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SF 2003: Willie Brown's Muni Fare Hike & Unionbusting

by San Francisco Voter
As reported in Matier & Ross, Chronicle, 12/25/02, Democratic "mayor" Willie Brown of San Francisco plans a fare hike of 25 cents and to attack labor unions.
As reported in Matier & Ross, Chronicle, 12/25/02, Democratic "mayor" Willie Brown of San Francisco plans a fare hike of 25 cents and to attack labor unions.
See:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/25/BA74232.DTL

FIGHTBACK REQUIRED
In Willie Brown's last GOOD RIDDANCE YEAR, let us have the biggest, loudest fightback this city has ever seen against the worst mayor in San Francisco history, who sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud and now has only 20% support. Since he clearly would rather not rest in his last year, neither can we, and in fact, we must see a very strong fightback, because his successor, whether it be Democrat Angela Alioto or Democrat Gavin Newsom, will try to carry on with Willie Brown's attacks on the workingclass as that is what a capitalist party, either Democrat or Republican Party, does to guarantee maximum profits to the capitalist class.

The history of Willie Brown's and the Democratic Party's election fraud may be found at:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium and
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown

TAX THE RICH DOWNTOWN CORPORATIONS FOR MUNI AND CITY SERVICES

There is no reason for an anti-workingclass fare hike anywhere. The downtown Financial District can easily be made into a special tax district so that the City can tax the profits of the large corporations to pay for our bus and train system known as the Municipal Railway or Muni, and for all other city services, such as water, sewage and public safety, of which the Financial District is a major beneficiary. The labor force of the Financial District is transported to and from work to a great extent by Muni, and it is long overdue that the rich pay.

If for some reason this Financial District tax district is insufficient to overcome the deficit, then everyone who works in San Francisco and makes over $200,000 per year from all sources (that includes landlord's rental income, stock dividends and anything else) should pay a city income tax. The wealthy suburban dwellers use our services while here, usually while maximizing their profits, and then leave town with their wealth, draining the city's economy. That drain must end.

And, of course, there is the internal waste, starting first and foremost with the police department, which Willie Brown has increased from 1800 to 2200, with absolutely no increase in public safety whatsoever. In fact, we have these thugs beating up schoolchildren who happen to be black and beating up workers leaving their jobs with dinner in hand, stealing their food. Apparently the $70,000 per year and up salaries, plus fabulous benefits including medical care and pension are not enough for these greedy, and often drunken, thugs. Certainly no woman is safer because of the increase in police, although that is often the salespitch for hiring more police.

Then there are the salaries of the election-frauding thugs called Special Assistants sitting in Willie Brown's office, committing election fraud in every election to elect anti-workingclass candidates and murdering those who blew the whistle, such as Dolores Evans, a pollworker, with 5 children, were murdered by Willie Brown's election fraud team in their Housing Authority home on December 13, 1997, just as she was about to testify as to the election fraud she witnessed in the 49er Stadium Swindle Election of June 3, 1997, actively promoted by that infamous organized crime, gambling politician, whose gambling rackets certainly includes professional football, namely Willie Brown. The fire inspector told the Hearst Examiner that they could have escaped, but someone stopped them. I urge you to read the dedication to the Election Fraud website and its links carefully on the election fraud website so you will know the full horror of what is sitting illegally in the mayor's office. See:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium

Besides the police and special assistants, all the appointed cronies of Willie Brown can be and should be fired, including but not limited to the police chief, who continues to defend all the horrors perpetrated by the police department. If replacements are needed, we, the workingclass of San Francisco, will decide who is appointed and for what pay.

UNION BUSTING PLANNED OPENLY BY WILLIE BROWN, A GOOD DEMOCRAT

Before announcing his campaign for a Muni fare hike, Brown proudly announced his plan to attack labor. If the labor bureaucrats will not shut down this City to stop any and all attacks on labor, the city workers can do it themselves. These bureaucrats have been singing the tune of Willie Brown and the Democratic Party too long, and are not likely to fight back. Any labor official who supports Democrats does not support labor, and the sooner the workingclass learns that, the sooner fascist organized crime thugs like Willie Brown will be run out of office and the attacks on labor will end.

SIsters and Brothers, this is a labor era. It is time to fightback!
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