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  1. The 22-day Muni challenge is a FARCE and the San Francisco Transit Riders Union are wolves in sheep’s clothing. If you do a little research into the organization you will find that the Transit Riders Union is fiscally sponsored by Livable City an anti-car lobbying organization that was started by the former head of the Bicycle Coalition. http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/16/push-to-organize-sf-transit-riders-proving-difficult

    Some people say its unethical that 501(c)3 organizations http://web.archive.org/web/20021119090925/http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns.html have been allowed to use their tax exempt non-profit status for unlimited lobbying of political candidates but in San Francisco the rules of lobbying are mostly ignored.

    Do a little more digging an you will also find that many of these pseudo non-profits are in fact lobbyists http://web.archive.org/web/20100528120040/http://www.sftru.org/whoweare who use their 501(c)3 status to generate more “improvement” MUNI projects that will be paid for with passing bonds and adding to the public debt. Why is MUNI always under funded? The Transit Riders union is basically an extension of the SFMTA and the Supervisors are part of the “publicity stunt” to raise more revenue for bicycle lanes, pedestrian plazas, and the SFMTAs ongoing street scape “improvement” projects.

    • YES! Requesting that our LEADERS understand the transportation that they fund is a FARCE. How can we BLATHER on the INTERNET about our IGNORANT LEADERS if they respond to calls to EDUCATE themselves???

      HOW DARE any organization mention PROP AA???

        • Too late you are engaged.

          The 22-day challenge is a FARCE because The Mayor, and Board of Supervisors are Actually Required By Law to Ride Muni.

          A 1993 ballot measure, sponsored by a group led by Jerry Brown, made it
          official city policy that the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and
          other top city officials must all ride Muni or other public transit to
          work at least twice a week. It was approved by 65 percent of voters. Has
          anyone been enforcing this in the last decade? The answer is no.

          http://sfist.com/2014/08/06/mayor_board_of_supervisors_actually.php

        • FARCE: “Law”

          I don’t think NON-BINDING POLICY means what you THINK it means.

          Please EXPLAIN how one would ENFORCE a non-binding POLICY?

          One way MIGHT be to ISSUE A CHALLENGE.

        • Amazing. 8 comments on the thread, and two of them are you copying and pasting the same verbatim responses. Are you paid to do this?

      • The 22-day challenge is a FARCE because The Mayor, and Board of Supervisors are Actually Required By Law to Ride Muni.

        A 1993 ballot measure, sponsored by a group led by Jerry Brown, made it official city policy that the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and other top city officials must all ride Muni or other public transit to work at least twice a week. It was approved by 65 percent of voters. Has anyone been enforcing this in the last decade? The answer is no.

        http://sfist.com/2014/08/06/mayor_board_of_supervisors_actually.php