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Chevron-Texaco, PG&E and Repubicans financed Care not Cash aka Newsom for Mayor

by rpst
CHEVRON-TEXACO and PG&E along with Repubican front groups financed so-called "Care not Cash", aka Newsom for Mayor. Prop N is a veritable campaign finance loop for soft money and Republican conservative political interest groups.
Department of Elections Ethics COmmision database reveals CEOs/Presidents/Owners of Big Business, Big Developers, Real Estate barkers, investment bankers, self-nomered venture capitalists, Lumber-dudes, upper class professionals, and commerce clubs financed Care not Cash---most large contributions come from out of town....Orange County, San Ramon, Marin, LA, etc...

Chevrontexaco Corporation $20,000
Coalition For Better Housing Mill Valley , CA $20,000
PGE $10,000
Viacom $5000
Skyy Vodka (Spirits) Chrm. $10,000
Committee On Jobs Government Reform Fund
$200,000 (Republican front group)


Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club PAID $7350 Shame!!!
Peter Coyote Donor Shame!!

More Restaurants for Boycott:
Squat & Gobble Cafe # 3 $1,000
Bimbo's 365 (waaahh, Leo!)
Fior D'italia
Gold Dust Lounge
Curve Bar & Grill

TO Search for so-called "Care Not Cash" Donors go to:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf?opendatabase
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by which Squat & Gobble?
Is that the one in the upper Haight, on Haight street, about 100 feet from Masonic?

Or is it a different one?
by San Francisco Voter
Supervisors Gavin Newsom and Bevan Dufty and "mayor" Willie Brown are all good Democrats and all supported Prop N, as did many other good Democrats. Gavin Newsom comes from a political family. Bevan Dufty was supported in his election by such good Democrats as Congressperson Barbara Lee in his run for office, as well as the rest of the elected Democratic Party officialdom, and they still support him. Willie Brown is a lifelong loyal Democrat who, before he became "mayor" was routinely recruited for endorsement of all kinds of good causes, simply because he was black, with no regard to his reactionary voting record whatsoever. He became a millionaire by representing the real estate industry which contributed to the "whitening" of San Francisco and is viciously anti-tenant. He had no problem taking that reactionary road as he came from a reactionary organized crime, gambling family.

The funding of the Democratic Party is from the same corporations that fund the Republican Party. They are the twin parties of capitalism. The Democrats only exist to keep the Reds out of office. They play that game by giving lip service to progressive causes, such as officially opposing Prop N (but not seriously campaigning against it) during their campaigns and then when in office, carrying out the same reactionary, capitalist agenda as the Republicans.

This little game has now ended as capitalism has no more fat, no more crumbs to toss to some members of the workingclass. Thus, all of the Democratic Party candidates for mayor (and they are all Democrats) in SF this year are all stadium swindlers, supporting both the baseball and defunct football stadium swindles. And, most importantly, they all vote the Democratic Party ticket from President, US Senate, Governor to all the rest of them, and they all support Israel. The Republicans also support Israel and are also proud stadium swindlers. None of them has any serious workingclass housing plan such as taking over all the empty apartments and empty office buildings by right of eminent domain and transforming them into affordable housing for the workingclass so that tenants pay no more than 1/4 their net income in rent.

And best of all, the economic crisis has made possible the recall of that stinking little fascist and good Democrat, Governor Gray Davis. The Democrats so far insist they will not run anyone against this prison and death penalty-promoting, PG&E-loving, proud supporter of Willie Brown, Gray Davis. Thus, the California Democratic Party will finally be buried in the dustbin of history, with the Republicans soon to follow.

The Democrats and Republicans are also the twin election-frauding parties. The election-fraud of George Bush in 2000 (to be repeated on a grander scale in 2004) took place across the country in the workingclass, usually black, communities, where the Democartic Party's election fraud machines routinely commit election fraud. The California Democratic Party's election fraud may be seen at:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
and
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown

The Green Party is running a candidate for governor. I expect the socialist Peace & Freedom Party to do the same. Unlike the Democrats and Republicans, both the Greens and P&F oppose all stadium swindles, oppose the death penalty and prison construction, and support public power, thereby eliminating private power companies such as PG&E, So Cal Edison and San Diego G&E.

