Sierra Club Endorses Steve Francis For Mayor
Posted by: Mighty Thor | 05/13/2008 2:59 PM
From The Steve Francis For Mayor Campaign:
Richard Miller - "Steve Francis has a bold environmental vision and a plan to get us there."
The Sierra Club has endorsed Steve Francis for Mayor. The endorsement
was announced at
Rose Canyon Park, the site of the proposed Regents Road Bridge project. Francis earlier came out in opposition to that project because of the environmental harm it would do to Rose Canyon Park, one of San Diego's natural open space preserves.
Richard Miller, the Chair of the San Diego chapter of the Sierra Club, said "Steve Francis has a bold environmental vision to get San Diego on the list of the world's greenest cities. We applaud that goal and are particularly impressed with his concrete plans to get us to that goal."
Steve Francis proudly accepted the endorsement, saying, "I am thrilled that the Sierra Club is endorsing me. We share the goal of getting San Diego on the list of the top green cities in the world. I have announced a bold but achievable GREEN initiative - because we can do our part to protect our canyons, parks and open spaces. We can reduce global warming emissions and conserve water. We can make our buildings more efficient and make our fleet of city vehicles and taxis hybrids. We can do all of this with vision and leadership."
Debby Knight, Sierra Club member and President of Friends of Rose Canyon, said, "Steve Francis is committed to putting the needs of the environment before the needs of the big developers. His courageous stand against developers in opposing the proposed Regents Road bridge project won me over. It shows he will do the right thing to preserve our open space parks and canyons."
Francis has released an ambitious GREEN Initiative, which can be found on his website, steveformayor.com/vision. The plan includes items such as converting the city's fleet of vehicles and taxis to hybrids, pursuing cutting edge mass transit solutions and protecting San Diego's open spaces, parks, beaches and canyons.
The endorsement of the Sierra Club, which boasts 7,000 members in San Diego, comes on the heels of the endorsement of Steve Francis by UNITE HERE Local 30 - the first local union to announce its endorsement of Francis.
Richard Miller - "Steve Francis has a bold environmental vision and a plan to get us there."
The Sierra Club has endorsed Steve Francis for Mayor. The endorsement
was announced at
Rose Canyon Park, the site of the proposed Regents Road Bridge project. Francis earlier came out in opposition to that project because of the environmental harm it would do to Rose Canyon Park, one of San Diego's natural open space preserves.Richard Miller, the Chair of the San Diego chapter of the Sierra Club, said "Steve Francis has a bold environmental vision to get San Diego on the list of the world's greenest cities. We applaud that goal and are particularly impressed with his concrete plans to get us to that goal."
Steve Francis proudly accepted the endorsement, saying, "I am thrilled that the Sierra Club is endorsing me. We share the goal of getting San Diego on the list of the top green cities in the world. I have announced a bold but achievable GREEN initiative - because we can do our part to protect our canyons, parks and open spaces. We can reduce global warming emissions and conserve water. We can make our buildings more efficient and make our fleet of city vehicles and taxis hybrids. We can do all of this with vision and leadership."
Debby Knight, Sierra Club member and President of Friends of Rose Canyon, said, "Steve Francis is committed to putting the needs of the environment before the needs of the big developers. His courageous stand against developers in opposing the proposed Regents Road bridge project won me over. It shows he will do the right thing to preserve our open space parks and canyons."
Francis has released an ambitious GREEN Initiative, which can be found on his website, steveformayor.com/vision. The plan includes items such as converting the city's fleet of vehicles and taxis to hybrids, pursuing cutting edge mass transit solutions and protecting San Diego's open spaces, parks, beaches and canyons.
The endorsement of the Sierra Club, which boasts 7,000 members in San Diego, comes on the heels of the endorsement of Steve Francis by UNITE HERE Local 30 - the first local union to announce its endorsement of Francis.
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2008 Campaigns, San Diego Politics
This was like a week ago.
I thought so also, but I received an email from Francis yesterday announcing this.
FYI:
Mr. Madaffer let's ask our Good Mayor about why it is so hard for him to deal with a basic
"Right Thing To Due Not Politics" and let US Vets who are poor and have served their country, be buried at Mt Hope City owned Memorial Park. Mr Madaffer, just so you might be better informed; your Good Mayor did agree to take this on but it was just like grapes on a vine after a long period of time, they dry up.
Mr. Madaffer, you might want to consider, along with the Good Mayor, not to speak out so openly about how much you all appreciate our US Vets. When our Mayor of the seven largest city in America (one of the largest military cities and the economic contributors) can't do as the US govenment does, bury US Vets for free knowing full well the City of San Diego already has the free space at MT Hope Memorial Park. What's wrong with this picture? This is the least the seventh largest city could do for those who have served their country well and for folks like you to be able to say I am strongly supporting Mayor Jerry Sanders.
Lets Talk about this statement:
While Sanders has been Mayor, funding for the San Diego Fire Rescue Department has been increased by 60%, and police officers received a pay raise so that the city can recruit and retain qualified officers.
I wonder If you or your readers are aware of how little the Good Mayor and you as well only put about 5% into the fire budget for fire prevention and supression. As you might know if we would put more into prevention our seniors and communities would have less call outs by the Fire Dept to this end:
1) Save more money in the fire budget
2) Hire more fire fighters to put out fires
3) Bigger focus on getting ready for large fires, we don't have to talk about this, we know the great pain the citizens of San Diego had to endure at that time of one of the largest fires in San Diego.
Come on Mr. Madaffer Let's deal with human rights for man kind not politics. Let's tell the voters the real deal.
Don't you think it's a time for change? With all the billions of dollars spent of defending coffin loaders on the back of the city of San Diego and the pension fund. By the way, are you one of the receivers of the pension plan? Is the Mayor? Is Scott Peters?
I would like to advise you and your endorsees to stay away on this Memorial Day Weekend Celebrations and allow those who really put their money where their mouth is to allow those who have put their lives on the line salute their fellow veterans.