3 days to vote for SF Mayor Terry Baum, No on all Propositions

The local daily capitalist rag of 11/7/11 proudly announced that 80% of Chinatown mail-in ballots are at the Registrar's office already. Chinatown, home to 14,500 people, in San Francisco, a city of 800,000, is an area of mostly immigrants, where 2/3 do not speak English and 1/3 live in poverty. Most Chinatown residents are not voters. The Ed Lee-Willie Brown campaign has been caught marking ballots for people in Chinatown. You can defeat this obvious election fraud by voting for a worthwhile candidate for mayor, Terry Baum, and No on all propositions.

Asian Americans, from all Asian countries, are 18% of the voters and 30% of the residents of San Francisco. As with all nationalities, recent immigrants are usually not citizens and thus not voters.

The Democratic Party is again resorting to election fraud, this time under the guise of promoting one ethnic group, which is simply racism.

The only candidate who is strongly against Propositions C and D, the anti-city worker, pension destruction propositions, is Terry Baum, running for mayor. That should be your litmus test, not any nationality. If you have no litmus test and simply play games with your vote, you have no reason to vote at all. You only need to vote for one candidate; you do not have to make 3 choices and you do not have to vote for the 2 reactionary positions, sheriff and district attorney. That one candidate should be Terry Baum. WE CAN OVERCOME ELECTION FRAUD BY A FLOOD OF VOTES FOR A SERIOUS CANDIDATE THAT REPRESENTS THE WORKINGCLASS, TERRY BAUM FOR MAYOR.

You can vote today at the Registrar's office, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., City Hall, Van Ness side, Basement, or tomorrow, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tomorrow, Election Day, November 8, you can also vote at poll. If you have voted absentee but have not turned in your ballot, YOU MUST WALK YOUR BALLOT TO THE REGISTRAR TODAY OR TOMORROW OR TO A POLLING PLACE, TOMORROW.

Your polling place is listed on the back of your Voter's Handbook. You can also find it at the Election Department's polling place lookup here:
http://gispubweb.sfgov.org/website/pollingplace/

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OFF THE DIME! PLEASE VOTE, and vote TERRY BAUM FOR MAYOR AND NO ON ALL THE PROPOSITIONS. This writer has been to hundreds of marches in San Francisco, but marches are not everything; they are just one aspect of the struggle. We have the right to vote so let's use it AND ALWAYS VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE. When you play games with your vote, you open the doors to election fraud.

As to Props A&B, bonds are a poor way to finance anything, and the Prop B bonds for roads will be passed to tenants. All funds should come from the general fund, which is paid for by the progressive income tax, better known as tax the rich

Peace & Freedom Party had this to say on page 65 of the must read Voter's Handbook against Propositions C and D:
San Francisco employees didn't create this economic downturn, however both pension initiatves ask city employees to take home less money for the same benefits, as well as cutting the COLA. Tax the rich and their corporations!
For more on Peace & Freedom Party, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/

Peace & Freedom Party, the Green Party and the San Francisco Tenants Union oppose Propositions C&D.

Prop E is a viciously anti-democratic proposition allowing the Board of Supervisors to repeal propositions supported by a majority of the voters.

Proposition F is another anti-democratic proposition allowing the city government to make all kinds of changes to campaign consultant rules without voter approval.

Proposition G is a sales tax, regressive and anti-workingclass by definition. We have millionaires and billionaires in San Francisco and large corporations with huge corporate profits, all of whom and which can be taxed.

Proposition H is an open promoter of racism under the old guise of neighborhood schools.

The only position worth considering is the mayor's as both the district attorney and the sheriff are anti-workingclass by definition. The only candidate worth considering is Terry Baum, the Green Party's candidate for mayor.

As a general comment, anyone who would vote for a friend of the notorious Democrat Willie Brown, namely the current interim mayor, Democrat Ed Lee, is not only voting for the Republican Party's choice for mayor but also voting for election-frauding criminality that should be good cause to reject the entire Democrat-Republican Party. Willie Brown is a lifelong real estate, anti-rent control, pro-gambling millionaire who led the election fraud team of the Democratic and Republican Central Committees and the Chamber of Commerce in the 1997 49er Stadium Swindle election, his so-called re-election in 1999 and the so-called election of his reactionary protege, Gavin Newsom for mayor in 2001, along with defeating a public power proposal in 2001. In 1997, his election fraud team murdered a poll worker, Dolores Evans, and 5 children in a mysterious fire at night in their Housing Authority home on December 13, 1997, which the fire inspector said they could have escaped, just as Ms. Evans was to testify in a lawsuit on the election fraud she witnessed in the June 1997 election. For more, see:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/
and for more on the Democrats' election fraud in the 1970s with Jim Jones and his People's Temple, see:
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/

ELECTION FRAUD IS FASCISM. It means the ruling class knows it cannot win legitimately.

