Hangar 1 at Sunnyvale is an endangered historic structure, and would make a roomy shelter.
I think this is a platform which requires clarification. I think I could only support it if it was a bridge halfway to all destinations.
My vote’s still with Jello Biafra.
I think the first thing you need to do is focus on message and presentation. Lets look at the website, first.
Remember, potential voters are going to be coming to the website to get information about you and your campaign, and they’re going to be judging you based on what they see there. They come to the website because they want the information, and you need to be able to get it across in an organized way. You need to make it easy for them to learn about you, otherwise they won’t bother.
First, the front page. You have your little blurb “If you like what you see. . .” in 9 languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Armenian, Korean, German, Hebrew and Arabic). I understand that you want to be inclusive and get your message out to as many people as possible, you might want to cut it down to just English, Spanish, and Chinese, since the majority of people speak one of those languages.
Get rid of the clip art of the fist bumping, or at least move it. It’s cute but it clutters up the page, (and it’s also covering up one of your welcome messages). Move the countdown to the top of the page, and if you need to have a hits counter, move it to the bottom.
Why are your e-mail address and phone number in a separate box? Your e-mail address is also very long. I’d shorten it if you can.
On your facebook videos, get rid of the videos “Harry”, “Girl Fight”, and “At the Club”. They’re not professional, they might make voters think you don’t care about women’s issues, and don’t really belong on a campaign website.
Look at the bar to the various pages on your website. “Additional page 4”? “Additional Page 5”? What’s that mean? Those aren’t really informative. Make sure all your tabs are labeled.
I’d suggest four tabs. The first is the cover screen, cleaned up. The second, your bio. Who are you, what’s your background, what qualities and experience do you have that would make you a good mayor. People going to your website are going to want to know that.
Third tab is your stance on the issues, and the issues you want to push. I’d use bullet points and then expand underneath them. So, you know
*Get the homeless off the streets
We need to work to get the homeless off the streets and into shelters so that they can be taken care of and won’t be a public nuisance
*Open the San Francisco Bay Bridge to walkers and bike riders
If we open the bridge to walkers and bike riders it will help the environment
*Lower bus fairs and increase the length of parking meters.
The high cost of travel in San Francisco is hurting everyday San Franciscans. I propose lowering the bus fair to 50 cents and adding an extra 15 minutes on the parking meters.
Or whatever. The last page can be your photo page if you want it.
Also, I noticed in the videos a video to Malia Cohen’s birthday party. Is she a friend of yours? Can you get her support?
More on other things later.
Already done (almost) – the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which is supposed to open Labor Day weekend of this year, has space for bikes, but the western span is the original, and has no room. Nonetheless, I think this is a crack-brained idea, but I have to drive on the thing every day.
A hint from my own run for councillor in my town (list thing, not an individual run): do not piss off your own team.
By the time election day came around, the guy who headed our list (i.e., the mayoral candidate) had gotten to the point where us women were all saying “bloody hell, I’m seriously considering voting for The Other Guys because I can’t imagine them being worse than this asshole!”: he hadn’t liked our criticism of the bad grammar in the original posters and handouts, so he made sure that we didn’t see anything else early enough to grab the red pencils. Another person, he pissed off by homophobic remarks about this person’s students: Lit teacher at the local HS, he’d just played the Jewish grocer in Cabaret; the remark had been something along the lines of “those boys who played the cabaret boys, they’ll all be peddling ass in no time” - “excuse me, MY BOYS had the bollocks to sing and dance and even to kiss another guy in public, in front of the whole town! I don’t think you’d dare attack even Jingle Bells! And if you did you’d screw it!”.
“I lose money on every sale, but I make it up in volume!”
Nice!
Aren’t they supposed to be working on a separate bike/pedestrian lane that will be attached to the side of the western span? (I think one of the holdups is, they may have to wait until they can get the cantilever span taken apart - presumably “one piece of steel at a time,” like they did with the original Carquinez bridge.)
(Which will come first: a bike lane on the western Bay Bridge, or a second deck on the Golden Gate Bridge? Both seem about as likely…)
Back to the original question…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Castro Street play a major role in getting both Art Agnos and Gavin Newsom elected? I think it’s a matter of finding what parts of the city tend to turn out on election day, and concentrating on those.
No. There have been many proposals, and last year CalTrans spent $1.6 million on an “initiation study,” which means there is now a project, but there is no plan. The cantilevered bike lane(s) would add extra weight to the bridge, requiring reconstruction of the main deck to prevent sagging that would block ships on the Bay. Estimates for this work run from $500 million to $1 billion, and would likely exceed that before all is done. Planning and construction would take at least 10 years, and the clock’s not ticking yet because there is no source of funding.
The other issue you mention, demolishing the old eastern span, is not exactly in it. The problem is that the new eastern span’s bike lane can’t be extended to Treasure Island until the foundations of the old span and the temporary S-curve are removed, and ramps are built to the island. This will take two years, and work can’t begin until the new span is opened.
I cannot support a bridge half way to everywhere. I prefer a bridge half way to nowhere – it should be much cheaper.
In order to run for Mayor of San Francisco you have to be on the November ballet?
Wow. San Francisco really is gay.
Probably a thousand times more entertaining than traditional debates, though.
Hmmm…I wonder who would’ve looked better in a tutu. Romney or Obama?
Too funny!!! If ANYBODY can help you, huh?
Y’all realize this dude posted, left immediately, ain’t been back and ain’t coming back, right?
Suggestion number one;
Return to your damn thread and respond to the suggestions you asked for.
No one needs yet another non responsive politician. We be full up with that crap! Make a note so you don’t forget, okay?
I got a malware warning from the campaign site.
He’s gonna need a better video than the one that Ed Lee made, for starters.
I just read his “About Harold Miller” page, and while it doesn’t say jack about him, it does point out that he seems to think a mayor has pretty much the same power as an emperor or dictator.
The Farce runs deep in this one.