Susan Kay Knowlton — Austin

AUSTIN — The funeral for Susan Kay Knowlton will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Crane Community Chapel in Austin, with the Rev. Dale Christiansen officiating. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin.
Susan Knowlton, 63, of Austin, died Sunday (Nov. 2, 2008) at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.
She was born Aug. 27, 1945, in Austin. She began her career as a Licensed Practical Nurse and later graduated as a Registered Nurse from Austin Community College.

The Yes on 8 campaign brought about 30 people to the corner of Cesar Chavez and Mission in San Francisco today, trying to build support for the proposition in the Latino community.

The corner happens to be a block and a half from the Eric Quezada for Supervisor office, and we could not let them spew hate unchallenged.

Over the next hour, No on 8 people showed up one by one and or two by two. By the time the bigots got tired and left, they were outnumbered by people with official and hand-made No signs.

It’s become clear that our hesitation in upgrading our site’s software has led to an unfortunate rash of security breaches: posts disappearing, spam links appearing in the posts that remain…in short, our site seems to have been hacked by spam robots.

Unfortunately, the press of election work leaves us no opportunity to upgrade our software. The site may be flaky or inconsistent until after the election, at which point we will return with election analysis, new writers, and upgraded software.

Tomorrow night is the last District 9 Candidates’ Forum, which will be held at the Precita Center, 534 Precita at Florida. In what I think is a first for a San Francisco city race, the Eric Quezada campaign (on which I am volunteering) is working to broadcast the debate live:

Eric Quezada First Candidate to Run Live Streaming Debate Coverage – Forum this Wednesday

Finally: live streaming coverage of the District 9 Supervisorial race!

This election’s last District 9 Supervisor candidates’ forum, Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., will be available live online for the first time, courtesy of Eric Quezada’s campaign. In an effort to increase voter access and awareness in the election’s final week, Quezada will stream the forum live on the campaign’s website, www.ericquezada.com, for all to see.

San Francisco’s LGBTQ Democratic Clubs Rally in Castro – Yes on H, No on 8

WHAT: The Harvey Milk Club, SF Pride at Work, and the Alice B. Toklas Club will be affirming their support of Clean Energy and Marriage Equality with a rally in the Castro in support of local Proposition H and against state-wide Proposition 8.

In addition to the millions that PG&E is spending to defeat prop H (the Clean Energy Act) the electricity giant has pumped hundred of thousands of dollars into the No on 8 campaign (to preserve marriage equality). PG&E’s cynical attempt to curry favor in the LGBTQ community has been overshadowed by the overwhelming support prop H has received from LGBT leaders, community members and democratic clubs.

This Sunday from 2-5pm Pride at Work is hosting the Newly Wed “don’t let the right take away gay marrage” phonebank. It wil be at the SEIU 1021 union hall in San Francisco at 350 Rhode Island Street (entrance at Kansas and 17th)

Invite your friends. We will provide the wedding cake.

Landlords & Realtors Are Trying To Buy This Election!

Protest & Picket at Board of Realtors, 301 Grove St. (corner of Franklin & Grove Streets), October 23 (a week from Thursday) 5:30 PM

This November, whether the Board of Supervisors remains pro-tenant, pro-labor, and progressive will be determined by what happens in the swing Supervisors Districts of 1, 3 and 11. These districts are open with current Sups. McGoldrick, Peskin & Sandoval termed out. These are moderate districts which could go either way—if we want to maintain our majority on the Board we can’t afford to lose even one (see analysis below). Rent control is at stake here—our rent control law is just a local ordinance which could be weakened or ended by a 6-5 vote of the Board of Supervisors!

Here are the Bernal Heights Democratic Club endorsements. Last week’s vote was one of the best-attended in years, and resulted in a few surprises.

Despite Bernal having a reputation as Tom Ammiano’s club, the future assemblyman’s endorsed candidate, David Campos, did not get the endorsement. Eric Quezada was the overwhelming choice for District 9 Supervisor.

In addition, the club diverged from the what’s seen as “the progressive position” on a couple propositions, most notably Prop R (the George Bush Sewer Plant initiative), and Prop V, the JROTC initiative, both of which received no endorsement.

Bernal Heights Democratic Club Endorsements — November 2008

Good news! From the AP:

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 10, 2008
Filed at 12:01 p.m. ET

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.

The divided court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut’s civil unions law does not provide those couples with the same rights as heterosexual couples.

Baltimore named itself as the “City that Reads.”

Each year, they sponsor the Baltimore Book Festival along the plaza of Baltimore’s Washington Monument (the residents of Baltimore like to point out that their Washington Monument was built earlier than the one “in a city south of us”.). This year, it was held the same weekend as the National Book Festival and during a rainy Saturday. Even the Washington Post noted that Baltimore’s Book Festival was hippier than the National Book Festival.