SF: Prop H Opposed by Realtors & Democrat Mayor Newsom

Two weeks before election day, November 7, the voters of San Francisco, tenants and homeowners, received a vicious lying multicolor slick mailer against the pro-tenant Prop H, endorsed by the real estate industry, the Republican Party and Democrats "Mayor" Gavin Newsom and Democrats Supervisors Elsbernd, Ma and Alioto-Pier.

As the website of the San Francisco Tenant Union explains at http://www.sftu.org/YesonH.htm:
"Tenants who are evicted for no fault of their own receive very short notice and have little time to save money and move. Far too many end up moving out of San Francisco or even into shelters. These no-fault evictions are done by landlords looking to sell the property, fix up the property, convert it to more profitable uses or to demolish the rental units. In San Francisco's heated real estate market, landlords profit greatly via these evictions, while tenants end up with nowhere to go. YES on Prop H requires landlords to pay tenants relocation expenses for all no fault evictions. Tenants getting eviction notices for owner move in, capital improvements, demolition, or substantial rehabilitation will get $4,500 per tenant in relocation expenses. Tenants who are senior or disabled and households with children under 18 will get an additional $3,000. Prop H is retroactive to August 10, 2006, meaning landlords will not be able to rush to get evictions done before Prop H passes and meaning many tenants now facing eviction will be entitled to these relocation benefits."

This very modest relocation benefit is opposed by all of the above-named Democrats, including "mayor" Newsom who sits in office with election fraud committed against pro-tenant Green member Matt Gonzalez in 2003. This thug endorsed all kinds of lies on the slick mailer claiming that somehow this relocation benefit will be harmful to tenants!

On the same day, Oct 23, this thug "mayor" exhibits his contempt to everyone with his unbelievable defense of the Oracle computer company's closure of a major street, Howard Street at 4th, for their party-convention, in a letter format on page B6 of the local pro-landlord rag, the San Francisco Chronicle. He states that he is just thrilled that 40,000 people will attend this convention and give $50 million in revenue to the City's economy (mostly to private profit businesses, not the City's budget). This money, and much more, could be easily be obtained by taxing the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year, with the progressive income tax, and raising taxes on that crowd, instead of cutting them as the Democrat-Republicans have been doing in Sacramento and Washington, DC. San Francisco alone has enough billionaires to take care of all our budget shortfalls. He actually unapologetically refers the reader to the street closure information on the Oracle website at:
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/howardstreet/index.html

We then turn to the Technology section of the same reactionary rag on 10/23/06, and find a promotional in the form of news for Oracle where they state on page E3 that they just cannot help but serve food on Howard Street, while traffic and buses are re-routed!

The obvious solution is to TELL ORACLE'S CONVENTION TO LEAVE TOWN AND TO TAKE ANTI-TENANT, ELECTION FRAUD MAYOR NEWSOM WITH THEM, ALONG WITH ANTI-TENANT SUPERVISORS ELSBERND, MA AND ALIOTO-PIER. We can and must tax the rich to pay for all our city's needs. All these conventions do is make the rich richer. The homeless crisis will continue to exist; nothing will improve.

This all demosntrates that the only pro-tenant parties on the ballot are the socialist Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party, which support Prop H, as do all their candidates. In addition to voting for these parties candidates, vote Yes on D through K in San Francisco, and Yes on 86, 87 and 89; No on 85 and 90 on the state ballot. And on the US Senate race, you have a choice of Marcia Feinland from P&F or Todd Chretien of the Green Party. For Congress in San Francisco, the Greens are running Krissy Keefer. Please remember to vote November 7.