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 <title>National Housing Trust Fund Finally Succeeds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Congress’ massive housing bill has passed the House, and will be approved by the Senate before soon becoming law. While its primary focus is foreclosures, the bill also creates a National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF), a guaranteed annual funding source for the construction of affordable housing. Back in 1999, I joined with a small group of housing advocates to push for the NHTF, and we made great strides in 2000. Had the Supreme Court allowed Florida to count its votes and Al Gore to win the White House, the nation would likely have seen the creation of a NHTF no later than 2002. But history took a different course. It is a tribute to the tenacity of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) that the dream of an Affordable Housing Trust Fund never died, and, incredibly, that it was enacted during the Bush presidency.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>The “Two Davids” Turn in Signatures</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Supervisor candidates David Campos (District 9) and David Chiu (District 3) each held simultaneous boisterous rallies yesterday in front of City Hall.  Rather than pay the filing fee, candidates for Supervisor can submit petitions of 1,000 registered voters in their District – and each David was there with supporters to turn them in.  Both Davids met their goal – with Campos collecting 1,600 signatures (more than his District 9 rivals) and Chiu collecting over 1,900 (more than any other candidate in the City.)  While it may have seemed to the casual observer that the two Davids were holding competing rallies, both candidates have endorsed each other’s campaign.  While Chiu said he also supports District 9 candidates Mark Sanchez and Eric Quezada, he added that Campos is his #1 choice in the race.  Both Davids serve on the Democratic Central Committee, both are endorsed by the outgoing Supervisor in their District, both went to Harvard Law School, and both have the same political consulting firm running their campaign.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Mulder and Scully Return in &quot;The X Files: I Want to Believe&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5909</link>
<description><![CDATA[I can't tell you how many Friday and Sunday nights, my friends and I would hunker down to watch the poli-sci-fi series, "The X Files". We wouldn't even think about hitting parties, bars, or playing gigs, not until it was over. We were gripped, Spin-offs, like the short-lived  "Millennium" and "The Lone Gunmen"? Oh yeah, we watched those too. We weren't considered "shippers", fans of the X Files obsessed with Mulder and Scully's seemly unrequited romance and if we were, we wouldn't admit it. We did however, love the chemistry between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. We watched them grow as actors, and it made the series come alive. By the X Files ninth season however, the series had taken it's toll; Mulder was all but gone; the Lone Gunmen were dead, killed off in an episode appropriately titled, "Jump the Shark"; Scully lost her alien baby!?, and new agents Doggett and Reyes, (the stars of Terminator 2 and Mystic Pizza respectively), had even taken over the opening credits. The series saw a successful big screen adaptation, and Mulder returned for the 2-part series finale, a finale that left more questions and answers. Now, some six years later, Mulder and Scully return in another big-screen adaptation, "I Want to Believe".<br />
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 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Roger Rees – What You Will - Masterpiece!; The Drowsy Chaperone - Hallelujah!; Help Is On The Way – Featuring Rita Moreno</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<b>ROGER REES, SHAKESPERE AND CANADA</b><br />
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The Charming Devil of an actor Roger Rees is a seducer who actually makes us like Shakespeare in a round about way. He picks up a book by Voltaire and quotes Voltaire: “Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.”  Isn’t that the truth!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:02:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Are Clinton Backers Undermining Sebelius as VP Choice?</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5902</link>
<description><![CDATA[During a recent conference call on Barack Obama’s accepting the presidential nomination at Denver’s Invesco Field, reporters questioned whether Republicans would be permitted to attend the event. As DNC Chair Howard Dean tried to explain that Republicans would not be interested, Kathleen Sebelius – Kansas Governor and Convention Co-Chair – noted that Obama had attracted many Republicans and independents, and that these supporters would understandably want to attend. She gave such a strong response that Dean joked after another inquiry that he should let Sebelius answer that as well. With Jim Webb, Al Gore and Jack Reed all renouncing the vice-presidency, Sebelius’ media savvy should mean her stock is rising. But a July 20 New York Times story suggests that Sebelius’ selection as VP could create a “backlash” among Clinton’s female supporters, suggesting that these backers care more about Hillary Clinton’s career than women’s political advancement.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Peskin Wins 18-16 for Party Chair; Democrats Vow to Unify</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5905</link>
