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Bayview Referendum Invalidated
City Attorney rules petition gatherers must carry huge legal volume in addition to a pen...
San Francisco City Attorney Invalidates Bayview Redevelopment Referendum
by Randy Shaw,
2006-09-19
The City Attorney's Office has issued a legal ruling this morning invalidating the recently-qualified referendum on Bayview Redevelopment. The ruling is based on the petition's failure to include all of the documents incorporated by reference into the Ordinance creating the Redevelopment Area.
These missing documents would have added several pages to the referendum petitions, which did include the text of the Ordinance itself. In a case cited by the City Attorney, a petition failed to include an addendum that was several hundreds pages long. Although attaching a phone-book size document to the petition would have made signature gathering impossible, the Court of Appeal in Nelson v. Carlson 17 Cal.App. 4th 732 (1993) rejected the petitions for not including the giant document.
The City Attorney's ruling, after requested to investigate the issue by Mayor Newsom and Supervisors Peskin and Maxwell, will almost certainly be challenged in the courts. But it does explain the lack of mayoral and political reaction to the referendum's qualifying, as political insiders may have been tipped off as to the measure's legal infirmities.
More:
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3697#more
by Randy Shaw,
2006-09-19
The City Attorney's Office has issued a legal ruling this morning invalidating the recently-qualified referendum on Bayview Redevelopment. The ruling is based on the petition's failure to include all of the documents incorporated by reference into the Ordinance creating the Redevelopment Area.
These missing documents would have added several pages to the referendum petitions, which did include the text of the Ordinance itself. In a case cited by the City Attorney, a petition failed to include an addendum that was several hundreds pages long. Although attaching a phone-book size document to the petition would have made signature gathering impossible, the Court of Appeal in Nelson v. Carlson 17 Cal.App. 4th 732 (1993) rejected the petitions for not including the giant document.
The City Attorney's ruling, after requested to investigate the issue by Mayor Newsom and Supervisors Peskin and Maxwell, will almost certainly be challenged in the courts. But it does explain the lack of mayoral and political reaction to the referendum's qualifying, as political insiders may have been tipped off as to the measure's legal infirmities.
More:
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3697#more
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It must always be stated that this is the Democratic Party and its City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, doing the bidding of the real estate lobby.
The question is: When is Bayview going to stop voting for the Democrats and start voting for Peace & Freedom Party and Green Party candidates who do support this referendum? How much election fraud, murder (see http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium), poor people removal commonly known as redevelopment, wars, war profiteering, death penalty, rotten schools, no national healthcare system, cutting taxes on the rich, grossly inadequate affordable, decent housing for all and more will it take to finally stop voting for the Democrats? The workers of the world want to know when the American workingclass will finally vote for their class interests, namely the socialist Peace & Freedom Party or on occasion, the Green Party?
The question is: When is Bayview going to stop voting for the Democrats and start voting for Peace & Freedom Party and Green Party candidates who do support this referendum? How much election fraud, murder (see http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium), poor people removal commonly known as redevelopment, wars, war profiteering, death penalty, rotten schools, no national healthcare system, cutting taxes on the rich, grossly inadequate affordable, decent housing for all and more will it take to finally stop voting for the Democrats? The workers of the world want to know when the American workingclass will finally vote for their class interests, namely the socialist Peace & Freedom Party or on occasion, the Green Party?
For more information:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
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