Dear Fellow Republicans,
 
Looking forward to 2009 and 2010, please help me welcome the new Executive Committee of the San Francisco Republican Party.  Elected unanimously by fellow Republican Central Committee members, these volunteers give of their time and talents to help promote our interests in the City.  Working on everything from updating mundane bylaws and developing budgets to fundraising to help move the Republican agenda forward in San Francisco, this group deserves our thanks. 

As if we didn’t already know, here is yet further evidence that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors never met a tax they didn’t like.  When the 2009-2010 budget ballooned to $6.8 billion (more than the budget of many states), it included a deficit of nearly $500 million.  Circulating around the Board of Supervisors is a proposal to declare an emergency that would enable a special election in June to decide on new tax proposals and quietly dispense with many regulations that govern elections in San Francisco.  In effect, opposition to the new taxes would be stifled.  City employee unions, who are currently polling the concept to determine support for it, are funding the proposed ordinance.  It seems that the union believes that the residents of San Francisco exist for the convenience of the employees of the city, rather than the other way around.

Perhaps, like many Republicans, you were a bit disheartened by the results of last year’s election.   One sure remedy is to network with other Republicans and lay out plans for 2010.  Locally, there are a variety of Republican clubs and organizations where you can get together with likeminded San Franciscans.  Many of these organizations combine both the opportunity for political action and just plain socializing.