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Vickie Fouts launches write-in campaign for Senate District 14 Peace and Freedom Party member Vickie Fouts declares her grassroots, write-in candidacy for the 14th Senate Dstrict. This is her statement....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 6:38am PDT
The Chronicle, Schwarzenegger, Amos Brown and Dufty: Misleading Readers Twice on Same Day With Carla Marinucci’s endless cheerleading for Schwarzenegger’s re-election, one wonders if the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporters have money at stake on the Governor serving another term. The October 12 Chronicle reported that former Supervisor Reverend Amos Brown has endorsed Arnold and shot a television commercial for his re-election. In order to give weight to Brown’s endorsement, the Chronicle falsely identified Brown as “one of the Bay Area’s most outspoken progressives.” In truth, he...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:45am PDT
Help Aimee Allison's Campaign for Oakland City Council Aimee's victory is essential in moving the new agenda and new hope represented by Ron Dellums forward....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 1:38pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Caught in Another Lie In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday,
Schwarzenegger lied about breaking his campaign promise to rid
Sacramento of special interests...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 8:34pm PDT
Bevan Dufty Too Conservative as District 8 Supervisor During the run-up to the 2006 election campaign for San Francisco District 8 supervisor, many claims have been made about the voting record of incumbent Bevan Dufty. Critics claim that Dufty is far too conservative to represent the progressive voters of District 8. Supporters claim that although Dufty’s record is conservative, he’s become increasingly progressive during his four-year term. As a concerned District 8 resident, rather than succumb to the rhetoric I decided to analyze Dufty’s vot...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 9:00am PDT
Arena Tax Supporters Miss Self-imposed October 6 Deadline to Release MOU to voters Deadline For Arena MOU Missed By Maloofs and City and County of Sacramento...
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 3:07pm PDT
Nightmare on Post Street [T]he tenants at 1030 Post Street have struggled for the last several months to save their homes, as the new landlord attempts to raise their rent or kick them out – all under the auspices of “creating” affordable housing. KDF Communities, an Orange County-based property management company, bought the 64-unit building and applied for a federal tax credit to run it as a “rent-regulated” building. Tenants who were above or below the program’s income guidelines were told they must leave, and tho...
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 8:09am PDT
Neighborhood Leaders Lament Passing of Arena Supporters' October 6th Deadline Neighborhood and community leaders opposing the arena tax will hold a press conference on October 11 at 11 am....
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 4:21pm PDT
San Jose Mayoral Candidates Address Concerns of Ethnic Communities SAN JOSE – Voters in San Jose, Calif. go to the polls Nov. 7 to elect their next mayor, nearly five months after San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzalez was arrested on felony charges. In this city, located about 50 miles south of San Francisco, there is no single ethnic majority: Hispanics represent 32.1 percent of the population, Asian and Pacific Islanders 28.7 percent, African Americans 2.8 percent and whites 33.3 percent. New America Media asked San Jose mayoral candidates Cindy Chavez and Chuck Ree...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:19am PDT
SF SOS Undermines Credibility By Attacking Business, Middle Class According to its mission statement, SF SOS is a “non-partisan” coalition that seeks to “build an army of thousands of engaged citizens, and keep them well-informed.” The group claims to be dedicated to “the return of clean, safe neighborhoods, protecting the rights of the ignored, and moving toward a vibrant economy.” But in practice, these lofty sentiments have translated into major Republican donors spending tens of thousands of dollars on hit-pieces against Democrats. Politicians and busin...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:19am PDT
Peter Camejo: Vote Green and Send a Message 
Peter Camejo:
"This race is over. Phil Angelides cannot overcome the huge lead of the incumbent governor. People will waste their vote if they vote for Phil now. Instead, voters should send a clear message, by voting Green, that they want the rich to pay their fair share of taxes, that they want a clean environment and they want us out of Iraq now."...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 7:07am PDT
The Alameda County Green Party Voter Guide for Nov 7th Now Available! check it out, download the pdf from the website to get all the details....
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 7:44pm PDT
Fox News Joins San Francisco POA in Peddling the Big Lie As national Republicans sought a strategic response to their colleague Mark Foley’s sexual predator scandal, the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News came up with the easiest answer: identify Foley as a Democrat. The photo on the left is not a glitch, as O’Reilly’s show identified Foley as a Democrat three times without correction. Lies work in politics, as President Bush well knows. San Francisco’s Police Officers Association appears to share Bush’s view that lies bring political success. This electi...
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 9:33am PDT
Chasing the Coveted ‘Latino Vote’ in California SACRAMENTO — When the final votes in California’s gubernatorial election are tallied on Nov. 7, countless man-hours and millions of dollars will be spent trying to win over people like Daniel Jiménez of Elk Grove.
Through the traditional political lens, the 25-year-old South Sacramento native is a walking contradiction. He's a supervisor at a home-building company, a two-time Bush voter and a strong supporter of granting America's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants amnesty, provi...
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 9:10am PDT
Can California still be considered a democracy? This is the latest commentary by John McManus at Grade the News, a media research project focusing on the quality of the news media in the San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 12:32am PDT
All Out for Aimee Allison! Please Get Involved and Help Elect Aimee Allison for Oakland City Council...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 9:15am PDT
FORREST HILL to Run TV Ads, Attempts to Break Imposed Media Blackout on 3rd Parties 
To make a splash and get noticed, Green Party candidate for California Secretary of State, Dr. Forrest Hill, will begin running television commercials in the San Francisco Bay Area October 8.
"It is very difficult to break the blackout imposed by the media on anyone running outside the two major parties," says Hill. "This race is as much about name recognition as it is about the issues, and I believe that if our ad is seen by enough voters it can tip the balance of support in our favor."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 5:37am PDT
FSRN: Examining Measure G, Santa Cruz's Wage Hike Ballot Initiative (audio/mpeg 4.8MB) Congress has repeatedly failed to bump up the minimun wage, and since 1997 it has remained at $5.15/hr. Since then, 19 states and 3 cities, have raised base pay rates higher than the federal minimum, while scores more cities have enacted living wage laws for government contractors. This November, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio will decide whether or not to raise their own hourly base pay. In Santa Cruz, CA the year's hottest election issue is Measure G, a cit...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 12:35pm PDT
Volunteers Pass the Hat to Help Build Arena CALPIRG announced its opposition to Measures Q&R while opponents of the Arena Tax stood on a busy Sacramento interesection and asked commuters to donate to a “Relief Fund for Billionaires and Out of Town Developers.”...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 10:19am PDT
Downtown, Black in Joint Attacks on Daly As downtown business groups spend tens of thousands of dollars to promote his District 6 candidacy, Rob Black filed a complaint on Tuesday with the Ethics Commission that accused Chris Daly of spending $573.05 on "fluff campaign pieces" with taxpayer money. The complaint centers around seven letters that Supervisor Daly's Office sent to various constituents last August, describing his accomplishments at City Hall and the work that he is doing for the District. None of the letters mentioned th...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 7:55am PDT
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