“You’ve probably noticed an incredible volume of political paper mailers and door hangers in your mailbox and doorway, and littering the street. These environmentally unfriendly campaign practices have become the norm for political campaigns in San Francisco. It’s yet another example of our political leaders disregarding calls from voters to develop better, greener, and less obtrusive ways of reaching out to voters.
Our campaigns listened to the residents of District 5 and have not distributed any paper mailers or door hangers, instead reaching voters by e-mail, phone, and in person while walking around the neighborhood. District 5 Supervisor candidate Andrew Resignato has created reusable campaign material and challenged the other candidates in the race to abandon door hangers for more sustainable, less obnoxious ways to reach voters.
By saying no to tired, paper-based campaign tactics like door hangers both our campaigns are walking the walk of sustainability and changing the political status quo. This is the change we intend to bring to City Hall. We need leaders with vision, not the same tired political playbooks.
Please use ranked choice voting and cast your votes for The People’s Ticket, Hope Johnsonand Andrew Resignato, for Supervisor if you want your elected representative to listen to the people, not political consultants and power brokers. We are asking you to use two of your three votes and vote Johnson / Resignato or Resignato / Johnson as your first and second votes. By voting for us you will send a message to the political establishment that we need real change at City Hall.
Your handy map of McAllister Street’s UC Hastings:
All the deets:
“San Francisco District Attorney Candidates Debate: A Roundtable Discussion for the Legal Community
Start: 10/26/2011 from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Location: 200 McAllister, Alumni Reception Center
UC Hastings College of the Law is pleased to host the last San Francisco district attorney debate for this election. This roundtable discussion will focus on policy issues affecting the City’s criminal justice system in an era of state and local budget austerity. The questions will be developed by UC Hastings students in collaboration with UC Hastings’ nationally renowned expert in criminal law and criminal procedure, Professor Rory Little and other UC Hastings faculty. Time permitting, attendees may have an opportunity to submit questions to be asked at the end of the debate. Professor Rory Little will moderate.
This event is free, open to the public, and will be livestreamed through this event listing.
These candidates have agreed to attend:
Sharmin Bock
Bill Fazio
David Onek
Vu Trinh
An invitation has been extended to District Attorney George Gascon.
Sponsored by:
UC Hastings Students
UC Hastings Criminal Law Society
UC Hastings Democrats
UC Hastings Center for State and Local Government Law
UC Hastings College of the Law
UC Hastings is committed to making its facilities and events accessible in compliance with the ADA.”
“SF ETHICS COMMISSION ANNOUNCES THAT THE INDIVIDUAL EXPENDITURE CEILING HAS BEEN RAISED FOR MAYORAL CANDIDATES”
So, look forward to even more of your money to be spent like this:
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All the deets:
The San Francisco Ethics Commission announced today that it raised the Individual Expenditure Ceiling of nine publicly financed mayoral candidates, Michela Alioto-Pier, John Avalos, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Tony Hall, Dennis Herrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting and Leland Yee, to $1,575,000. The Individual Expenditure Ceiling for these nine candidates was raised because the Total Supportive Funds of another candidate totaled $1,577,875.
Based on filings received by the Ethics Commission yesterday, Total Supportive Funds of Ed Lee, a candidate for Mayor, totaled $1,577,875. Accordingly, by law, the Ethics Commission was required to raise the Individual Expenditure Ceiling of all publicly financed mayoral candidates.
A candidate running for Mayor who seeks public funding must abide by his or her Individual Expenditure Ceiling, which begins at $1,475,000, and may be raised in increments of $100,000 based on the sum of opposition spending against the participating candidate and the total supportive funds of the candidate’s opponents. A candidate is required to file Form SFEC-152(b)-2 within 24 hours of receiving contributions or making expenditures that equal or exceed $1,000,000 and for every $50,000 thereafter. Any person making independent expenditures, electioneering communications, or member communications that clearly identify a candidate for Mayor is required to file Form SFEC-152(b)-3 within 24 hours of each time the person spends $5,000 or more per candidate.
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The Ethics Commission, established in November 1993, serves the public, City employees and officials and candidates for public office through education and enforcement of ethics laws. Its duties include: filing and auditing of campaign finance disclosure statements, lobbyist and campaign consultant registration and regulation, administration of the public financing program, conflict of interests reporting, investigations and enforcement, education and training, advice giving and statistical reporting.
“As Mayor, I will create a task force of experts to help me keep Healthy San Francisco strong and viable to serve individuals who are left out of health reform, especially our immigrant residents. We must stand up to profit-driven corporations and their lobbyists to finally close the loopholes in Healthy SF. I will also make sure sure the employer spending requirement of the Health Care Security Ordinance is not adversely affected by the Federal Health Reform.”
Here’s Mayor Ed Lee’s downtown-oriented proposal:
“MAYOR LEE INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE ACCESS & PROTECT JOBS
San Francisco, CA—Mayor Edwin M. Lee today introduced legislation at the Board of Supervisors to close a loophole in San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance (HSCO). The legislation preserves the City’s groundbreaking universal health care access and protects jobs.
