A truly independent voice

On Friday, a friend of my campaign forwarded me an email revealing that I'd been excluded from a candidates forum on Saturday morning, sponsored by the Golden Gateway Tenants Association.

Needless to say, I've made many friends down there at recent "Lynn is Listening" coffee events, and so at the end of the day, I got a phone call inviting me to attend.

Glad to see so many people out there who support me and have already voted for me. They know that I support rent control and that I am the only independent voice in this race who is not controlled by the political machinery on the left or the right, which will serve me just fine as Supervisor of District 3.

On this last weekend before November 4th: Saturday morning, I am at Queztal, 1234 Polk, 9:30-11am. Then, Sunday we're back at Swirl Culture, Grant at Green. We'll be walking precincts later in the day.

Less than two weeks...

Lynn is Listening takes me this week to Swirl Culture, 1400 Grant Avenue at Green in North Beach, the yogurt shop that we fought so hard to get opened. I’ll be there this Saturday, October 25th, from 1-3pm.

Then on Sunday, I’ll be at The Bagelry, 2139 Polk Street between Vallejo and Broadway.

Hope you'll drop by and let me know what's on your mind.

Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing

November 4th is 18 days away. There are eight candidates, two who were endorsed by the DCCC, the Democratic County Central Committee, which voted FOR Prop K, the Decriminalization of Prostitution, and AGAINST Prop L, funding the Community Justice Court.

Quality of life issues continue to dominate the minds and lives of the voters. After eight long years, District 3 is a mess, with blight, crime and loss of economic vitality in Chinatown and North Beach, not to mention the worst economic crisis this country has faced since the Great Depression.

When it comes to voting in this election, make sure you know what you are getting. When a candidate takes a position for Prop K and then reverses, is it because of political reasons? Or is it genuine? And when a certain candidate takes a position against Prop K, even though other members of the same Democratic County Central Committee voted for it, is this genuine?

Make no mistake: the far left ideological power base in this City is alive and well. They have no intention of losing their power on November 4th.

Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing!

Telling a story

From a recent San Francisco Examiner editorial:

"...because the plan is all stick and no carrot, it is difficult to see how Peskin’s 318-page bundle of restrictions provides any incentives whatsoever for a hardware store or shoe-repair shop..."

"...Peskin’s heavy-handed pursuit of reviving the old-time North Beach village atmosphere tries to reverse the powerful tide of economic history that made the district into one of San Francisco’s widest-known tourist magnets..."

"...it really becomes difficult to understand how keeping certain businesses out of North Beach will automatically persuade other, more sought-after businesses to move in...."

Read the entire editorial here:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/Examiner_Editorial_North_Beach_store_crunch_flimsy.html

This was my letter to the editor of the Examiner:

Economic woes, blight and crime.

That is what North Beach is left with following eight years of over-legislating by Supervisor Peskin. The business climate is so bad that it will take more than 318 pages of legislation to convince “neighborhood serving retailers” to come open up shop in any number of boarded up, buildings that line Columbus and Grant avenues.

Every building tells a story, a story that politically connected special interests dictate the fate of what once was a vibrant economic engine for the City.

Absolutely unacceptable

For me in this campaign, voter contact is really key, meeting District 3 neighborhood residents who want to be heard. I am out every single day knocking on doors and talking to voters. I've included excerpts below from a disturbing email I received this morning.

This email comes from someone who lives in District 3, and described the experience of living in Polk Gulch for five years with as many as 250 prostitutes, some as young as 14 or 15, and one as young as 12 who set up shop for over six months in front of the post office dressed in little girl clothes.

“There are 4 13-year-olds every morning at Larkin and Clay, 2 at Pine and Larkin, and I have seen up to 10 of these same violent, armed pimps patrolling their old haunts. The noise level every night from 2 AM to 6 AM is unbelievable.”

This is unacceptable on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin.

I’ll start at the subject of Proposition K on the November 4th ballot, which would effectively decriminalize prostitution by barring the Police Department from prosecuting and investigating it. This measure would deny funds for the First Offender Prostitution Program commonly known as “John School” and also forbid the City from using state or federal funds that involve racial profiling to identify human trafficking victims.

I have taken a stand against Prop K. It does absolutely nothing to improve the quality of anyone’s life, including very the young girls who need to be protected and the people who live with the chaos in their neighborhood. We need a supervisor who will commit to protecting children, women and the neighborhoods that suffer under this unacceptable exploitation.