LPSF's Richard Winger has once again gotten published regarding the top-two primary proposal, this time in the SF Bay Guardian:

California voters will see a ballot measure in June 2010 seeking approval for a "Top-two Open Primary" system. The measure would make it far more difficult for Californians to vote for any candidates other than incumbents and their best-funded challengers. It would also make it even easier for incumbents to get reelected.

SF Weekly recently ran an article with the subheading "Spend more. Get less. We're the city that knows how."  Sounds like something we'd write here on LPSF.org, but it's an honest-to-goodness article printed on lots of dead trees...

"Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's. Despite its spending more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit."

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We encourage Libertarians who can make the time commitment to apply for the new Citizens Redistricting Commission:

"Every 10 years, after the federal census, California and every state in the country - must redraw the boundaries of its legislative and State Board of Equalization districts to reflect the new population data. How these boundaries are drawn affects how people are represented. Previously, these boundaries were drawn by lawmakers, but when voters passed Proposition 11 (the Voters FIRST Act) in the November 2008 general election, that responsibility transferred to the people in the form of a new Citizens Redistricting Commission."

From The San Francisco Business Times

Proposition G — the chain-store-killer ballot measure — continues to fell retailers interested in opening in San Francisco.

As Frederic Bastiat said there is that which is seen and that which is unseen. The unseen when Propostion G passed was the loss of  jobs for residents and the loss of reveneue for the City to "protect" neighborhood businesses

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the extortionist and anti-growth policy known as "discretionary review":

"San Francisco is the only large city in the state that has discretionary review," Planning Director John Rahaim said.

"There has been more than one instance we've heard of where it has been used by neighbors to get money from a person or project sponsor," Rahaim said. " 'Give me $20,000, and I won't file a DR' kind of thing."

Truly, only in San Francisco.