Posts tagged SF Supervisors
Tell Your Supervisor: Vote for Immigration Legal Defense Funding on Dec 2nd

Contact your Supervisor today and urge them to vote yes on the $3.5 million budget supplemental for immigration legal defense and rapid-response. The Board of Supervisors will take one more key vote on Tuesday, December 2. Every message matters: call, email, or tag your Supervisor on social media to make your voice heard.

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Tell Your Supervisors: Protect Our vote "No" on both of the Ethics Commission’s “streamlining proposals” that would weaken our nation‑leading campaign finance and disclosure laws.”

There's a BOS Rules Committee "streamlining" proposal to completely remove spending limits for all candidates when there is significant outside spending — allowing unlimited spending even by the candidates whose SuperPAC funders blew through the limits! Protect Qualified Candidates From Big Money!

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Thank City Hall for Voting to Fund $3.5 Million for Immigration Legal Defense Services and the City’s Rapid-Response Network

Thank your mayor and supervisor for supporting the Board’s recommendation for a $3.5 million supplemental budget and asking Board President Mandelman to fast-track it.  The lives of our neighbors are on the line, and we are thankful that the city government is taking this seriously.

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Support San Francisco Environment Department SFE Funding

San Francisco’s Environment Department (SFE) is charged with implementing the city’s ambitious Climate Action Plan, and yet its share of the city budget is a few tenths of a percent. And Mayor Lurie is planning to drastically reduce the amount SFE receives from the General Fund.

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Tell your Mayor and Supervisor: COUNT EVERY VOTE and stand by San Franciscans standing up for democracy!

Voting ends Nov. 3, but don’t expect results that night. The results will only be known after every vote is counted, and that will take days or weeks. Our Mayor and Board of Supervisor must stand by efforts to #CountEveryVote and stand by San Franciscans standing up for democracy.

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Tell the SF Budget & Approps. Committee: Move money from SFPD to City services!

The entire country is reckoning with the role of policing in our societies and police in our lives and our neighbors' lives—and yet Mayor Breed wants to give the SFPD another $43 million over last year's budget, while cutting other services. Call-in to the SF Budget & Approp's. Committee hearing and tell them: amend the budget!

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Tell the Board of Supervisors: Lift the curfew!

The Board is considering lifting the curfew in San Francisco. It expires automatically on Saturday, but every day it continues is another day that police—including both SFPD officers and the officers from numerous other agencies that the City has brought in to enforce the curfew—will continue to use the curfew to repress both protesters and people going about everyday business. Call your Supervisor and tell them to lift the curfew

We support lifting the curfew, and several ISF members called in yesterday to register their support for ending it, but the measure failed to come to a vote. It was continued to Thursday.

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Ask Your District Supervisor to Support the Ordinance Requiring a Navigation Center In Every District

The waiting list for shelter beds has consistently hovered above 1,000 people and the number of applications for affordable housing outnumbers the available units by multiple thousands. Almost every Supervisor claims to support Navigation Centers, yet they are only present in three out of eleven districts. Tell your Supervisor to support the Ordinance requiring a Navigation Center in every district!

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Protect Homeless People's Civil Liberties: Oppose SB 1045 Implementation

The Ordinance to implement SB 1045 was heard this Monday, May 13th in the Rules Committee, and in the vote was continued to next Monday, May 20th. Although it may fail in Committee,, Supervisor Mandelman plans to invoke a seldom-used tactic to force a vote by the full Board. It is imperative that you contact your Supervisor this week and let them know that you stand with the ACLU in opposing this Ordinance. Healthcare decisions must not be placed in the hands of the police.

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