San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 47.07

2012·28.6 MB·English

by  San Francisco Bay Guardian

odd election results up against walmart doughnuts and bagels
Sorting out what really happened in SF P10 Workers fight for basic rights P12 Where to find the real gems P16
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NOV. 14, 2012 IF A.C.T. CAN’T AFFORD THE RENT, WHAT CHANCE DO SMALLER GROUPS HAVE?
THE WORST OF THE ATTACKS TWITTER EFFECT
HITS THEATER PLAN
There were lots of horrible attack ads in the final email, De La Fuente had his city hall aide dress up
weeks of the election, but the two worst were prob- in “butch” clothing with the tongue-in-cheek claim The domino effect of the Market
ably David Lee’s TV commercial accusing Sup. Eric that Kaplan was volunteering as his headquarters. Street tech boom continues. Last
GUARDIAN Mar of being soft on crime and using two In the second, he denounces Kaplan for week we reported on several small
menacing-looking African American men spearheading a change to an arcane law businesses facing displacement as
to underscore the point — and a pair that prohibits citizens from dressing in the landlords demand sky-high rents.
INTELLIGENCE of emails from Oakland’s City Council clothes of the opposite sex.” Now it appears that plans for a
Member Ignacio De Le Fuente going De La Fuente, fortunately, went down theater-district arts development
after his colleague, Rebecca Kaplan, in a to defeat and will soon be out of office are falling victim to the same trend.
way that can only be called homophobic. entirely. | GUARDIAN PHOTO BY MIKE KOOZ- According to J. K. Dineen, the excel-
What you The two were competing for the one MIN/SF NEWSPAPER CO. lent real-estate reporter at the San
at-large seat (currently held by Francisco Business Times, efforts by
need to know Kaplan). Here’s how the East the American Conservatory Theater
Bay Stonewall Democrats and the North of Market Improvement
described it: “On one Association (backed by Mayor Ed
Lee and Sup. Jane Kim) to turn a row
WHERE WAS GAVIN? REBECCA THE BEAUTY of boarded up storefronts near the
Warfield into a performing arts com-
KAPLAN
Everybody knows the Lite Guv OF SLEAZE plex are falling apart after two years
wants a bigger job and is angling of efforts. Why? The Dallas-based
for the one Jerry Brown now holds. There are a hell of a lot of cult movie property owner holding title to some
But running for office means keep- fans in San Francisco, and though of the parcels realizes that land values
DA VOTER BUS
ing your name in the news — and this town might already have quite are soaring, and is backing away from
didn’t we just have an election? a few outlets for viewing grade-Z negotiations to sell. The head of ACT,
With lots of reporters everywhere? One of the unsung heroes classics (Vortex Room, Midnites Ellen Richard, notes in a letter to Lee
And where was Gavin Newsom? of the San Francisco elec- for Maniacs, certain strokes of that the tech boom could be driving
The former press hound was tion was Sharen Hewitt, the programming genius at the Roxie arts groups out: “If a sizable organiza-
pretty much missing in action this longtime community activist or Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, tion like A.C.T. can’t afford these new
fall. He could have joined in the who took “Da Bus” around etc.) — there’s always room for one market
Prop. 30 campaign, or endeared Bayview, Vis Valley and the more. Enter the San Francisco Cult rents,
himself to labor by working against Tenderloin registering young and Psychotronic Film Society, what
Prop. 32. He could have sharpened voters and trying to get people blessed with a snazzy website chance
his appeal to the left and to younger involved in the election. (She (www.sfcult.org), a mission state- to smaller
voters by helping the Prop. 34 folks was also involved in getting ment worth fist-bumping (they are organizations
try to overturn the death penalty. some 400 county jail inmates “dedicated to the preservation have?”
Hell, he could have been a senior to vote.) “I talked about how and exhibition of cult, indie, sci-fi,
figure in the Prop. 39 tax-loophole important it is for people horror, mod, foreign, art house,
campaign, run by Thomas Steyer, to get engaged about stuff and other genre movies in the San POLITICAL ALERTS
someone Newsom certainly knows that’s going to hit them in the Francisco Bay Area”), and a slate of
and is friendly with. ass in real time,” Hewitt told weekly programming this month at WED 14
But no — nothing. We know of us. “Three strikes, the death the Victoria Theater. Sat/17, you’ll
only one visible campaign appear- penalty, affordable housing pay just $10 for a double feature SAVE THE POST OFFICE!
ance by The Gav: He was walking ... a lot of young people need of Anna Biller’s luscious sexploita- Main Post Office, Milvia Street and
precincts for David Lee. to know about these things.” tion homage Viva (2007) and an Allston Way, Berk. 11:30am. Free.
