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<font class="maintext">Mayor's Ballot Measure Attack On Transit
Authority<br>
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from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Budget_Cuts_Hit_Indigent_Political_Skirmishes_Hit_Ballot_5782.html">http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Budget_Cuts_Hit_Indigent_Political_Skirmishes_Hit_Ballot_5782.html</a><br>
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...Finally, Newsom submitted an Ordinance to change the make-up of the
Transportation Authority (SFCTA) – a body that administers $100 million
a year in sales tax revenue for transportation projects. While Muni is
run by a seven-member Commission entirely appointed by the Mayor (the
MTA), the Board of Supervisors run the SFCTA – which gives the
legislative branch some control over the City’s transportation policy.<br>
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Newsom’s Ordinance would kick the Supervisors off the Transportation
Authority and replace them with five members: (1) the Mayor, (2) an
elected official appointed by the Mayor, (3) the President of the Board
of Supervisors, (4) an elected official appointed by the Board
President, and (5) the City Treasurer. I asked City Treasurer Jose
Cisneros at last night’s Harvey Milk Club Dinner what he thought about
such a proposal. Incredibly, Cisneros – who Newsom appointed to his
post in 2004 – had not yet been told about it.<br>
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</font><font class="byline">by Paul Hogarth‚ Jun. 18‚ 2008</font>
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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara</pre>
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