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By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

October 10, 2008<\/p>\n

An impromptu “respectful” and “professional” debate between Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and a PG&E employee occurred yesterday during a special meeting of the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC). HANC held the meeting to consider Proposition H, the San Francisco Clean Energy Act, for its endorsement.<\/p>\n

The employee said he feared PG&E workers would lose their jobs if Proposition H is passed in November.<\/p>\n

Mirkarimi countered that Proposition H is simply a charter amendment that seeks to examine the feasibility of municipalizing San Francisco’s energy production, incrementally advancing San Francisco to a 100 percent clean energy portfolio by 2040.<\/p>\n

Proposition H is “our gateway to finding answers that are blessed by the City’s constitution so that it’s meaningful and has teeth, and it’s binding and it’s obligatory,” Mirkarimi said during a Prop H fundraiser billed as a “Green Note Jazz Mixer,” held at the Poleng Lounge immediately following the HANC endorsement meeting. “We’re doing what cities throughout California have done to say that we want to deliver the best energy from a renewable source at cheaper rates.”<\/p>\n

Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who attended the fundraiser, said: “As incompetent as your government may be, it doesn’t have a profit motive, it doesn’t pay its executives $30 million when they’re in bankruptcy.”<\/p>\n

“If you write your check to (P)igs, (G)reed and (E)xtortion, they’ll cash it,” Peskin added. “We have an unparalleled opportunity to take the greed and the profit motive and return a resource that is fundamentally the resource of all of us, back to us.”<\/p>\n

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More Info<\/strong><\/p>\n

Power Struggle<\/a> – How the best-laid plans of John Edward Raker and the U.S. Congress were scuttled by PG&E: A chronology, 1848–1988<\/p>\n

San Francisco Clean Energy Act website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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