SF: 9 Weeks to Vote No on N and R for tenants; Yes on D for public power

Campaign 2002 is now in its final Fall season run to Save Our Homes with No on R; Save the Homeless’ Lives with No on N and Save on Utility Bills and Support Public Power in San Francisco with Yes on D. We have 9 weeks to election day, November 5, 2002, to walk precincts and to vote.

REGISTER TO VOTE

EVERYONE WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE MUST VOTE. We can only pass Prop. D and defeat Props N and R if every single eligible tenant votes. If you will be 18 on or before November 5, and are an American citizen, you are eligible to register to vote and can register now. The home, life and utility bill you save will be your own when you vote.

You can register to vote at City Hall, Room 48 in the basement, or by making a phone call to request a voter registration form. Be sure to also sign up for permanent vote-by-mail (absentee) ballot which anyone can do so that you can vote in the comfort of your home at any time and not worry about voting on a Tuesday, most likely a work day.

The registration information can be found at: http://www.sfgov.org/election/contact.htm
Call (415) 554-4411 for voter registration information and absentee voting or E-mail: debra.brown [at] sfgov.org

DO NOT DELAY; REGISTER TO VOTE TODAY.

NO ON PROP. N

There are 15,000 homeless in San Francisco and not enough affordable housing for low wage workers. Shelters are not housing. If you think they are, try living in one. Until we have more affordable housing, which means voting for housing instead of prisons, police and military, then we must vote No on N. The people who put Props N and R on the ballot should be ashamed of themselves. For more information on Prop N, see http://www.nomorehomelessness.org/

NO ON PROP R TO SAVE RENT CONTROL
RENT CONTROL IS OUR PRECIOUS SAN FRANCISCO ACHIEVEMENT

Tenants are guaranteed to landlords with RENT CONTROL.

A labor force is guaranteed to San Francisco with RENT CONTROL.

All progressive political organizations exist in San Francisco thanks to RENT CONTROL.

The wide variety of cultural activities in San Francisco exists because we have RENT CONTROL.

We judge all political organizations, politicians and newspaper endorsements by their position on RENT CONTROL.

The major achievement of the workingclass of San Francisco in the 1970s was, and remains RENT CONTROL.

If we should have the misfortune of having to leave San Francisco, when we say we left our heart in San Francisco, we mean we have lost RENT CONTROL.

PROP R IS RENT CONTROL REPEAL. VOTE NO ON R.

Precinct walking is expected to start in September for No on R . Check the website at http://www.saverentcontrol.com/ for contact details.

Please also take the time to read the information on this constantly updated website. The latest update, besides the endorsements, are Proposition R as the Lemon Law since it is not good for first time homebuyers either, with all its exemptions from building and zoning codes, permission to hide defects and exemption from planning commission oversight. See http://www.saverentcontrol.com/lemonlaw.html

The No on R current endorsements can be found at: http://www.saverentcontrol.com/endorsements.htm
Please add your name or your organization’s name as soon as possible.

YES ON D

In these hard times, and with increased global warming and blood for oil wars, we need public power to lower our utility bills and to make possible the use of alternative sources of energy.

The Yes on D campaign can be reached at:
Tel: 415, 441/0375, Fax: 415/921-4722, Mail: PO Box 2273, San Francisco, CA 94126

Read the Bay Guardian every Wednesday for updates on the Yes on D campaign. See http://www.sfbg.com

APPEAL TO PROPERTY OWNERS

Property owners pay the highest utility bills, and they will go much higher, thanks to pro-PG&E politicians like Gov .Gray Davis and “mayor” Willie Brown. We all need public power and we all need to save money on utility bills . Thus, you have many good reasons to vote Yes on Prop. D.

The housed and homeless tenants are the labor force, without whom this City would come to a grinding halt. Rent control guarantees tenants to landlords. The money given to the homeless guarantees that most of them can have some housing, such as paying a friend a little rent money to sleep on the couch. Most of the homeless work but the thousands of low wage jobs do not pay enough money to pay the rent. You cannot pay rent on $5.15 an hour, or even $10 per hour in San Francisco. The minimum wage should be $20 per hour. Without rent control, we will have more homeless. Thus, everyone needs to vote No on N to save the lives of the homeless tenants and No on R to save rent control for tenants.

Since we all have an interest in voting No on N and R, Yes on D, let us demonstrate the unity of our many neighborhoods, from the Mission to the Sunset, from North Beach to Hunters Point, from the Fillmore and the Haight-Ashbury to the top of Twin Peaks and down to Visitacion Valley to save our precious little City of 49 square miles and put an end to the Willie Brown-anti-tenant, pro-PG&E nightmare that took over in January 1996.

SAN FRANCISCO IS THE CITY THAT KNOWS HOW

San Francisco led the state in voting Yes on Prop 215, the medical marijuana initiative, with 80% of us voting Yes on Prop. 215.

Prop S is on this year’s ballot, which will allow the City of San Francisco to grow its own marijuana, in compliance with Prop. 215.

Let’s vote 90% Yes on S and 80% Yes on D; and 80% No on N and R.

It is said that San Francisco is the city that knows how . Let’s lie up to our reputation so that we can remain everybody’s favorite City!

Onward to victory for No on N and R and Yes on D on election day, November 5, 2002.

Information on the San Francisco ballot propositions can be found at:
http://www.sfgov.org/election/guides/measures110502election.htm

Information on the California ballot propositions can be found at:http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm#2002General
and with pro and con explanation and references at:
http://www.calvoter.org/2002/general/propositions/index.html

Tenant Voter recommends:
This tenant voter also does not usually support bonds. It is far better if the money comes from the general fund and the sooner people send that message to the Legislature, etc., the sooner they will have to cut back on prisons, the police and the military.
California: Yes on 52, No on all the rest. (You would be safe in voting a Bingo No on the California propositions).
San Francisco:
Please note, on Prop B, the housing bond, tenants will be expected to pay for those bonds.
No on A, B, C, M, N, Q, R, Bart Bond
Yes on D through L, O, P, S