At our May 8th meeting, San Francisco Tomorrow voted to endorse Aaron Peskin for Mayor of San Francisco.
You can donate to his campaign here.
City Proposition D – Changes to ethics laws – Support
* No Endorsement indicates a proactive vote to not endorse any of the candidates. Where the 60% endorsement threshold was not reached, the issue or candidate simply does not appear.
Dear SF Tomorrow members & friends –
So many of the pressing needs confronting our elected officials, from health crises to housing or lack thereof, are exacerbated by the ever-increasing climate catastrophes besetting our warming planet. And now it’s City budget time again, with competing funding requests looming.
SF Climate Emergency Coalition and allies are urging Mayor Breed to include funding in her budget proposal for SF Environment Department (SFE) to continue implementing the City’s Climate Action Plan. The request is for $6.6 million, reasonable in a budget of around $14 billion. Please chime in: Details and letter-writing tools are here.
Given the budget crunch, if the Mayor does not hear from a lot of organizations and individuals, we fear she will not fund the asks, and that means SFE will not be able to adequately staff and manage key programs. And any setback now means at least a year’s delay in meeting SF’s climate goals, as well as staff work wasted and opportunities missed for federal and state grants.
The Commission on the Environment, which approved SFE’s budget request this past Tuesday, then wrote the Mayor an excellent letter, worth a read.
San Francisco Tomorrow has signed on to a letter to the Mayor. It’s important that you, as an individual constituent, add your voice too. Please write to the Mayor now – or at least before February 21st. And/or, if you want to, you can sign this petition to the Mayor too – quick & easy.
Thank you!
Board of Directors
San Francisco Tomorrow
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San Francisco Tomorrow supports David Campos in the April 19 Assembly runoff. We believe David will do the best job of ensuring that the city can continue to decide its own future. While we join others in wanting more housing to be built here, we do not believe the state is in a position to sufficiently appreciate our issues with displacement and other problems, or has enough interest in making sure any housing built will be affordable to those who live and work here. The city already has 44,000 empty units that are either unaffordable or are intentionally kept vacant by the owners. We believe that housing should actually house people, not just serve as investments for Russian oligarchs.
We also think Matt Haney is doing a fine job as District 6 supervisor and would like to keep him there.
You can support David’s campaign here.
SFT Board member ClaireZvanski is among the women being honored at San Francisco District 11 Democratic Club’s Labor Day Picnic. Monday, September 6, 1pm to 4pm in McLaren Park at the John Shelley Picnic Area A (West). Rsvp and order lunch here.
Denise D’Anne
Friday, September 10 at 2pm. San Francisco Columbarium, 1 Loraine Ct near Stanyan and Anza. You must rsvp to attend: email Denise’s grandson Geoff at thegreenladydenise@gmail.com
Jane Morrison
A celebration of Jane’s life had been scheduled to be held at Delancey Street, but has been postponed due to the virus surge. Stay tuned to find out when it will be rescheduled.
Join us for San Francisco Tomorrow’s Virtual Holiday Party
When: Wednesday, December 9, 5:30-7:30
Where: Castello di Zoom, of course! (if you’re not set up for Zoom, a phone # will be available)
Donations: Please donate to the SF-Marin Food Bank or other CovID relief charity – we don’t need the money this year and a lot of others do!
We’ll send the zoom link and phone numbers out before the event.
What can you bring? We’re not providing food or beverages this year, so you’ll need to bring your own! To your own house!! Also, we’d like to have a San Francisco photo display – use your favorite photo of the city as your virtual background!
