GovernorNo Endorsement

Lieutenant GovernorEd Hernandez

Secretary of StateAlex Padilla

ControllerBetty Yee

State TreasurerFiona Ma

Attorney GeneralXavier Becerra

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara

Board of Equalization, District 2 Malia Cohen

US Senator Kevin de León

US Representative in Congress, District 12 No Endorsement

US Representative in Congress, District 14 Jackie Speier

State Assembly, Districts 17 No Endorsement

State Assembly, Districts 19 Phil Ting

Judges No Endorsement

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond

Community College Board Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo, Thea Selby

BART Director, District 8 Janice Li

Board of Education Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, Faauuga Moliga

✔ Yes Prop 1: $4B Bond for Affordable Housing

✔ Yes Prop 2: Allow Previous Bond Money to Be Used for

Homeless Housing

✔ Yes Prop 3: $9B Bond for Water Projects

✔ Yes Prop 4: $1.5B Bond for Children’s Hospitals

✘ Hell No Prop 5: Expand Prop 13 for Property Owners

✘ Hell No Prop 6: Repeal Gas Tax and Require 2/3rds Vote for Future

Gas Taxes

✔ Yes Prop 7: Start the Process to Eliminate Daylight Saving Time

✔ Yes Prop 8: Regulation of Kidney Dialysis Charges

Prop 9: Stupid Vanity Prop to Divide CA in Thirds

✔ Hell Yes Prop 10: Repeal Costa Hawkins! Allow Expansion of

Rent Control!

✘ No Prop 11: Private Ambulance Companies Try to Mess with EMT

Work Breaks

✔ Yes Prop 12: New Standards for Confinement of Farm Animals

✔ Yes Prop A: $425M Bond to Start Rebuilding the Seawall

✔ Yes Prop B: Privacy First Policy

✔ Hell Yes Prop C: “Our City, Our Home!” Fund Homeless Housing and

Services by Taxing Big Businesses

✔ Yes Prop D: Two for One! Tax on Cannabis and on Non-SF

Companies that Sell Stuff Here

✔ Yes Prop E: Restore the Hotel Tax Allocation for Arts and Culture

San Francisco Offices

Assessor-Recorder: Paul Bellar

Public Defender: Jeff Adachi

Board of Supervisors, District 2: No Endorsement

Board of Supervisors, District 4: Gordon Mar

Board of Supervisors, District 6: Matt Haney

Board of Supervisors, District 8: Rafael Mandelman

Board of Supervisors, District 10: #1 Tony Kelly #2 Uzuri Pease-Greene

Voting Logistics

10/9: Early voting starts at City Hall, 8am-5pm, Mon-Fri.10/22: Deadline to register to vote.10/27-28, 11/3-4: Weekend voting in City Hall! 10am-4pm.11/6: Election Day! Polls open 7am-8pm. If you’re in line by 8 you can vote!Where’s your polling place? Call 311, see SFelections.org, or just go to City Hall. Non-citizens Can Vote on Board of Education!Parents & caregivers of school-age children can vote for the first time in our City’s history. Former Felons Can Vote!Even if you’ve committed a felony, you can vote as long as you’re off parole. Don’t let the Man disenfranchise you. Slackers Can Vote: Election Day Voter Registration!Did you miss the 10/22 deadline to register to vote? Head directly to City Hall – DO NOT PASS GO – register and vote right up through Election Day! Late registration is only available at the Dept. of Elec-tion in the basement of City Hall, NOT regular polling places. Go vote! Youth Can Vote!If you’re 16 or 17, pre-register and your registration will automatically be activated when you turn 18.

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Local Propositions

Prop C supercharges our solutions to homelessness by taxing the biggest corporations.Prop 10 lets us modernize rent control to help tenants afford to stay in SF.

We’re also picking a new crop of SF leaders (three open seats each on the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education), our next Governor, and a whole lot more. To geek out on all the details, peep our online voter guide:

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The stars of this ballot are Props C and 10:

STATE Propositions

Prop C › Our City Our Home

Fund Homeless Housing and Services by Taxing Big Businesses

This proposition is stunningly progressive and spectac-ularly needed. It’s a small tax on corporations that will dramatically improve the lives of homeless San Franciscans.

The City has approximately 7,500 homeless residents on any given day, and over 20,000 San Franciscans expe-rience homelessness each year...but there are only 1,300 adult shelter beds, with 1,100+ people on the waitlist.

Prop C will address this by raising $300 million annually. Half of that will build and acquire permanent housing, a quarter will go to mental health and substance abuse treatment, and the last fourth goes to homelessness prevention, temporary shelters, and hygiene centers. The opposition is spewing a lot of schlock about how much SF currently spends on homelessness - visit our online guide where we crunch the real numbers.

