Tomorrow at 10 am the California Supreme Court will announce their decision on the cases before them challenging the constitutionality of the laws forbidding same-sex marriage. According to Calitics, it looks bad.

I’m hearing that the Court is prepared to take a step that stands in stark contrast to their bold and courageous position in Perez v. Sharp. Specifically, it looks like we might get a decision that dramatically rules against granting individuals the freedom to marry whomever they choose. The total voting correctly could be limited to one justice (if even that) by dissenting from a decision that would be looked back upon as a cop-out at best.

There’s a No on 98 outreach tomorrow in the Marina. The San Francisco No on 98 campaign is on track to distribute 100,000 pieces of literature before the election (which is in 25 days!), but they need your help. If 98 passes, none of the rest of the work we do in California matters at all.

Reminder—help save rent control and get the NO on 98 word out in the Marina Saturday, May 10, 11 AM. Meet at the Marina Library, 1890 Chestnut (at Fillmore) to get literature and a precinct map.

There’s less than 25 days left to election day, so we need your help to save rent control!!

Here are the endorsements for the Bernal Heights Dem club:

United States Congress: no endorsement
California Senate: Carole Migden
California Assembly: Tom Ammiano
State Propositions:
98: Property rights: No
99: Eminent Domain reform: Yes

Local propositions
A: School Parcel Tax: Yes
B: Public Employee Retirement Health Care: no recommendation
C: Forfeiture of Retirement Benefits (Moral Turpitude): no recommendation
D: Diversity on City Boards and Commissions: Yes
E: Public Utilities Commission reform: Yes
F: Affordable Housing at Lennar Project: Yes
G: Lennar project at Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard: No
H: Mayor’s reform proposal: no recommendation

Joe says he ‘misspoke’ at the trans conference.

If you want to see what ‘misspeaking’ looks like, go see what he said for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_GhTiBO8Cw

HRC president apologizes for ‘misspeaking’ at transgender conference
Solmonese talks with Atlanta activists in private meeting
By DYANA BAGBY, Southern Voice | May 6, 7:37 PM
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese met with a handful of transgender activists in Atlanta last week and apologized for “misspeaking” at last year’s Southern Comfort conference, where he promised HRC would only support an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that included gender identity, according to people attending the meeting.

We have been remiss in announcing the No on 98 rally today, at noon, at Civic Center.

The Chronicle wrote a typically terrible article about it today, repeating the canard that rent control somehow stops people from building housing. The truth is that no housing built in San Francisco in the last 29 years has been subject to rent control. So unless developers were planning on going back in time three decades to sneak in some four-unit buildings, I think the argument’s pretty damn crappy. More likely causes of the lack of rental housing are the real estate bubble, but more systematically the way building housing for sale generates short term, rather than the long-term profits of rental housing.

As I was riding home from work today, I saw Leonard R. Flynn Elementary was festooned with signs against the proposed education budget cuts. They looked like they were done by the kids, too.

May 1 in San Francisco includes a march led by the International Longshore Workers Union at noon from Justin Hermann to City Hall.

Nonprofit organizations and allies of immigrants met at Dolores Park to protest anti-immigration practices of the Bush Administration and the unfair practices of hiring throughout San Francisco and the nation.

Save rent control! Save environmental protection laws! Save city planning!

STOP PROPOSITION 98! YES ON PROPOSITION 99!

Join us for a fundraising, information-sharing party.Eat, drink, dance, and get educated.
Come to the home of Iris Biblowitz and Fran Taylor, 2982 26th Street, near Bryant in the Mission

Saturday
May 3, 6 to 9 pm

#27-Bryant, #12-Folsom, #48-Quintara, #33-Ashbury, #9-San Bruno, walk from 24th Street BART or Mission buses / indoor bicycle parking / so-so car street parking
Not accessible (up 30 steps) / large, pushy dog on premises

Can you imagine San Francisco without rent control?
Proposition 98 would eliminate rent control in all California-
Our city could be changed forever - now is the time to fight back!

Join Pride at Work’s election outreach. New volunteers are welcome!
We are working on three issues in coalition with community groups and labor:
NO on 98 to Save Rent Control!
YES on A to support SF schools and teachers!
YES on B to support city workers and preserve city services!
Phone bank this Monday, April 28th
and every Monday until the election
join Pride at Work Phone Bank nights when we call LGBT voters.
When: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Dinner is provided.
Where: SEIU 1021; 350 Road Island (entrance on Kansas & 17th)
accessible by MUNI 10, 19, 22 or 33
You can also join the general community labor phone banks Tuesday-Thursday, same time same place.

The Tenants Unions sends us this alert:

No on 98!
Yes on 99!
Help Save Rent Control April 25th!

The Apartment Owners Association (AOA) has contributed over $200,000 to pass Proposition 98 in California. If Proposition 98 passes, members of the AOA will profit from the loss of Rent Control and Just Cause.

On Friday April 25th, the AOA will conduct a workshop at the Oakland Airport Hilton to teach landlords how to EVICT tenants.

The AOA is a landlord group calling those that oppose Proposition 98 “Terrorist” and in their literature they state,” It is a War to eventually make rent control and eminent domain illegal!”(AOA Website)