Terry Baum, the only candidate for mayor worth considering, has an excellent statement at page 24. Her website is http://terryjoanbaum.com/
Her statement:
My occupation is playwright/actress.

My qualifications are:
I am a pioneer lesbian playwright, a homeowner here since 1978 and an activist in progressive politics since 1970.

The way we do politics is unsustainable and unethical. San Francisco is run by a corrupt machine. Contracts go to the politically connected. Do you want to live in a city that gives a tax break to Twitter the same week that it approves an entrance fee for the Arboretum? Well, you do live in that city!

Make San Francisco green: Free buses every 10 minutes from 6 am to midnight, housing as a right, not a privilege; a moratorium on market-rate construction; Urban Artist Renewal (subsidies for galleries and theaters in blighted ares).

Revenue must come from: A municipal bank, public power, taxes that are fair (all pay something) and progressive (the rich pay more).

San Francisco cannot solve its own problems when our nation is spiralling downward in a frenzy of fear and greed. This country needs us to lead the way, as we so often have. Send a message that we will no longer settle for crumbs from the tables of the corporations, by making me your First Choice for Mayor.

TAX THE RICH!

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And Terry Baum should be YOUR ONLY CHOICE FOR MAYOR and BINGO NO ON ALL THE PROPOSITIONS.

Elections simply confirm the class struggle that has preceded them and it is clear from the San Francisco election results for November 8, 2011 that the needs and interests of the workingclass are held in total contempt with the electorate’s support of Proposition C, one of 2 anti-city worker pension destruction propositions placed on the ballot by Democrats.

Elections simply confirm the class struggle that has preceded them and it is clear from the San Francisco election results for November 8, 2011 that the needs and interests of the workingclass are held in total contempt with the electorate’s support of Proposition C, one of 2 anti-city worker pension destruction propositions placed on the ballot by Democrats.

The pro-labor position is to reject all such proposals and demand that the city government tax the rich by setting up a corporate profits tax for the large corporations while increasing employment by eliminating the payroll tax.

Proposition C was supported by Ed Lee, the Democratic interim mayor endorsed by the San Francisco Republican Party, and was placed on the ballot by the entire Board of Supervisors, all Democrats, including mayoral candidates John Avalos, David Chiu and Bevan Dufty and supported by mayoral candidate, State Senator Leland Yee. It was also supported by the Democratic Party and its lickspittles, the labor lieutenants of capitalism known as the San Francisco Labor Council, which should have and could have placed a corporate profits proposal on the ballot. San Francisco is a very wealthy city with lots of millionaires and billionaires and lots of large corporations making large profits.

San Francisco has about 800,000 people, of whom about 16% are children, leaving 672,000 adults, of whom 143,806 voted and had ballots counted. The actual number of votes will increase in the next couple weeks as all the ballots are counted. Since it appears that figure will be less than 300,000, this was a low voter turnout, property owners election. Most of the workingclass who bother to vote did not vote in this election. Most of the workingclass in San Francisco are tenants.

Since we have instant runoff voting, it is unknown as to the outcome of the mayor’s race, but some things are known, and the results so far are shameful and put to rest the illusion that there is anything progressive about San Francisco. Let us start with the registration. San Francisco has some 259,000 registered Democrats, 136,000 decline to state, most of whom vote Democrat, 44,000 registered Republicans, 8,500 registered Greens and 1,500 registered Peace & Freedom. In the 2010 November general election for governor and others, 49,000 voted for the Republican governor candidate. Republicans vote in every election, as should all other voters. In a low voter turnout election, their strength is much greater than their numbers. We can see that in the first round vote for Republican Party endorsed Democratic interim mayor Ed Lee, who won 44,451 votes so far, or 31% of the vote, leading the list of 16 mayoral candidates.

