Sorta BAY-related - FRISCO mayors race
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So we're going to bring up the race issue? What the fuck has Willie Brown done for the African American community in the past 30 years? Gonzalez is from the Fillmore, and if you actually read their proposals you'd know exactly what each have planned.
Bayview Hunters Point is slated for redevelopment - Fillmore/Western Addition style. Four housing complexes are already slated for destruction. So are another 14 around the City. Willie Brown is also pushing hard to give exclusive rights of the best real estate to Lennar in the last month before he leaves office.
This isn't shit compared to what the Redevelopment Agency has in store. Their Plan Amendments, dated Nov. 4, 2003 seek to expand the Redevelopment Agency's control over more than ten times the area now subject to their control. Over ten thousand African Americans have already been driven out of the City during the more recent development boom. The plans under way, if allowed to be implemented, will redevelop and gentrify the remainder of the community out of town.
Basically housing complexes will be destroyed to make way for new ones. The people currently living there will obviously have to find somewhere else to live. A few might be able to eventually move back, but the majority of the new housing will be market rate, with state law mandating that all new housing not be subject to rent control.
This election represents a stark choice. Gavin Newsom represents someone who will not only continue the policies of development and big business, but become more blatant by moving the local political machine further to the right. Not being as smart as Willie, and having the arrogance that comes with having everything handed to him directly by big money interests, he wont feel the need to toss the community any bones to keep their favor.
African Americans can easily list the major issues affecting them in the City - unemployment, economic development, environmental justice, health issues, lack of and privatization of services, police reform, education, reparations, gentrification, redevelopment, and plenty of others.
The two candidates differ strongly on the issues. Newsom has been supported throughout his career by oil money from the Getty family. He was appointed to the Board of Supervisors by Brown to "add diversity" - the Board apparently didn't have any STRAIGHT WHITE RICH MEN on it at the time. lol Newsom has since been a reliable vote for the local Willie Brown machine, voting in favor of big business and developers.
As most of you know he recently targeted the poor and the homeless with his Prop M, which takes welfare money away from homeless people, without guaranteeing them any services, basically filling the City's budget holes with money taken from the poorest people of the City. Gonzalez passed an amendment which was signed into law, guaranteeing these people get the services they were promised.
Gonzalez initially ran for supervisor against and defeated the candidate handpicked by Brown in a landslide victory. He voted against the big busines settlement which Newsom supported, which cost the City over $100 million. He has since been a reliable vote favoring working class issues and the neighborhoods.
Gonzalez said he would work to make loans accessible to minority business owners, preserve affordable housing and force the closure of the two area power plants. He said his work on raising the minimum wage reminded him of fighting for justice as a public defender, and that the community can have confidence in police only if they are held accountable.
Now lets talk about Newsom's position on all this... Maybe he'll try to make a nice speech or tell you it's all in a position paper, or that he doesn't have time to detail his whole position, but he's chosen as his head campaign consultant Eric Jaye who has run serveral campaigns that ran completely counter to the interests of the community.
The African American community knows the importance of commission appointments, something the new Mayor wil have control over. The Redevelopment Commission is a case where all seven commissioners are appointed by the Mayor. This is the commission which oversees the decisions regarding the Hunters Point shipyard and has entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with Lennar Corporation in a process that triggered another FBI investigation into contracting schemes.
Gonzalez' platform addresses many of the issues facing African Americans: measures to facilitate economic development (low-cost credit for small businesses through a municipal/community bank), a policy of bringing Black contractors tot he table, a "local hiring" policy and ownership of land and underground through a type of a land trust paid for by the city alone the lines of the proposal for low income housing. After all, we pay taxes, we should have the right to own for what we pay.
Gonzalez' office originated Proposition L, raising the minumum wage from $6.75 per hour to $8.50, which was passed overwhelmingly by the voters on Nov. 4, and will benefit thousands of African Americans, Latinos, women and youth. Newsom didn't endorse Prop L.
While Gonzalez favors jobs at union wages, Newsom - who recently stated he is "proud" of San Francisco as a Union town - did NOT allow his own employees to organize a union and opposes the right to a card check...How interesting
This could go on and on and on, but hey..like i said, if you'd rather vote for mister barbie man, be my guest...but it will be our downfall.
Bayview Hunters Point is slated for redevelopment - Fillmore/Western Addition style. Four housing complexes are already slated for destruction. So are another 14 around the City. Willie Brown is also pushing hard to give exclusive rights of the best real estate to Lennar in the last month before he leaves office.