It is long overdue that the pro-tenant, both housed and homeless, community stop supporting any Democrats as the Democratic Party is the graveyard of the tenants' rights movement. It is in fact ridiculous for the tenant community to support any candidates who support capitalism whatsoever as it is the profit motive that is the cause of the housing crisis.
by climbing on the backs of the poor.
Maybe it's my browser, but this url doesn't seem to work:

TO Search for so-called "Care Not Cash" Donors go to:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf?opendatabase

Can the author tell us how to navigate to Care Not Cash donors on the city website? Thanks!
by Search Donors: on the backs of the poor
First go to:
http://sunset.ci.sf.ca.us/OLFSPublish205.nsf?opendatabase

Choose "Contributions" to look at donors:
this opens to "Campaign Finance Database
Searching - Contributions" page

In Search Constraints--->Limit search to a specific Committee-->enter "Care Not Cash" Committee
--also helpful to choose 40 return docs per page.

The Ethics Commission/Elections Department Database also includes expenditures, unpaid debts, etc....ie, payments made to political action groups for Slate Cards and other soft-money financing campaign miscellania.

Follow the money!
by Search Donors: on the backs of the poor
To Off the Back fo the Poor:

See right above "sCare not Cash" fan-atic post for info on searching Donor database at SF Elections Dept/Ethics COmmission
by janni boar
Not sure what all is provoking such a bilious string of insults and barbs from right-extremist-fan-atic stranger...but luckily, editors have been kind enough to rid the thread of some of the more vile attacks interrupting thsi ongoing discussion.\

at times it's amusing, and at other times a bit disturbing. And all in all, it's down-right offensive.

Anyhoozit, please continue to support hte boycott.

From: Impoverished, Near Homeless, SF Worker-Bee
(not a liberal elite!)
by one of the editors
>there's this angry person out there

This refers to spam which was since removed. In the future, please do not respond to this guy. If you see any of his crap that we missed, write to us at:

imc-sf-editorial [at] lists.indymedia.org

We'll remove it immediately.
by repost
REPOST:
Politics DAN WALTERs

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/columns/walters/story/6704139p-7655538c.html

"Tale of two cities -- One drifting to starboard, the other to port"
By Dan Walters -- Bee Columnist
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Wednesday, May 21, 2003
San Francisco may be seen as a bastion of left-of-center politics today, but just a couple of generations ago, it was often electing Republicans to office.
Republican George Christopher was mayor of the city during the 1960s (and ran unsuccessfully for governor); Republican Milton Marks held the city's seat in the state Senate; and Caspar Weinberger, who became Ronald Reagan's defense secretary, was a local state assemblyman.

The rise of the counterculture in the late 1960s altered the city's social ambience. With that evolution, its politics shifted to the left, personified by late Congressman Phil Burton, assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Willie Brown, who presided over the state Assembly as speaker for 14 years and is now the city's mayor.

Politics is nothing if not cyclical, however, and although San Francisco certainly won't become Bush country anytime soon, its politics appear to have edged a few notches to the right in recent years. As mayor, Brown has been anything but the liberal firebrand that he had been in the 1960s and 1970s. He's been staunchly pro-development, much to the chagrin of liberal activists, and is considered to be, at least by local standards, something of a conservative.

The most persuasive evidence of San Francisco's shift to the right, however, was the strong endorsement that its voters gave in November to the "Care Not Cash" ballot measure that slashed welfare payments to the city's homeless residents from as much as $400 a month to $59, offering shelter and food as a substitute.

San Francisco voters gave the measure 60 percent support and in doing so boosted the mayoral ambitions of its author, Supervisor Gavin Newsom, who also has Brown's backing as his successor in city elections later this year. Newsom, a wealthy businessman and scion of a prominent family, is not only the leading candidate for mayor, but also easily the most conservative of the lot.

The Newsom measure was voided by a local judge this month on a technicality, but if anything that action might be another boost for Newsom, who can now challenge his fellow supervisors to reinstate it or risk the wrath of voters.

