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San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi
Lane was bullish on the proposal, arguing that preserving government funds for public programs is the core of a progressive agenda. "Public-sector unions simultaneously bankroll the Democratic Party and bankrupt the government programs for which the Democratic Party stands," writes Lane, who describes San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the chief proponent of Prop. B, as "a progressive political entrepreneur willing to make that argument explicitly in the very heart of Blue America."
Lane concludes by saying that Prop. B should be closely watched as a national bellwether: "Among all the other races in November, I'll be watching the fate of Proposition B closely. Whether it wins or loses, I don’t think we've heard the last of this issue, or of intra-Democratic arguments over the party’s Faustian bargain with public sector unions. How long, politically, can the party of government afford to be known as the party of government employees?"
Senior writer Elizabeth Lesly Stevens writes primarily about business and finance. A recent transplant to San Francisco, she spent many years in New York as an editor and writer at Business Week, a media-business columnist ...
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John Smith
Lane's blog post is a perfect example of terrible reporting. He gives Jeff Adachi a full four paragraph quote to promote his measure but then doesn't even mention the fact that the judge called Prop B one "the most draconian pieces of legislation" he's ever dealt with. Lane doesn't even mention that Adachi's poison pill violated the first amendment rights of the citizens that he is supposed to be protecting as the city's public defender.
How can Lane call himself a reporter if he can't do even the most basic Google search to find out all the facts.
When voters learn this measure is actually about making the costs of health care unaffordable for teachers, nurses, and janitors they will vote no. Too bad Lane's reporting doesn't even mention the impact of the health care cost increases . . .
Gordon
Despite the smoke screen from the unions hacks, this measure is about pension reform, the healthcare part is a small portion of it, and something easily remedied within the city's benefits system, if they think creatively and stop favoring the highly compensated. Let's face it, the city's budget is controlled by the city managers who will do nothing to stop their own greed, there are over 9000 people making well over $100,000 per year, and they are the ones who need to give back to help their lower paid co-workers, instead of hiding behind them. They can all fight over their share of the pie. The voters have been fooled too many times in the past by the deceiving politicians who gave away our tax dollars and we have had enough. The politicians have not done their jobs, they could not or would not fix it, and now it is left to the voters to put the restraints back into the system.
Vote Yes on B, and NO on any measure for tax/fee increases. It time to start running government like a real business instead of a job entitlement program.
CJ Flowers
..."When voters learn this measure is actually about making the costs of health care unaffordable for teachers, nurses, and janitors they will vote no."
Hopefully the voters will learn that nurses average annual wages and benefits in the current budget is $174,000...Hopefully they'll also learn that employees with one dependent on Kaiser are paying $9 a month for health care and the City picks up $1,000 of the cost...
ramona pest
AGAIN, CJ FLOWERS IS POSTING UNSUBSTANTIATED AVERAGE WAGES. THE AVERAGE NURSE DOES NOT MAKE ANYTHING NEAR THAT. MOST LARGELY AFFECTED EMPLOYEE MAKE ABOUT 50-60 GRAND A YEAR WHICH IS NOT A LOT TO RAISE A FAMILY IN SF...DOES SOMEONE HAVE TO CALL YOU OUT ON THIS ON EVERY SINGLE POST. WE HAVE ALL LOOKED UP THE AVERAGE SALARIES AND YOU KEEP POSTING THE LINK. WE KEEP LOOKING UP THE NUMBERS AND THEY ARE NOT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!!!!!! PLEASE CEASE SPREADING MISINFORMATION. SAN FRANCISCO IS STILL ON THE WAY TO PUSHING FAMILIES OUT. THIS WILL BE A CITY DEVOID OF FAMILILIES AND WE ARE LEFT WITH THE RICH AND OLD AND THE YOUNG WILLING TO SHACK UP SEVEN TO A HOUSEHOLD.