This isn't shit compared to what the Redevelopment Agency has in store. Their Plan Amendments, dated Nov. 4, 2003 seek to expand the Redevelopment Agency's control over more than ten times the area now subject to their control. Over ten thousand African Americans have already been driven out of the City during the more recent development boom. The plans under way, if allowed to be implemented, will redevelop and gentrify the remainder of the community out of town.
Basically housing complexes will be destroyed to make way for new ones. The people currently living there will obviously have to find somewhere else to live. A few might be able to eventually move back, but the majority of the new housing will be market rate, with state law mandating that all new housing not be subject to rent control.
This election represents a stark choice. Gavin Newsom represents someone who will not only continue the policies of development and big business, but become more blatant by moving the local political machine further to the right. Not being as smart as Willie, and having the arrogance that comes with having everything handed to him directly by big money interests, he wont feel the need to toss the community any bones to keep their favor.
African Americans can easily list the major issues affecting them in the City - unemployment, economic development, environmental justice, health issues, lack of and privatization of services, police reform, education, reparations, gentrification, redevelopment, and plenty of others.
The two candidates differ strongly on the issues. Newsom has been supported throughout his career by oil money from the Getty family. He was appointed to the Board of Supervisors by Brown to "add diversity" - the Board apparently didn't have any STRAIGHT WHITE RICH MEN on it at the time. lol Newsom has since been a reliable vote for the local Willie Brown machine, voting in favor of big business and developers.
As most of you know he recently targeted the poor and the homeless with his Prop M, which takes welfare money away from homeless people, without guaranteeing them any services, basically filling the City's budget holes with money taken from the poorest people of the City. Gonzalez passed an amendment which was signed into law, guaranteeing these people get the services they were promised.
Gonzalez initially ran for supervisor against and defeated the candidate handpicked by Brown in a landslide victory. He voted against the big busines settlement which Newsom supported, which cost the City over $100 million. He has since been a reliable vote favoring working class issues and the neighborhoods.
Gonzalez said he would work to make loans accessible to minority business owners, preserve affordable housing and force the closure of the two area power plants. He said his work on raising the minimum wage reminded him of fighting for justice as a public defender, and that the community can have confidence in police only if they are held accountable.
Now lets talk about Newsom's position on all this... Maybe he'll try to make a nice speech or tell you it's all in a position paper, or that he doesn't have time to detail his whole position, but he's chosen as his head campaign consultant Eric Jaye who has run serveral campaigns that ran completely counter to the interests of the community.
The African American community knows the importance of commission appointments, something the new Mayor wil have control over. The Redevelopment Commission is a case where all seven commissioners are appointed by the Mayor. This is the commission which oversees the decisions regarding the Hunters Point shipyard and has entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with Lennar Corporation in a process that triggered another FBI investigation into contracting schemes.
Gonzalez' platform addresses many of the issues facing African Americans: measures to facilitate economic development (low-cost credit for small businesses through a municipal/community bank), a policy of bringing Black contractors tot he table, a "local hiring" policy and ownership of land and underground through a type of a land trust paid for by the city alone the lines of the proposal for low income housing. After all, we pay taxes, we should have the right to own for what we pay.
Gonzalez' office originated Proposition L, raising the minumum wage from $6.75 per hour to $8.50, which was passed overwhelmingly by the voters on Nov. 4, and will benefit thousands of African Americans, Latinos, women and youth. Newsom didn't endorse Prop L.
While Gonzalez favors jobs at union wages, Newsom - who recently stated he is "proud" of San Francisco as a Union town - did NOT allow his own employees to organize a union and opposes the right to a card check...How interesting
This could go on and on and on, but hey..like i said, if you'd rather vote for mister barbie man, be my guest...but it will be our downfall.
like I said, I dont stay in frisco so I cant vote, thus I aint gonna waste my time and read the book you wrote (no offense). but as you yourself have an opinion, I too have one. while you might be more leftist, I tend to agree with people more to the center. so it only makes sense you would like matt, while I like gavin.
Thats cool, i respect everyones opinion...but if it's to a point where it will affect us as a whole, i will try my best to provide facts in order to try and persuade peoples bias thoughts. In return i always keep an open mind and hear both ends to make a conclusion...
Although Gavin is very far from the center, hes playing chess on the right side of the road baby...
Although Gavin is very far from the center, hes playing chess on the right side of the road baby...