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Just Say No to the SF Recall Efforts Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :When did recalls of Supervisors become all the rage in San Francisco? First, so-called "average" citizens, who just happen to have the same consultant as the mayors re-election campaign, want to replace District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick. Now a movements afoot in District 3 to oust its Supervisor: Board President Aaron Peskin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 7:25am PDT
Statewide Organizing Needed to Pass Ellis Act Reform Tuesday, June 12, 2007 :Last week, housing advocates couldnt muster the 21 votes needed to pass SB 464, which would curb speculator evictions under the Ellis Act by limiting its scope to landlords who owned the property for at least 5 years. Not even reducing it to three years was enough to overcome opposition from the real estate industry....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 8:42am PDT
Newsoms Housing Authority Plan Ignores Available Federal Funds Monday, June 11, 2007 :Since San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took office in 2004, the city has failed to apply for $355 million in HOPE VI grants that HUD has made available for upgrading housing projects. Newsom is the only mayor of the past three who has failed to apply for this money, and his Administration does not intend to apply for funds this year either....
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 7:13am PDT
San Francisco Progressive convention (video/quicktime 15.4MB) I headed out to the 2007 Progressive Convention with the hope of witnessing one or more progressive challengers announce their candidacy for Mayor of San Francisco. While no viable candidates to the occasion, the event served as a good opportunity to revitalize a community that hasn’t had this much collective energy since Matt Gonzalez almost beat Newsom four years ago.
Chris Daly has since announced that he will not be running, but Ross Mirkarimi has been somewhat coy about his possible r...
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 9:50pm PDT
Hispanic grassroots leaders call for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to be impeached Hispanic grassroots leaders from Latinos for America say Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be impeached. Dr. Norma Armon and Ralph Miller question Gonzales' confirmation and ask other Hispanic leaders to reconsider support for embattled Attorney General....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 10:26am PDT
San Jose Area Residents Spell IMPEACH! with their Bodies 
Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition organizes impeach "spell-in" where people laid down in San Jose City Hall Plaza to spell IMPEACH with their bodies on Saturday, June 9, 2007....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 2:52am PDT
2 phony SF Supervisor Recalls Latest Attack on Rent Control by Democrat Newsom With the phony recall attempts of pro rent control Supervisor McGoldrick and now of pro-rent control Board President Supervisor Peskin, plus the outright illegal refusal of "mayor" Gavin Newsom to release funds for affordable housing after approval by a majority of the elected Board of Supervisors, it is clear that Newsom and his Chamber of Commerce anti-rent control patrons are trying to manipulate district elections to an anti-rent control majority. Where is the Green or Red candidate for ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 8, 2007 4:06am PDT
More about how we foiled Hillary's Fundraiser The description of events below is mainly for a legal analysis of the police action at the Hillary Clinton fundraiser in Sacramento. The facts are entertaining....
Posted: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 6:43pm PDT
Time for a Progressive Convention Around Issues Thursday, June 7, 2007 :There is a remedy for those still crushed by the failure of Chris Dalys June 2 Progressive Convention to endorse a mayoral candidate: hold an event that lays the groundwork for implementing a progressive policy agenda. As people obsess around whether this or that person will run for mayor, far less time is invested in assembling the broad coalitions necessary to win major progressive changes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 7:08am PDT
Newsom Plays Politics With the Health Departments Budget Wednesday, June 6, 2007 :On May 22nd, Gavin Newsom told members of SEIU Local 1021 (i.e., City workers and non-profits who contract with the City) that they will be pleased with the upcoming budget. He also said that the City will avoid outsourcing jobs, even if its going to cost us more money....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 7:13am PDT
ACLU Applauds State Senate Vote to Restore Public Oversight of Police Monday, June 4, 2007 :ACLU Applauds State Senate Vote to Restore Public Oversight of Police...
Posted: Tue, Jun 5, 2007 7:56pm PDT
Reasons for Mikirami or Gonzalez to Run for SF Mayor Now If we are to have a serious pro-rent control, pro affordable housing candidate for mayor of SF, they need to circulate their petitions in lieu of payment of filing fee now. We have a Democrat in the mayor's office who is refusing to carry out the legal mandate of the elected supervisors to pay for affordable housing. That illegal action should be sufficient to move either Green Supervisor Ross Mirkiarmi or Green former Supervisor Matt Gonzalez to run for mayor now, and we need either one of...
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2007 9:47pm PDT
If Daly Doesn’t File Today, Convention Paved Way for Gonzalez The Progressive Convention on June 2nd ended with no serious candidate declaring that they will run against Gavin Newsom. Much to the chagrin of many attendees, Ross Mirkarimi adamantly stated that this year is “not my time,” and he will focus on the Board of Supervisors. But Chris Daly never said that he was not running, as he told me right after his speech: “I promised a candidate from this Convention.” Daly added that he can't take out papers until 9:00 a.m. today, and that he will discuss...
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2007 8:01am PDT
Ross Mirkarimi for SF Mayor? Mirkarimi Emerges As Clear Choice To Represent Progressives In November
A Letter from Charles Kalish
June 2, 2007...
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2007 7:42am PDT
Support the Healthy Pets Act! Call your assembly members California...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 3, 2007 3:06pm PDT
Where is Red or Green Candidate for SF Mayor? All politics are local and the fact that the pro-rent control community, the workingclass, who are 2/3 of the residents, still has no candidate for mayor of San Francisco, is insulting and makes a mockery of all the marching around town that goes on for all kinds of causes, mostly very far away. We are not of very much use to ourselves or the rest of the world if we do not have a strong political base and that can only be achieved by using every opportunity including elections to rally and i...
Posted: Sun, Jun 3, 2007 8:55am PDT
Artillery Hillary's Fundraiser in Sacramento gets Protested and Delayed A Rancho Cordova fundraising event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was delayed three hours Thursday evening while the Sacramento County bomb squad investigated a coffin brought to the area by antiwar protester Stephen Pearcy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 1, 2007 9:04am PDT
Progressive Convention Won’t Nominate a Candidate That’s what Chris Daly said when we talked about tomorrow’s convention that he called to launch a progressive challenge to Mayor Newsom. As currently scheduled, the Convention will have two hours of Workshops in the morning, a lunch with cultural performances, and a very long list of speakers. It will probably be the largest gathering of progressive elected officials in San Francisco history, with over 15 speakers confirmed to address the crowd....
Posted: Fri, Jun 1, 2007 8:08am PDT
Crowd protests Clinton in Sacramento (video/quicktime 2.0MB) A fund raising party for Clinton was held in the Sacramento home of Eleni Tsakopoulos-Koualakis, but the event was derailed by a bomb investigation.
An empty coffin, frequently carried at local protests, was considered dangerous enough for the bomb squad to be called. Consequently, protesters and guests were herded away from the entrance to the house, where the coffin was located, and corralled with yellow tape. After two hours, the guests who remained on the street were led through a neigh...
Posted: Fri, Jun 1, 2007 3:08am PDT
Medi-Cal's Share of Cost Does Not Match the Montly Housing Costs Medi-Cal policy is imposing a share of cost that is unrealistic. Many Medi-Cal recipients are not on welfare but are offered assistance from the government because they make too much money to qualify for welfare but not enough to pay for health care costs. As a result, they must contribute to their healthcare by paying for a portion of the cost of the services they receive. The calculated amounts of share of costs for a family or individual do not consider the monthly housing costs in Calif...
Posted: Tue, May 29, 2007 11:01pm PDT
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