{"id":643,"date":"2008-07-02T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/peskin-passes-the-baton\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T21:15:55","slug":"peskin-passes-the-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/643\/peskin-passes-the-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"Peskin Passes the Baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YMZy93iMuEw&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YMZy93iMuEw&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 2, 2008<\/p>\n<p>District 3 Supervisor and Board President Aaron Peskin yesterday delivered a passing of the baton speech to a new crop of candidates vying to replace him in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future of this town is in all of our hands,&#8221; Peskin said to an audience of Harvey Milk Club members during a candidates forum held at the LGBT Center in San Francisco. &#8220;As District 3 goes, so goes San Francisco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peskin discussed why he decided to run for public office, crediting Supervisor Tom Ammiano&#8217;s urging of him to run for the Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The year was 2000 and the streets were being paved with gold,&#8221; Peskin said, &#8220;and all of our friends were getting kicked out of their apartments and out of this town. And we had one of the most incredible, most powerful, omnipotent chief executives Willie Brown&hellip; a once or twice in a century event started brewing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After winning a seat on the DCCC, Peskin said he &#8220;stupidly&#8221; ran for District Supervisor in 2000, a seat he went on to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kicked the bums out,&#8221; Peskin said referring to the incumbents that were ousted in 2000. &#8220;It was actually a very profound thing, because the face of San Francisco was changing, the diversity that we love was changing&#8230; we were losing the soul of this city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peskin said that he believes District 3 is &#8220;swing district&#8221; and expressed a hope that his replacement remained progressive on affordable housing and revenue issues, as well as supporting progressive measures on the November ballot related to payroll tax, real estate transfer tax, preservation of the 911 fee, and maintaining San Francisco General Hospital as &#8220;the crown jewel in the City and County of San Francisco.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luke Thomas July 2, 2008 District 3 Supervisor and Board President Aaron Peskin yesterday delivered a passing of the baton speech to a new crop of candidates vying to replace him in November. &#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[999],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-aaron-peksin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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