This is too funny... 
Chicken John also has some excellent if profanity-laden commentary on the ballot measures this time around -- very libertarian-sounding (see below)! I think I agree with him on every single proposition. I can't agree with his support of Dennis Herrera and John Avalos, but nobody's perfect. At least he's got Jeff Adachi as his first choice.
Love & Liberty,
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Thanks Starchild....excellent piece.
Mike
Pretty good, actually. I don't know about Prop H, though. School assignments are now based on a lot of politically correct guidelines that have nothing to do with education or parent preference. However, I do fear the unintended consequence mentioned by John -- will your kid be stuck in Hunters Point when you are willing to drive him to the Sunset.
Marcy
Right on Mike, glad you enjoyed! I guess I might as well post my own recommendations again as long as I'm posting Chicken's (though as I said, I'm with him on the propositions, and I know that most who are voting have probably already done so). Going to hold my nose and vote for Prop. C for the same reasons he is -- I'm afraid *both* C and D will fail, in which case we won't get any pension reform at all.
  My take on why to oppose Prop. H is somewhat different than Chicken's. He seems to think the current school assignment system for children attending government schools in SF is fine. I totally disagree. I want to scrap the whole system and let kids go to whichever school they want. Then base funding on enrollment, so the popular schools (i.e. generally the good schools) get more money, and the bad ones are eventually forced to shut down. The problem with assigning schools based on neighborhood is that the better schools tend to be in the wealthier parts of town, so the poor kids -- the ones whose families are least likely to able to afford to attend independent schools -- are stuck with the worst of the government schools. That's not cool.
  Oh, and my other candidate picks:
Sheriff - Ross Mirkarimi - He's the most liberal of the candidates (former Green Party member), and so will almost certainly be better when it comes to standing up for civil liberties, opposing drug war excesses, etc., than his rivals. Law enforcement is one area of government where having progressives is definitely better than having conservatives.
District Attorney - Vu Trinh - Again, the most pro-civil-liberties candidate. He's a public defender, and actually talks on the stump about protecting Constitutional rights. He's not perfectly libertarian by a long shot, but from what I've heard he's the best of the bunch. Probably doesn't have a prayer of winning, but that should never stop you from voting for the best candidate running.
Mayor, 2nd choice (remember we can vote up to 3, with ranked choice voting) - Tony Hall. Tony's kind of a reverse-RINO, a Republican in all but name (he's technically independent). He's not perfectly libertarian either -- voted to raise his own salary while previously on the Board of Supervisors, a big black mark in my book, and he has a longer history of government -- but he's undoubtedly the most fiscally conservative candidate running for mayor, and he's been talking a good game about the culture of corruption at City Hall. After being unceremoniously dumped by ex-mayor Newsom as head of Treasure Island redevelopment, he's probably got some scores to settle with the political establishment.
Mayor, 3rd choice - Terry Baum. Terry is with the Green Party, and is running an unabashedly left-leaning campaign. She would probably be disastrous on economic issues, but also probably the best on civil liberties issues. She's very, very unlikely to win, but if she did, putting a Green in the mayor's office would be a serious blow to the local Democrat establishment, and a big step forward for alternative parties. A vote for her is in part a vote for ideological honesty (as opposed to the more mainstream liberals like Avalos and other left-leaning members of the Board of Supervisors, who tend to share Terry's views but are much more political and less willing to stand on principle)
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What is the pro liberty defense of opposition to H?
Tom,
  Did you read my other message in this thread? I discussed Prop. H in that one.
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