“This legislation begins to close a loophole and lays out a framework that honors our commitment to health care access for all while protecting jobs in our City’s small businesses,” said Mayor Lee. “I thank Supervisor David Campos for identifying this loophole and President David Chiu for working on a solution. I know we can all work together to achieve the same bottom-line objective; providing universal health care access and protecting jobs in our City. I look forward to working in partnership with Supervisor Campos, Supervisor Chiu, and all members of the Board in crafting a viable solution.”
Mayor Lee’s legislation provides more health care access while protecting jobs in the City’s small businesses. The legislation will address the loophole in employer deposits into workers’ Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA). Workers with an HRA are able to draw down the funds in those accounts for a range of health care expenses from reimbursement for health services to payment for health insurance premiums to buying into our Healthy San Francisco program.
Mayor Lee’s plan focuses on increasing the accessibility of HRA funds to reimburse privately purchased insurance or to pay for participation in Healthy San Francisco. Mayor Lee has secured commitments from the business community to communicate with their members about the importance of making these types of expenses eligible under individual businesses’ HRA plans. Additionally, Mayor Lee’s plan includes a robust data-gathering effort through the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement to determine how widespread the problem is, and therefore to best tailor a policy solution. By increasing access to health coverage options we ensure that San Francisco workers can more fully exercise the benefit provided them under the HSCO.
Mayor Lee considered the impact to City small businesses and its likelihood of costing employees their jobs while ensuring that businesses comply with the HCSO. Unlike other approaches which the Controller reports could eliminate nearly 500 jobs, this legislation strikes a balance that closes the loophole, provides health care to everyone, protects jobs, and grows the City’s economy.
Mayor Lee will continue to work with all parties – from workers, organized labor, small business owners, Department of Public Health, and the City’s elected leaders – to find the appropriate solution on this important public policy challenge to close the loophole.”
The Race for Mayor 2011 – “Don’t miss a rare opportunity to get face to face with all 16 mayoral candidates of San Francisco and hear them address the issues you come face to face with every day: Muni, parks, pensions, open government, the budget and more.”
Jeff Adachi, Public Defender, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Michela Alioto-Pier, Former Supervisor, San Francisco District 2; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Cesar Ascarrunz, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF John Avalos, Supervisor, San Francisco District 11; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Terry Baum, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF David Chiu, Supervisor, President of the Board, San Francisco District 3; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Paul Currier, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Bevan Dufty, Former Supervisor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Tony Hall, Former Supervisor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Dennis Herrera, City Attorney, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Emil Lawrence, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Ed Lee, Mayor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Wilma Pang, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Joanna Rees, Entrepreneur; Educator; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Phil Ting, Assessor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Leland Yee, State Senator, California District 8; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF
Melissa Griffin, Columnist, San Francisco Examiner; Co-Host, Necessary Conversations - Moderator Beth Spotswood, Culture Blogger, SFGate.com; Co-host, Necessary Conversations – MC
Location: SF Club Office Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 8 p.m. reception Cost: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students (with valid ID) Tickets and info:http://bit.ly/Mayors
(Now, what are the odds what some of the Lesser Candidates will use this unique opportunity to Do Something Crazy? That’s gotta be close to 100%.)
[UPDATE: Word on the street is that Mayor Ed Lee is blowing off tonight's debate owing to something to do with the Beach Chalet soccer field issue. FYI.]
Ed Lee certainly isn’t stupid but he commits gaffes with regularity, so it’s not a bad strategy to go full Rose Garden* until Election Day. Why should he show up to podunk debates? You know, where all he can do is lose.
Here’s the pre-game, with lots of debate about artificial soccer fields, or “playfields,” depending upon your worldview. It’s point-counterpoint!
First, from the pro artificial turf people and the anti, after the jump.
“Dear Friends of City Fields:
Apologies for the mass email but time is of the essence. Last night at a mayoral forum, opponents to the Beach Chalet athletic field renovations came out in full force – and filled with misinformation. They tried to pressure the candidates for mayor to oppose the field improvements that increase playtime by 9,582 hours a year. At the next forum, we need to match their presence with our positive message, and make sure the candidates for Mayor know that there are thousands upon thousands of San Franciscans who support playfield improvements.
We need you to join us at the next mayoral debate in the Richmond on Monday, Sept. 19 to counter the naysayers with a positive voice for the project. Now is the time to help! Please join us for refreshments and appetizers before the meeting so we can gather together as one community and discuss our strategy, so we can fully demonstrate the great support for Beach Chalet.
Pre-Forum Gathering Monday, September 19, 2011 5:00-6:00pm Hard Knox Café 2448 Clement St, between 25th and 26th Ave., San Francisco
After discussing our plan, we will all walk over to the debate – at the Richmond Recreation Center, 251 18th Avenue between California and Clement Streets – to provide a counter presence before the debate begins at 6:30pm. Please come with questions prepared and ready to submit about playfields, Beach Chalet, and keeping families in San Francisco. We must call out the problem that San Francisco does not have enough playfields to meet the current demand, and find out what candidates plan to do about it.
