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

[Eric Brooks]

It would be a gutsy and very difficult move, but I'm thinking we might 
launch a campaign as CELDF has in smaller towns to pass a Charter 
amendment striking down corporate 'personhood' in San Francisco County.

On a more practical and doable level, we need to sit down with some good 
attorney's and pass a Board ordinance with the strongest limits possible 
on independent and corporate election expenditure behavior that we can 
come up with. It will take some deep boiler room consensus meetings to 
make it happen.

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