I was recently reading a Facebook posting by one of our candidates for D10 supervisor, and it made it very clear that some of the candidates, while stating that their intentions in this race are pure and altruistic, are really more just white noise in an incredibly important election. If you're running for the position of supervisor for our district, and claim to be one of the "I've lived here all my life" candidates, then at least try to know who the players, movers and shakers are in your own backyard!
For those who, like Ms Wesley Smith, don't know, James Moore is the Third Street Corridor manager, a person whom, I would hope, a supervisor candidate would know and recognize immediately as an important person in the Bayview. Her lack of knowledge in something so basic speaks to me as an indicator of a greater lack of knowledge on a whole host of issues.
I then read her response to a D10 candidate questionnaire from Bayview Hunters Point.com. WTF!?! Is this the kind of flippant responses we can expect from her if elected? This is the same candidate who blew up at the end of a candidate forum a few weeks ago because she hadn't been invited - perhaps now we're seeing why that was. I'm not sure what some of the candidates hope to achieve in this election - is it increasing their own sense of self-worth, notoriety, trying to get out a particular demographic to vote, or are they just rabble-rousers?
Some of the candidates have done really good things for our district, and I for one would be 80% happy with any one of those candidates. Those candidates have risen to the top of the heap for a reason. While the others, who likely love their district and neighborhood no less, should, for the love of their district, back out and endorse one of the more knowledgeable candidates who would be ready to lead our district on Day 1 in office.
For this reason, I suggest that we don't have time for on-the-job training. There is too much at stake. The influential DCCC has yet to take a position on a D10 candidate, and it is my fear that they will endorse someone inexperienced and/or in the pocket of forces external to D10. The DCCC votes Wednesday to determine its preferred candidate. I am thinking that they should either endorse an experienced candidate or let the voters decide. If you have an opinion on this and want to express it to the DCCC, please do so before Wednesday at this email address.
If you plan on writing to the DCCC, consider using this:
ReplyDelete7 September 2010
The San Francisco Democratic Party
Committee Members, San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee
Dear Fellow Democrats,
District 10 residents will witness significant pressures on population growth and land-use options in the coming decades. There are accomplished, dedicated, intellectually and emotionally mature local community leaders who have, for years, advocated for smart development, safe neighborhoods, healthy families, strong schools, and support for local employment, and who have earned the respect of the varied and vibrant residents in Bayview, Potrero and Visitacion Valley. These are not new subjects or fresh ideas to those who have done the real and effective work in keeping this district vibrant.
What we have heard throughout the district over the past number of weeks is a sobering reaction to the promotion of candidates with no community experience in this election cycle for District 10. Your fellow San Franciscans, living in District 10, recognize and support those candidates with the ‘institutional memory’ of the decades long planning and development process, the familiarity and working relationship with various stakeholders within our neighborhoods, and for those who can be relied upon to modulate the disparate and valued hopes and desires for our future. Time and again, we have heard "the DCCC should stay out of District 10 and let the voters decide”.
We, therefore, respectfully urge the DCCC to withhold an endorsement for District 10. The voters will properly vet our candidates, and those citizens will decide the outcome.
With respect to the District 10 election for 2010, we are requesting a position of No Endorsement for the DCCC.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
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Bayview/ Potrero/Vistitacion Valley Resident , other
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