Please, spread this message to your friends, teammates, coaches, teachers, coworkers, family – post on your Facebook page, forward this email, and make a few phone calls. If we can each bring two or three people with us, imagine the impact we can make. If you are a member or parent of a team, be sure to wear your uniform so we can easily be recognized as one unified athletic community!
*The phrase “Rose Garden strategy” (such as a re-election strategy) refers to staying inside or on the grounds of the White House as opposed to traveling throughout the country.
1. This was a “fun” event, in that the candidates’ names were pulled out of a snare drum and then they got time signals from a dinging triangle. A bit twee if you ask me, but it seemed apropropriate given the crowd and the nature of the event.
2. Speaking of which, there was a good turnout, with the lower level of Yoshi’s biggest room almost filled to capacity.
3. I understand how there needs to be a viability cutoff – I mean Big Entertainment would like all the candidates to swear fealty of course, but you can’t have 50 people on stage, right? (In a couple of years, we’ll have six races and who-knows-how-many candidates, right?) However, it’s not clear to me what the cutoff standards were. There were no candidates on stage from District Two, for instance. Presumably, leading viers Janet Reilly and Mark Farrell blew off the questionnaire, leaving that to Kat Anderson and Abraham Simmons. Now, both of them applied to The Recording Academy but neither wound up gracing the stage last night. Additionally, bona fide D6 candidate Anna Conda was left wondering what the deal is, man.
4. I left just after the intra-district candidate-on-candidate queries began. (Not sure what the point is of having a D6 candidate question one from D8 at last night’s love-fest, but whatever.) But as far as the intros (complete with musical accompaniment) were concerned, Malia Cohen was the standout. (She finished up way before the triangle had a chance to ding. Bonus.) Rafael Mandelman (Mandelman! Mandelman!) also did well, speaking naturally and name-checking The Death of Fun,* but, OTOH, Debra Walker seemed to be reading notes, as if at a high school debate. JMO.
Energy, energy, energy from Malia Cohen:
This is a new kind of deal for me, to see Big Entertainment take this approach. I’m thinking that this event will, as designed, affect how our Board of Supes deals with nightclubs and similar whatnots in 2011 and 2012.
*Copyright SFBG? Don’t know who coined this term. It’s a good one…
[UPDATE: District 6 candidate Anna Conda takes issue with the viability test applied by The Recording Academy (our local Grammy people, basically, it seems) for the Candidate Forum. See Comments.]
So, if you’re running for Supervisor this year, you all ought to show up at the Candidate Forum at Yoshii’s West on Fillmore and swear allegiance to the local entertainment industry.
Check it:
“The Recording Academy®, San Francisco Chapter announced today the launch of a sustained advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the value that the music and entertainment industry have on the economic and cultural vibrancy of the San Francisco Bay Area. The campaign’s goal is to grow this important sector by building a coalition of industry stakeholders, developing public policy strategies with elected officials, and commissioning an economic impact study.”
O.K. then.
Teal Wicks and Kendra Kassebaum are sure to included in San Francisco State University’s “Entertainment Impact Study”
All the deets:
THE RECORDING ACADEMY® SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER LAUNCHES ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF LOCAL MUSIC
San Francisco State University Entertainment Impact Study Commissioned
San Francisco Supervisor Candidates Forum, Monday, September 27, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 9, 2010) —The Recording Academy®, San Francisco Chapter announced today the launch of a sustained advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the value that the music and entertainment industry have on the economic and cultural vibrancy of the San Francisco Bay Area. The campaign’s goal is to grow this important sector by building a coalition of industry stakeholders, developing public policy strategies with elected officials, and commissioning an economic impact study.
The findings of the study will be presented at a San Francisco Supervisor Candidates Forum on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, 6 – 9 p.m., at Yoshi’s San Francisco (1330 Fillmore Street). The San Francisco Chapter has invited candidates running for the five seats being contested in this year’s election to discuss their positions on the issues facing the entertainment community followed by a Q&A with community members. The event, produced in conjunction with the California Music and Culture Association (CMAC), will feature remarks from state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Ledisi, and will be moderated by Priya David Clemens, journalist: CBS Network News, KTVU.
Where:Influsion Lounge, 124 Ellis Street, San Francisco
What: BOMA is co-hosting fundraiser reception for Scott Wiener, 2010 candidate for San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee and District 8 Supervisor.
What:Happy hour with Rafael Mandelman – candidate for Supervisor in District 8
Information: rafael4supe at gmail.com
So much for this week. Are the other candidates having some of their own partays soon? Maybe, but how would we know if they’re not listed on the indispensabile SF FYI Net? Mmmm…
*It’s remarkable how supersmart the major candidates in this race are. It’s unprecedented, actually. Each of them is smarter than you, anyway.