Rally to save Berkeley’s historic down-
Who lost. Badly. She estimates she got 1000 authentically sleazy 1969 giallo, town post office, which the US Postal
voters to the polls. The Frightened Woman, aka The Service wants to sell off. The post
Laughing Women, aka you don’t office interior includes a dramatic WPA
mural by feminist Suzanne Scheuer,
wanna miss this. and opponents of the sale worry that
a private owner would restrict public
access to the art. “The sale of federal
ELECTION 2012 WINNERS, LOSERS, AND MIXED BAGS property such as our post offices is a
liquidation of the American heritage,”
notes Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post
WINNERS LOSERS MIXED BAGS Office. savetheBerkeleypostoffice.com
TUESDAY 20
OUTDOORS FOR Gov. Jerry Brown: Narrow passage of Prop. United Educators of San Francisco: Mayor Ed Lee: His ballot measures passed
30 saved Brown from devastating schools and Union’s stand against incumbent school board (thanks to buy-in from progressives), his TRANSGENDER DAY
THE INDOORSY proved he carries voter clout. members failed. candidates lost (Olague partly because his OF REMEMBRANCE
Up-and-comer lefties: Steve Ngo’s first- David Lee: Million-dollar campaign that shat- own people turned on her), his honeymoon is City of Refuge, 1025 Howard, 6pm,
What, you think it’s too cold to go place City College placement and Matt tered district election spending records lost to definitely over. free. San Francisco’s transgender com-
munity will celebrate the 15th Annual
camping? Nah — this is the perfect Haney’s school board election make them Sup. Eric Mar by 15 points. Downtown: Attacks by the Realtors and the Transgender Day of Remembrance to
season. Brisk, beautiful — and not faces to watch. RRooddrriiggoo SSaannttooss:: Appointed City College rich (Ron Conway, Thomas Coates, and honor the memory of all trans and gen-
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sfBg.com eDItOR’S NOteS The Wall Street
Journal, which tends to look fool-
ish whenever it does political
pSYChIC DReAm AStROlOGY, COmplete analysis, stuck its haughty little
eveNtS, AleRtS, ARt, AND mUSIC lISt- nose into California last week,
INGS, hOt lISt, COmmeNtS, AND SO announcing that the Democratic
mUCh mORe! FOllOw US ON twItteR:
supermajorities in the state
www.twItteR.COm/SFBG
Legislature spell doom for us all.
ON the BlOGS “Liberals,” the paper noted,
“will pick up enough seats to
secure a supermajority. Governor
Jerry Brown then will be the only
chaperone for the Liberals Gone
Wild video that is Sacramento.”
I guess I go to the wrong
parties, but I’ve never seen that
movie. In fact, a lot of the Dems
in Sacramento would have to
politics
cough and gasp a bit to call them-
selves “liberals,” and that’s on a
steve Jones looks at whether the pro-
pROteSt — AND RUN FOR OFFICe
posed warriors arena is a good deal good day. Frankly, the majority
for the city party in the Assembly and Senate
tends to be relatively conservative,
the Last Closet is trying to make pro
BY NORmAN SOlOmON so much when many voters and tics of denunciation must work in with many of its members afraid
sports an LGBt safe space. what’s
former volunteers are inclined to sync with the politics of organiz- to so much as talk about, say,
standing in its way?
OpINION Millions of Americans are stay home. ing — which must include solid amending Prop. 13 or legalizing
the garbage rate hike: why do we pay eager, even desperate, for a politi- For people fed up with electoral work. marijuana.
what we pay? cal movement that truly challeng- bait-and-switch pitches from Movements that take to the The bigger danger is that the
es the power of Wall Street and Democrats who talk progressive to streets can proceed in creative Democrats from the more moder-
the Pentagon. But accommodation get elected but then govern other- tension with election campaigns. ate districts will so fear that loss of
noise
has been habit-forming for many wise, the Occupy movement has But even if protests flourish, pro- their seats that they’ll want to be
Caitlin Donohue is all atumblr over left-leaning organizations, which been a compelling and energizing gressive groups expand and left even more cautious about raising
kitty Pryde, Main attrakionz, hottub are increasingly taking their cues counterforce. Its often-implicit media outlets thrive, the power taxes than the Republicans.
