The election is just weeks away and while we’re all focused on the Presidential race, there’s a very important race going on right here in the neighborhood for who will be our next Supervisor.
Next Wednesday night, a “Candidate Forum” (debate?) will be held for candidates in the District 1 Supervisor race – incumbent Supervisor Eric Mar, David Lee and Sherman DSilva.
The event is being put on by the Planning Association for the Richmond (PAR) and the League of Women Voters.
To find out more about each candidate, visit their websites:
Sherman DSilva
David Lee
Supervisor Eric Mar
The event will take place at the Richmond Recreation Center, 251 18th Avenue from 7pm until 8:30pm.
Sarah B.
Sarah, FYI: The link for Mar points to David Lee.
Eeek – thanks Mel!
Sarah B.
thanks for the event info! i had been wondering if there would be a forum/debate in the ‘hood so i could learn more. candidate websites are not informative enough! so thank you for this announcement.
Sherman R. D’Silva? Is this the native Sherman from Alamo, Presidio, then Wash? Sherman…is that you?
Way to go brother! Fix the infrastructure…not waste time and taxpayer money on trifle stupidities like happy meal bans.
Eric Mar, is waiting until a car sinks into the street before you fix them your overall solution and approach to deteriorating infrastructure? I love how the street on 32nd AVE between Calif/Clement is taking shape (maybe that’s a jab at the local business for being non-union eh).
It’s also interesting how 34th AVE between Balboa/Anza was newly paved two years ago when there was nothing wrong with it (at least compared to many of the other distressed neighborhood streets).
Any chance this event will be taped and put on Youtube? I’ll be out of town that day.
@Richmond Resident – Excellent question, I’ll see what I can find out!
Sarah B.
Lets also hope that David Lee actually shows up to this debate. He didn’t show at the one last night, nor the one at USF.
@Richmond Resident 2 – All candidates will be at the forum.
Sarah B.
The couple of forums I’ve been, David Lee didn’t even show up. The sponsors running the forums were disappointed at his last minute no show. Which makes me wonder what would happen if Lee gets elected Supervisor. Nothing worse than making promises and breaking them last minute. May be a microcosm of things to come if he’s in charge.
Looking at all their websites, we need change. Eric Mar has done his fair share. However, after reading Sherman Dsilva’s priorities, I do favor that it’s close to home. If the city can’t take care of basic needs, nothing else really matters.
I’ll be attending this forum with questions in hand. Thank you for the info!
I shall be attending as well, I want to learn more about DSilva. Although he needs a copy editor for his website and flyers, I really like what bit he has said. Also, there is not a giant “donate” button on his front page.
I wasn’t sure where to post this, but this seems to be the most appropriate topic in which to do it in. I was just at the Post Office and ran into a group collecting signatures for “threats to rent control.” The sad thing is that they were only a block away from Mar’s campaign headquarters. People, don’t fall for this scam; there are no threats to rent control on the city’s agenda, and this is a a very pathetic attempt by the Tenant’s Union as well as Mar to create a panic and blame the rumor that David Lee is trying to get rid of Rent Control in S.F. in order that Eric Mar can steal a few more votes. If you go on to the Tenant’s Union website, you will see they are endorsing Mar as well as calling the “Send Mar Back to Mars” “homophobic” due to a two-second shot of three men sitting in a steam room (and believe me, there is nothing enticing about their looks). David Lee has publically disavowed the video as well assured many of us that he has no plans whatsoever to endorse rent control. That Eric Mar and his camp have sunk this low in order to start nasty rumors that aren’t based on fact whatsoever and try to gain a few more votes is a very sad state of affairs. It’s my understanding that thre’s even a rally planed at the National Association of Realtors today in order to bloat this even further. I was under the impression Mr. Mar was a pretty honest and above-the-board man; I have totally lost any respect I had for him after seeing the way this is beng handled so disgustingly. If I had any doubts, I know that I will definitely be voting for David Lee now. Talk about dirt… I don’t want someone this desperate as a supervisor in my district…
To say that David Lee is anti-rent control is so far beyond absurd, it’s ludicrous. First of all, it would be immediate political SUICIDE to be anti-rent control in San Francisco. Even if David Lee were against rent control — which he is NOT — he’d never be that stupid.
This is a totally manufactured issue. Mar must be trailing badly and beyond desperate to be resorting to planting lies like this!
I also just had a phone call that was a recorded political survey asking if I favored Mar or Lee…and then actually saying that David Lee was anti-rent control and “now that I know that” would I be supporting him or Mar? These kinds of tactics are par for the course from Mar.
Shall I post the clip of Mar at an S.F. Entertainment Commission meeting so you can see for youseflsaying “I eat at Jack in the Box ALL the time — oh, er, I guess that sounds kind of funny coming from me, huh?”
“Funny” isn’t quit the correct word — since Mar made this statement in front of the Entertainment COmmisison after he’d made a total embarrassment of himself in the national news voicing his passionate opposition to McDonald’s and the dangers of fast food. He’d even appeared on “The Daily Show” (who made mincemeat out of him and embarrassed San Franciscans by coming off like such a laughable kook). Also curious since 1000 residents of your district had just signed a petition requesting that the Jack in the Box in the Richmond close between 2-4 a.m. due to long-standing late-night problems, fueld by alcohol, emanating from that location.
Instead of backing the people he was elected to represent, Mar suddenly did a 180-degree turn and delared his love for JITB? Why, what could account for this sudden change of principles? Could it be that election season was approaching,and elections take money…and JITB just happens to be one of the wealthier corporations doing business in the Richmond district (no point in embracing McD’s — they don’t even have a location in Mar’s district.)
They say politics makes strange bedfellows. That’s some pretty good proof.
Check this paranoid rant out:
http://www.sftu.org/
Eric Mar’s camp has really sunk about as far as they can go trying to play on peoples’ paranoia re: rent control in order to get back at Lee. What a bunch of slanderous lies.
Get rid of this loser. If this doesn’t show the district what a sleazeball we have for a supervisor, nothing’s going to. Shame on you, Mar. If you can’t fight honestly, get out of the ring. The ad may have been in bad taste, but let’s face it: just about every one of the facts presented in it were true. Now what, you’re going to try to pull the gay community onto your side and claim it’s homophobic?
That’s ridiculous, but it’s par for the course with Mar. He signed his name to a ballot argument that if Prop H passed, kids would be forced to switch schools in January and it would cause chaos. Nonsense! It would have probably taken several years and any kindergartener would have stayed to 5th grade, would have only applied to new admissions a couple years later. It lost by 153 votes so that lie was more than the difference. They actually passed out fliers saying this and claimed the people behind it could have done it a different way, but I was at these meetings they had and the majority at all of them wanted neighborhood schools and were ignored, so there was no other way. Even in this race, read the bios, you can’t tell who’s for neighborhood schools except for Popek and Robertson, and Robertson has no chance. So there’s only one hope. Out of 7. Mar was dishonest and couldn’t pass a lie detector test if he tried that he believed that was true. No one believes it that really knows the issue but it was a scare tactic that got some people who believe in neighborhood schools to vote against it. I’m not 100% behind everything Lee says, but he has more integrity than Mar. Mar had a good point about public schools, I agree with that that politicians should send their kids there, but in this case Lee would have were it not for the lottery. So I’m voting for Lee.