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McGoldrick Casts Deciding Vote Against Mission Housing Activists
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 yesterday to deny the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC)'s appeal, and uphold the Planning Department’s approval of the Seven Hills Properties plan at 3400 Cesar Chavez Street. Supervisor Jake McGoldrick proved to be the deciding vote. Affordable housing advocates had been specifically targeting McGoldrick with a mass e-mail and phone call campaign, knowing the result of the vote may come down to his decision.
“When we met with him he just wasn’t making sense to us,” said Nick Pagoulatos of MAC. “We are deeply disappointed with McGoldrick considering he has been such a progressive supervisor. We know the supervisors understand these issues, but when power and money get involved we seem to lose.”
McGoldrick, who has sat on the Board’s Land Use Committee since his election in 2000, has generally been pro-tenant and pro-housing. In 2001 he authored legislation which restricted tenancy-in-common agreements to curb Ellis Act evictions. “It is astonishing that the self-proclaimed ‘hero’ of affordable housing would vote against this appeal,” said Randy Shaw, Executive Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and Editor of BeyondChron. “He has taken hypocrisy to a whole new level.”
In a February 2006 column in the Richmond Review, McGoldrick wrote that “protecting tenant's rights, creating home-ownership opportunities for low- to middle-income families, and creating supportive housing for vulnerable populations like the homeless and mentally ill are critical to San Francisco's socioeconomic fabric. Luxury condominiums are not solutions since most are unattainable for working class families. The only solution is to create new affordable housing.”Read More
McGoldrick, who has sat on the Board’s Land Use Committee since his election in 2000, has generally been pro-tenant and pro-housing. In 2001 he authored legislation which restricted tenancy-in-common agreements to curb Ellis Act evictions. “It is astonishing that the self-proclaimed ‘hero’ of affordable housing would vote against this appeal,” said Randy Shaw, Executive Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and Editor of BeyondChron. “He has taken hypocrisy to a whole new level.”
In a February 2006 column in the Richmond Review, McGoldrick wrote that “protecting tenant's rights, creating home-ownership opportunities for low- to middle-income families, and creating supportive housing for vulnerable populations like the homeless and mentally ill are critical to San Francisco's socioeconomic fabric. Luxury condominiums are not solutions since most are unattainable for working class families. The only solution is to create new affordable housing.”Read More
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?...
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This vicious sell-out of the workingclass tenants by Democrats Sean Elsbernd, Ed Jew, Michela Alioto-Pier, Bevan Dufty, Gerardo Sandoval and Jake McGoldrick, as well as the vicious sell-out of the workingclass community (mostly homeowners) of Bayview Hunters Point at the same Board of Supervisors meeting, by Democrats Bevan Dufty, Sophie Maxwell, Jake McGoldrick, Aaron Peskin, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Sean Elsbernd should demonstate, once again, that voting for any Democrat at any level of office is just as anti-workingclass as voting for any Republican. PLEASE ONLY VOTE PEACE & FREEDOM or GREEN if you want housing for the workingclass and a clean environment. If you do not find enough candidates from these two parties on your ballot, join either one of these parties and RUN FOR OFFICE YOURSELF. Cindy Sheehan is doing just that against Congressperson Nancy Pelosi. For the Board of Supervisors, you do not have to be a member of any party as it is a non-partisan office. One can be an independent and run for a partisan office as well, which Cindy Sheehan plans to do.
For more on the Bayview Hunters Point sell-out, see
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/31/18438229.php
and
the SF Chronicle, 8/1/07 at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/01/BAL2RAL7P2.DTL
The Chronicle describes the money developer Lennar poured into this meeting to win this vote as follows:
"Lennar paid for buses for people on their side to get from Bayview-Hunters Point to City Hall, and a staffer with a public relations firm representing Lennar bought them snacks and bottled water during the meeting and encouraged supporters to stick around as long as it took to testify. "
In the Chronicle story, we learn that the Democratic Party's election fraud team was there in full force, including but not limited to Amos Brown and his Third Baptist Church as well as the Nation of Islam. This time, Amos Brown was once again defending the real estate developers, as he did on the Board of Supervisors, always to the detriment of the workingclass and especially the African-American workingclass. The question is, WILL THE OCTOBER 27 SAN FRANCISCO PEACE RALLY ALLOW AMOS BROWN TO AGAIN SPEAK AS A SO-CALLED PEACE ADVOCATE, thus slapping the workingclass of San Francisco in the face again?
For more on the Bayview Hunters Point sell-out, see
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/31/18438229.php
and
the SF Chronicle, 8/1/07 at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/01/BAL2RAL7P2.DTL
The Chronicle describes the money developer Lennar poured into this meeting to win this vote as follows:
"Lennar paid for buses for people on their side to get from Bayview-Hunters Point to City Hall, and a staffer with a public relations firm representing Lennar bought them snacks and bottled water during the meeting and encouraged supporters to stick around as long as it took to testify. "
In the Chronicle story, we learn that the Democratic Party's election fraud team was there in full force, including but not limited to Amos Brown and his Third Baptist Church as well as the Nation of Islam. This time, Amos Brown was once again defending the real estate developers, as he did on the Board of Supervisors, always to the detriment of the workingclass and especially the African-American workingclass. The question is, WILL THE OCTOBER 27 SAN FRANCISCO PEACE RALLY ALLOW AMOS BROWN TO AGAIN SPEAK AS A SO-CALLED PEACE ADVOCATE, thus slapping the workingclass of San Francisco in the face again?
For more information:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/3...
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