Lgbt leaders to unite against Republican agenda in SF
San Francisco LGBT Community comes OUT for Clean Air and Better MUNI: Leaders To Announce Unity With Newsom, Dufty, Migden & Leno Against Right-Wing Assault on Prop A
What: Press Conference
When: Monday, October 22, Noon
Where: Harvey Milk Plaza (Castro MUNI station at Market and Castro)
Contact: Molly Goldberg, Pride at Work: mollyprideatwork@gmail.com
(San Francisco, CA) — Leaders of San Francisco’s LGBT community are standing together to support Proposition A for a cleaner city and better transit. They are calling on the community to vote Yes on A November 6 to defeat a deceptive campaign led by anti-gay Republican billionaire and Gap founder, Don Fisher to squash the common-sense measure.
Measure A for Clean Air and a Better MUNI provides the MTA with the funding and authority it needs to create real transit reform in San Francisco. Community leaders know that we need a faster and more reliable MUNI system without fare hikes or tax increases. Prop A provides MUNI with an additional $26 million a year to ensure better service while at the same time restructuring MTA bureaucracy to cut waste and improve efficiency.
In addition, Measure A is a major step towards making our air cleaner and reducing global warming. It requires the city to replace diesel busses with hybrids, comply with the Climate Action plan, and dramatically reduce emissions that cause air pollution and childhood asthma.
The primary opposition to this measure comes from Don Fisher, the ultra-conservative backer of Proposition H, an initiative aimed at tripling the amount of allowable parking downtown. Proposition H– which would bring 20,000 new cars to the city and allow the creation of driveways to trump neighborhood planning, bus-stops, trees, and efforts to develop units of affordable housing– will be neutralized if Measure A passes.
Fisher, who has donated large sums of money to support candidates such as George W Bush and Rick Santorum, is now using his wealth to push forward a measure that undermines the Transit First policies San Francisco has been committed to building since the 1970s. Nonetheless, a strong coalition of community organizations, labor unions, and elected officials have come together to support Proposition A because they know it is the clear right thing to do.
In the weeks following the press conference, LGBT volunteers will be at MUNI stations in the Castro, talking to voters in our community about this important initiative. Pride at Work is joining with environmentalists, bike advocates, labor, and other community groups to Get OUT the Vote every day until the election.
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P R I D E @ W O R K, the only Lesbian Gay Transgender Bisexual Labor organization, mobilizes mutual support between the organized Labor Movement and the LGBT Community for social and economic justice. For more information, visit www.sfprideatwork.org,