PR Consultants Watch In On Prop N Protest

So the same consultant who helped defeat public power is running the proposition N campaign. If the votes come out slightly againts N, get prepared for mysteriously appearing votes like last time.

Email from Jim Ross!

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Subject: State Income in aid chart
From: James Ross <jasross [at] earthlink.net>

I am with the Care Not Cash Campaign, Supervisor Newsom’s office forwarded your e-mail to me. According to the Income-In-Kind Chart, the State values housing at $191 per month, food at $105 and utilities at $40 per month. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

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Jim Ross
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To: Gavin.Newsom [at] sfgov.org
Date: Wed 10/23/2002
Hi. The November ballot in San Francisco's Proposition N says that housing, shelter, utilities and/or meals shall be valued "according to the Income-In-Kind Values Chart set forth in Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 50511 (the "Income-In-Kind Chart"), rather than at fair market value"

I find no such chart in section 50511, at leginfo.ca.gov.
Please reply with the contents of this chart!

that's tom hsieh, son of wanna-be-powerful political operative. they own somekinda poli-consulting firm.

went to jr high w/ him...seems we've taken divergent paths

Yeah...I know the guy too from highschool. He used to be sort a cool...man things have changed! Come to think of it, he was always into some sort of business like venture. We would talk of one day changing the world. He would take about making money, "being a sucess".

At the pro-Newsom, get-out-the-vote rally, supporters heard from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose telephone call from South Carolina was broadcast over a speaker. He implored those gathered to cast a ballot.

"We paid a steep price for the right to vote,'' said Jackson, who endorsed Newsom.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/08/SFMAYOR.TMP
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This is it. The Democrats are over. Clinton and Gore's stumping for Newsom was bad enough but the call by Jesse Jackson was when the Democrats jumped the shark. While Matt lost the election, look at the coverage of the Clinton and Gore visits; even the corporate media had to admit that it looked like the Party was desperate. Nobody wants to watch anymore, even fake liberals like Dean or Kucinich are starting to be seen as the same corporate product in a new package.

Newsom makes sense in San Francisco, hes a conservative pretending to be left of center. One expects politicians like that in liberal towns since its a winning combination at the polls. But what does it say when the Democrats at a national level go all out to support a Republican whose only issue in the campaign was making fun of and demonizing people who cant afford a place to live. What does it say when former hero of the Left, Jesse Jackson would rather support his party than the rights of the poorest of the poor.

The party is over.

here's a story that was posted to the http://www.the-ohioan.com/camp_trail.html webpage regarding old political consultant war stories...

San Francisco Mayor's Race
By Jerry Austin
In 1991, I was retained as the consultant for the first Asian born American to run for mayor of a major city.

Tom Hsieh ("Shea") was born in China and had migrated to San Francisco in the early 50s. An architect by profession, Hsieh was the first Asian elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is a combination of City Council and County Commission. The City and County of San Francisco are synonymous.





Tom Hsieh continued to have a very distinctive accent as well as a habit of speaking at times in "cookie monster" type phrases - phrases without a verb.
During the campaign, I produced as ad with Tom looking at the camera asking, "What do you want good grammar or good government?"

The highlight of any San Francisco Mayor's race is the final televised debate, scheduled in prime time on a major network. San Franciscans consider politics a contact sport. The debate always has a better that average size of viewing audience for a televised political event.

The major candidates were Art Agnos the embattled incumbent; Angela Allioto, a member of the Board of Supervisors and the daughter of former Mayor Joe Allioto; Frank Jordan, a former Chief of Police; Richard Hongisto, a former Sheriff and member of the Board of Supervisors, and Tom Hsieh.

The televised debate took place on the Thursday before the election. I briefed Tom that he would only have one minute to make a statement. The remainder of the debate would be Q&A. We practiced answers to possible questions. For his one minute statement, I rehearsed him stating that "Art Agnos' homeless program was a pipe dream."

We practiced the line over and over again. Many times he left out the verb "was." Finally he had it right. I joined the other candidate staffers, including Dee Dee Myers, who was communications director for Frank Jordan, in the holding room to watch the telecast of TV.

When it came time for Hsieh to make his statement, I was confident he could deliver the one line without a hitch. He looked in the camera with a stern visage and began, "Art Agnos homeless program wet dream."

Everyone started laughing. Hsieh did not know what to do, so he simply grinned. When the laughter died down the moderator continued the debate.

After the conclusion of the debate, I waited for Tom to enter the holding area. He arrived and said, "Why were they laughing at me?" I said, "Tom, you were supposed to say that Art Agnos' homeless program is a pipe dream and you said 'wet dream.'" He said, "What's the difference?"

The next year during the Democratic Presidential primary, I was working for Paul Tsongas and Dee Dee was working for Bill Clinton. I ran in to her at one of the debates. She looked at me, pointed her finger at me and said with a laugh, "Tom Hsieh."