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11/4/14 Election Day SF Vote Yes on G, No on E; Berkeley No on D

by Labor's Freedom Train
Today is Election Day. Go vote right now. Do not delay; today is the day. If you need a ride, call 415.524.0916. Your polling place is on the back of your voter handbook. You can also find it at http://sfelections.org/tools/pollsite/ and http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/find-polling-place.htm
If there is a dispute as to whether you are registered, demand a provisional ballot. If there is any problem at your polling place, go to the County Registrar to vote at City Hall, Basement, Van Ness side. It is barricades time now to save rent control. Every single tenant voter must vote and vote Yes on G if we are to have any chance to win.
Today is Election Day. Go vote right now. Do not delay; today is the day. If you need a ride, call 415.524.0916. Your polling place is on the back of your voter handbook. You can also find it at http://sfelections.org/tools/pollsite/ and http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/find-polling-place.htm
If there is a dispute as to whether you are registered, demand a provisional ballot. If there is any problem at your polling place, go to the County Registrar to vote at City Hall, Basement, Van Ness side. It is barricades time now to save rent control. Every single tenant voter must vote and vote Yes on G if we are to have any chance to win.

The entire San Francisco voter pamphlet may be found at http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/ElectionsArchives/2014/Nov/Nov2014_VIP_EN.pdf

When you vote for Prop G, you not only immediately end the Ellis Act eviction speculator racket in San Francisco, you vote for the hard work for 26 years of the late Ted Gullicksen, leader of the San Francisco Tenants Union, who passed away in his sleep on October 14, 2014 at age 61. G is for Gullicksen and for all the good things this little man with a big heart did to make sure we all have a home.

On Election Eve, November 3, 2014, we were all pleasantly surprised to find beautiful doorhangers on our apartment building doors on the steep hills of San Francisco, reminding us to vote No on E, the soda and other beverage regressive tax proposition. As the doorhanger states, “Think Prop E is Just About Taxing Soda? Think Again.” The City Controller’s Office of Economic Analysis says “…businesses may elect to spread the tax across all consumers, instead of only to purchasers of SSBs (sugar sweetened beverages) through an across the board price increase.” See http://www.affordablesf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SanFran-Report-Sugar-Bev-Tax.pdf

Anything other than the progressive income tax, known as tax the rich, is a regressive tax, which means the workingclass pays more, and a beverage tax is very regressive. As the Sun Reporter Editorial stated on May 29, 2014, “The tax will get passed along in higher prices on sugary drinks and lots of other products—and those higher prices will fall hardest on those who can least afford it. Regressive taxation is not a San Francisco value.”

No on E is supported by many organizations including:

Teamsters Joint Council 7
San Francisco Building and Constructions Trades Council
Harvey Milk LGBT Democrat Club
San Francisco Young Democrats
Chinese American Democratic Club
Asian Pacific Democratic Club
Black Young Democrats of San Francisco
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
SF Council of District Merchants Associations

For the excellent videos for No on E, see http://votenoonprope.com/

IN BERKELEY, THERE IS ALSO A SODA TAX, PROPOSITION D. No on Berkeley’s Proposition D. See http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com/facts/

Returning to San Francisco:

Yes on G, No on E
Saying what it means to me.

Yes on H, No on I
Real grass and no stadium lights are the reasons why!

ALL ABOARD LABOR'S FREEDOM TRAIN, Duke Ellington's A Train. Pack every car with tenant voters now! Ring the bell of freedom from exploitation, sing that song of liberation for the workingclass!