Terry Baum, the Green Party’s candidate for mayor, and the only one who called for taxing the rich and opposing Props C&D, the 2 anti-city worker pension destruction propositions, is in 11th place with 2280 votes. It is clear that Green Party and Peace & Freedom Party members, who are the base of Baum’s vote, are mostly not voting their conscience but instead are playing games with their vote, commonly known as “strategic voting” or “lesser evil” voting. The whole point of being a member of the Green Party and Peace & Freedom Party is to vote your conscience. Hopefully, for their 2d and 3rd choices, the members of these 2 parties who bothered to vote will have voted for Terry Baum for mayor so that Ms. Baum moves up to at least 8th place. For more on Terry Baum, see: http://terryjoanbaum.com/

Most city workers are not police and make far less than the $100,000 a year and up plus benefits that the police receive. Most city workers’ pensions are about $25,000 a year OR LESS. Cutting city worker pensions is VICIOUSLY ANTI-LABOR. The ballot arguments in the Voter Handbook against Proposition C make it clear that this is a pension destruction proposition. Many city workers will now be unable to pay for their health benefits and will not qualify for Healthy San Francisco. Most notable ballot arguments against Prop C were by Peace & Freedom Party, Patrick Monette-Shaw and Denise D’Anne, and the rest of the anti-Prop C arguments were also good.

For more on Proposition C’s horrors, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/10/18692945.php
Here are the 2 pages in PDF format:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/10/10/no_on_c__no_on_d__-_page_1.pdf
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/10/10/no_on_c__no_on_d__-_page_2.pdf

Propositions C&D were opposed by Peace & Freedom Party, the Green Party and the San Francisco Tenants Union.

Clearly, we do not have any thinking going on; we have Democratic Party robot voting. We also had lots of election fraud on the part of Ed Lee’s campaign, as was reported in the press, and that should have disqualified him from the race. For more on the election fraud, see:
The audio is the news report by Ann Garrison on KPFA, 94.1 FM, 10/22/11, 6 p.m. news at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/23/18694626.php (has Ann's audio excerpt and pictures from the video below)
And here is the video:
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2011/10/21/witnesses-ed-lee-supporters-mark-others-ballots/?tsp=1

There are also allegations of money-laundering by the Ed Lee campaign, in collaboration with a notorious eviction strongman, Archway Property Services, which terrorized tenants at apartments owned by CitiApartments. Archway asked its employees to contribute $500 each to Lee's campaign, claiming they would be reimbursed.

As to the bond measures, Props A, the school bonds, and Props B, the road bonds are passing. San Francisco tenants may be paying for the road bonds as they can be passed through by landlords to tenants.

Proposition C, placed on the entire Board of Supervisors, all Democrats, is passing with 68% of the vote. Proposition C was promoted by Republican billionaire financier Warren Hellman who paid $200,000 for an actuary and at least $100,000 for the campaign.

Proposition D, a charter amendment placed on the ballot by at least 46,559 signatures, and promoted by Democratic mayoral candidate, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, is losing with 66% voting No. Prop D was financed by venture capitalist Michael Moritz and businessman George Hume, who each gave $250,000 to the campaign. They have contributed to Republicans in Ohio and Wisconsin, including anti-labor governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. Moritz is a Democrat and Hume is a Republican.

Proposition E, an anti-democratic measure allowing the Board of Supervisors to repeal what we vote on, put on the ballot by Democratic supervisors Chiu, Chu, Cohen, Elsbernd, Farrell, Kim and Wiener, is losing. Please note that only 4 supervisors or a sufficient number of voter signatures on a petition are necessary to put propositions on the ballot.

Proposition F, allowing more anti-democratic measures concerning campaign consultants, put on the ballot by the entire Board of Supervisors, all Democrats, is also losing.

Proposition G, the anti-worker, regressive sales tax, put on the ballot by the entire Board of Supervisors, all Democrats, is losing.

Proposition H, the racist “neighborhood schools” declaration of policy, put on the ballot by at least 7,168 signatures, is passing.

To see the daily updates of the election results, go to:
http://www.sfelections.org/results/20111108/

We now turn our attention to the presidential campaign of 2012 where everybody in Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party have no excuse but to vote their conscience. Peace & Freedom Party also needs your registration to stay on the ballot. For more on both parties, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
and
http://www.cagreens.org/