10/26-27: Peace March & Campaigns No on N&R, Yes on D

The Spirit of ’34, the labor locomotive of history, is now at full speed. We take a few hours on October 26 to join the Peace March, and then return to the barricades. The final week before Election Day requires everyone participate in every way possible to save our homes, No on R; save the lives of the homeless, No on N; and promote public power, Yes on D. The phone banks have expanded and precinct-walking is now in the heart of the workingclass communities.

ONE WEEK TO GO TO ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2002

The pro-tenant, pro-homeless and pro-public power campaigns take time to join the Grand Peace March up Market Street on October 26, 2002 to affirm our commitment to peace. You can be sure we will be chanting “Money for housing, not for war” and “No blood for oil.” For more information on the peace march, see http://www.actionsfbay.org

The locomotive of the workingclass, the Spirit of ’34, is now at full steam, with labor at the controls and every neighborhood on board, actively working to defeat the anti-workingclass Proposition R, the Repeal of Rent Control and Proposition N, the No Care, No Cash disaster for the homeless, and to pass Proposition D, the public power measure. We are proud of our heritage of the San Francisco General Strike of 1934 which, with the 1934 general strikes of Minneapolis and Toledo, made possible the establishment of Social Security in 1935 and the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) in 1935, legalizing our right to organize labor unions.

We face a similar major class struggle today with Props R, N and D, especially with Props. R and N. It will take the active participation of every tenant voter in San Francisco for the workingclass to prevail. That can only happen if all of us who have the time push the tenant voters to the polls.

Please make every effort to participate in the precinct-walking and phone banking of these campaigns. Information on those activities can be found at:
No on R:
http://www.saverentcontrol.com
No on N:
http://www.nomorehomelessness.org/Committee.htm
Yes on D:
http://www.powertothepeople.org/volunteer_activities.html

VOTER HANDBOOKS: You should have received your San Francisco voter handbook. You will or may already have received the California voter handbook. If you do not have your San Francisco voter handbook, call the Elections Department at 554-4375 and have them mail you one or go to City Hall basement, Van Ness side, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 or Sat & Sun, 10/26-27 and pick one up, You should immediately fill out the vote-by-mail request to be a permanent vote-by-mail voter on the outside back cover and give it to the clerk. If you know how you are going to vote, you could vote immediately at the clerk’s office. The California voter pamphlet, which simply describes the California propositions and provides candidate statements for state offices, should also arrive this month.

EARLY VOTING: YOU CAN VOTE NOW. Absentee or vote-by-mail starts 30 days before election day, and this year, it started October 7, 2002. You can vote any weekday from now through November 4, 2002 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at City Hall, basement, Van Ness side. You can also vote the last two weekends before election day, October 26th & 27th and November 2nd & 3rd, between 10:00am-4:00pm. On Election Day, you can either vote at your local polling place or at City Hall from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

TO RETAIN YOUR PERMANENT ASENTEE VOTER STATUS, YOU MUST VOTE IN THIS ELECTION. If you fail to vote in a statewide election, you lose your permanent absentee voter status and will have to reapply.

SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT CHANGES AND POLLING PLACES CHANGE: Some of the polling places have changed. BE SURE to read the mailing label of your San Francisco voter handbook to learn your current polling place. You also can always vote at City Hall on or before election day. Part of the reason for the polling place change is that some supervisorial district lines have changed due to the 2000 US census. The maps of the new district lines can be found at http://www.sfgov.org/redistricting/sfproposal.htm

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 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 A, the water bond, tenants will be expected to pay for those bonds.
San Francisco Community College Board: ABEL MOUTON
No on A, B, C, M, N, Q, R, BB
Yes on D through L, O, P, S
No on R:
http://www.saverentcontrol.com
No on N:
http://www.nomorehomelessness.org/
Yes on D:
http://www.powertothepeople.org/