Recommendations:
NO ON ALL BONDS, SALES TAXES, PARKING METERS, TOWING FINES, ANTI-FOURTH AMENDMENT RED LIGHT RUNNING CAMERAS; DIVERSION SCHEMES AND GAMBLING.
CALIFORNIA: No on 1, 2, 48; Yes on all the rest.
SAN FRANCISCO: No on A, E and I; Yes on all the rest.
Propositions-SAN FRANCISCO
No on A-a bond. Tenants can be forced to pay for bonds.
Yes on B for public transportation.
Yes on C for education and youth programs
Yes on D for labor.
No on E-San Francisco-effectively a sales tax, regressive and anti-workingclass by definition, and a SLUSH FUND supported by most of the Board of Stupidvisors of San Francisco, all Democrats, demonstrating TOTAL CONTEMPT for the people of San Francisco. This city and its Democratic Party machine views the people of San Francisco and visitors as suckers to be milked dry.
http://www.affordablesf.com/
http://www.affordablesf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SanFran-Report-Sugar-Bev-Tax.pdf
Yes on F
http://www.pier70sf.com/
Yes on G-stop the evictions. There have been 10,000 evictions under the Ellis Act since 1997.
http://www.speculationfreesf.com/
Yes on H-No artificial grass and late night stadium lights in Golden Gate Park
No on I No artificial grass and late night stadium lights in Golden Gate Park
Yes on J-Minimum Wage Increase
http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Referred_Measure,_Proposition_J_(November_2014)
Yes on K-suggestion of affordable housing-where have they been?
http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Additional_Affordable_Housing_Policy,_Proposition_K_(November_2014)
Yes on L. See p. 182 of the voter's handbook:
http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/ElectionsArchives/2014/Nov/Nov2014_VIP_EN.pdf
There is no adequate public transportation outside San Francisco, so almost 80% of San Franciscans have cars. If you want to change that fact, you have to transfer the entire military budget to all social services, including public transportation. Parking meters are by definition a REGRESSIVE TAX, and should never be used for funding a city, as they are now. Parking and towing tickets are also outrageous and REGRESSIVE TAXES. Paying $74 in downtown SF and $64 elsewhere AND UP for a parking ticket, making San Francisco the worst in the nation when it comes to parking tickets is outrageous. Paying the high cab fare and $557 for the towing fine to retrieve your car is GRAND LARCENY, and sends EVERYONE WHO CAN AWAY FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Another person on the website below paid $533 for the tow truck, which sit around like predators in the Financial District, plus $110 for a parking ticket IS DESPICABLE. THEY EVEN TOW SCOOTERS for $430. AVOIDING SAN FRANCISCO IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE IN THE BAY AREA DO. The rest of the Bay Area has excellent restaurants, stores; and entertainment. If you do not work, go to school or live in San Francisco, there is very little reason to be in San Francisco. See:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/autoreturn-san-francisco (Please read ALL the complaints on this site.)
and
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-parking-fines-to-rise-Monday-4638367.php
and
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/09/san-francisco-autoreturn-tow-tourism.html?page=all
The Anti-Fourth Amendment Red Light Running Cameras can result in an outrageous $490 fine statewide, and most people who run the red light do so accidentally, if at all, since the equipment can be wrong. Basing an economy on tickets and meters is REACTIONARY since this is a REGRESSIVE TAX. Taxing the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year, with the progressive income tax, is how this city, state and country should function.
CALIFORNIA
No on Prop 1-a bond
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)#Opponents
No on Prop 2-theft of funds for schools
http://www.2badforkids.org/
From the No on 2 website:
This is a perfect example of why children always come last in Sacramento (lest we forget, we are 50th by a LARGE margin in student-teacher, student-counselor AND student-librarian ratios, not to mention at or near the bottom in the nation in per pupil funding - yes even AFTER Proposition 30). Children have no lobby, and no money. And they cannot vote. They need us to be our voice. Do you want to give children a voice? Vote NO on Prop 2, for starters.
Proposition 2 breeches the minimum guarantee Californians made to our schoolchildren – a guarantee that the Governor and the Legislature assured schools would protect them. Remember, the state diverts BILLIONS of local school property taxes that are allocated to public education each year -- $8.4 billion this year alone -- to pay its debts.
Now the State is saying it won’t necessarily replace those funds. That’s unfair. As if that were not already devastating to schools, the Legislature decided to require local school districts to spend all but three weeks of their savings the minute the state saves a nickel. It did this without public comment or LAO analysis. We see this as unfair to schools and schoolchildren and extraordinarily fiscally irresponsible.
Yes on 45 for healthcare
http://www.yeson45.org/yes-prop-45
Yes on 46 for healthcare
http://www.yeson46.org/facts/
Yes on 47
http://safetyandschools.com/
No on 48-another gambling initiative. Gambling is ALWAYS taking from the needy and giving to the greedy.
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_48,_Referendum_on_Indian_Gaming_Compacts_(2014)

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