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Bingo Yes on All Props; May 22 reg deadline for 6/6 election

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Clearly, we should vote a bingo Yes on all the state and San Francisco county propositions. May 22 is the voter regisation deadline for the 6/6 election. Between the hit pieces, particularly the joint Democrat-Republican attack on Chris Daly on Prop C, and the slow pace of our election (fraud?) department in San Francisco, this sleeper governor's primary is turning out to be nasty.
Clearly, we should vote a bingo Yes on all the state and San Francisco county propositions. May 22 is the voter regisation deadline for the 6/6 election. Between the hit pieces, particularly the joint Democrat-Republican attack on Chris Daly on Prop C, and the slow pace of our election (fraud?) department in San Francisco, this sleeper governor's primary is turning out to be nasty.

By now, San Francisco voters have received our state booklet and our absentee ballot. We have yet to receive our county booklet. It is about 2 weeks before election day. Absentee voting started 2 weeks ago on May 8! They finally moved our spring election to its old date of June instead of March, so there can be no excuse of not having enough time. This is simply an attempt by the San Francisco Democratic Party machine to minimize the workingclass, tenant vote.

The Democratic Party has sunk to new lows with its joint attack with the Republican Party on a Democrat, Chris Daly, who happens to be a leading pro-tenant member of the Board of Supervisors, complaining about Prop C, an attempt to make the appointments to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority more democratic, a very modest reform. What this hateful hit piece demonstrates is that the Democratic Party of San Francisco does not want anything to do with pro-tenant politicians. The people of San Francisco should respond by kicking both the Democratic and Republican Party out of San Francisco by never voting for the Democrats or Republicans at any level. Chris Daly should leave the Democratic Party immediately.

For more on the San Francisco propositions, see:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/election_index.asp?id=4438

For mroe on the California propositions, see:
http://www.calvoter.org/voter/elections/2006/primary/props/index.html

If you have not already done so, sign up to vote absentee (vote by mail) permanently. We do not have to have a reason in California to vote absentee; just complete the form on the back of your County booklet or and mail it in. If you receive your absentee ballot after May 30, you should walk it to City Hall's basement on the Van Ness side where the Registrar of Voters is. You can also vote there on an absentee ballot any weekday from now until election day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the last weekend before election day, June 3-4, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

For more information on voting, see:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/election_index.asp?id=4435

It is much easier to vote by mail as you can do that in the comfort and privacy of your home, and you will never forget to vote. It sure beats having to vote on a workday, a Tuesday.

Bingo Yes on all the Propositions: Yes on 81 and 82; Yes on A,B,C,D! Remember to vote!


The California Superintendent of Schools is technically a nonpartisan position. Sarah Knopp, a socialist and member of the Green Party, is running for this position. See
http://sarah4super.org/

The incumbent is that good Democrat Jack O'Connell who proudly supports the notorious California high school exit exam, of which he is an author, which clearly discriminates against the poor as half the high schools in California do not teach what is required to pass the test and is a faulty test in that students who pass their courses sometimes still do not pass the exit exam. THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS CALL REFORM; THE REST OF US CALL IS ATTACKING THE WORKINGCLASS" RIGHT TO AN EDUCATION.

Real reform consists of top quality free public school education for everyone from age 3 through and including university; no standardized tests but instead passing the final exam in any given course (at least a C grade) being sufficient; three 15 week semesters for everyone, allowing the bright students to move faster and the slower ones to repeat only the subject in which they get less than a C rather than repeating a whole grade; raise teacher salaries to starting pay at $80,000 per year as their job requires a college degree; raise taxes on the rich (those making over $200,000 per year) known as the progressive income tax to pay for schools instead of lowering taxes on the rich which both Democrats and Republicans do; kick the military out of the schools and transfer the entire military budget to education and social services; shut down the prison system and transfer the prison budget to the education department which must have a mandate to rehabilitate everyone currently in prison with top quality free education within 5 years so that they become productive members of society if under age 50 and full pension to those over age 50. This is a bare bones agenda we need for a serious education program, which Jack O'Connell and his rotten Democratic Party does not offer; they and the Republicans offer standardized tests, which most of them could not pass.
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