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SF "liberal" TLC Boss Randy Shaw A Pimp For Ed Lee With Union Busters and Developers

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"liberal" Tenderloin Housing Clinic Boss and owner of the blog "Beyond Chron" was a big support of corrupt anti-labor, union buster and privatizer Ed Lee
SF "liberal" TLC Boss Randy Shaw A Pimp For Ed Lee With Union Busters and Developers

Party hangover: Ed Lee said his victory as San Francisco's first elected Chinese American mayor ushered in a new day at City Hall - but the election night victory party hosted by his pal Willie Brown at the regal Palace Hotel had all the usual suspects.

Brown was front and center, greeting guests on one side of the entryway to the crystal-ceiling Garden Court, while Rose Pak was seated on the other side.

Inside were many of the same old developers, lobbyists and political consultants, along with downtown Chamber of Commerce types and nonprofit players like Tenderloin Housing Clinic boss Randy Shaw.

Even former Planning Director Gerald Green and ex-Muni boss Nathaniel Ford were on hand, with Ford handing out his business cards.

"I really feel like a 1 percenter," cracked PR man Lee Houskeeper, hobnobbing as carved prime rib, crab and sushi were served.

Or he did, anyway, until he found out it was a no-host bar - with beers going for $9 a pop and martinis for $16.50.

EXTRA! Catch our blog at http://www.sfgate.co

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/12/BAUO1LTV4O.DTL#ixzz1daMWkghP
by Election Fraud is Fascism
Thank you for catching this 11/13/11 Matier & Ross Column. Ed Lee was selected by election fraud, which should not surprise anyone since his buddy, Willie Brown, is Mr. Election Fraud. I received 2 slick mailers from the Ed Lee campaign. The first was a multi-color mailer pinpointing all the city funded projects, mostly small business loans, in the city, all in tiny print, which have nothing to do with who is mayor. The second was a promotional from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Lt Gov (and former election frauding SF mayor) Gavin Newsom, nephew of Nancy Pelosi, both pillars of the Democratic Party, for this Republican Party-endorsed candidate.

The San Francisco Democratic Party's election fraud has been documented at
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/
and
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/

Ed Lee's documented connection to the Democratic Party's election fraud team was in the January 8, 2011 SF Chronicle page A-1 article by John Cote and John Wildermuth, with the misleading headline "Edward Lee would be Major Contrast to Gavin Newsom" at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/08/MNTB1H5ESH.DTL

You will see under the subtitle "Trucking Company Question" on page 2 of the article, that in 1996, Ed Lee was director of the Human Rights Commission which certified Krystal Trucking Company with connections to Willie Brown's election fraud team as a minority-owned business so that it qualified for preferences on city contracts. Krystal Trucking of Hunters Point became part of an FBI probe because it was not minority-owned. It was the trucking company that, with the aid of Willie Brown's friend, Charlie Walker, provided the trucks to carry the ballot boxes filled with ballots in the 1997 election to an unknown location to change our votes from 70% No on D&F, the 49er stadium swindle propositions, to 50.1% "yes."

For more on Krystal Trucking, see
9/3/99, SF Chronicle. FBI Probes Firm Run by Wife Of Major Trucking Contractor / Krystal has received millions in S.F. minority-assistance money, by Yumi Wilson
http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-09-03/news/17700582_1_kandace-bender-contracts-affirmative-action

4/2/00, SF Examiner, Report on trucking Company ignored by Chuck Finnie & Lance Williams at
http://articles.sfgate.com/2000-04-02/news/28584689_1

And from http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/
Three days after the vote, on June 6, 1997, Brown told Redevelopment Director Jim Morales to give $100,000 to the (Walker's) Third Street firm, city documents show..."

"Mayor Willie Brown's office can't seem to get mayoral friend Charlie Walker to show that a corporation he founded was legally entitled to receive a $100,000 city grant..." - Examiner story

Looking at the election results at
http://www.sfelections.org/results/20111108/
you will see that as of November 12, 2011, Ed Lee has 57,409 votes out of 187,411 votes cast. Since he was endorsed by the SF Republican Party, and Republicans vote in every election, we can safely say that most of the 49,151 people who voted for Republican Meg Whitman for governor in November 2010 voted for Ed Lee. That leaves about 8,000 votes that came from Democrats and election fraud. We know there was election fraud because it was announced everywhere. Here is some of the evidence:
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.

For a good first round analysis of the election, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/05/18697757.php#18698372

This election fraud can only succeed in a low voter turnout election.

As to the Central Subway boondoggle, condemned by the Civil Grand Jury at
http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2882
some engineers have predicted that Muni Metro and BART will collapse when they try to dig the tunnel under both for the Central Subway to go under Market Street. And if somehow that catastrophe does not occur, simply the stealing of the public treasury for this boondoggle that is an attempt to gentrify Chinatown, will be expose the Lee administration for being utterly reactionary and despicable.

Since Ed Lee is proudly supported by the Democratic and Republican Parties, this is yet another reason why you have to vote either Peace & Freedom or Green in every election and for every office, or skip that position if P&F or Green candidates are not running for that position. And you must vote in every election. For more on these parties, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
and
http://www.cagreens.org/



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