2008 November Endorsements

October 9th, 2008

Please find all our endorsements below. State and Federal endorsements are made by the California League of Conservation Voters. More info can be found on their website at www.ecovote.org/endorse

LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL CANDIDATES:

President:
Barack Obama

Congress 8:
Nancy Pelosi

Congress 12:
Jackie Speier

State Senate:
Mark Leno

Assembly 12:
Fiona Ma

Assembly 13:
Tom Ammiano

Supervisor District 1:
Eric Mar

Supervisor District 3: (ranked choices)
1) David Chiu
2) Tony Gantner

Supervisor District 5:
Ross Mirkarimi

Supervisor District 7:
No Endorsement

Supervisor District 9: (ranked choices)
1) Sanchez
2) Campos
3) Valtin

Supervisor District 11:
John Avalos

BART:
Tom Radulovich

Board of Education:
Sandra Fewer
Bobbie Lopez
Jill Wynns
Norman Yee

Community College Board:
Mary Hernandez
Chris Jackson
Milton Marks
Bruce Wolfe

Superior Court Judge:
Sandoval

STATE AND LOCAL MEASURES

State Propositions:

Yes on Proposition 1A: Improve air quality and public transportation through High Speed Rail
No on Proposition 7: Protect small solar producers and encourage solar energy production
No on Proposition 10: Protect the environment and taxpayers — and stop the alternative energy scam
No on Proposition 11: Stop the flawed redistricting plan

San Francisco Measures:

YES on Prop A – San Francisco General Hospital Earthquake Safety Bonds

YES on Prop B – Establishing Affordable Housing Fund

NO on Prop C – City employees on Commissions and Boards

YES on Prop D – Financing Pier 70 Waterfront District Development Plan

YES on Prop E – Raise # of signatures required for a recall

YES on Prop F – Holding All Scheduled City Elections Only in Even-Numbered Years

Prop G – No Position

YES on Prop H – Setting Clean Energy Deadlines; Studying Options for Providing Energy; Changing Revenue Bond Authority to Pay for Public Utility Facilities

NO on Prop I – Creating the Office of an Independent Rate Payer Advocate

YES on Prop J – Creating a Historic Preservation Commission

Prop K – No Position
Prop L – No Position
Prop M – No Position

YES on Prop N – Changing Real Property Transfer Tax Rates

YES on Prop O – Replacing the Emergency Response Fee with an Access Line Tax and Revising the Telephone Users Tax

NO on Prop P – Changing the Composition of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board

YES on Prop Q – Modifying the Payroll Expense Tax

NO on Prop R – Renaming the Oceanside Water Treatment Plant

NO on Prop S – ID funding sources for budget set asides

Prop T – No Position
Prop U – No Position
Prop V – No Position

SFLCV Endorsements Process Update for Candidates

September 12th, 2008

If you are a candidate for office in San Francisco’s November 2008 you should have received a questionnaire a few weeks ago. The deadline for returning your completed questionnaire is THIS MONDAY, September 15th at 5 PM.

If you did no receive a questionnaire please call Adrian Cotter at 415 336 5073. Also all questionnaires are available in the right hand column on this page.

Please email completed questionnaires to these 3 email addresses:
drainage AT gmail DOT com
deep AT sflcv DOT org
michelle AT sflcv DOT org

(replace “AT” with “@” and “DOT” with “.”)

Slow Food and Sunday Streets

August 26th, 2008

Two great events are coming up that are near and dear to the hearts (and stomachs) of us here at SFLCV:

Slow Food Nation

Aug 29-Sep 1. Celebrate and eat sustainable, just and delicious food in the Great Meadow of Fort Mason in San Francisco.

Sunday Streets

“On these Sundays, a four and half mile route stretching from Bayview to Chinatown along the Embarcadero will be open to physical activity. This route will be closed to traffic and allow for biking, walking, jogging and physical activity of all kinds.” Come join us!

Climate Change Goals and Action Plan Ordinance

April 23rd, 2008

SFLCV worked with Livable City and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi to draft a Climate Change Goals and Action Plan ordinance. The ordinance was approved in committee on April 17th, 2008, and will go before the full board on April 29th, 2008.

