[Sustain] Prop H: Regardless Of The Final Vote We Have Already Won!

[Eric Brooks]

Remember all, that though the vote itself was lost, we have already won.

We have forced PG&E to spend more money than has -ever- been spent on a
San Francisco campaign. And, after both Lennar corporation's $7 million
ballot deception to force toxic gentrification on the Southeast side in
the last election, and now PG&E's even more outrageous moves to buy this
election at an even higher (ludicrous) price, it is a -very- good bet
that we will easily pass a strong corporate and independent expenditure
campaign finance reform measure in the next year.

And we have now built a strong and angry coalition of progressives and
Supervisors who are -pissed- at PG&E.

PG&E's days are numbered.

So we have already won ;)

But most importantly, the Community Choice renewable energy project (the
first 51% referred to in Prop H) is already moving forward regardless of
Prop H and PG&E is going to attack it as well. Our campaign has helped
strongly reveal all of the tactics that PG&E will use to attack
Community Choice, and we will now be ready for them. And those attacks
will carry much less weight, both because Community Choice is much less
vulnerable to them in the way it is worded, because State law actually
forbids PG&E from attacking Community Choice, and because the angry core
of organizers that PG&E has just attacked on Prop H, are now primed and
ready to kick PG&E's ass on a much more level playing field with
Community Choice.

We will need all of you to help us win the Community Choice fight; which
will -absolutely- bring us that 100% clean energy by 2040 regardless of
last night's outcome. Prop H simply would have made it easier too get there.

To see why Community Choice is so important and why it will need your
help, go to:
http://our-city.org/campaigns/communitychoice.html
and
http://communitychoiceenergy.org/

Note that Community Choice has already passed as law, and it is now
going out for bids to contractors. The key fight will be to get
customers to stick with Community Choice and not opt out for PG&E over
the next year. This is a fight that we definitely can win, if we stay on
it with a sharp focus.

If we win this fight San Francisco -will- go 100% renewable and soon.

Note also that there are two more appointments to be made to the SF
Public Utilities Commission (which is overseeing Community Choice) and
the Supes now have the power to leverage those appointments and make
sure that they will support Community Choice; and also support closing
down the city's remaining polluting power plants.

So we have actually won our first battle by getting fully up in PG&E's
face! and forcing its bullshit out in to the light of day.

Now let's win the war for Community Choice which will kick PG&E the hell
out of the City, and lead the world to save the planet.

peace

Eric Brooks

-- 
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate 
themselves." – Che Guevara