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2022 February Election SF voter guide

Steven Buss, Jan 11, 2022, #Elections, #Pissed Off Voter Guide, #Politics, #San Francisco, #School Board, #Voter Guide, #Voting

San Francisco is having a special election on February 15 for the School Board Recall (aka Board of Education Recall), Assembly District 17, and San Francisco Assessor-Recorder.

If you’re a pissed off voter and want to vote for change, you have to vote for it. Don’t vote for the same people we’ve been electing for decades, vote against the incumbents and for newcomers and political outsiders.

#Elections, #Pissed Off Voter Guide, #Politics, #San Francisco, #School Board, #Voter Guide, #Voting

2021 ADEM Election step-by-step guide

Steven Buss, Dec 30, 2020, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting, #YIMBY

Voting in the ADEM election will let you amplify your vote power by 100x. ADEM sets the direction of the Democratic Party and controls who earns the Democratic Party endorsement for State Assembly, State Senate, US House, and US Senate.

Voters trust and vote with the Democratic Party endorsements. The endorsements can easily create a 12% vote margin (about 62,000 votes) in these high-stakes elections that determine state and national policy.

You must register for ADEMs by January 11, 2021, and some of the prerequisite steps can take several days, so DO THIS NOW!

#Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting, #YIMBY

November 2020 Voter Guide

Steven Buss, Oct 5, 2020, #Election 2020, #Elections, #Politics, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Tech, #Tech Worker Voter Guide, #Voter Guide

I’m doing something a bit different this election… I teamed up with an incredible group of techies to launch the Tech Worker Voter Guide!

We did candidate outreach and performed deep research into every ballot prop. If you live in San Francisco and work in tech, then check out https://techworkers.vote!

We are pro-tech, pro-jobs, pro-immigrant, pro-growth, and pro-progress.

#Election 2020, #Elections, #Politics, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Tech, #Tech Worker Voter Guide, #Voter Guide

Pissed off at the Pissed Off Voter Guide

Steven Buss, Feb 7, 2020, #Elections, #Pissed Off Voter Guide, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide

NEW: Looking for my latest San Francisco Voting Guide by Steven Buss? Check out the GrowSF Voter Guide, which I helped create!

If they are so pissed off with the state of the city, then why did they endorse nearly all of the incumbents running in the upcoming March 2020 election? I guess I’d be pissed off, too, if I kept voting for the same people misgoverning San Francisco year after year!

I’m running for the SF Democratic Party County Central Committee (DCCC) which means, among other things, that I get to fill out a bunch of candidate endorsement questionnaires sent by various local organizations. By far the worst one I saw was for the League of Pissed Off Voters. It’s 5 pages of yes/no questions and demands for loyalty to the NIMBY fauxgressive machine. You aren’t allowed to explain your answers. You aren’t allowed to provide evidence. You must toe the party line.

#Elections, #Pissed Off Voter Guide, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide

San Francisco Supervisors are eating the golden goose

Steven Buss, Nov 4, 2019, #Economy, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Taxes, #YIMBY

Tired of innumerate elected officials mismanaging the city? Support my campaign for Democratic County Central Committee.

San Francisco just passed an increase to the fees on new office construction and it’s being sold as “$400 million for affordable housing.” In fact, of the $400 million, only $154 million is new revenue, and it’s spread out over20 years. That works out to only $8 million per year in new revenue (or about 30 units of subsidized housing¹).

This comes at a cost of $300 million to GDP and over 1000 jobs lost over 20 years, and higher rents for nonprofits and businesses. We can build more low-income affordable housing by lowering barriers instead of killing the economy that employs San Franciscans and funds government services.

#Economy, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Taxes, #YIMBY

November 2019 San Francisco Voting Guide

Steven Buss, Oct 22, 2019, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting, #YIMBY

I will use my San Francisco Voting Framework to give you recommendations for the November 2019 election. The numbers in (parenthesis) are the voting principles I’m applying to my endorsement.

If you think we need this kind of rigorous analysis in the Democratic Party, then please support me: Steven Buss for Democratic County Central Committee.

#Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting, #YIMBY

San Francisco Voter Framework

Steven Buss, Oct 17, 2019, #California, #Government, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voting

I have a general voting framework for ballot props which works most of the time. I’ve developed this framework over several elections and it is now fairly stable:

Prefer to vote for new taxes, preferably without a set-aside
Vote for groups that don’t have a strong lobby (youth, disabled, homeless, low-income people, the environment)
Vote for social policy change in ways that agree with my values
Vote for things that price externalities
Vote against things which increase needless or unhelpful bureaucracy
Vote against things which infringe upon rights of the people
Vote against things which undermine good government
Generally vote against budget set-asides, which limit the ability of representatives to budget effectively
Vote to liberate funds from budget set-asides, to be useful for other purposes (new this election)
Vote to fund infrastructure (new this election)

Don’t just vote NO on every ballot initiative. California’s broken tax system requires that way too many things go to the ballot because the legislature doesn’t have the constitutional authority to pass certain taxes and other laws. Voting NO for everything based on a principle of “we shouldn’t have to vote on so much” ensures the state is poorly run. My long term strategy with much of my political activism is to undo these rules and to bring California back to full representative democracy where ballot initiatives are rare.

#California, #Government, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voting

Explaining the Broken Housing Politics of San Francisco

Steven Buss, Aug 22, 2019, #Homelessness, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Tokyo, #YIMBY

Have you ever wondered why old buildings look like the building on the left, but new buildings look like the one on the right?

It’s because we made the old design illegal, and the new design mandatory.

#Homelessness, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Tokyo, #YIMBY

2018 November General Election Voting Guide

Steven Buss, Oct 9, 2018, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #US Election 2018, #Voter Guide, #Voting

This is my longest-ever voter guide. Not only do I justify my positions on propositions using my voting framework, I explain those choices in depth. Every ballot prop position is justified by some of my 10 voting principles, eg if you see (1, !2) that means the prop satisfies voting principle 1 and undermines principle 2. Here’s the tl;dr, scroll down for detailed explanations.

#Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #US Election 2018, #Voter Guide, #Voting

No on Kim

Steven Buss, Jun 2, 2018, #Elections, #Mayor, #Politics, #San Francisco, #YIMBY

Why Jane Kim shouldn’t be our next mayor

I think that the only candidate that deserves your vote is London Breed. She is good on housing and is running a positive campaign based on uniting San Francisco. She is smart, capable, has good policy advisers, and is the only candidate who will work with YIMBYs to build more housing.

Tell your friends: Don’t vote for Jane Kim. I prefer London Breed, but Mark Leno would be a fine alternative. Here’s why Jane Kim will be a disaster for our city:

#Elections, #Mayor, #Politics, #San Francisco, #YIMBY

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