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By David Fix
October 22, 2006
Thank you for your donations. We have received 400 donations from our members so far. Mailers were sent this week to 63,000 absentee voters. Another 60-70,000 mailers will be sent to voters before election day. We delivered signs this weekend. If you did not receive your sign or you did not already asked for a sign and can put some up please contact us ASAP. We have plenty available. We also launched the website: www.TruthonPropH.com
Here is a very easy way for SPOSF to reach many voters at no cost. If every member sent 20 - 30 emails to likely voter that they know, we will reach 30-40,000 voters. This election will be decided by a much smaller margin than this. Attached is a letter that you can use or modify to send to people in your address book. Please send this out today so that we can reach absentee voters. You can also ask them to forward this letter to people in their address book to have the maximum impact.
Sample Letter:
On the November SF ballot is Prop H. This measure would be disastrous for housing.
* Proposition H would increase the relocation payments made to tenants for "no-fault" evictions by 350%-2000%!!!
* The payments could be up to $22,500 per unit, possibly more.
* The payments are required to everyone regardless of length of residency or need.
* Prop H would also expand the law to subject single family homes and condos to the same rules as large apartment buildings.
* Prop H is targeted at small neighborhood buildings of 2-4 units owned by middle-income San Franciscans.
* Prop H it will make it more difficult for tenants to become homeowners because of the huge payments required.
* Prop H may make it prohibitively expensive for property owners to make necessary improvements, resulting in a deterioration of the rental housing stock, which is bad for neighborhoods.
* Prop H will lead to the removal of rental units from the housing stock, resulting in higher rents.
* Prop H will also result in more Ellis act evictions.
Four Supervisors put this measure on the ballot on the very last day without any public hearings, financial impact analysis or negotiations among the affected parties to create a reasonable compromise.
There is a diverse group of organizations against this proposition. For more information please visit www.TruthonPropH.com
I ask you to vote NO on Prop H. Please forward this email to others so that we can prevent this overly broad and excessive legislation from passing. Vote no on Prop H to send the issue back to the Board of Supervisors to do their job to craft reasonable and fair legislation.
Thank you
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