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SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING — TOWARDS WHAT?
Although City planners have generated a great many ideas and goals within the past three years or so, they do not seem to be developing a cohesive and credible plan. One day they speak of the urgent need for affordable housing, below-market-rate units, or safeguards against evictions. The next day they promote high-end ecodistricts, transfer
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UPDATE ON PLAN BAY AREA: YOU CAN’T AVOID NEWTON’S THIRD LAW OF MOTION
Either the designers of the drastic regional upheaval, commonly known as “Plan Bay Area” or “One Bay Area,” thought they could work around the fact that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, of they did not connect this physical law with human behavior, as most common-sense folks do. The Libertarian
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ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013!
Voting is a right written in our Constitution, but as all the other rights, never to be taken for granted: “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” We urge you to show up, vote, and be counted! Your voting place is shown on your voter handbook; or you can call the San Francisco Department of Elections at
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ARGUMENT AGAINST PROPOSITION A
Opponent’s Argument Against Proposition A Rebuttal to Proponent’s Argument in Favor of Proposition A There is a key sentence in this Charter Amendment that isn’t mentioned in the ballot summary. It appears twice, once with respect to employees hired on or before January 9, 2009, and once with respect to employees hired after that date.
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LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF SAN FRANCISCO RECOMMENDATIONS
THE NOVEMBER 5TH ELECTIONS AND OUR LIBERTARIAN AIM The Libertarian Party of San Francisco has upheld its record of recommending the exact opposite of what voters passed in any given election, and we are not at all disheartened! Our aim is to shrink government to a constitutional and sustainable size, while politicians’ aim is
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CAMPOS EXPLORES EXPANSION OF EMINENT DOMAIN
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos introduced a resolution on September 9th, urging the Board of Supervisors to explore the feasibility of the City using eminent domain to seize underwater properties from lenders. Ostensibly, such a plan is designed to keep homeowners in their underwater homes when lenders do not readily cooperate in reducing mortgage principal
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UPDATE ON LPSF’S OPPOSITION TO PROPOSITION A
November 6: The San Francisco Department of Elections reported that Propositon A passed with a “Yes” vote of 68.77% and a “No” vote of 31.23%. August 19: The Libertarian Party of San Francisco filed its Rebuttal to the Argument in favor of Proposition A submitted by the Proposition’s supporters. Public employees’ retirement benefits is
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LPSF PRESS RELEASE – No On Proposition A
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LPSF selected as official ballot opponent of Proposition A on November 2013 ballot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2013 On Thursday, a 298-word argument submitted by members of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco against Proposition A was randomly selected by Elections Department officials as the official Opponents argument to appear
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WHY SENATE BILL SB1 IS NOT A GOOD THING
UPDATES: On September 12, 2013, SB1 was ordered to Inactive File at the request of its author, Senator Darrell Steinberg. Strange development, but perhaps an interesting move, considering Senator Steinberg is hoping for Governor Brown’s favorable reception of two other of his bills: Bill Prohibiting Detachable Magazines on Rifles (SB 374), and CEQA Modernization Bill
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ACTION ALERT: Pass AB351 To Help Stop “Indefinite Detention”
UPDATES: On October 1, 2013, AB351 was appoved by Governor Brown. As of September 3, 2013, AB351 passed both houses of Legislation. The next step is for Governor Brown to sign it into law. Please call or write the Governor to show support for his signing the bill. To call: (916) 445-2841. On August 12,