San Francisco Libertarians File an Election Contest to Invalidate November’s Proposition A Election Due To Violations of New Law

by: Michael Denny : lips – excerpt

The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, Friday April 5, 2019. This is an independent action taken by two members of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, Note: This is an independent action taken by two members of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, Michael Denny and Nicholas Smith, in a citizen’s effort to check the power of Government. The LPSF itself is not listed nor eligible to be listed as a complainant on the suit.

San Francisco Libertarians File an Election Contest to Invalidate November’s Proposition A Election Due To Violations of New Law

There has been an ongoing problem of collusion between government officials and municipal bond advisors who often actually write the bond bills for profit. And then deceptively work with government to sell them to an unsuspecting public. To address this issue, the California State Assembly passed AB-195 which was approved by Governor Jerry Brown and on January 1, 2018 became Law. Sections of that law governs the way local governments can present bond measures on ballots:

1. Measure shall be a true and impartial synopsis of the purpose of the proposed measure,
2. and shall be in language that is neither argumentative nor likely to create prejudice for or against the measure.
3. If the proposed measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, the ballot shall include in the statement of the measure to be voted on the amount of money to be raised annually and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied.

Section 18401 of the California Elections Code says election officials who allow non-compliant ballots to be put before the public are criminally liable…(more)

Three Top Regional Government VPs/Presidents get De Throned for lack of disclosure.

From a concerned citizen:

Susan Adams Marin County Supervisor,ABAG Vice President voted out of office when the people of her district discovered that she recommended her community for a Priority Development Area and then denied it. He duplicity to the voters was repaid with recall campaign and landslide loss in 2014.

Steve Kinsey, Marin County Supervisor, MTC President resigned in 2016 while the subject of massive breach of ethics for 200+ meetings with developers while also serving on the California Coastal Commission. He was sued for $5 million dollars but settled for a lower amount with taxpayers footing the bill.

Jake MacKenzie, Rohnert Park Councilman current MTC chairman , de throned on 1/22/2019 after his fellow councilpersons discovered that he had failed to report about the CASA Compact which may cost his community $15 million dollars in housing funds. He then did not report back the concerns of his community to ABAG where he also serves on the CASA Committee.

LESSON: Represent the best interests of your local community and be honest and transparent in your dealings lest you “get the boot”. Serving regional interests is the shortest path to political oblivion.