A green San Francisco depends on a green election

Keep the environmental majority on Board of Supervisors

If San Francisco is to continue its progress as one of the greenest cities in the nation, we must elect new leadership this November. Three members of the current environmental majority on the Board of Supervisors are stepping down due to term limits. It is essential to elect strong replacements.

The Board of Supervisors has been the key to the Sierra Club's biggest successes in San Francisco. In 2000, when San Francisco Airport was threatening to fill in the Bay to build a mile-long runway, we stopped the threat by working to elect a new environmental majority to the Board. We have preserved that majority through subsequent elections, and the Supervisors we helped elect formed the core of votes to adopt Community Choice Energy and the recent solar-rebate measure, which will give the city one of the highest levels of renewable energy in the country.

In addition to these enormous victories, we have worked with the Board over the past eight years to achieve dozens of other important environmental decisions.

Now four members of that majority - Aaron Peskin, Tom Ammiano, Jake McGoldrick, and Gerardo Sandoval - are termed out. One other member, Ross Mirkarimi, is up for re-election this year. To preserve and to extend the environment's successes, we must again elect a strong environmental majority this year. This requires your help - to vote for the Club's endorsed candidates and to volunteer to help their campaigns.

As this article was being written, the Sierra Club was still in the process of reviewing candidates. We send questionnaires to candidates, interview them, and pick the strongest environmental candidates. We then direct our volunteer efforts to help those who need it the most.

The endorsements to date are:

We will have more detailed articles about these candidates in the following issue.

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To join in the Sierra Club efforts to elect these environmentally committed supervisors, contact conservation organizer or call (510) 695-6262

 

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