The recent census counted San Francisco’s population at 874,993. The map below indicates how much each district has grown or shrunk in the past decade. To divide the districts evenly by population, the Redistricting Task Force aims for 79,545 people in each of the 11 districts. District 10, at 86,323, is too big. What will they do to us?
According to PHDC board member and Boosters president J.R. Eppler, “With a District 10 community meeting scheduled for February 4, it’s time for our feedback to be heard… Ensure that outsiders do not dictate our community to us.” J.R. will explain more at the meeting: how you can participate, and why it matters.
Meet, compare & contrast the four candidates running for California State Assembly in the Feb. 15th Special Election: David Campos, Matt Haney, Bilal Mahmood, Thea Selby. Check out their websites by clicking on their names. Moderator will be acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi, currently with Mission Local.
Cosponsored by Potrero Boosters, Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association and Dogpatch Neighborhood Association. In the interest of health and science, we have decided to revert to zoom– but the show will go on!
Endorsement vote update: No single candidate garnered the requisite 60% of votes cast, so right now our position is No position. However, we may extend the voting deadline so more members can participate and increase the chance of the club reaching an endorsement.
We are pleased to announce that PHDC has been officially rechartered by the San Francisco Democratic Party – and we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that our beautiful, historic Neighborhood House at 953 De Haro St has reopened for in-person events. Proof of vaccination is required to enter the facility,and masks are required when not eating or drinking.
On the agenda are the Feb. 15th special election: School Board recalls and electing the Assessor-Recorder. Also some club business and a social hour to reconnect! At our January 4th meeting, we will address the rest of the Feb 15th election: the race to represent District 17 in the State Assembly.
Potrero Hill Democratic Club invites you to meet people running for CA Democratic Party delegate in Assembly District 17. What do delegates do? • Elect party officers & regional directors • Vote on the party’s endorsements of candidates & ballot measures • Establish the party’s platform & focus For Zoom info, email contact_us@phdemclub.org
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 6 – 8pm
For zoom link, email contact_us@phdemclub.org – or view the live-streamed event on our Facebook page at 6pm Jan. 19th.Â
How are these two crises connected? Explore the many ways with our thought-provoking speakers, Dr. Tom Newman, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Hunter Cutting, Sierra Club SF Group.
The meeting is Tuesday, June 2, 7:00– 8:00pm. Join from wherever you are! When you register in advance for this meeting, you will receive login info.
Membership & Endorsements. In order to make endorsements for the November election, we need you to vote! First, please renew your membership so you’ll be eligible – still a real deal at only $25/year, $10 more for each additional household member. If you haven’t been a paid-up member since before 2019 (email contact_us@phdemclub.org to check), you must have paid your dues 2 months before voting. We expect to start having endorsement votes right after close of filing in August. Everyone must have attended at least 2 meetings or other PHDC-sponsored events in the year prior to voting. And yes, now virtual attendance counts!
We’ll catch up with our new District 10 Supervisor, Shamann Walton, in an open-ended conversation about district concerns.
And, we’ll have a panel discussion about our bankrupt local utility monopoly, PG&E, featuring Loretta Lynch, PHDC member and former chair of the California Public Utilities Commission, and Cynthia Pollock, citizen member of the City’s Local Agency Formation Commission (the folks who brought us CleanPowerSF).
We will also elect new officers for 2019.
WHEN: Tuesday, February 5th at 7pm
WHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St
On the second Tuesday of the month (instead of our normal first Tuesday because of the holiday), our headliner is former State Assemblyman, Board of Supervisors president, and School Board president Tom Ammiano, role-model legislator for decades of SF political history. Tom chairs the campaign committee for the Sunlight on Dark Money Initiative, seeking signatures to get on the November 2019 ballot. It would force disclosures of corporate PAC money in campaigns and limit pay-to-play campaign contributions, and close corporate and lobbyist campaign contribution loopholes. With the elections coming up, we need these reforms more than ever.
The new year also brings elections for local delegates to the California Democratic Party, sorely in need of reform after the scandal-triggered resignation of the party’s chair in late November. At Tuesday’s meeting, we’ll meet some of the candidates on the Reform Democrats for Labor & Equity slate. The election for this set of delegates is coming up fast: Saturday, January 12, at 10 am at the Women’s Building, 3271 18th Street. All registered Democrats in Assembly DIstrict 17 are eligible to vote! For information about the Party and the delegate election (including all candidate statements) click here.
We’ll also hear from PHDC member Kelly Dennehy-Schumann, board member of the Women’s March Bay Area, with information about the Saturday, January 19th rally & march, 11:30am at Civic Center Plaza.
Also: nominations are open for 2019 PHDC officers.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 8th, 7:00 pm WHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St
It’s Election Confidential time! Get the skinny on what it’s really like to campaign in a town where politics are deemed to be a blood sport. A conversation with Hill residents in the thick of it: Supervisor candidates Tony Kelly and Uzuri Pease-Greene, School Board candidate Monica Chinchilla, and Assessor-Recorder candidate Paul Bellar.
Hot gossip and surprises, reality-TV style? Um, maybe. Insights and illumination? Certainly.
Check it out on Tuesday. We will also preview our soon-to-be-printed endorsement door-hanger – and check back with some of our endorsed candidates and campaigns.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 2nd, 7:00 pm WHERE: Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St
This November, we choose a new District 10 Supervisor.
So, on August 28, please come and learn about four leading candidates’ visions for Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, the rest of District 10 and the City. Club members will vote on an endorsement the same evening.
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