from the party establishment: message: protesting is hip and to impose government account- See, I don’t think either party
Live shots: scenes from the hot con- deferring to top Democrats in astute, while electioneering is ability is apt to remain elusive. quite realizes what happened Nov.
certs this week Washington, staying away from uncool and clueless. Yet protesters’ That power is contingent on 6 in California, and what it means
emily savage’s picks for must-see robust progressive populism, demands, routinely focused on organizing, reaching the public for the future.
concerts this week and making excuses for the government action and inaction, and building muscle to exercise This election wasn’t an anom-
Democratic embrace of corporate underscore how much state power leverage over what government aly. It wasn’t a miraculous twist
power and perpetual war. really matters. officials do — and who they are. of fate driven by high Obama
pixel Vision It’s true that many left-of- To escape this self-defeating Even electing better candidates turnout or by labor’s GOTV
an inside peek at outLOUD Radio’s center groups are becoming trap, progressives must build a won’t accomplish much unless the efforts to defeat Prop. 32. It was
queer storytelling more sophisticated in their use grassroots power base that can do base is organized and functional the inevitable result of two forces
of digital platforms for messag- more than illuminate the nonstop enough to keep them accountable. — the demographic changes in
Cinephiles find solace from airhead ing, fundraising and other work. horror shows of the status quo. To Politicians like to envision the electoral map of this state,
action flicks with Cheryl eddy’s list of But it’s also true that President posit a choice between develop- social movements as tributaries and the utter, complete collapse of
this week’s best concerts Obama’s transactional approach ing strong social movements and flowing into their election cam- the California Republican Party.
has had demoralizing effects on strong electoral capacity is akin to paigns. But a healthy ecology of Neither one is about to change
sex sf his base. Even the best resources choosing between arms and legs. progressive politics would mean any time soon.
— mobilized by unions, environ- If we want to move the country in the flow goes mostly in the other For decades, the GOP has
we tracked down Dita Von tees in her mental groups, feminist organiza-
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CONT>> wing radio guys in Los Angeles
and start promoting immigration
focused on older, white, subur- reform and an overhaul of Prop.
ban voters, and there was a time 13? You’ll have to give me pretty
when that strategy worked. But long odds.
the future of the state is younger, No: The era of Democratic
non-white, urban voters who supermajorities in the California
are less frightened by crime, less Legislature is here to stay for a
xenophobic about immigration, while, and the Dems might as
less likely to have kids in private well use it. No need to be afraid
schools, and largely uninterested of a backlash; there’s nothing out
in the traditional Republican there to lash back with. The only
social issues. real danger is that Democrats and
Brian Leubitz, the insightful independents will be so disap-
blogger at Calitics.com, notes that pointed in the Legislature’s failure
almost 30 percent of the people to act on the huge issues facing
who went to the polls Nov. 6 were the state that they’ll stay home in
between 18 and 29 years old. “The two years.
California GOP, like the greater Why not talk about a split-role
national party, has lost young property tax program? Why not
voters,” he writes. “If it hopes to an oil-severance tax? Why not
return to a semblance of a state- let local government raise local
wide party, it will need to moder- taxes without a two-thirds major-
ate itself back into a party that ity? The Wall Street Journal can
accurately represents some por- whine all it wants, but it can’t
tion of California’s electorate.” change reality — right now, the
How likely is that? Anyone Democrats are the only game in
want to bet that the GOP is town. 2
going to reject the Howard Jarvis
protest — and run for office resolve, resources or patience to
CONT>> initiate and sustain relationships
with communities. For the most
direction. Election campaigns part, precinct organizing is a lost
should be subsets of social move- art that progressives have failed to
ments, not the other way around. revitalize. Until that changes, the
For progressives, ongoing electoral future looks bleak. 2
engagement with people in
communities has vast potential Norman Solomon is founding director
advantages that big money can’t of the Institute for Public Accuracy
buy — and (we hope) can’t defeat. and co-founder of rootsaction.org. A
But few progressive institutions longer version of this piece appears in
with election goals have the time, the Nov. 24 edition of The Nation.
