Thursday, September 26, 2024
Peter's November 5, 2024 San Francisco Voter Guide
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Peter's March 5, 2024 San Francisco Voter Guide
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Nov 2022 voter guide
Here are my recommendations for November 2022. I only covered the races where I have an informed opinion. Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
State Assembly, District 17
MATT HANEY
San Francisco Supervisor, District 10
BRIAN SAM ADAMS (incumbent Supervisor Walton has been an outspoken opponent of Car Free JFK, an opponent of making the Great Highway a Park and has not been an active vocal advocate for slow streets nor safe bike infrastructure.)
Board of Education
Ann Hsu, Lainie Motamedi, Lisa Weissman-Ward
Community College Board
Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo, Thea Selby
California Propositions
1 – YES Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom
28 – YES Additional funding for Arts & Music Education in Public Schools
30 – YES Funding to reduce GHG emissions by increasing tax of income over $2mil
31 – YES Ban sale of flavored tobacco
San Francisco Propositions
A – YES Retiree Supplemental Cost of Living Adjustment
D – YES Affordable Housing – Initiative Petition
E – NO Affordable Housing Production Act– Supervisors
F – YES Library Preservation Fund
G – YES Student Success Fund – Grants to the SFUSD
H – YES City Elections in Even-Numbered Year
I – NO Vehicles on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park & the Great Highway
J – YES Recreational Use of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park
L – YES Sales Tax for Transportation Projects
M – YES Tax on Keeping Residential Units Vacant
N – YES GG Park Underground Parking Facility; Concourse Authority
O – YES Additional Parcel Tax for City College
Friday, March 11, 2022
2022 Dogpatch and NW Potrero GBD voter guide
Here is Peter's Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) voter guide. It's just my personal opinions/recommendations. Hope they are useful. They are influenced by my feeling that we are in a climate emergency and thus need to move fast on infrastructure changes to support sustainable transportation.
- Would you sign our petition to make the Minnesota Slow Street (Mariposa to 22nd) permanent?
- Would sign this petition I also started to create a safe place for pedestrians and bike along Innes in India Basin?
- Would you sign up on this website to support our www.safer17th.com effort in Potrero/Dogpatch?
- Would you use this link to quickly send a letter to the supervisors in support of permanent car free JFK Promenade? https://kidsafesf.com/jfk
- And finally would you sign up here to lend your support for the Great Highway Park? https://kidsafesf.com/great-
walkway-park
Monday, December 6, 2021
Dec 16, 2021 Bike Bus (JFK to SOMA)
Join the bike Bus!!!
Inspired by the Barcelona Bike Bus, we will meet 12/16 at 7:40am sharp at the intersection of 8th Ave and wonderful car free kid safe JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. We'll bike east along JFK to Panhandle, Oak, Scott, Page, Market, 11th ending at Presidio Knolls School in SOMA by 8:20am. If you haven't had the opportunity to ride around SF in a group of 20+ folks it is not to be missed. There is a wonderful feeling of safety when riding in a group that size.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Peter's November 2020 Voter Guide
I've made this one shorter, fewer links and explanations. But see the info at the bottom if you want to learn more. I often have consulted the Bike Coalition, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, SF Chronicle and slates from a friend or two.
STATE:
CA State Senator: Scott Weiner (great on transportation issues among others)
State Assembly (D17): David Chiu (among other things he's a great champion of bike infrastructure!)
Prop 14: Stem Cell Research Bonds: No (SF Chronicle also opposed)
Prop 15: Property Tax for Schools: YES (No brainer. Very important)
Prop 16: Allows Affirmative Action: YES (April can give you the full explanation on this one)
Prop 17: Right to Vote After Prison: YES (no brainer. They have completed their prison term. Taking away voting during parole is excessive punishment)
Prop 18: 17 Year Olds Vote In Primaries: Yes (already approved by legislature)
Prop 19: Prop Tax Rules: No (I like what the LA Times said, "Proposition 19, a cynical and unwelcome melding of good and bad tax proposals. Voters should reject it.")
Prop 20: Parole Restrictions: NO (This is the prison guards and police unions trying to increase incarceration)
Prop 21: Local Jurisdiction for Rent Control: No (we need to increase the supply of housing)
Prop 22: Benefits Exemption for Uber/Lyft etc: NO (tricky but what got me is that if passed prop 22 can’t be changed without a (near-miracle) 7/8 super majority of both chambers of the State Assembly.
Prop 23: State Requirements for Kidney Dialysis Clinics: No
Prop 24: Consumer Privacy Protections: No
Prop 25: Bail Reforms: Yes (Cash bail has always struck me as crazy unjust)
Prop A: Health and Recovery Bond: YES
Prop B: Department of Sanitation and Streets: YES
Prop C: Non-Citizen Voting for Boards and Commissions: YES
Prop D: Sheriff’s Dept Oversight: YES
Prop E: Abolish Minimum Police Staffing Requirement: YES
Prop F: Business Tax Overhaul: YES
Prop G: Youth Voting for Local Elections: YES
Prop H: Planning Code Reforms for Neighborhood Commercial: Yes
Prop I: Increase Transfer Tax: Yes
Prop J: Parcel Tax Update: Yes
Prop K: Authorize Affordable Housing: YES
Prop L: Disproportionate CEO Pay Tax: Yes
Prop RR: Rescue Caltrain: YES
State Senator District 11: Scott Wiener
State Assembly Member, District 17: David Chiu
Member Board of Education: Jenny Lam, Michelle Parker, Alida Fisher
Community College Board:
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Nov 2019 voter guide
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Nov 2019 voter guide
A: Yes - Housing bonds
B: Yes - Renaming an agency and earmarking three seats
C: No - Would overturn citizen passed Vape law. Prop C was written by JUUL and is opposed by nearly everyone including now JUUL which just withdrew its support under a new CEO.
D: Yes - Tiny tax on Uber and Lyft to reduce traffic and improve public transit - Supported by the SF Bike Coalition, Sierra Club, Mayor Breed, all 11 Supervisors, Walk San Francisco and SF Transit Riders. I think this small tax is a useful first step worth taking.
E: No - Affordable housing for teachers built on public land and open space - Additional affordable housing for teacher would be great, but this measure will open up public lands zoned as "open space" to development. Along with the SF Green Party I don't want new development on SF's already limited public open space.
F: Yes - Sunlight on some Dark Money
Public Defender, City of San Francisco - Manohar "mano" Raju - No other candidatesBoard of Education, City of San Francisco - Jenny Lam
Sheriff, City of San Francisco - Paul Miyamoto - No other candidatesMember, Community College Board, City of San Francisco - Ivy Lee - No other candidatesDistrict Attorney - City of San Francisco - In her five years on the Police Commission, Suzy Loftus fought for and won commitments to Vision Zero to reduce bias in traffic enforcement. As candidate for District Attorney, she has distinguished herself by being the first to develop a robust platform for street safety that promises real justice for victims of traffic violence. She's also endoursed by the SF Chronicle and the SF Bicycle Coalition.Mayor - City of San Francisco - London Breed
Treasurer - City of San Francisco - Jose Cisneros - No other candidates
District 5 Supervisor - Vallie Brown - because of her great climate related positions