Recall Berkeley Mayor Bates

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54246199555661781212011-04-21T20:11:07.727-07:00Recall Berkeley Mayor BatesBerkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-73028622652143275582007-12-07T12:30:00.000-08:002007-12-07T19:39:53.061-08:00WHY WE WANT TO RECALL BERKELEY MAYOR TOM BATES

A Recall is the last chance for a straight forward mayoral election and a serious evaluation of Mayor Tom Bates..Without a Recall, Mayor Tom Bates will be likely to win another 4 year term in the November 2008 election. With the mayoral race occurring at the same time as the much anticipated Presidential race, all attention will be on electing the next US president. The press will ignore local

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-32731861308719931582007-12-03T00:03:00.000-08:002007-12-04T01:24:38.573-08:00Take the Money Now. Talk later.

One of the tactics Mayor Bates has used often, in a feeble attempt to quell public discontent is this notion that we can all sit down and have a civilized discussion just as soon as we procure funding from state and/or federal coffers.So for example, when hundreds of concerned citizens rallied against the Mayor’s grant proposal to CalTrans to fund what they were concerned would be a behemoth

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-52020339177435463552007-11-28T20:47:00.001-08:002007-12-04T01:24:38.573-08:00BATES IS WRONG FOR BERKELEY

Why is Tom Bates wrong for Berkeley?-ATTEMPTING TO OVERDEVELOP TOWN -- sort of like THE BRONX.-DISSING CITIZENS WITH HEARTFELT PROBLEMS - LIKE SAY THE TRADER JOE'S BUILDING OVERSHADOWING A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.-THROWING AWAY RESOURCES, TURNING ICELAND INTO A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT-SELLING OUT THE CITY TO UC. SINCE THE EARLY 80'S WHEN BATES AS A LEGISLATOR HELPED UC MOVE THE BLIND SCHOOL TO FREMONT SO

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-42176034210320225782007-11-28T20:46:00.000-08:002007-12-08T13:24:31.335-08:00Transit Village(s) & Ashby Bart

While in Sacremento on our dime as a legislator Bates managed to pass Transit Village legislation which he is now using to try to develop a vast housing development replacing the parking lot at Ashby Bart.He tried to force it through with a phony "citizen's" commission representing the area, which he appointed himself. This failed. He evidently is trying something else that the home owners in the

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-91648864715770581152007-11-28T20:45:00.002-08:002007-12-08T13:15:41.084-08:00Downtown Parking and the Brower Center

Bad enough was the demolishing of the Hinks garage to make way for the huge apartment complex called Library Gardens (No gardens, just tiny apartments), but downtown and movie parking was further destroyed by the digging up of the Oxford Lot for a proposed Brower ecology center with adjacent HUD supported "affordable" housing.Beautiful old trees were cut down on day one of this overpriced, over

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-4932924724692036122007-11-28T20:45:00.001-08:002007-12-07T13:16:13.112-08:00HUD Housing and Urban Deveopment Subsidised Housing

Berkeley's Housing Dept was recently cited for especially poor performance and the entire staff dismissed. The head of Berkeley's City Dept of Housing was also dismissed. It seems a HUD audit had finally pointed out that the local housing job was not being done right.The waiting list was over 5 years old. It was a mess so that no one could tell the order of selection, and had to be discarded. It

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-91265936547418577782007-11-28T20:43:00.000-08:002007-12-08T13:22:43.592-08:00Cell Phone Towers

Maybe our City Hall doesn't feel like fighting Washington DC but the Mayor and Council refused to block the installation of Cell Phone Towers on the edge of a very nice residential neighborhood. The Mayor felt forced to avoid legal action from the Feds while the neighbors, in droves, wanted the Mayor to fight valiantly along side of them, win or lose.The Mayor is like a father that thinks he

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-83268060248669943142007-11-28T20:40:00.002-08:002007-12-07T13:18:13.346-08:00Warm Water Pool Ignored by Council and Sc. Bd

Despite continuous lobbying from Council Member Dona Spring and many other handicapped warm water pool users, and despite voter passage of a bond messure years ago, the Mayor, the Council, and the School Board seem determined to tear down its landmarked building and run a $14 million bond issue to replace the pool on a small lot without parking for the users. The building could be fixed up for an

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-86685811282287173742007-11-28T20:40:00.001-08:002007-12-08T13:27:47.346-08:00BRT Bus Rapid Transit with Dedicated Lanes

Bates is trying to hide behind the Transportation Commission whose members and staff throttle off discussion of whether the BRT comes up at planning meetings.BRT will take two lanes out of the middle of Telegraph Ave in Oakland, eliminate much of the parking in front of all the new little businesses that have grown up from 15th St. in Oakland, and Dwight Way in Berkeley, and lay waste the

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-45205034365329035942007-11-28T20:36:00.000-08:002007-12-04T01:24:38.577-08:00Bates voting for the Developer’s, turning Wright’s Garage into a Bar, illegal under local ordinance.

Elmwood: Bates supported the developer effort to turn Wright's Garage into a huge fancy restaurant that the neighborhood didn't want. This in turn cost both the neighbors and the developer (John Gordon) mucho extra bucks as the community sued the city and the developer to overturn this decision. It was clear at the Council meeting that the neighborhood overwhelmingly rejected this drastic change,

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-8225043439202497212007-11-28T20:35:00.003-08:002007-12-04T01:24:38.577-08:00The Mayor is not Considerate of Others

At the Council Meeting the Mayor as Chairman can schedule appearances. He uses this power to disaccommodate groups who wish to speak to the Council.-Handicapped people were recently disrespected by the Mayor. They came to speak at the start of the meeting. Dona Spring asked the Mayor to let them speak early because of their condition and transportation needs, but the Mayor put them after two

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-3940939500633358782007-11-28T20:35:00.001-08:002007-12-04T01:24:38.578-08:00ICELAND Closes with Mayor's Blessing

Perhaps the largest turnout ever at the City Council grouped hockey players and figure skaters in a huge parade and yet at a subsequent meeting the Mayor supported tearing down the Rink and replacing it with housing. The Council voted him down and the Mayor said old skaters could put up a plaque. He was booed!!The details here included a petition to "Landmark" Iceland which passed despite the

Berkeley Residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889267909250942717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424619955566178121.post-16925195930766015062007-11-28T20:32:00.000-08:002007-12-02T12:00:31.556-08:00Comments on the Recall and Voting.

The county says we need 17,000 signatures to recall the Mayor.You can help. Email us and we'll help you gather signatures. Gatherors will be on both sides of town almost daily. We have 58 days from Dec 6 to do this. This is sure to give the Mayor a wake up call.If you see a table at your favorite grocery store, come on over and sign.Also be sure to see if the Mayor's stooges are harassing the

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