3 days to Save Rent Control; No on 98/Yes on 99; in SF: Yes on F/No on G

SUNDAY, JUNE 1 ACTIVITES: You can vote today at your County Registrar at 10 a.m. Then, bring bodies and banners to the 11 a.m. start of today’s actions at 2797 16th Street, San Francisco (corner of Folsom, near the donut shop). WE NEED EVERYONE TO HELP and we need extra banners.

More Activities:
Sunday, June 1, 11 AM: Literature drops to the top progressive and renter precincts continue.

BART & MUNI Flyering June 1-3
Help flyer BART & MUNI stations during commute times. You can stop by 2797 16th St (at Folsom) anytime through Election Day to get flyers or get them at Tenants Together, 995 Market St., Suite 1202.

Monday, June 2,
12 Noon to 3:00 PM We need help prepping the doorhangers (putting stickers on them showing polling places) for the 4 PM doorhanging.
4 PM to 8:30 PM: Doorhangers & Literature delivery in top tenant neighborhoods.
Plus BART & MUNI Flyering & Street visibility.

For more activities, see: http://www.sftu.org/Prop98Calendar.html

Check with your County Registrar as to the weekend hours. In San Francisco, it is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. In all counties, on Monday, June 2, it is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Election Day Tuesday, June 3, it is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. You can find your County Registrar in the blue-striped white pages of your telephone book and at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_d.htm

You do not have to vote on everything on the ballot, but PLEASE DO VOTE No on 98/Yes on 99, and in San Francisco, Yes on F/No on G for affordable housing.

If you are voting absentee on the ballot you received in the mail, DO NOT MAIL IT; YOU MUST WALK IT to either your County Registrar any day through June 3 or to any polling place on election day, June 3. It is too late to rely on the US mail for this important election.

If you plan to wait until June 3 to vote, your polling place is on the back of your County booklet. PLEASE NOTE, SOME POLLING PLACES HAVE CHANGED, so be sure to check your polling place location. You can also find your polling place for any county at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_ppl.htm
or
http://www.smartvoter.org/ca/

The polling places for the two main counties which must pull us through this terrible crisis with a VERY HIGH VOTER TURNOUT are:
Los Angeles
http://lavote.net/locator/
and San Francisco
http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/pollingplace/INDEX.htm
REMEMBER: THE ONLY POLL THAT COUNTS IS THE JUNE 3 ELECTION. All other polls are just wishful thinking which does not help; IT IS YOUR VOTE THAT COUNTS.

There are signs and flyers for the whole state at:
http://www.noprop98.org/go/unlinked-resources/campaign-toolbox/

We need everyone from the entire Bay Area to help with precinct walking, doorhanging, flyering train and bus stops and stations, compiling precinct lists, phonebanking, preparing precinct packets and visibility. Visibility means holding signs on sidewalks of busy streets such as Van Ness, Gough, Fell, Pine, Bush, Park Presidio, Geary Boulevard, all freeway exits and entrances, outside supermarkets and anywhere else where there are large numbers of cars or people. You can do this off and on as your time and legs permit. If you like to take walks, you can carry a sign with you. It is crucial that we do whatever we can to reach our supporters and push them to the polls. Remember, we are reaching ALL CALIFORNIA VOTERS, so it does not matter where in California they live.

California has 58 counties (“The Great 58”). WE EXPECT ALL PRO RENT CONTROL AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS TO VOTE IN THIS ELECTION TO SAVE OUR STATE, THE GREAT 58. You cannot afford to stay home; the home and state you save will be your own. There are 28 million adults in California. We need to have a high voter turnout of 13 MILLION VOTERS IN THIS ELECTION. This is a MAJOR CRISIS FOR THE ENTIRE STATE AS IT PROP 98 WILL CAUSE THE DISLOCATION OF THE ENTIRE WORKINGCLASS, without whose labor, the California economy will STOP. We are talking about the homes we live in, the air we breathe, the water we drink and much more being totally unregulated. There will be no just cause eviction if Prop 98 passes, which means the landlords, who are funding Prop 98, will come up with any excuse to evict tenants so as to raise rents sky high as we have no vacancy control in California. SINCE WE HAVE NO OTHER AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CALIFORNIA, PROP 98 WILL CAUSE THE HOMELESSNESS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

For more information on Props 98 and 99, see:
1. The leader of Northern California’s fight to save rent control, the San Francisco Tenants Union at: http://www.sftu.org/
Membership Information:
http://www.sftu.org/membership.html
Prop 98 Campaign Page:
http://www.sftu.org/Prop98.html
Upcoming Campaign Activities:
http://www.sftu.org/Prop98Calendar.html
2. San Francisco Flyer:
http://www.sftu.org/Prop%2098%20Generic%20Flyer.pdf
Please note Peace & Freedom Party also opposes Prop 98. See: http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
3. Statewide tools, including Sample Email, Sample Letters to friends and Letters to Editor, Sample Newsletters for Renters and Environmentalists, Fact Sheets, Presentation Materials, Text of Propositions, Window Sign, Spanish language materials at:
http://www.noprop98.org/go/unlinked-resources/campaign-toolbox/
4. Statewide site:
http://www.noprop98.org/
http://www.noprop98.org/go/our-coalition/we-oppose-prop.-98/
PLEASE NOTE: Just because we have a broad base of opposition to Prop 98 does not mean anything unless YOU ACTUALLY VOTE NO ON 98.

For more information on Proposition F, see:
http://www.propositionf.com/details.php
and endorsers, which also include Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party.
http://www.propositionf.com/supporters.php