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SF 11/3/15 Election Results
On election night, November 3, 2015, the workingclass, the 80% of Americans who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year, lost in San Francisco.
On election night, November 3, 2015, the workingclass, the 80% of Americans who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year, lost in San Francisco.
While the close races may change within the next 30 days of counting, here are the election night results: Proposition F, to stop the hotelization of San Francisco by Airbnb, was defeated with 55% voting No. Proposition I, the moratorium on luxury housing construction in the Mission, was defeated with 57% voting No. Proposition D, a brewery and 11 towers of luxury housing, passed with 73% voting Yes. Proposition C, a phony ethics reform that stifles organizing against the Democratic Party machine, passed with 74% voting Yes. Proposition J, which allows giving our tax dollars to private profit businesses to pay their rent, passed with 56% of the vote. Incumbent Sheriff Mirkarimi was defeated. In the mayor’s race, subject to instant runoff, pro-luxury housing, Republican Party endorsed Democrat Mayor Ed Lee is winning with 56% (70,715) of the vote and Green Party candidate Francisco Herrera is second with 14% (18,315) of the vote. The District 3 supervisor’s race, subject to instant runoff, is still too close to call, with Democrat Aaron Peskin, the pro-rent control challenger, receiving 52% (6,185) of the vote, and anti-rent control Republican Party and San Francisco Police Officers Association endorsed Democrat Julie Christensen receiving 43% (5,038) of the vote. The vote count was 132,262 as of election night, which may go up to 200,000 by December 3, but that is still far less than the 735,000 adults residing in San Francisco, most of whom are citizens. This is what Americans call democracy; the rest of the world calls this hypocrisy.
You can check the daily updates at http://www.sfelections.org/results/20151103/
San Francisco has 845,000 residents, of whom 13% are children under age 18. Each of the 11 County Supervisor districts has at least 77,000 residents. The registration is as follows: 55% Democrat, 31% No party (usually vote Democrat), 8% Republican, 1.56% Green (6,758) and .33% (2,375) Peace and Freedom. You can find the latest registration statistics at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/voter-registration-statistics/ror-odd-year-2015
PEOPLE
In the mayor’s race, the Democrat-Republican incumbent, Ed Lee, spent over $1 million when he had no big money challenger to win 56% (70,715) of the vote. Green Party mayoral candidate Francisco Herrera, spent $14,000 to win 14% or 18,315 votes, which is more votes than the combined registration of the Green Party (6,758) and Peace and Freedom Party (2,375), which is certainly good news when campaigning in a very anti-democratic country. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a founder of the Green Party who changed to Democrat to run for sheriff in 2011, received 32% (40,128) of the vote, being defeated by the police state Democrat challenger Vicki Hennessy who won 61% (74,522) of the vote. Perhaps Ross has finally learned a lesson everyone should learn: Never change to Democrat-Republican as the Democrat-Republicans do not want change favoring the workingclass. The District 3 supervisor’s race made history with each of the big money candidates, Peskin and Christensen, spending almost $1 million dollars.
For more on the money received and spent, and who donated to whom, see http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2015/08/campaign-finance-dashboards-november-3-2015-election.html. Check the Contributors tab and let your pointer hover over each colored square to learn the name of the contributor and the amount. Also check the tabs Late Contributions, Lobbyist Contributions and Third Party Contributions. It was good to see labor unions contributing to tenant causes but they did not mobilize their members to vote and it is the votes that matter.