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NEWS “LGBT YOUTH DON’T HAVE THOSE ROLE MODELS.” — SUP. DAVID CAMPOS ON GAY PRO ATHLETES
SH!T
@ THE
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LAST CLOSET DOOR
While most everyone’s attention
was focused on electoral politics
in late October, Supervisors David
Campos and Christina Olague
were talking about a different
level of political issue, one that’s
still a huge taboo: Gay men in one openly gay man has played retired. But on the field (or on the Even one gay player could make a LGBT youth don’t have those role
professional sports. At an Oct. 30 in any of the Big Five pro sports floor, or on the ice)? No way. world of difference. models to look up to.”
press conference, the two LGBT (football, basketball, hockey, Why does anyone care? “What I saw with the San The Last Closet campaign
supes joined with representatives baseball and soccer). There are, Because youth sports are still, Francisco Giants, all of the Latino emerged out of a documentary
of The Last Closet, an SF-based everyone knows, plenty of gay even in this town, full of homo- players, was such a source of pride film project that sought to look
campaign that’s trying to get gay athletes, and the NFL, NBA, NHL, phobic language and homophobic to Latino boys and girls,” Campos at homophobia in pro sports. “It
professional athletes to come out. MLB and various soccer associa- attitudes, and it’s hard to imagine told us. “We can’t feel that in the became clear that some members
It’s remarkable (or maybe, tions all have gay players. Some of what young LGBT football or LGBT community. We know there of the sports hierarchy were not
sadly, it isn’t) that in 2012, not them have come out after they’ve basketball players have to endure. are gay baseball players, but the going to make themselves avail-
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Recology, the city’s garbage monopoly, has a
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problem: It charges residential customers only
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for the black cans full of unrecyclable material
On Sept. 11, Recology informed the And in the end, it’s going to be more than a shift in
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less traditional trash out there. Ultimately, the
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company wants to get rid of the big black cans
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altogether.
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recycling and compost doesn’t work any more -- and
will come in December. The director of the Department of contract, might rates be lower? Or might the city get more
everyone has known for some time that it had to change.
Public Works has to approve it, and so does a Rate Board out of the deal?
But there was no discussion of rate changes earlier this
made up of the city administrator, the controller and the Retired Judge Quentin Kopp, who helped spearhead the
year; in fact, Recology folks said there were no plans for an
head of the Public Utilities Commission. But both Recology campaign for competitive bidding, thinks so. “If we had
immediate rate hike in the works. That’s because the June
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to drive voters toward amending the 1932 City Charter pro-
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vision that gives just one company complete control over
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the movie into a political cam- able and that the leagues will do come out in the next few years Redmond))
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SORTING OUT A STRANGE ELECTION
What the Nov. 6 results mean — and don’t mean
BY STEVEN T. JONES AND TIM REDMOND date Lee had rejected for appoint- that will shape the political narra- ties to that community, went along. activists, many reacting to the over-
[email protected], [email protected] ment, London Breed, in a compli- tives going forward. There were tough negotiations — the the-top effort to oust him.
cated race where the mayor’s actual mayor wanted more guarantees and Mar, who voted to put Lee in
A LOT OF CONSENSUS
NEWS The way the San Francisco role was unclear (he never withdrew protections for private developers office, won’t feel a bit indebted to
Let’s start with the ballot measures
Chronicle pundits put it, Mayor Ed his endorsement of Olague even as — and the final product was much the mayor for his survival against
(before we get to the huge and con-
Lee was the clear winner in a grand his allies trashed her in nasty ways). more what the progressives who a huge money onslaught. But in
fusing mess that was D5).
San Francisco election. “All his mea- • A million-dollar effort funded by have spent decades on the housing District 5, the story was a whole lot
Proposition A, the parcel tax for
sures on the ballot won hands down,” some of the mayor’s allies to oust Sup. front wanted than what the mayor more complicated, and impact more
City College, didn’t come out of the
noted Willie Brown, the high-paid Eric Mar was a spectacular failure, sug- would have done on his own. difficult to discern.
Mayor’s Office at all; it came from a
lawyer and political operative who gested some serious problems in the The way the mayor envisioned
City College board whose direction THE D5 MESS
also functions as a Chron columnist. mayor’s political operation, and under- business-tax reform, the city would
the mayor tried to undermine with Before we get into what happened in
“It was a great day for Ed Lee,” pro- mined his emphasis on “civility.” have eliminated the payroll tax,
the appointment of Santos, a pro- D5, let’s dispel some of the simplistic
claimed columnist C.W. Nevius. • The voters made clear on every which tech firms hate, and replaced
development engineer so conserva- and self-serving stories that circulat-
Well, not really. level that they believe higher taxes on it with a gross-receipts tax — and
tive that he actually endorsed the ed in the wake of this election, the
There are a lot of ways to explain the wealthy and closing tax loopholes the result would have been revenue-
Republican opponent of Assembly most prominent being that Olague’s
and analyze the inconsistent results on big business are the right approach neutral. It was only after Sup. John
member Tom Ammiano. loss — the first time an incumbent
of one of the most heavily propa- to the economy and to funding gov- Avalos and the progressives demand-
was defeated in a ranked-choice
gandized elections in recent San ernment. From Prop. 30 to Prop. 39 ed that the tax actually bring in
election — was payback for crossing
Francisco history. But no matter how to Prop. A to Prop. E, the message was more money that the outlines of
Mayor Lee and voting to reinstate-
you look at it, the election was at pretty clear: The tax revolt that start- Prop. E were drafted and it received
ment Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
best a wash for the mayor. Indeed, ed in California in 1978 may be wind- “IT’S HARD TO strong support from groups across
It’s certainly true that Lee’s allies
we’d argue that voters rejected the ing down, and the notion of making the ideological spectrum.
