Mayor's Ballot Measure Attack On Transit Authority from http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Budget_Cuts_Hit_Indigent_Political_Skirm... ...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. 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. by Paul Hogarth, Jun. 18, 2008 -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara