A Friendly Neighborhood Poll for District 6 Supervisor…

Live SoMa | Oct 04, 2010 | Comments 15

This past Saturday marked exactly one month until Election Day, November 2nd. That means it’s time to start to really think about who you might vote for.

For months we’ve endured non-answers, door hangings, mass mailings and muck-rakings about many (if not all) of the Candidates and their positions on everything. So where does that leave us?

Hopefully you’re strongly considering your vote based on any number of reasons. Hopefully, your reasons have absolutely nothing to do with which Candidate likes what music, and EVERYTHING to do with what they will bring in terms of help to this diverse district.

Personally, I’m still very much undecided with one month to go. I tend to have trouble sussing through political B.S. to determine who the best Candidate is. I’ve sat through a number of forums, listened to their rhetoric, and frankly, I like some of what everyone says. I also don’t like some of what everyone says.

Either way, what we’ve done this election is important for the future of San Francisco. Not so much because of what has been said, but because of the fact that it has been documented like never before. I believe it was Bluoz who mentioned to me this little tidbit of information: “the history of the local politics plays a big part in todays elections… the archives of today probably will affect the elections in 2014.”

For some reason, that has stuck with me. I am curious to see who wins in November, and how they do over their term. I’m also curious to see what happens in the future. Who changes their tune in an effort to win, who stays constant and anything else.

I’ve come across all sorts of ‘endorsements’ and ‘predictions’ on this race. My favorite (not because of what he says, but how he says it) was this comment by H. Brown over at Fog City:

As a political fan with a backstage pass I’ve watched hundreds of these candidates and you know what the rarest thing you see is?

A second candidacy. The norm is that losing one of these things in which you’ve been treated as a ‘front-runner’ is enough to kill their desire for public office.

I want to bet you a few things.

First, Elaine Zamora will move from the most dangerous block in the Tenderloin within a month after her loss.

Second, if Jane Kim loses (she’s working hard on itl) she’ll leave SF and take a job in D.C..

Third, Debra Walker will lose badly and concentrate on serving on the D Triple C until she’s 100 years old. She’ll never run for any higher office.

Fourth, Theresa Sparks will finish no higher than 5th place and never run for public office again. On the up side, she’ll continue to be given jobs by Downtown in payment for her work siphoning off votes from the Progressive Community in her work with Alice B. Toklas and so forth.

Fifth, Jim Meko will win the election in what will be (to everyone but me) a tremendous upset and serve 8 solid years as the reasoned voice of D-6.

And, Giants will win the pennant.

As sarcastic as it is, if his prediction of who wins and who loses were correct, I could totally see the other predictions happening. There’s been a lot of public discussion about who the frontrunners are (usually Kim and Walker), and who moved into the District ‘coincidentally close’ to the cutoff for candidacy. Only one person can win, and there are a number of Candidates who conveniently relocated to the District in recent months (and maybe years). So what if they lose? Do they stay in the District or pack up their collective sh%t and get out of dodge?

Whatever happens, this month is going to be interesting from the District 6 Supervisor stance. I never thought I would care about Local Politics, but after spending the past year and a half wandering around the neighborhood to build LiveSOMA, I can honestly say that whoever wins has their work cut out for them. I wouldn’t want the job that all of these folks are working so hard for, but it’s a necessary job and somebody’s gotta do it.

I just hope that somebody has the District’s best intentions in mind. Otherwise, we’ll be there on the back end of their term with well documented comments and opinions to display all that has been said and ‘promised’ so many times over the past few months. Whoever is elected… please remember that if not anything else.

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