Reserve your virtual table here.
| Supervisor, District 1 | Connie Chan |
| Supervisor, District 3 | Aaron Peskin |
| Supervisor, District 5 | Dean Preston |
| Supervisor, District 7 | Myrna Melgar |
| Supervisor, District 9 | Hillary Ronen |
| Supervisor, District 11 | No recommendation* |
| Local Propositions | |
| A, $487m bond – housing, parks streets | Support |
| B, New Department of Sanitation and Streets with Commission | Support |
| C, Removing Citizenship Requirements for Members of City Bodies | Support |
| D, Sheriff’s oversight | Support |
| E, Removing Policy staffing mandate from charter | Support |
| F, Business Tax Overhaul | Support |
| G, Youth voting in local elections | Support |
| H, Streamlined permitting for neighborhood commercial uses | Support |
| I, Real estate transfer tax | Support |
| K, Affordable housing authorization | Support |
| L, Business tax based on highest/lowest paid staff | Support |
| RR, CalTrain sales tax | Support |
| State Propositions | |
| 15, Prop 13 split roll | Support |
| 16, Overturns 1996’s Prop 209 | Support |
| 17, Expands voting rights to former prisoners | Support |
| 18, Constitutional amendment to allow 17-year-olds to vote | Support |
| 21, Expansion of rent control options | Support |
| The following three measures are bad on their own merits, but additionally we strongly resent the constant attempts to overturn legislation by appealing to low-information voters. | |
| 22, Uber/Lyft exemption from employee benefits | Oppose |
| 23, Kidney dialysis | Oppose |
| 24, Overturns CA privacy laws | Oppose |
| 25, Referendum on bail elimination | Support |
* No recommendation: did not reach the 60% threshold
When it rains, it pours. Contact thegreenladydenise@gmail.com to sign up for the memorial.
Jane Morrison, queen of San Francisco and California Democratic politics, died this weekend, just two months after celebrating her 100th birthday. Her passing truly marks the end of an era in San Francisco politics. Jane became active in Democratic politics in San Francisco in 1952, when she worked on the Adlai Stevenson campaign. She was a tireless campaigner and fundraiser for San Francisco politicians for the next six decades, including working to elect her husband Jack to the Board of Supervisors in the 1960s.
Jane and I joined the board of San Francisco Tomorrow together in 1992, a year after the death of Jack, a major force in the organization for many years. Already in her 70s, Jane threw herself into SFT issues, particularly those championed by her husband. She served on the Port’s Waterfront Plan Advisory Committee in the 1990s to ensure the protection of the waterfront as a publicly accessible open space, successfully campaigned for Saturday closure of JFK Drive, and supported the extension of Caltrain to the Transbay Terminal.
Jane served as president of SFT for several years, resigning only to become chair of the Democratic County Central Committee after the 2000 election. She remained one of our most active board members, directing fundraising activities, editing the newsletter and supporting progressive candidates. The parties at her Woodland Avenue home were legendary. She remained active until her mid-90s, but has been housebound for the past few years.
Jane worked on multiple causes and campaigns in her long life, but what she really collected was people. This became clear to me when the SFT board decided to put together a tribute to Jane on her 100th birthday in April. Although the pandemic changed our initial plans to film on location at some of Jane’s favorite San Francisco haunts, nearly 60 people sent in videos or photographs to include in a Happy Birthday video. Rest assured that she was able to view the video several times in the months since her birthday.
I’ll miss my friend of 28 years – and I’m sure I’m not alone in that feeling.
I know that Jane wanted a big memorial service and a procession led by the Green Street Mortuary band. That of course, isn’t possible in the current environment, but we’ll keep you advised of anything that is planned.
Good-bye Jane! Rest in power.
Jennifer Clary
President, San Francisco Tomorrow
It’s just like the mass shootings crisis: murders occur, then large demonstrations, prayers are offered up, promises are made, and then… nothing! At the very least, we need to break the power of the police unions this time.
Thanks to everyone who shared their reminiscences and birthday wishes. And a special thanks to Jay Wilson and the other members of our posse who spent so much time putting this video together.
Bonus! Barry Hermanson is organizing a party to perform a socially distanced rendition of the Hill Sisters’ birthday song in F (or whatever the hell key Barry can manage) out front of 44 Woodland at 11:30 Friday morning. 415-255-9494. Be there or be square!
