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Overheard in Fog City: The Willie Brown Non-Cootie Endorsement Factor
Walker also condemned the spread of misinformation for political gain, including from her supporters.
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Cadillac Hotel Free Concert Today
Features D10 Candidate E. “Doc” SmithSmith, a consummate musician and producer who has played with such notables including Brian Eno, Madonna, Warren Zevon and John Scofield, will provide percussion for legendary Fillmore jazz pianist Peoples under the name The UF2: The Unidentified Flying Quartet.
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Today: Matt Gonzalez, Ron Paul & John Dennis
Join Forces for Non-Partisan Anti-War Rally“I think its important to build alliances, especially with others whom we may disagree with on other issues, in order to achieve the critical mass we need to truly end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to keep these conflicts from expanding, as they currently are, into Yemen and Pakistan,” said Gonzalez in response to FCJ inquiry.
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San Francisco Breaks Ground
on First US High-Speed Rail StationThe project is estimated to create more than 48,000 jobs in its first phase of construction, which will last seven years. These jobs include the people who will design, build and operate the facility, the manufacturing jobs created by the materials being utilized in the facility and the businesses providing consumer goods and services to workers and the passengers utilizing the Transit Center.
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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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