Public Defender Jeff Adachi's pension reform measure is close to being qualified for the November ballot. File photo by Luke Thomas.
By h. Brown
Editor’s Note: Expectations are that Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s pension reform measure, dubbed “Son of Prop B,” will qualify for the November ballot.
August 3, 2011
Talked to Director of Elections, John Arntz, this morning when I went over to pick up my papers to run for sheriff (more on that later) and asked him how the Adachi petition validation was going.
Got these quotes:
“It was a gray area so we’re doing a 100 percent check on the signatures.”
“We’ve covered around 52,000 of 72,000 thus far and it looks like he has a comfortable margin (needs 72%) to make the ballot now if that holds up for the last 20,000.”
“We expect to finish the count and announce the results by this Friday.”
Giants at 12:45pm today. One result of the losing streak is that I’ve been offered a couple of tickets for next Monday’s game. Ooooom pah pah!
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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August 4, 2011 at 7:37 am
When you lie to voters(like Adachi’s campaign did) to get enough signatures to qualify, the process doesn’t really mean much. Read about it and watch the video proof of here;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=93123
August 3, 2011 at 4:23 pm
If past experience holds, with two measures on identical subject on the ballot, both will lose.
August 3, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Thank goodness…along with the pothole tax and a regressive sales tax increase, our only bastion of sanity.