Elections

Another thing I hate about San Francisco local politics is the way that candidates find their ways around the campaign finance laws by putting onto the ballot individual initiatives that promote their name and celebrity-cause 'issue of the day' while wasting voters' time with a long list of often unreal and unworthy time-consuming votes that could have been decided at City Hall or whatnot. It's similar to using wedge-issue politics on the national level, or soft-money campaign financing that promote causes by often fake groups or whatnot. Arnold did it last year by backing a statewide 'who could be against schoolkids' initiative that just gave him the ability to work the system statewide and boost his name. It's all the rage on the local level. It's not any specific group's or individual's fault, it's the system's, and something need to be done about it.