This Friday, join the bold effort to deliver affordable housing for the Bayview!
Balazo Gallery
2183 Mission Street
May 16th, 5:30-8pm

Despite millions being spent against us, committed volunteers have put Proposition F in play– collecting over 11,000 signatures in 10 days, reaching out to political clubs and community groups, running nightly phone banks, and dropping literature on the weekends. These true heroes have been doing the work to support our families struggling to make it here.

Now we need your support.

Come out to get energized and connected with the campaign, have some fun (with Eric Quezada on the ones and twos), and make a donation.

SFUSD’s only year-round school, Argonne Elementary School had its annual May Fair fundraiser this weekend. Argonne ES is located in the mid-Richmond.

Public School Parents, note that Argonne got its sign donated by FedEx/Kinkos. If they can do it for Argonne, they should be making a similar sign for your school.

Future firefighters were exploring a SFFD fire truck.

Music graced the large playground of Argonne Elementary School. The most interesting music act was a father-son duo who was doing Ramone and Clash covers. (They had help with a bass player who was standing apart from Dad and Son.) Mom was showing her mosh pit moves in front of the audience.

Parents for Eric Mar for Supervisor in D-1 had a Mothers’ Day Event on Saturday, May 10 at Rossi Park.

Over 40 people were in attendance to enjoy the food and listen to their favorite candidate for Supervisor in D-1 (the Richmond). The event was held at Rossi Park. Organized by Valerie Soe, Sandra Fewer and myself, the event had balloons to delight the children as well as a small gift of candy for mothers.

Here are some photos of the event:

These are some of the people who came to the Parents for Eric Mar for D-1 Supervisor event on Saturday.

The Chicago Tribune has been giving front page to their favorite campaign and hometown candidate, Barack Obama. New York Times has been favorably covering the junior senator from New York, Hilary Clinton.

So here is news of San Francisco’s connection to the presidential race:

Presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate, former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez will speak at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 11 at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St. There is a request for a $10 contribution and $5 for students or low-income people, but nobody will be turned away.

Supervisor Mirkarimi’s kickoff for his re-election campaign has filled with constitutents, supporters and well-wishers.

Supervisors Peskin and McGoldrick were attendance. School Board members Eric Mar, Mark Sanchez, Jane Kim and Kim-shree Maufas were in attendance. Community College Board John Rizzo was also there.

Assemblymember Mark Leno and former Mayor Willie Brown were also at the kickoff. Leno has never endorsed a Green, so it must have been a campaign stop.

PTA’s Protest Potluck drew in Gwendolyn, a representative from Fiona Ma’s office who gave us the numbers of Republicans on the Assembly Education Committee who needed to be convinced to “Flunk the Budget” (i.e. cuts to the state’s education budget). The list of the three Republican Assemblymembers that Assemblymember Fiona Ma wanted us to contact is listed below.

One of our callers, Terry Norbury reached someone in Leland Yee’s office who also suggested calling specific Republicans. Bob Twomey, another aide in Fiona Ma’s office (and former School Board candidate) talked to Carol Kochivar.

There’s a No on 98 outreach tomorrow in the Marina. The San Francisco No on 98 campaign is on track to distribute 100,000 pieces of literature before the election (which is in 25 days!), but they need your help. If 98 passes, none of the rest of the work we do in California matters at all.

Reminder—help save rent control and get the NO on 98 word out in the Marina Saturday, May 10, 11 AM. Meet at the Marina Library, 1890 Chestnut (at Fillmore) to get literature and a precinct map.

There’s less than 25 days left to election day, so we need your help to save rent control!!

FLUNK THE BUDGET - Protest Potluck Sponsored by the 2nd District PTA

Date: Friday May 9, 2008
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: McAllister Conference Room
at 555 Franklin Street

Grab a potluck dish and your cellphone and head on down to 555 Franklin on Friday, May 9 to remind our legislators that they MUST Flunk The Budget!

This coming Friday evening, the Second District PTA is coordinating a Potluck Protest against the Governor’s plan to drastically reduce funding for education. This is another URGENT reminder to Sacramento as they prepare to work on the 2008-2009 Budget.

The League of Young Voters also released their voter guide for the June election. It’s an interesting one, for a couple reasons.

First, they make a point about Prop E I hadn’t seen emphasized before:

In addition, all current commissioners will be booted out on August 1 unless they can approved under the new criteria. Tow of the existing commissioners look like the fit the new frame- one’s a solar guy and one’s got some crazy public utilities background. The other two have bios that seem to be more about political connections than PUC experience, so it looks like E would kick them out and put 3 board-approved folks in.

It’s great to see them break down the effect on the current members. I’d still like to see some board-appointed members of the PUC, but this seems like a little step forward.

Here are the endorsements for the Bernal Heights Dem club:

United States Congress: no endorsement
California Senate: Carole Migden
California Assembly: Tom Ammiano
State Propositions:
98: Property rights: No
99: Eminent Domain reform: Yes

Local propositions
A: School Parcel Tax: Yes
B: Public Employee Retirement Health Care: no recommendation
C: Forfeiture of Retirement Benefits (Moral Turpitude): no recommendation
D: Diversity on City Boards and Commissions: Yes
E: Public Utilities Commission reform: Yes
F: Affordable Housing at Lennar Project: Yes
G: Lennar project at Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard: No
H: Mayor’s reform proposal: no recommendation