basic premise of the mayor’s political property owners and the wealthy pay UNRAVEL WHAT “You had a lot of consensus in went after Olague and supported
London Breed, and that they tried to
agenda — that tax cuts and favors for for education and public services is no the city about these ballot mea-
HAPPENED HERE.” make an issue of domestic violence,
big business are the best economic longer a radical idea. sures,” political consultant David
but there was much, much more to
policy — despite record-breaking out- Robert Cruikshank, who writes Latterman, who usually works with
side spending selling that agenda and for the Calitics blog, argues that the POLITICAL CONSULTANT downtown-backed campaigns, said this district election. Breed is an SF
native with a compelling personal
targeting those who stood in its way. November election signals a major DAVID LATTERMAN at SPUR’s post-election round-up.
story who ran a strong campaign
Let’s take a look at the real facts: sea change in California. “[The] vote The supervisorial races were a
— and the three strongest progres-
• Every single initiative backed to pass Prop 30 — by a larger mar- different story, with unprecedented
sive candidates in the race each had
by the mayor, the ones he’s getting gin than most observers expected spending and nasty messaging
major flaws that hurt their elect-
credit for — from the City College — does more than just provide $6 aimed at tipping the balance in
Lee didn’t even endorse Prop. ability. By most accounts, the Olague
parcel tax to the housing fund to the billion of badly needed funding to favor of real estate and develop-
A until a few weeks before the elec- campaign was a disaster until the
business tax — was either a compro- the state’s public school,” he wrote. ment interests. Mayor Lee didn’t get
tion, and played almost no role in very end. Equally important, the pro-
mise with progressives or a measure “It brings to a close a 34-year long directly involved in the District 1
raising money or campaigning for gressive community was divided over
that originated on the left. There was tax revolt that came very close to race, but he was clearly not a sup-
its passage (see “Words and deeds,” D5, leaving room for Breed to slip in.
nothing the mayor pushed that had destroying California’s middle class, porter of incumbent Sup. Eric Mar.
9/11/12). Yet it got a higher percent- “It’s hard to unravel what hap-
any significant progressive opposi- locking its low income families into The real-estate and tech folks
age of the vote than any of the three pened here,” Latterman said.
tion; his wins were equally, if not permanent poverty, and left the who are allied with Lee spent more
measures that Lee actively cam- San Francisco Women for
more dramatically, wins for the left. state on the edge of financial ruin.” than $800,000 trying to oust Mar —
paigned for: Props. B, C, and E. Responsibility and an Accountable
• Both people the mayor That sounds like a progressive and they failed miserably, with Mar
Then there’s Prop. C, the Supervisor was an independent
appointed to office were soundly message. The agenda put forward by winning by 15 points. While Mar did
Housing Trust Fund. Lee’s office expenditure group fronted by domes-
rejected by the voters. Rodrigo the mayor’s closest allies, including have the backing of Chinatown pow-
played a central role in drafting and tic violence advocates and funded by
Santos, his high-profile appointee right-wing billionaire Ron Conway, erbroker Rose Pak, who raised money
promoting the measure — but it more than $100,000 from the fami-
to the troubled City College Board who played a heavy-handed role in and helped organize ground troops
wasn’t exactly a Lee initiative. Prop. lies of Conway and fellow right-wing
of Trustees, spent almost $200,000 this election, not only failed to carry to help, Mar’s victory was primarily
C came out of the affordable housing billionaire Thomas Coates. It attacked
and finished a distant sixth. Sup. the day; the big-money types may the result of a massive outpouring of
community, and Lee, who has strong Olague’s Mirkarimi vote as being soft
Christina Olague lost to the candi- have overplayed their hand in a way support from labor and progressive
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