Why have San Francisco's politics drifted rightward? Except for isolated pockets, the 1960s hippies are gone. The advent of the high-tech industry brought tens of thousands of well-heeled yuppies into San Francisco, and soaring housing prices drove out those who couldn't afford to live in the city. The city's expanding Asian American population, with its entrepreneurial bent, has been another factor.

The flip side of what's been happening in San Francisco is what's been happening in Los Angeles. Long considered to be one of the most conservative urban areas in America, Los Angeles and its closest suburbs have been drifting leftward over the past decade.

The end of the Cold War produced a virtual collapse in the Southern California aerospace industry, and hundreds of thousands of defense workers left the area for industrial jobs elsewhere. Concurrently, the region experienced an inflow of immigrants from other countries, primarily those of Latin America, contributing to a socioeconomic transformation. The political fallout from those trends was to convert communities that had been bulwarks of Republican voting, such as Long Beach and Glendale, into Democratic strongholds. Although Los Angeles' outer suburbs have remained relatively conservative -- and in some cases become even more strongly Republican -- the urban core has moved to the left politically, in no small part because of the renewed activism of labor unions in what was once a notoriously anti-union city.

The makeup of the current legislative representation from both San Francisco and Southern California's urban core is a strong clue to the trends. San Francisco's two new members in the state Assembly -- Leland Yee and Mark Leno -- are relative centrists who defeated more liberal opponents in last year's Democratic primaries, the only elections that count in such a strongly Democratic city. Urban Los Angeles, however, has been sending man-the-ramparts liberals to the Legislature, such as Assembly members Jackie Goldberg and Paul Koretz and Sens. Richard Alarcón and Sheila Kuehl.
by fat cats fund Care Not Cash
geeze, no surprise there
out of town money from "venture capitalist," big business, GOP front groups flooded Care Not Cash coffers....additionally
$5000 came from Viacom....advertisers at Muni stops

didn't know Chevron or PG&E cared so much about alleviating the sufferings of the poor?
by GOP gave $200,000 to Care not Cash
fat cats funding for care not cash

thousands and thousands paid by big business, venture capitalists, developers, realty investment groups, investment bankers, and robber-baron families...all to pay for Newsoms street sweep kick to the poor.

by RWF
Joseph Cotchett: $10,000

San Francisco Design Center: 4,900

Remember Cotchett may run for AG when Lockyer's term expires
by Bechtel, the GAP Finance Care Not Cash
Committee On Jobs-Government Reform Fund donated a lump sum of $200,000 to so-called Care Not Cash, aka Newsom for Mayor...so where does Committee on Jobs Government Reform Committee get it's money?

Per Ethics Commission data-base with Dept of Elections here is a sampling of the Top Donors:

Gap, Inc. $300,000 uses Sweatshop Labor

Charles Schwab & Co. $300,000

California Issues Pac $100,000
(predominately a Realty Investors Political Action Group)

Schwab, Charles $75,000 personal donation

Shorenstein Properties $72,499.00+ Feinstein Hubbie

Don Fisher - Chairman; Gap Inc. $50,000

Hellman, F. Warren $45,000 CEO

Chevron-Texaco Corporation $25,000+ San Ramon

Providian Bancorp Services $20,000

Pg&E $15,000

At&T Broadband $10,000

Deloitte & Touche $10,000 Hermitage , TN

Mckesson Corporation $7,500 Carrollton , TX

Bank Of America California Pac $5,000 +

Arthur Andersen $5,000 +

Bechtel Corporation $5,000 Phoenix , AZ

Bank Of America California Pac $5,000

American Industrial Partners $5,000

Pillsbury Winthrop $5000
Law Firm representing Iraq Reconstruction Project--war-mongers!

Data from Department of Elections Ethis Commission: http://www.sfgov.org/site/ethics_index.asp?id=13729
search by campaign, committee for contributions, expenditures, etc...

