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Reilly Files Brief Supporting City Attorney Appeal
of Alioto-Pier RulingVoter-mandated term limits allow supervisors to hold office for two consecutive four-year terms. If allowed another term, Alioto-Pier will have held the seat for nearly 11 years. Reilly’s brief makes a strong case that the Superior Court judge erred in overturning a two-year-old City Attorney’s opinion denying Alioto-Pier access to the ballot. The brief provides convincing support for the argument that the City’s rounding-up rule (which calls for supervisors who complete more than two years of an unexpired term to be deemed to have served a full term) indeed covers Alito-Pier’s situation.
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Adachi Responds to Labor Law Suit
Over Pension, Healthcare Reform“The law has very specific requirements that must be followed in order to receive the approval from the Department of Elections for a measure to qualify for the ballot,” said Adachi. “The democratic process by which The Sustainable City Employees Benefits Reform Act was approved both by the City Attorney through granting title and summary to the petition and by the Department of Elections when the signatures of 49,178 San Francisco voters were verified and accepted. We as Americans have the freedom afforded to us by the Constitution to have our choices heard at the ballot box and the taxpayers have the right to address how their tax dollars are spent in San Francisco without interference from special interest groups.”
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Labor Unions File Suit Against Adachi Pension,
Healthcare ReformThomas Willis, an attorney for the plaintiffs, stated, “The proponents of this measure took short cuts in drafting and circulating the measure, and as a result the voters lost. They lost because they didn’t get enough information about the measure and who was behind it. The measure is clearly invalid and should be removed from the ballot.”
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The Remarkable Model
of the Commonwealth Bank of AustraliaToday there is renewed interest in reviving a publicly-owned bank in Australia on the Commonwealth Bank model. The United States and other countries would do well to consider that option too. Any proposed legislation should contain careful checks for accountability. The Commonwealth Bank served Australia brilliantly well for its first 11 years under the stewardship of one honest man, Denison Miller. When he passed away in 1923, the bank was delivered into the hands of a board of businessmen more interested in serving their own interests than the nation’s. Legislation would need to be drafted that prevented that from happening again.
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Bradley Manning: An American Hero
Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the leak “potentially dramatic and grievously harmful….The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that part of the world. Intelligence sources and methods, as well as military tactics, techniques and procedures, will become known to our adversaries.”
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Rwanda’s Savior Has Become a Monster
In truth, the Rwandan leader presides over nothing more than hollow democracy. He has attacked and exiled any and all viable political opponents. The local press, as well as international journalists, have been bludgeoned and harassed. The regime uses the Stalinist crime of “divisionism” as a pretext to silence and prosecute any critic who dares question its policies or the state sanctioned version of the 1994 conflict.
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The Case for Community-Owned Bay Area Sports
Across the Bay Bridge, the Oakland A’s are in a similar situation. The team’s owners have been disrespecting the fans for the better part of the last 15 years with constant threats and attempts to move the team elsewhere: first San Jose, then Santa Clara, then Fremont, and now San Jose again. None of these attempts have amounted to anything except increasing the anger the fans feel towards the ownership.
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