PROPOSITIONS
We are now faced with the possibility that all tenant housing in San Francisco will be eliminated by Airbnb and the Academy of Art, thereby subverting rent control. Proposition F was opposed by the San Francisco Democratic Party , as was Proposition I. The Democratic Party supported the reactionary propositions, C, D and J. The workingclass, including the homeless, need decent housing TODAY. Single Room Occupancy Hotels, with the toilet, shower and kitchen shared in the hallway, are not decent housing and should be required to put a toilet, shower, sink and cooking facilities in every hotel room. Proposition A, the housing bond, passed, as did Proposition K, allowing surplus land to be used for workingclass housing, but the housing has not been built and we have 15,000 homeless, with every public school in San Francisco having at least 1 homeless child. This is all occurring in the richest country in the world which spends trillions of dollars on the military to maximize the profits of the oil and munitions companies. We cannot have guns and butter. If you are still registered Democrat-Republican, you can change your registration online to one of the 2 peace parties, Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party at: https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
In 2016, we will have the presidential campaign, where the war and peace issue will be primary, as it should be in every election as all politics are local. One of the Green Party candidates is Jill Stein. See http://www.jill2016.com/
One of the possible Peace & Freedom Party candidates is Gloria LaRiva. See http://www.votepsl.org/
While the close races may change within the next 30 days of counting, here are the election night results: Proposition F, to stop the hotelization of San Francisco by Airbnb, was defeated with 55% voting No. Proposition I, the moratorium on luxury housing construction in the Mission, was defeated with 57% voting No. Proposition D, a brewery and 11 towers of luxury housing, passed with 73% voting Yes. Proposition C, a phony ethics reform that stifles organizing against the Democratic Party machine, passed with 74% voting Yes. Proposition J, which allows giving our tax dollars to private profit businesses to pay their rent, passed with 56% of the vote. Incumbent Sheriff Mirkarimi was defeated. In the mayor’s race, subject to instant runoff, pro-luxury housing, Republican Party endorsed Democrat Mayor Ed Lee is winning with 56% (70,715) of the vote and Green Party candidate Francisco Herrera is second with 14% (18,315) of the vote. The District 3 supervisor’s race, subject to instant runoff, is still too close to call, with Democrat Aaron Peskin, the pro-rent control challenger, receiving 52% (6,185) of the vote, and anti-rent control Republican Party and San Francisco Police Officers Association endorsed Democrat Julie Christensen receiving 43% (5,038) of the vote. The vote count was 132,262 as of election night, which may go up to 200,000 by December 3, but that is still far less than the 735,000 adults residing in San Francisco, most of whom are citizens. This is what Americans call democracy; the rest of the world calls this hypocrisy.
You can check the daily updates at http://www.sfelections.org/results/20151103/
San Francisco has 845,000 residents, of whom 13% are children under age 18. Each of the 11 County Supervisor districts has at least 77,000 residents. The registration is as follows: 55% Democrat, 31% No party (usually vote Democrat), 8% Republican, 1.56% Green (6,758) and .33% (2,375) Peace and Freedom. You can find the latest registration statistics at:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/voter-registration-statistics/ror-odd-year-2015
PEOPLE
In the mayor’s race, the Democrat-Republican incumbent, Ed Lee, spent over $1 million when he had no big money challenger to win 56% (70,715) of the vote. Green Party mayoral candidate Francisco Herrera, spent $14,000 to win 14% or 18,315 votes, which is more votes than the combined registration of the Green Party (6,758) and Peace and Freedom Party (2,375), which is certainly good news when campaigning in a very anti-democratic country. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a founder of the Green Party who changed to Democrat to run for sheriff in 2011, received 32% (40,128) of the vote, being defeated by the police state Democrat challenger Vicki Hennessy who won 61% (74,522) of the vote. Perhaps Ross has finally learned a lesson everyone should learn: Never change to Democrat-Republican as the Democrat-Republicans do not want change favoring the workingclass. The District 3 supervisor’s race made history with each of the big money candidates, Peskin and Christensen, spending almost $1 million dollars.
For more on the money received and spent, and who donated to whom, see http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2015/08/campaign-finance-dashboards-november-3-2015-election.html. Check the Contributors tab and let your pointer hover over each colored square to learn the name of the contributor and the amount. Also check the tabs Late Contributions, Lobbyist Contributions and Third Party Contributions. It was good to see labor unions contributing to tenant causes but they did not mobilize their members to vote and it is the votes that matter.
PROPOSITIONS
We are now faced with the possibility that all tenant housing in San Francisco will be eliminated by Airbnb and the Academy of Art, thereby subverting rent control. Proposition F was opposed by the San Francisco Democratic Party , as was Proposition I. The Democratic Party supported the reactionary propositions, C, D and J. The workingclass, including the homeless, need decent housing TODAY. Single Room Occupancy Hotels, with the toilet, shower and kitchen shared in the hallway, are not decent housing and should be required to put a toilet, shower, sink and cooking facilities in every hotel room. Proposition A, the housing bond, passed, as did Proposition K, allowing surplus land to be used for workingclass housing, but the housing has not been built and we have 15,000 homeless, with every public school in San Francisco having at least 1 homeless child. This is all occurring in the richest country in the world which spends trillions of dollars on the military to maximize the profits of the oil and munitions companies. We cannot have guns and butter. If you are still registered Democrat-Republican, you can change your registration online to one of the 2 peace parties, Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party at: https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
In 2016, we will have the presidential campaign, where the war and peace issue will be primary, as it should be in every election as all politics are local. One of the Green Party candidates is Jill Stein. See http://www.jill2016.com/
One of the possible Peace & Freedom Party candidates is Gloria LaRiva. See http://www.votepsl.org/
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The SF election results are as disappointing as usual, but there's also an interesting aspect to them, which is that that the votes (for the most part) seem to have a progressive intent - and would have a progressive outcome, IF the propositions were what they pretend to be, which many are not.
