Bulldog 2007 Article 106

(7-10-07)

You’re gonna get screwed big time at today’s meeting of the Full Board. Oh, I know, you usually do anyway, but today is special because so many of the things that will rushed through to the detriment of the City, could have been amended through the actions of an honest process and a duly diligent effort. Oh well, here’re the items and see how I do predicting the votes.

Item 8: POA’ MOU

Every supe knew that the cops should have a department-wide mandatory testing for steroids, heroin, cocaine, alcohol and human growth hormones. Every supe knew that making this union agreement 4 years in duration would insure that there will be no steroid testing of violent cops for at least another 8 years and they passed it anyway. Only Chris Daly voted ‘No’.

Vote: 8-1 (Daly opposed)

Item 30: HOPE SF

Supervisor Maxwell again plays Judas goat to forces wishing to drive the remaining black population out of San Francisco. While the City could have applied for federal dollars under the HOPE VI program to rebuild projects, developers shied away from HUD requirements that precluded mechanizations in HOPE SF that will allow them to do some more of their infamous: ‘Off-site Inclusionary Housing’ which will allow them to get blacks off the hills and move em somewhere else so’s Lennar can put expensive condos where Alice Griffith Housing Projects and others like it now stand. HOPE SF is simply another Downtown Negro Removal scheme.

Vote: 8-2 with Daly and Sandoval alone in seeing the sham

Items 31 to 36: Treasure Island Utility rate increase to non-profits

I only list these because they constitute a list of some of the non-profits now having facilities in the swirling environment that is TI redevelopment. I guess Job Corps is still there too. That’s federal and the last I saw had around 700 students. Today’s budgets lists:

1. Catholic Charities
2. Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
3. Community Housing Partnership
4. Rubicon
5. Swords to Poughshares
6. Walden House

I only list these because Treasure Island is a special project of mine
and this helps me keep tract of who’s there.

Vote: 9-1 with Jew voting against utility rate increases anywhere. Expect a long and passionate speech from him cause, I mean, how often does he get to shine about something he truly understands?

Item 40: Private Contractors to handle absentee ballots

This one makes your blood run cold. Frankly, I’m wondering how far you can trust a private contractor chosen by the same forces who’ve been accused of rigging numerous elections through the manipulation of absentee ballot counts. This item should be sent to committee where these questions should be asked:

Mayor Brown purchased hundreds of thousands more absentee ballots than were needed a few years back. Where are they? Is there any numerically sequenced record balancing absentees counted over the past years and ballots on hand? We wouldn’t want there to be 100,000 of these things sitting in Willie’s garage. In short, where are the absentee ballots? Will Mohammed Nuru be hiring people to handle them? It’s certainly worth a hearing to go over the chain-of-possession of our very franchise.

Vote: 7-3 with Daly, Mirkarimi and Sandoval wanting to trace the ballot trail to see if leads eventually to the Bay and beyond.

Item 48: Weakening minority Board input for initiatives

This is an attempt to hamstring Progressive supes in their attempts to put matters before the citizens which will not be approved by the Mayor. You know, things like police foot patrols.

This is a Sean Elsbernd measure and he’s become an expert at pushing through items that sorely damage Progressives without their even noticing the knives in their backs til later.

Propaganda aside, while the minions of Walter Shorenstein can meet in back rooms with Supervisor Elsbernd and the Mayor’s office and put something like this Fall ballot measure adding tens of thousands of autos to our streets … supervisors will be required to produce their publicly vetted initiatives a full 45 days earlier than is now required. It gives Downtown more time to create ‘evil twin’ measures that make people like Earic Jaye and Jim Sutton lots and lots of money and increase their winning percentage. It is an anti-people measure and should fail because it weakens the Board and the people. It will pass easily.

Vote: 6-4 with Ammiano joining Daly, Mirkarimi and Sandoval.

Item 58: Codifying the seizure of the Public Library system by Jim Sutton and the Swells.

Sutton owes Peskin a case of good wine, a pitcher of martinis and dinner for this mother. It legalizes the privatization of all funds collected by the ‘Friends’ under the auspices of the City and allows them to spend it any way they damned well please for the next 15 years. Hell, they’ve been doing it for years anyway.

Vote: 9-1 with Daly opposing.

Item 69: MTA Union busting courtesy of Aaron Peskin

This turns 400 union workers into employees who can be hired and fired by political appointees. I’d expect those boys and girls will be carrying ‘Newsom’ signs next December should this pass at the general election. The fate of the measure depends upon a little known group called: ‘The Ballot Simplification Committee’ which can insure passage of any measure by allowing slanted language. If Peskin has his way, the measure will be described on the ballot as for: ‘Emissions Control’. It is UNION BUSTING.

Vote: 8-3 with Daly, Mirkarimi and Sandoval voting with blue collars.

Item 62:   Weakening the OCC (Office of Citizen Complaints)

Another game of 3-card Monty by Sean Elsbernd, this one on behalf of the POA.    Again, with Orewellian double-speak, Elsbernd says that keeping cases involving brutal cops bottled-up in the Chief’s office for a longer period of time is being done to lighten the load of an overloaded OCC.      What the POA really wants to do is kill the voter-created OCC and maintain business as usual.     Remember, this is a CHARTER AMENDMENT and will be with us until we realize its actual purpose and have to pass another charter amendment to repeal it.

Vote:   8-2 with Daly and Sandoval seeing through it again.

Item 63:   Daly Charter Ammendment for Affordable Housing

I think this is the 33 million the Board passed 8-3 and the Mayor refused to sign, then deleted the funds for same from his budget.      It will be interesting to see how many people the Mayor has ‘persuaded’ to to kill Board born affordable housing measures.

Vote:    5-5 tie with Peskin able to flip Maxwell and McGoldrick.

Item 64:    Daly Charter change mandating Gavin meet with Board

In a big surprise, Mayor will show up for Question Time today to render question moot (I’m guessing).

Vote:   5-5   Mayor’s attendance at this one session will give anti-Daly forces steam to keep the measure off the November ballot.

Item 68:    Codifying the seizure of the Public Library system by Jim Sutton and the Swells.
Well, that’s the way I think it’s gonna go down today. I’ll try to get something up tomorrow about an amazing meeting we went to at Jim Sutton’s place last evening. Some people call it the ‘Ethics Commission’ but, trust me, it’s Jim Sutton’s place. He rules it the way Joe O’Donoghue ran the DBI Commission and it ain’t pretty.

Vote ‘No’ on ‘Yes’

Or, the other way around.

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