyer BART & MUNI stations during commute times.

Get Out The Vote May 30-June 3
Clear your calendar to help with the most critical part of the campaign--GOTV as we call it. We really need bodies on election day to help contact renters who haven't voted yet--if you can take election day off; if you can't do that, clear your schedule between 4-8 PM for our critical doorknocking & calling period. We need as many people as possible to make themselves available the last few days before the election and—especially—as many people as possible who can take all or part of Election Day off. Prop 98 is coordinating with Yes on F, the Sierra Club, SEIU (Yes on Props A & B) and other campaigns to mount a coordinated Get Out the Vote Campaign. We are securing an office in the Mission to work out of for these last few days. More details will follow, but we'll need volunteers for these tasks:

Office & Prep Tasks--Friday, 5/30: Bagging literature, flyers, maps, making signs, getting food and other stuff to get ready for the big push

Mission Literature Drops & Tabling, Saturday & Sunday, May 31 & June 1, 11 AM -- We need to really blanket the Mission this final weekend.

Phonebanking—Saturday, Sunday, & Monday Evenings May 31-June 2 in the evening. We'll start our big push of calling absentee renter voters who have not turned in their ballots yet.

BART & MUNI Flyering, Monday & Tuesday June2 & June 3–During morning and evening commute times.

Doorhangers Monday Night & Tuesday Morning, June 2 & June 3 – We'll be distributing a doorhanger in the 200 most progressive precincts in the city (these will largely be in the Haight & Mission).

Election Day, Tuesday, June 3--the big day: we'll need people to help with visibility (No on 98 banner at Market & Van Ness during morning & evening commute times, people holding signs at key intersections, etc). Starting at 10 AM we need people to help finalize our lists of renters who haven't voted yet and to begin door knocking & calling.

Election Day: At 4 PM we'll need lots of people to begin knocking on doors of renters who have not yet voted to try to get them to the polls (and we'll be simultaneously calling others). This is the day we can really use people's help!!!

And then, at location to be determined, OUR BIG VICTORY PARTY!!!!
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We can only win if we have a HUGE pro-rent control voter turnout in San Francisco and Los Angeles. You do not have to vote on everything on the ballot, but please do vote No on 98/Yes on 99 and for affordable housing in San Francisco, Yes on F/No on G for affordable housing for the workingclass.

Suggested San Francisco Prop votes: Yes on A, D, E and F, No on all the rest.