We had prepared 6 arguments today (5 in the name of the LPSF, and 1 signed by me as an individual), 2 against Prop. A and 1 each against Prop. B, Prop. F, Prop. J, and Prop. K. When we got to the Elections Department though, we found out the opponent argument on Prop. F had been preempted by the mayor, so we had to scrap that one right off the bat.
The rest Aubrey and I got submitted okay, after Jawg who'd met us at City Hall to pick up some supplies from Aubrey made a heroic run to the library to print off a Chronicle article from the Internet when the Elections Department manager demanded we supply hard copy of the contents of a link I used in one of the arguments (something they hadn't demanded in the past).
But looking a little while ago, I see that none of our arguments won the lottery. GOP gadfly Terence Faulkner on the other hand really lucked out and got four -- A, B, C, and H. Chris Bowman, another local Republican activist who stopped by our meeting Saturday didn't get any either -- unless he's associated with a group called SF Taxpayers Association which I've never heard of. That group got the opponent arguments for Props. J and K. All the other slots were preempted by the mayor or one of the Supervisors, who get first dibs on being official opponents of a measure, except for the opponent slot on Prop. D, which went to the Sierra Club.
The drawing was filmed live at the Elections Department, presumably at 2pm, but apparently they were having technical difficulties, because about 10 minutes into the video the picture and sound get all screwed up before they even started the drawing, so the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chSomTPNWr0) is basically worthless to see what happened. They did publish the results here:
http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2969
It's really a shame, as we had some excellent arguments and I was expecting we'd probably get one or two selected.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))