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

[Joe Lynn]

I'd be very interested to hear your ideas on how to control PG&E type
spending on a ballot measure initiative.  Particularly when the Supreme
Court is controlled by Roberts/Alito style thinking.


On 11/5/08 11:42 AM, "Eric Brooks" <brookse32 at aim.com> wrote:

> 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