SF Voting Recs: Chesa Boudin for District Attorney + Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor!

[jessie woletz | seaweed sway]

SF friends, 

Here is a quick list of voting recommendations! 

My biggest recommendations are Chesa Boudin for District Attorney & Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor.

Feel free to pass it on if you find this to be useful (you can edit it to have your own suggestions too).

FB event for spreading the word! https://www.facebook.com/events/550183439141402

Quick List:

Mayor - WILMA PANG (retired music professor!) or abstain

District 5 Supervisor - Dean Preston!!!!

City Attorney - Dennis Herrera

District Attorney - Chesa Boudin!!!!!!!

Public Defender - Manohar “Mano” Raju

Sheriff - Abstain

Treasurer - Abstain

School Board - Robert Coleman!

Community College Board - Ivy Lee

Proposition A - San Francisco Affordable Housing Bonds - Yes

Proposition B - Charter amendment for changes to the Department of Aging and Adult Services - yes

Proposition C - Overturn vape ban - ????

Proposition D - Impose taxes on fares charged by rideshare and driverless-vehicle companies - YES

Proposition E - Amend the Planning Code to allow 100% Affordable Housing and Education Housing Projects - YES

Proposition F - Establish new restrictions on local elected officials and candidate campaign contributions - YES

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Regarding Proposition C:

I was a yes on, and now may abstain... It will likely lose; most people are voting against it. It is confusing, and I suggest reading up if you have interest.

Voting yes on C is a vote to have regulations on vaping, instead of the ban that will go in effect next year. I was pro C because we know bans don’t work, and people will get vape products regardless, illegally. Especially with the illness we are seeing with people vaping, I would rather people have access to regulated vape products, which seem at least slightly safer, than to get unknown substances on the illegal market. (Specifically the additives in illegal vape products can be worse for people’s lungs, from what I’ve read.)

Voting no on C is a vote for the vape ban. Juul initiated Prop C, which is another reason many people are voting against it. Juul has now dropped out of campaigning for it with “the vape” illness. Apparently the vape ban can be lifted once the FDAA regulates vaping, though I’m not sure when that would be.

A question I have, if anyone is clear on this: If Prop C went through, by what mechanism can the regulations be altered? If Prop C is voted down, how exactly can the ban be altered, beyond the FDAA regulations changing?

Thanks for reading and VOTING!

-Jessie