How I’m voting this Tuesday
This footage is from October 31, 2003.
I took advantage of having access to Tom Ammiano in person Friday to ask him about the other propositions on the ballot. What he said makes sense to me. I hope it will be helpful to you in making your decisions about tomorrow’s elections.
Video clip – Why YES On Prop G (3 MB)
Lisa: What about “G,” the “Rainy Day Fund?”
Tom: “Yeah, I think that’s really good. Of course, it’s mine. But the interesting thing is that you have broad support for it from the business community, from health advocates, from progressives. It’s just a matter of fiscal prudency that doesn’t hurt anybody. When you’re in good times, you take some of that money and put it away, so when you’re in bad times, the “boom bust cycle” or “spend and purge” as we call it, doesn’t mean laying off people, doesn’t mean cutting services, doesn’t mean, gee what about this Sophie’s Choice that we usually have to face with our social services. You take that money that you put away during good times and you withdraw it for the bad times and it’s just a great equalizer. It’s a great budget device. I mean there’s a lot more to having a effective budget for all people, but this is a very significant way to do it. We should have done it years ago. So I’m hoping that it will pass quite handily.”

How I’m voting this Tuesday
This footage is from October 31, 2003.
I took advantage of having access to Tom Ammiano in person Friday to ask him about the other propositions on the ballot. What he said makes sense to me. I hope it will be helpful to you in making your decisions about tomorrow’s elections.
Video clip – Why NO On Prop M (2 MB)
Tom Ammiano Says:
“M is bad. M is bad medicine. M is the same one trick pony that Newsom has propelled himself into the public eye with. It’s criminalizing poverty without any solutions to poverty. It just simply sweeps. It’s mean spirited. It’s shallow. There are already laws on the books. And I find that this one note Johnny (Newsom) is getting very very tired. I mean, that should really indicate why he’s unfit to be Mayor of San Francisco.”

How I’m voting this Tuesday
This footage is from October 31, 2003.
I took advantage of having access to Tom Ammiano in person Friday to ask him about the other propositions on the ballot. What he said makes sense to me. I hope it will be helpful to you in making your decisions about tomorrow’s elections.
Video clip – Why Yes On Prop K (1 MB)
Tom Ammiano Says:
“Let’s see, Prop K. That’s a little bump in your sales tax that you’ve been paying for the past 20 years. If you’ve been around long enough. And it really has been helpful to the Muni, to ladder(?) crosswalks, more traffic signs, traffic calming, bicycle paths. You name it. If it deals with transportation, Prop K will take care of it. So I would really urge a strong vote for Prop K.”

How I’m voting this Tuesday
This footage is from October 31, 2003.
I took advantage of having access to Tom Ammiano in person Friday to ask him about the other propositions on the ballot. What he said makes sense to me. I hope it will be helpful to you in making your decisions about tomorrow’s elections.
Video clip – Why Yes On Prop J (3 MB)
Tom Ammiano Says:
“Prop J, you know. I really think it’s unnecessary. I think, for Angela, it was a way to attach herself to a ballot measure so she could get some mileage out of it. It’s an old trick. We all do it from time to time. If it fails, I don’t really see any great consequences for San Francisco, because we already have that political will in and around the homeless — and again, (the bill is) just trying to capitalize on that without really trying to come up with solutions that are verifyable. Like my ability to get six million bucks from the Bush government two weeks ago, so we could have supportive housing and services for the mentally ill and homeless. Now that’s real, and that’s happening as we speak.
(from later in the interview)
Lisa: So getting back to J. Would you say “No”? Or would you say go ahead and pass J?
Tom:
I’d say go ahead and pass J. It’s not going to hurt anything. I just think that you don’t want to make any empty promises.
Lisa: But it’s not crucial?
Tom: Yeah.

How I’m voting this Tuesday
This footage is from October 31, 2003.
I took advantage of having access to Tom Ammiano in person Friday to ask him about the other propositions on the ballot. What he said makes sense to me. I hope it will be helpful to you in making your decisions about tomorrow’s elections.
Video clip – Why Yes On Prop H (1 MB)
Tom Ammiano Says:
“Prop H is very important. Not just cause I wrote it. But it is about police reform. People are hungry for that across the class spectrum and across the political spectrum. People want police reform. It’s being spun as being anti-cop. It’s being spun as a political power grab. That’s nonsense. We really need Prop H.”

How I’m voting this Tuesday
This footage is from October 31, 2003.
I took advantage of having access to Tom Ammiano in person Friday to ask him about the other propositions on the ballot. What he said makes sense to me. I hope it will be helpful to you in making your decisions about tomorrow’s elections.
Video clip – Why Yes On Prop A (2 MB)
Tom Ammiano Says:
“I think one of the most import ones to me is Prop A, which is the School Bonds. The new Superindendent, like her or not, has really cleaned up the act of the school district. The clearance of the state in terms of honest finances. So Prop A would really help our schools a lot. In San Francisco, we like public schools. So I would say hooray for Prop A.”