Text Box: The Public Utilities Commission Plans To Build A Polluting Plant In Our Most Polluted Neighborhood Even though San Francisco is about to build a massive new solar and wind project (see front page), the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) still intends to let a private corporation install and run a polluting natural gas power plant inside the city! Worse, the SFPUC plans to site this plant in the already heavily polluted and economically marginalized Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood (see our Core Report on page 3) which is 40% African American, with high concentrations of other people of color and low income residents. This blatantly classist, racist, and environmentally disastrous power plant project must be halted immediately. Outrageously, the Bayview’s Supervisor, Sophie Maxwell, is supporting the power plant. Call 415-554-7670 to demand that she change her position! PG&E Could Vastly Increase The Demand For Natural Gas If We Don't Take Action PG&E is planning to join the Williams Company to bring in massive amounts of imported liquid natural gas for electrical generation through a huge pipeline from Oregon to Northern California. It plans to build 9 new polluting plants in which Text Box: to burn this natural gas, and will charge all of its California customers for the cost of the plants, even those who don't use electricity from them! Williams Company’s Cynical Role Williams, PG&E’s literal partner in crime, was sued for tens of millions of dollars in the early 2000s for its role in gaming the electricity system during California’s energy crisis. In the most cynical of moves, Williams (a natural gas provider) managed to get California to accept four of its used polluting natural gas power turbines as a part of its settlement debt. So Williams managed to pay us for ripping us off, by giving us turbines with which to buy more of its natural gas! Three of those turbines are the very generators set to be erected as the new polluting power plant. By stopping that proposed plant and instead fully funding and quickly building our new renewable energy projects, we can greatly decrease the demand for both PG&E and Williams Company’s dirty imported natural gas, making it less profitable. And we will show both companies that San Franciscans will no longer reward them for using our electricity system as their personal gambling casino. Text Box: Stopping A Polluting Power Plant Text Box: Progressive Supes Trounce Challenges And Recalls! Last November, Downtown launched a massive glossy mailer attack trying to oust Supervisor Chris Daly from his Board seat where he has been a stalwart progressive champion. Volunteers turned out on foot in the hundreds to defend Chris, and Downtown was sent packing! Also, this past Spring, petition drives were launched to recall Supervisors Jake McGoldrick and Aaron Peskin. The drives were sponsored by selfish business interests which didn’t like a couple of the Supervisors’ votes for better parks and transit. San Francisco voters easily saw through the cynical deceptions, and neither petition gained enough signatures to qualify. Text Box: Education Boards Go Progressive! In the November 2006 elections, San Francisco’s two core educational boards, for the Community College and the Unified School District, quite well known for their virtual paralysis on bringing improvements to our schools, both took a big turn for the better, gaining three of Our City’s top picks for education. Green John Rizzo turned tides winning a key Community College board seat, and together, Green Jane Kim, along with progressive Democrat Kim Shree-Maufas, usurped the status quo majority of the Unified School District’s board; which in turn ensured the election of their fellow progressive Mark Sanchez to the presidency of that board. Text Box: Page #

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