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Homeless paid to support project

by Adriel Hampton (adrielh [at] adrielhampton.com)
More than 50 people from three San Francisco homeless shelters were paid to testify Thursday night in front of the Planning Commission in favor of a large development at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
http://adrielhampton.blogspot.com/2004/12/billions-of-dollars-are-flowing-in.html
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Just to remind himself of what he's up against, the 37-year-old Newsom drives or walks through the city's main homeless haunts every day or so. Rhorer, his 35-year-old homelessness adviser, frequently accompanies him.

On one of their strolls in late September, Newsom and Rhorer tossed ideas back and forth nonstop, arguing good-naturedly about everything from shelter hours to how to create better food programs. In these times, even in their unguarded moments when they think nobody is listening, they sound like social workers trying to figure out how to save everyone in sight.

"I'm sick and tired of seeing people dying on the streets, of seeing open- air drug dealing, aggressive panhandling, homeless people in despair," Newsom said. "We've got to take back San Francisco without criminalizing a certain class of people -- the homeless -- and make life better not just for them, but for everyone here."

"We can do this, you know we can!" Rhorer said, pumping his fist.

The two were on Market, near Seventh Street, and they stopped to chat with every homeless person who looked up.

"Housing, that's what you really need, isn't it?" Newsom asked Marcus Smith, 32, who approached him near Jones Street to complain about how cold he got sleeping on the sidewalk.

"Yeah, but I'm not taking no shelter bed," Smith shot back. "I hate them. " Newsom and Rhorer nodded. Few chronic homeless ever want a shelter bed.

"They're not so bad, and we always have beds open," Rhorer said. "Then, once you're on (Care Not Cash), we can get you a room."

"But it's a hassle. Everyone knows that," Smith said. Newsom and Rhorer exchanged knowing looks and sighed.

"We're working on that," Rhorer said, and he and his boss turned away to continue their stroll.

"You the man -- you can fix this!" Smith called out to Newsom. The mayor looked back and laughed.

"Hey, I'll never say I'm 'the man,' " he said, cheerily. "I'm just trying to help."
by SF Voter
Charlie Walker, an old friend of Willie Brown, the election-frauding mentor of election-frauding Gavin Newsom, provided the trucks for the ballot boxes that were illegally picked up by Willie Brown's election fraud team on June 3, 1997, the date of the 49er Swindle Election, to change our vote from 70% No to 50.2% "yes," at an unknown location. He did not have a legal trucking license as he was a convicted felon. He had no business touching any ballot boxes. This was in the days when the poll workers brought the sealed ballot boxes that they had checked out from the Registrar to the Registrar at the end of election day, by whatever transportation means they had. It was because of the massive election fraud committed by the Democratic Party in 1997 for its (and the Republican's) 49er Stadium Swindle, that we changed ballot formats and delivery.

Only Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party opposed the 49er Stadium Swindle.

I see the same old rotten Democratic Party election-frauding gang of murderous thugs is working for Nazi Newsom. Do not ever vote for any stinking Democrat; it is all one party, and it is the same as the Republican Party.

For more on Charlie Walker, his ill deeds and his Democratic Party election-frauding connections, see:
(1) SF Bay Guardian, 3/17/99 at
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/24/Features/foi3.html

(2) http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
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