Prop A, Affordable Housing Bond - does not earmark the money for "affordable" housing, and lets MOHCD, which has a record of allocations to luxury housing, decide how to allocate it.
Prop C, Expenditure Lobbyists - requires non-profits to register along with corporate lobbyists and pay the same fees. It started out as a worthy way to regulate lobbyists but was destroyed by ill meaning amemdments, such that the original purpose was perverted.
Prop D, Mission Rock - the developers attempt to circumvent height limits by luring voters with the promise of a new green space.
Prop F, Short Term Residential Rentals - A worthy attempt to keep rental housing from being diminished by conversion to the more profitable short term tourist housing. Air B&B spent $8M tp persuade people that this possibility for them to get more income would end up with them being reported by their neighbors.
Props G & F, on Clean, Green, and Renewable Energy - both claiming to promote this energy, but the first is an industry attempt to circumvent it. Both passed, possibly because the voters really want the Clean & Green.
Prop I, Suspension of Market Rate Housing in the Mission - to temporarily stop the bleeding of long term residents losing their housing and having to leave their home communities, (while figuring out how to prevent it long term) but it doesn't sound like it, does it?
Prop J, Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund - Rich businesses to get preferential treatment by supervisors.
Who'd a thought it?
But these results were achieved with the endorsements of major media, approval seeking Supervisors, local Democratic clubs, the Pissed off Voter Guide, and Tim Redmond's http://www.64hills.org , and the inability of progressive voters to examine the measures in the election booklet or seek other sources for recommendations.
Try sfgreenparty.org/endorsements for local elections or the Alameda Greens voting recommendations for state or national elections or the Peace & Freedom Party.
Oh and last but not least, the defeat of Ross Mirkarimi. Progressive voters seem not to realize the importance of a humane justice system and the rarity of proponents of it like Ross M. They don't get it that the establishment criminal justice system and power structure will fight tooth & nail with slurs and smears to exaggerate every personal misdeed of someone whose approach threatens theirs. Especially reprehensible are the one-issue people who don't look at the whole picture before joining the haters of humanity in condemning a proponent of a fair justice system.
And let's not forget those who won't vote because they don't believe it won't change things. No, not voting certainly won't.
Prop A, Affordable Housing Bond - does not earmark the money for "affordable" housing, and lets MOHCD, which has a record of allocations to luxury housing, decide how to allocate it.
Prop C, Expenditure Lobbyists - requires non-profits to register along with corporate lobbyists and pay the same fees. It started out as a worthy way to regulate lobbyists but was destroyed by ill meaning amemdments, such that the original purpose was perverted.
Prop D, Mission Rock - the developers attempt to circumvent height limits by luring voters with the promise of a new green space.
Prop F, Short Term Residential Rentals - A worthy attempt to keep rental housing from being diminished by conversion to the more profitable short term tourist housing. Air B&B spent $8M tp persuade people that this possibility for them to get more income would end up with them being reported by their neighbors.
Props G & F, on Clean, Green, and Renewable Energy - both claiming to promote this energy, but the first is an industry attempt to circumvent it. Both passed, possibly because the voters really want the Clean & Green.
Prop I, Suspension of Market Rate Housing in the Mission - to temporarily stop the bleeding of long term residents losing their housing and having to leave their home communities, (while figuring out how to prevent it long term) but it doesn't sound like it, does it?
Prop J, Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund - Rich businesses to get preferential treatment by supervisors.
Who'd a thought it?
But these results were achieved with the endorsements of major media, approval seeking Supervisors, local Democratic clubs, the Pissed off Voter Guide, and Tim Redmond's http://www.64hills.org , and the inability of progressive voters to examine the measures in the election booklet or seek other sources for recommendations.