Prop C only applies to corporations bringing in more than $50 million a year, and it doesn’t touch that first $50 million. Above that, Prop C taxes them about half a penny per dollar, depending on the kind of business. It doesn’t affect most businesses, and retail stores get the lowest rate, so don’t let anyone scare you with B.S. that Prop C will make corner stores flee the City. It’s gonna take this kind of bold legislation to impact homelessness. The League says HELL YES on Prop C!

Three seats are open on the 7-member school board and we’ve endorsed these candidates who’ve shown a commitment to SFUSD students and families.

Alison Collins

She’s been a teacher and District staffer, and is now a parent organizer. A parent of biracial twins, Alison pushes back on false narratives about public education, has organized against charter co-location, and worked for modern, inclusive reading lists.

Gabriela Lopez

She is a bilingual teacher at Flynn Elementary in the Mission and a volunteer teacher at San Quentin. As a child of Mexican immigrants she understands the need for language support for newcomer families. If elected, she would be the first Latina on the BOE in 20 years!

Faauuga Moliga

He is an SF native and SFUSD alumni with a focus on mental health and wellness. He’ll bring the Board practical experience working in the district, a theoretical grounding in effective youth empowerment, and a genuine passionate personality.

District 4 › Gordon Mar

He’s been a badass labor and community organizer for over 25 years. He co-founded Jobs with Justice SF, where he fought for the Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights, Free City College, and racial justice in collective bargaining. Gordon has spent his career putting workers in front and amplifying their voices. The Sunset needs a progressive champion. Vote Gordon Mar!

District 6 › Matt Haney

A tenants’ lawyer by day and a School Board member by night! Our folks who follow the School Board say he’s proven himself and has reliably been on the right side of issues. Matt’s ties to the community and history working for criminal justice reform, U.C. students, and underprivileged youth make him exactly the kind of person we need on the Board of Supes.

District 10 ›› Tony Kelly # 1After generations of disinvestment and environmental racism, with developers licking their chops, D10 needs a fighter like Tony! This is the third time we’ve endorsed Tony Kelly for D10 - he just keeps on doing the work. In 2010, we said he’s “a white, middle-aged theater company owner who is endorsed by some of the baddest Black activists in Bayview/Hunters Point...He’s been part of the fight to keep D10 home to working class people for years, and he’s ready to take that fight to City Hall.” That’s all still true.

Uzuri Pease-Greene (#2) is an inspiration. She’s a long-time community activist who has experienced homelessness, gone through recovery, and now works as an affordable housing community organizer. Plus she’s a mother of eight and grandmother of thirteen!

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Prop 10 › Repeal Costa-Hawkins!

Allow Rent Control Expansion

This fulfills a tenant advocate dream: it repeals Costa-Hawkins, an awful 1995 law that severely limits cities’ ability to pass rent control laws. So Prop 10 doesn’t directly expand rent control - but it gives us the ability to do so. If it passes, SF could decide to:

• Expand rent control to buildings built after 1979. Are you concerned with what economists say about rent control? We have plenty to say about that in our online guide. Check it out!

• Implement vacancy control to limit how much landlords can raise the rent when tenants move out.

• Limit rent increases when master tenants leave. So scummy landlords can’t jack up the rent when a renter dies and their surviving spouse isn’t on the lease.

Most California renters spend over 30 percent of their income on housing. For some it’s worse than that: a third are forking over 50% of their pay to their landlords! Prop 10 is the first step to reign in the most absurd rent hikes from the greediest landlords. We say Hell Yes on Prop 10!

Prop D › Two for One!

Prop D institutes two separate taxes: one on cannabis that doesn’t go into effect till 2021, and an “Amazon tax”’* on corporations which sell stuff to people in SF but don’t have physical locations here. That tax starts in 2019.

We love the “Amazon tax.” It’s unfair to local businesses that online retailers don’t have to pay taxes. The Supreme Court’s recent Wayfair decision opened the door to this, and we’re amped.

The cannabis one is trickier, because that industry is still getting its footing. But we like that the implementation is delayed and that the Board of Supes can adjust it. We’ll keep an eye on that as we get closer to 2021 - for now the ‘Amazon tax’ makes us excited to vote yes on D. *Amazon actually already pays taxes here, but this is the easiest way we’ve found to explain it.

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But wait, there’s more! Check out theLeagueSF.org for everything else: from protecting the gas tax to protecting privacy, shoring up our crumbling seawall, funding arts and culture, and...Daylight Saving Time?!

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