This overall goals of the ordinance are to reduce greenhouse gases 25% below 1990 levels by 2017, 40% below 1990 levels by 2025, and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The City would adopt specific reduction targets for each year. Every city department would create a departmental action plan to achieve its goals.

You can read more detail about the ordinance on the Livable City site, with information about what is already on San Francisco’s books, and what some other cities are doing.

Approve AB 2646 To Restore SF’s Bay Shoreline

April 23rd, 2008

Dear Chair Caballero:

The San Francisco waterfront is an important public trust asset of the people of California. 7.5 miles – representing most of the City’s bay waterfront – are under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Port Commission pursuant to the Burton Act.

Since the demolition of the Embarcadero freeway, the City has embarked on a planning process to reconnect with its Bay waterfront. Residents and visitors stroll along the new Embarcadero roadway along portions of the Bay Trail from the Bay Bridge to the historic Ferry Building and onward to Fisherman’s Wharf.

Unfortunately, major portions of the San Francisco waterfront are blighted by dangerous conditions, crumbling facilities and environment contamination from historic industrial activities. “Ghost” piles from former pile-supported structures dot the shoreline. Neighborhoods that were home to heavy industrial activities for much of the last century such as Mission Bay, Potrero, Dogpatch, Bayview and Hunters Point remain cut off from the Bay, even as the City rezones some of these areas to promote infill mixed use development.

The San Francisco League of Conservation Voters strongly supports the creation of major new waterfront open spaces and an extension of the Bay Trail through the Port’s southern waterfront. However, the costs of eliminating blight along the waterfront far exceed the Port’s revenues. AB 2646 will create an important new financing vehicle to pay for parks, access to the Bay, environmental remediation and removal of bay fill.

We strongly encourage you to approve AB 2646 to restore San Francisco’s Bay shoreline. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Amandeep Jawa, President
San Francisco League of Conservation Voters

Endorsements: June 3rd, 2008

March 31st, 2008

Ballot Measures

Yes on E – Requiring Board of Supervisors’ Approval of Mayor’s Appointments to the PUC
Yes on F – Affordable Housing in Candlestick/Hunters Point development.
No on G – Mixed-Use Development Project for Candlestick Point And Hunters Point Shipyard

We are not endorsing on A, B, C, D or H.

Candidates

Green Party County Council

Razzu Engen

Democratic Party County Central Committee

12 A.D.

  • Michael Bornstein
  • Doug Chan
  • Emily Drennen
  • Eric Mar
  • Jake McGoldrick
  • Trevor McNeil
  • Jane Morrison
  • Melanie Nutter
  • Connie O’Connor
  • Matt Tuchow

13 A.D.

  • Bill Barnes
  • David Campos
  • David Chiu
  • Chris Daly
  • Michael Goldstein
  • Robert Haaland
  • Joe Julian
  • Leslie Katz
  • Rafael Mandelman
  • Aaron Peskin
  • Holli Thier
  • Debra Walker

Republican Party County Central Committee

We did not endorse any republicans for the county central committee. But we would like to thank Gene Dermody for submitting a questionnaire.

Questions

If you have any questions about our endorsements, please email adrian at sflcv.org

Central Committee Endorsements

March 31st, 2008

We have started our endorsement process for central committee: Greens, Democrats and Republicans should have gotten a questionnaire by email. But if you are looking, you can also find it here.

San Francisco Going Dark

March 25th, 2008

March 29th, 8pm to 9pm, the lights will be going out. Join thousands of your Bay Area friends, neighbors and businesses and millions of people around the world to make a bold statement about climate change. Find out more.

2007 Endorsements

October 25th, 2007

YES on A
YES on C
NO on H
YES on K

No endorsement for Mayor

Fundraiser & Contest

August 1st, 2007

Our 2nd annual fundraiser was a lot of fun, for which much thanks goes to all the wonderful artists who submitted work, and a great singer who performed. Here’s the top 3 winners of the contest:

1st place: mr roger's flower

2nd place: sushi contrainers 2nd life

3rd place: dolores park series

More photos can be found here.