Addendum: RE: Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club:
By all appearances, Alice B. Toklas Club has sold out!!
There are just too many Big Money contributions and payouts to list here--the largest contributions and payouts to Toklas come from Committee on Jobs and other neo-conservative fat-cat cover groups.
by Bechtel, the GAP Finance Care Not Cash
support the boycott of Golden Gate Restaurant Association Members, donors and supporters of so-called "Care not Cash," aka Newsom for Mayor!
by Bechtel, Chevron, Viacom Fund Care not Cash
Department of Elections Ethics COmmision database reveals CEOs/Presidents/Owners of Big Business, Big Developers, Real Estate barkers, investment bankers, self-nomered venture capitalists, Lumber-dudes, upper class professionals, and commerce clubs financed Care not Cash---most large contributions come from out of town....Orange County, San Ramon, Marin, LA, etc...

Chevrontexaco Corporation $20,000
Coalition For Better Housing Mill Valley , CA $20,000
PGE $10,000
Viacom $5000
Skyy Vodka (Spirits) Chrm. $10,000
Committee On Jobs Government Reform Fund
$200,000 (Republican front group)

See above post re: who funds so-called "Committee on Jobs" which reveals this PAC as a front group for neo-conservatives, big business, real estate magnates and developers.
by Bechtel,GAP,War Profiteers Fund Care Not Cash
Who's behind No Care no Cash!?

Real Estate Magnates, stock brokers, self-proclaimed venture capitalists, billionaires, and republicans. In a callous move to raise property values and sanitize their playground, SFs rich, powerful business and land owners want the poor to disappear.

Charles Schwab, stock broker, gave $375,000 to so-called Care not Cash, aka Newsom for Mayor.

Committee on Jobs: $300,000
--Republican front group...similar donor list as Care not Cash, and CA Issues Political Action Committee...Republican Front Groups

--Bechtel: $5000 War mongers and profiteers

Pillsbury Winthrop $5000
--Law Firm representing Iraq Reconstruction Project war-profiteers--war-mongers!

California Issues Pac $100,000
(predominately a Realty Investors Political Action Group)

Shorenstein Properties $72,499.00+
(so-far this is all we've uncovered from Shorenstein Properties...union busters!)
by Newsoms Cops Arrest GAY SHAME at PRIDE!
Newsom Must be Stopped!!
Cheers to Gay SHAME!

Support GAY SHAME arrestees at their press conference tomorrow NOON

Hall of Justice this Monday, June 30
850 Bryant Street
High NOON
by Tom? NOT! Newsoms Pals: Chevron,GAP,GOP
Who has a vested interest in discrediting Tom? hmmm...Gavin Newsom
Who's got the most to lose?
Gavin Newsom
Who's spent the most money?
Gavin Newsom
Who got the power elite behind them, drooling to stay in power? Tom? No...
Gavin Newsom!
Who gets cops to go where he goes and beat up Gay SHAME (Feb 14, 2003 LGBT center)? Tom? No...
Gavin Newsom!
Who's been known to use below the belt political ops?
oh, Jack Davis and that Ross guy...yea!

Newsom gruesome toothesome, too
Gay SHAME is coming after you!

BE AFRAID!

support Gay SHAME!
JUNE 30 MONDAY
Hall of Justice
850 Bryant
HIGH NOON

and yes, to the Newsom sick-o-fan SPAMmer, Hallinan is a friend!
drop the charges!
catch the spammer scoff-law!
by Piet (piet [at] mybluelite.com)
I voted FOR Care not Cash. When I was homeless, and "vehicularly housed", I saw and was awakened too often, bums arguing and shooting up and drunk because they used those quarters for shit. Straight boys came to the Castro to prey on soft-hearted fags that they despised and derogated behind their backs, and I gave FOOD not MONEY to those who needed it. That's EXACTLY what CnC is about - give what is needed, not fungible cash, actually food and shelter. Stop whining about those people who shit in the parking lots, leave their needles in the parks, dirty and destroy our urban environment and lives, and assail and attack ordinary citizens.

Boycott the IraqWar profiteers, and VOTE - beFORE decisions are made. You get the government you deserve - you get what you vote for. PARTICIPATE
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