RE: [lpsf-discuss] VICTORY! Bayview redevelopment measure officially suspended pending decision by voters

CONGRATULATIONS!
Marge and Bob Parkhurst

[Original Message]
From: Starchild <sfdreamer@...>
To: LPSF Discussion List <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 9/12/2006 9:15:09 PM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] VICTORY! Bayview redevelopment measure officially

suspended pending decision by voters

> From: Defend Bayview Hunters Point <bmof@...>
> Date: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:58:12 PM US/Pacific
> To: starchild <sfdreamer@...>
> Subject: MEDIA ADVISORY
> Reply-To: bmof@...
>
> MEDIA ADVISORY
>
>
> SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
>
> Just before 5 pm today,Tuesday, September 12, 2006, John Arntz,
> Director of Elections for the City and County of San Francisco
> officially certified that the REFERENDUM PETITION opposing the
> creation of a Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Area as successful.
>
> The Department of Elections found that more than the minimum number of
> 21,615 valid signatures were submitted by Petition sponsors. Sponsors
> had submitted in excess of 33,000 signatures on August 30th, 2006
> after a 90 day signature gathering drive. San Francisco has not seen
> a successful referendum petition drive in decades. A referendum
> allows San Francisco voters to decide on the merits of legislation
> passed by the Board of Supervisors.
>
> WHAT THIS MEANS:
>
> The Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Area, passed on by the Board
> of Supervisors 7-4 , and signed into law by the Mayor on June 1, 2006,
> is now officially suspended pending an election at which the voters
> will be given the opportunity to decide. The election will most
> likely take place during a normally scheduled general election in >

2007.

You all who gave so much of your time to collect signatures:
Congrats!! (BTW, who said we the people have no power to change what
the politicos have wrought? Of course we do!!!)

Marcy

--- In lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Parkhurst"
<rmparkhurst@...> wrote:

CONGRATULATIONS!
Marge and Bob Parkhurst

> [Original Message]
> From: Starchild <sfdreamer@...>
> To: LPSF Discussion List <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: 9/12/2006 9:15:09 PM
> Subject: [lpsf-discuss] VICTORY! Bayview redevelopment measure

officially

suspended pending decision by voters
>
> > From: Defend Bayview Hunters Point <bmof@...>
> > Date: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:58:12 PM US/Pacific
> > To: starchild <sfdreamer@...>
> > Subject: MEDIA ADVISORY
> > Reply-To: bmof@...
> >
> > MEDIA ADVISORY
> >
> >
> > SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
> >
> > Just before 5 pm today,Tuesday, September 12, 2006, John

Arntz,

> > Director of Elections for the City and County of San Francisco
> > officially certified that the REFERENDUM PETITION opposing the
> > creation of a Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Area as

successful.

> >
> > The Department of Elections found that more than the minimum

number of

> > 21,615 valid signatures were submitted by Petition sponsors.

Sponsors

> > had submitted in excess of 33,000 signatures on August 30th,

2006

> > after a 90 day signature gathering drive. San Francisco has

not seen

> > a successful referendum petition drive in decades. A

referendum

> > allows San Francisco voters to decide on the merits of

legislation

> > passed by the Board of Supervisors.
> >
> > WHAT THIS MEANS:
> >
> > The Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Area, passed on by the

Board

> > of Supervisors 7-4 , and signed into law by the Mayor on June

1, 2006,

> > is now officially suspended pending an election at which the

voters

> > will be given the opportunity to decide. The election will

most

> > likely take place during a normally scheduled general election

in >

2007.
> >
> > SUPPORTES HAIL VICTORY:
> >
> > Petition supporters hailed the results as a victory for

democracy and

> > echoed their campaign slogan "Let the Voters Decide! Petition
> > supporter , Willie Ratcliff,publisher of the Bayview Newspaper

said

> > "This special interest legislation was never about the

benefiting the

> > community. Now ,finally, the will of the voters can be

expressed

> > democratically, at the ballot."
> >
> >
> >
> > CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFO: Brian Murphy O'Flynn 415-867-

4370