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A True Progressive Partnership
Politicians thirst for personal accolades, and just about any one of them would swoon over that passage in The New York Times. But over the last decade in San Francisco’s District 6, the more honest analysis is that our many victories– on the ballot, at City Hall and in the neighborhoods– have not been about Chris Daly. Rather, our success has grown from the strength of our grassroots community and a true partnership between those in the trenches and those of us they elevated into the halls of power.
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Who Appointed “Labor” as Spokesperson for All Workers?
Critics, such as San Francisco Labor Council Executive Director Tim Paulson, say Adachi’s proposal “attacks” the “lowest paid workers.” The “left” weeps for the loss of “progressives” such as Adachi and Matt Gonzalez whom they perceive as abandoning the people and joining the ranks of the downtown elite.
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Newsom Sinks to New Low:
Gifts Public Treasury Favors to Police, Fire UnionsIn anticipation of passage of a pension reform measure, Mayor Newsom has amended memorandums of understanding with police and fire unions that will reverse previously agreed wage concessions.
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How Do You Spell Chutzpah? M-E-X-I-C-O
Arizona’s governor recently had to call off a border conference scheduled to take place in Phoenix because Mexican governors planned to boycott it, saying that Arizona’s new immigration law violates civil rights and is based on ethnic and cultural prejudices. No mention is made of their citizens violating the laws of our country.
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Adachi’s Pension Deception:
Billionaire Speculators Pricing Kids
out of Health CareThe common wisdom in conservative economic circles as trumpeted by FoxNEWS these days in serious, stentorian tones, is that the economy is broke rather than broken, and that we are saddled with massive unfunded pension and health care liabilities, which are deemed unaffordable and unsustainable. The solution, according to those whose economic ideology got us into this mess, is to cut wages, pensions and health care, and to welcome these austerity measures and our new status as serfs as inevitable. The unacceptable alternative to austerity for them would be that those responsible for the economic mess be wiped out in a wave of bankruptcies, which would mean them. To avoid this, they will spend lavishly to convince us that we are to blame for their errors and convince us to transfer the meager resources of hundreds of millions of us into their coffers to make them not just whole, but to further enrich them.
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Gonzalez Interviewed on Adachi Pension Reform Measure
The measure, which is expected to go before voters in November, aims to rein in unsustainable health and pension costs, projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016 if needed reforms are not enacted.
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Sacking McChrystal: Testimony to a Lost War
Nor can a change of command under a politically ambitious man, perhaps contemplating a 2012 run against Obama, using war as the way to the White House, win or lose in his new post. If successful, his popularity will soar. If not, he’ll exit early and blame a failed administration policy, saying as president he’ll turn it around, what won’t matter as long as voters buy it. Excuses can come later. For now, McChrystal’s out. Petraeus is in, Obama saying, despite setbacks and growing public doubts, his strategy won’t change.
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