See Jane Kim Run -- to the Right

I support Ending Nixon's War on Drugs. I wrote two Constitutional Initiatives to allow us as the People of our State of California to use our 10th Amendment States Rights in our Federal Constitution to call our California Citizens Constitutional Convention and really change California. We need to end the War on Drugs. We need to decriminalize all controlled substances in our State. There is no language in the Federal Constitution that allows the United States to set up any law to control substances. The 18th Amendment was Repealed in 1933 and that spoke only of alcohol. Why mention this?

Because the vast majority of California Citizens do not believe we should be treating the medical and social problems of "Alcoholic Addiction" with criminal solutions. Since that is where we are at, I strongly support "Safe Use Facilities in the Tenderloin and within one block of any clinic that dispensed Oral/Patch Methadone for the treatment of Heroin Addiction. I am not bashful to address this problem. We have an elephant in the room when DA Gascon can oversee Rogue SFPD Narcotics Cops breaking and entering private rooms in San Francisco to steal 50 plus grams of Heroin at a time, without due process of law, but the mentally ill addicts can't secure a place to shoot up the drugs the CIA imported under the oversight of GHW Bush and his International Heroin Cartel. It's time to take the crime out of all controlled substances. This would dry up all the profits. Still, we need to address the addicts and that problem. But the problem is not a crime. Where do we start to unravel this difficult problem? We all know the press will call these "Shooting Galleries". I prefer we not stigmatize the dope addicts. We do not disparage some one in a wheelchair. Heroin addiction is a real problem. It's a shame the US Government is behind the importation and distribution, mostly from Afghanistan these days. As a City and County we are left with the collateral damage of that sad war. Amnesty from prosecution should come with the safe space to address dope sickness and provide social service interfaces to agencies for help. Judge not. The kid or confused adult who gets strung out on Heroin may be your child, or parent. Heroin does not discriminate.

I am running for Mayor in 2011, and I want this topic addressed by all the Candidates.

At least she hasn't endorsed David Chiu yet.

This city still needs , desperately , moderates in it's governance..Even Canadians , as in Vancouver , know this. They have the NDP for their local social issues but often swing toward candidates/parties like Stephen Harper in national politics. Also 'Don Cherry' for commentary. We need moderate voices in San Francisco now as counter balance to the 'slogan chanting Maoists' that have ruled , over all and set their policies for a decade.

injection sites are already located in the Tenderloin courtesy of randy Shaw himself..What the hell do you think this is?

http://www.bluoz.com/blog/inde...

do us all a favor and stop being an idiot..I've had this info up for nearly 10 years and people in this town will ignore it even if you shove their face in it....Yep, that's corruption for ya

"poor people's needs" = a place to shoot heroine?

How about drug treatment?

I'm confused -- what did Candidate Kim *actually* say that led Marquez to believe she would support a Safe Injection site?

Then, what did she say she doesn't/no longer supports it?

It sounds like her office said 'this isn't a top priority for us' -- which she'd never said it was, right?

Are there any quotes -- like, actual commitments from the candidate or actual statements that she doesn't support it now... Something seems to be missing from this story...

I think I'm having a Rip Van Winkle episode!

so?she has decided that she wants to represent more than bums and addictsnow if she will just recite the pledge like any good American would

Love Latterman's comments, as the Hep C task force was appointed by Newsom and would hardly be amenable to "an idea pushed by lefty wingnuts." Newsom was a real lefty wingnut chucklefest, that he was.

My problem with the safe injection site proposal is that conservative media pumped that one up because it would appear as "an idea pushed by lefty wingnuts" and would make for an easy target. Everyone took the bait.

What we need to do is to prioritize what Hep C policy according to what policies save the most lives. If the safe injection site delivers the outcomes, then we should do that. My quick read of the report is that the safe injection site was not particularly prioritized over other policies.

More critically, I wonder why there is no proposal for single-use syringes in the Hep C report?

My understanding was that was the best bang for the buck intervention but that it did cost a few bucks, like $0.50 instead of $0.10 per. As one who fought to pass Prop O in 1990 that made needle exchange City policy, after Schwarzenegger signed the bill allowing localities to sell syringes without a prescription, needle exchange is now redundant, another operation that won't die after its been obviated.

If we use the needle exchange budget to subsidize single use syringes and provide vouchers to poor folks, all available out of pharmacies, then my bet is that we'll reprogram existing funds to end the potential of needle reuse.

Given that I am a "lefty wingnut," one who contracted Hep C 30 years ago when I inadvertently shared needles while partying on meth, I suppose that this idea is going no where.

-marc

Reverse field?

She changes directions better than any of the Niners' running backs. I asked her (I live in an SRO in the loin and have for years) if she'd work to change the visitors policy so that we can have guests on the 1st and 3rd of the month (prohibited now cause those are paydays and they assume every visitor is a drug dealer or a whore). Can all of you have Luke Thomas visit you on the 1st and the 3rd?

She responded positively but has done nada since elected.

She reminds me of a young Imelda Marcos or Madame Ch

This article is confusing. It takes the normal give and take of timing and politics and tries to twist it into some sort of judgement call about Kim. Six weeks in.

Personally, as a D6 voter, I hope she skews sane and stands up against the loud rent a mobs that the non-profit mafia has used to intimidate D6 politics ever since Daly.

But I'm doubtful.