Try sfgreenparty.org/endorsements for local elections or the Alameda Greens voting recommendations for state or national elections or the Peace & Freedom Party.
Oh and last but not least, the defeat of Ross Mirkarimi. Progressive voters seem not to realize the importance of a humane justice system and the rarity of proponents of it like Ross M. They don't get it that the establishment criminal justice system and power structure will fight tooth & nail with slurs and smears to exaggerate every personal misdeed of someone whose approach threatens theirs. Especially reprehensible are the one-issue people who don't look at the whole picture before joining the haters of humanity in condemning a proponent of a fair justice system.
And let's not forget those who won't vote because they don't believe it won't change things. No, not voting certainly won't.
One more thing on Prop D, the Mission Rock brewery & 11 towers of luxury housing brought to us by the PRIVATE PROFIT BUSINESS & GAMBLING RACKET, the local baseball team-business: A brewery by definition promotes terrible pollution and is a fire hazard which should never be built near any housing, yet I never saw any complaint about a brewery in a city. Breweries should be built near the grain that feeds them, far from the cities, or better yet, not at all. There is absolutely no need for alcohol.
Also, as to citizenship in SF, 86% of San Francisco residents are citizens so 200,000 votes (which it will probably be) out of 735,000 adults in SF is despicable. Staying home is the same as voting for landlords, warmongers and fascism. It is as simple as that. This writer has been going to protests for over 65 years here in my hometown of San Francisco, but we cannot neglect the vote and expect anything to get better.
We did see a ray of light in the mayor's race as Mr. Election Fraud, endorsed by the Republican Party, Democrat Mayor Ed Lee is still stuck at 56% of the vote (96,205 votes) after 1 term in office, with 179,713 votes counted as of today, November 7, 2015 at 4 p.m which means he achieved absolutely nothing good. Francisco Herrera, the Green Party candidate, now has an impressive 24,875 or 14.68% of the vote, coming in second, Amy Farah Weiss has 20,207 or 11.92% coming in third and Stuart Schuffman, Kent Graham and Reed Martin also received thousands of votes. The totals are below, from the Election Department website at:
http://www.sfelections.org/results/20151103/
ED LEE 96,205 56.77%
FRANCISCO HERRERA 24,875 14.68%
AMY FARAH WEISS 20,207 11.92%
STUART SCHUFFMAN 15,771 9.31%
KENT GRAHAM 7,906 4.66%
REED MARTIN 4,059 2.4%
WRITE-IN 453 0.27%
Finally, since today is November 7, the 98th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, complacency does not bring about change and if you want a revolution, you have to organize. All of these "nobodies" who challenged the million dollar campaign of Ed Lee clearly did a lot of organizing for tenants albeit still on a reformist basis, and the results were impressive.
Also, as to citizenship in SF, 86% of San Francisco residents are citizens so 200,000 votes (which it will probably be) out of 735,000 adults in SF is despicable. Staying home is the same as voting for landlords, warmongers and fascism. It is as simple as that. This writer has been going to protests for over 65 years here in my hometown of San Francisco, but we cannot neglect the vote and expect anything to get better.
We did see a ray of light in the mayor's race as Mr. Election Fraud, endorsed by the Republican Party, Democrat Mayor Ed Lee is still stuck at 56% of the vote (96,205 votes) after 1 term in office, with 179,713 votes counted as of today, November 7, 2015 at 4 p.m which means he achieved absolutely nothing good. Francisco Herrera, the Green Party candidate, now has an impressive 24,875 or 14.68% of the vote, coming in second, Amy Farah Weiss has 20,207 or 11.92% coming in third and Stuart Schuffman, Kent Graham and Reed Martin also received thousands of votes. The totals are below, from the Election Department website at:
http://www.sfelections.org/results/20151103/
ED LEE 96,205 56.77%
FRANCISCO HERRERA 24,875 14.68%
AMY FARAH WEISS 20,207 11.92%
STUART SCHUFFMAN 15,771 9.31%
KENT GRAHAM 7,906 4.66%
REED MARTIN 4,059 2.4%
WRITE-IN 453 0.27%
Finally, since today is November 7, the 98th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, complacency does not bring about change and if you want a revolution, you have to organize. All of these "nobodies" who challenged the million dollar campaign of Ed Lee clearly did a lot of organizing for tenants albeit still on a reformist basis, and the results were impressive.
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