<description><![CDATA[At a tense meeting last night in front of a packed audience, the S.F. Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) voted 18-16 to pick Supervisor Aaron Peskin party chair over incumbent Scott Wiener.  Assemblywoman Fiona Ma proved to be the swing vote for Peskin – as Wiener supporters hissed her proxy, Susan Leal.  Accusations were made about threats to secure votes – while members stressed unity behind the DCCC’s mission: strengthen party building efforts, elect Barack Obama and run a coordinated down-ballot campaign.  After the meeting, Peskin punted my question (see <a href=http://www.beyondchron.org/news/news_images/2008/audio/peskindccc.mp3>audio interview</a>) about whether the Party would endorse in Supervisor races – which will be the next contentious question that the DCCC takes up.  With Peskin leaving the Board of Supervisors, some had wondered where he will take his considerable political talents.  Running the SF Democratic Party appears to be his next move.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>What Is All the Purple Smoke About?</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5904</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>A Global Response To A Global Threat</b><br />
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SEIU International protests investment firm KKR throughout California, across the US and in Europe.  UNITE, the largest trade union in England, also participated in worldwide protests that took place in 100 cities in 27 countries on July 17th to expose the underside of corporate double-dealing that uses Union pension money—and puts it at risk in questionable investment strategies similar to those used to create current housing debacle.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>But You are Blanche, You are a Bigot!</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5903</link>
<description><![CDATA[What do you think of when you read the headline “Homosexual activists in positions of authority?”  Perhaps you think of those wonderful “activist judges” you hear so much about. Or you merely cheer, as I do. Not the right-wing <i>California Catholic Daily</i>, the paper that loves to hate homos. <br />
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The newspaper recently used the headline to incite its readers to continue to hate homos. Why? Because in 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, at the urging of openly gay Supervisor Tom Ammiano, unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Vatican for once again reiterating its unreasonable and bigoted position against gay adoptions.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:02:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Vote for Party Chair Comes Down to the Wire</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5898</link>
<description><![CDATA[The SF Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) will meet at 7:00 p.m. tonight in the State Building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue to elect the party’s new Chair.  Spectators are advised to bring popcorn.  With Supervisor Aaron Peskin running against Scott Wiener, both sides say they “have the votes” – and regardless of the outcome, it will be close.  With 34 members on the DCCC, each side needs at least 18 votes.  On his blog, Supervisor Chris Daly <a href=http://www.chrisdaly.org/?p=95>claimed</a> that Peskin already has “19 commitments” – which can only be true if (a) David Campos and David Chiu support Peskin and (b) some members of the HOPE slate who publicly backed Wiener have switched.  But that scenario may very well happen.  On July 21st, anti-progressive group Plan C <a href=http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2756>e-mailed its members</a> – urging them to pressure Assemblywoman Fiona Ma to support Wiener.  Given Ma’s politics, if she truly is a “swing” vote then Wiener is in trouble.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>City Officials and Local Activists Rally For Clean Energy</title>
 <link>http://www.BeyondChron.org/index.php?itemid=5900</link>
<description><![CDATA[Local activists representing environmental, labor and economic justice organizations rallied in support of San Francisco’s Clean Energy Act yesterday on the steps of City Hall to put pressure on the city officials who have yet to get behind it. Representatives from the Sierra Club, League of Young Voters, ACORN, Green Party, Energy Action Coalition and San Francisco Tomorrow joined Assemblyman Mark Leno, Sups. Aaron Peskin, Ross Mirkarimi, Tom Ammiano, Gerardo Sandoval, Bevan Dufty, School Board President Mark Sanchez and dozens of other supporters of the Clean Energy Act just hours before the Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to put the Charter Amendment on the November ballot.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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