10/24 Gay Shame and others gathered at Geary and Mason Streets at 5pm October 24th to protest in front of a Gavin Newsom fundraiser. Pictures: 1   2
Gavin Newsom’s brutal Proposition M, the “Aggressive Solicitation Ban,” would put people in jail for panhandling. In effect, this punishes poor people for trying to satisfy their basic needs and violates basic rights to free speech. Like last year’s Prop N, “Care Not Cash,” Prop M criminalizes homeless people rather than providing desperately needed services.
Gavin Newsom has used the scapegoating of the homeless as his primary platform throughout his political career. Newsom likes to portray himself as a self-made business owner who sells inexpensive wines, but he has always relied on his family's connections to the Gettys to get anywhere. Will San Francisco allow a Republican clone (look at his voting record) to buy his way into the mayor’s office? Will people sit by as the wealthiest of the wealthy use their money to attack the poorest of the poor?