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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
Have you made a plan to vote yet? Are you going before, or after work? If you haven't filled out your ballot yet, be sure to vote for the Democratic candidates at every level of government! sfdemocrats.org/voting/endor…
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
UPDATE: We are opening our campaign HQ at 8am on Election Day - November 5th, 2024 to accommodate the volunteers that want to get up early and hit the phones one last time for @KamalaHarris and to #FlipTheHouse Join us at 901 Market St and let's WIN! sfdemocrats.org/headquarters
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
Did you know there was, once, major opposition to the Golden Gate Bridge and Crissy Field? “Supporting this oceanside park is the right side of history”
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
Massive thank you to the 150 people that attended our mega mobilization and rally this morning to get out the vote for all of our endorsed candidates and measures 💪🏼🇺🇸🗳️ We deployed volunteers to every corner of San Francisco for our @SFDemocrats endorsed campaigns!
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
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Ballots have dropped in San Francisco! There are 15 local ballot measures 😱 SPUR’s team did a research deep-dive on 9 of them for our Voter Guide, which you can find at spurvoterguide.org Today, let’s talk about why you should vote YES on Prop M 👇 spur.org/voter-guide/2024-11…

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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
It’s time to get off the sidelines and help elect @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz Sign up today and join @NancyTungSF @carriebarnes415 @MissLily in ensuring that SF Democrats do their part to ensure that @TheDemocrats win the White House in November! mobilize.us/mobilize/event/5…
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
I’m disappointed the Bay Area housing bond was pulled. We’ll continue working toward a 2026 transit funding measure. Absent action, 2026 is when major transit systems will start cutting service. I look forward to also supporting a future housing bond. We’re in this together.
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
List is final: 10 California Propositions for 2024: 2🏫School bond 3🏳️‍🌈Marriage Equality 4🌎Climate bond 5🏗️Easier to pass local bonds 6⚖️Ends Slavery 32💵$18 min wage 33🏠Rent Control 34🚫Limits AHF political activities 35🏥Medi-Cal funding 36🚨Increased drug & theft penalties 1/
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
4 Jul 2024
JUST IN: @CASoSVote has assigned the ballot numbering for the November propositions: Prop 2 - $10B School Facilities Bond Prop 3 - Prop 8 Repeal Prop 4 - $10B Climate Bond Prop 5 - Vote Thresholds Prop 6 - Ban Mandatory Prison Labor Prop 32 - $18/hr Minimum Wage Prop 33 - Rent Control Prop 34 - Restricts Spending by AIDS Healthcare Foundation Prop 35 - MCO Tax Prop 36 - Prop 47 Reform elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccr…
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
Why do San Francisco's Painted Ladies have property taxes ranging from $1,000 to $44,000? My latest story on how the iconic houses explain Prop 13, California's most important (and complicated) housing law @sfchronicle sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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Due to a trespasser in tunnel 1 in San Francisco, all @Caltrain trains are holding until further notice - according to a staff announcement
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
But what’s most important is that San Francisco can, and should, adopt a rezoning plan that results in far more housing than the current draft. This is the only way to meet our CA state requirements, and this is what we committed to do when we passed the Housing Element.
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
Me & @s_damerdji in @sfchronicle: SF promised state its rezoning plan would add 36k homes & they'd prove that with data. They didn't. We used their tools & found it only adds 8k.😳 Plan must be 4x bigger! Make your own map at rezonesf.org. sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…

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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
BIG shoutout to @Scott_Wiener and @SPUR_Urbanist for cutting years and millions of dollars of cost from delivering fast bus projects. Proud to have been part of this permitting reform, and excited to be working on permitting reform for clean energy equipment installs full time!
This slide is so great: Metro just eliminated years of delay, millions in consultant costs and litigation risk by using the SB 922 CEQA exemption for bus rapid transit.
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
For anyone who’s ever wondered whether they should go out & vote or knock that extra door. Each & every vote sure does matter.
And now @Evan_Low and @joesimitian are TIED for second place. Exactly 30,249 votes each -- incredible
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
Inject this into my veins. 6-8 story buildings across the city has always been the right approach, love all of this. Thank you Mayor @LondonBreed
Mayor London Breed wants city planners to scale back some tall heights that would be permitted under the city’s proposal to allow denser housing in many neighborhoods. trib.al/DqDAdzx
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
me: there is nothing redeemable about San Francisco. I’m doom loop pilled. I can get everything I need in east bay anyways one meal at Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant at Outer Sunset: you don’t get to hate it unless you love it. our splendid city on shining hills. our Baghdad by
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
I’ll add to the chorus: It is extremely disappointing to see the SF Board of Supervisors fail their city by getting in the way of new housing. Really hope this terrible vote is an exception, & that the BOS doesn’t continue to move the City backwards on its housing goals.
Today’s anti-housing veto override by the Board of Supervisors is a black eye for San Francisco. @AaronPeskin’s ordinance is the latest move in his decades-long effort to obstruct new housing in our city. Extreme zoning restrictions like these are one cause of our housing crisis.
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
If you go to cities around the world that are thriving and that are more affordable, they're building housing. They're building up. They're building dense. They're embracing growth, change, and diversity. San Francisco can do that too. But not like this. This definitely ain't it. San Francisco has a housing shortage and a housing crisis. The idea that building less and placing more limits on housing growth, even in our downtown neighborhoods, is going to make us more affordable is deeply misguided. It's contradicted by the experience of cities all over and it's exacerbating San Francisco's affordability crisis. San Francisco is not building housing and every vote they take seems to move us backward. The state will step in, again, as votes like this from city officials will leave us no choice.
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Mike Chen 陳懋華 retweeted
We’ve worked hard to reform SF’s catastrophic approach to housing — an approach that’s caused explosive housing costs. The Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to back-slide by overriding the Mayor’s veto of an anti-housing proposal. My piece on why it shouldn’t override:
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