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Prop 8 book
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hadn’t tried to write a definitive history of the marriage equality movement or the “gay rights” movement. “Many people have contributed to the success the movement has experienced. I have the [utmost] respect for all the people who contributed to that success,” wrote Becker. “My book was not meant to be a beginning-to-end-history of the movement. It’s about a particular group of people at an extraordinary moment in time, and I hope that people will be moved by their stories.” Unfortunately, her introduction to the book and the slick public relations material sent out to promote it proclaim otherwise. On page 1 of the book, she writes that the marriage equality “revolution ... begins with a handsome, bespectacled thirty-five-year-old political consultant named Chad Griffin. ...” Her own summary of the book calls it “the definitive account of the fight to win the rights of marriage and full citizenship for all ...” And the Penguin Press release that accompanies review copies of the book calls it, “A deeply insightful and riveting account of a national civil rights struggle ...” It quotes such celebrity legal commentators as Jeffrey Toobin as saying the book is “a superb, behind-the-scenes account of the legal battle to bring marriage equality to the nation.” The NAACP’s former president, Benjamin Todd Jealous, calls it “the definitive account of one of the great civil rights struggles of our times.” This is the kind of hype that accompanies many books. It’s how publishers, in a very competitive environment, woo attention and favorable comments from reviewers, television talk shows, and other vehicles in a position to stoke book sales. But critics of Forcing the Spring take issue with the book beyond the exaggeration of its marketing campaign. “Forcing the Spring just doesn’t get it right,” writes gay BuzzFeed legal editor Chris Geidner. He noted that Becker quotes Hollywood screenwriter Dustin Lance Black as being rebuffed by an audience of potential LGBT major donors to the litigation organized by Griffin’s American
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Elections dept. seeks poll workers
The San Francisco Department of Elections is seeking poll workers for the upcoming June 3 primary election. Poll workers operate polling places on Election Day and assist voters in many parts of the voting process. They include retirees, high school students learning on-thejob civics lessons, and hundreds of people who take a day off from
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Foundation for Equal Rights. Becker also reports that the donor meeting’s organizer, Tim Gill, “denounced Black outright.” Geidner provides a link to a video of the closed-door meeting about which Becker was writing that shows Black’s speech was interrupted with applause five times, and won a standing ovation from at least a few in the audience. And Geidner said Gill’s alleged denouncement of Black was “more of a nuanced defense of ‘gradualism’” strategy for winning marriage equality. Hollywood movies require conflict and struggle, and it may be that the book – whose inside cover touts it as a “gripping behind-the-scenes narrative with the lightning pace of the greatest legal thrillers” – fell prey to the need to dramatize some hurdles for her heroes to overcome. A more journalistic approach might have conveyed the mixed reaction of Black’s audience and contrasted that with Black’s personal interpretation of how he was received. It also would have been helpful for Becker to have talked in some depth with LGBT legal activists who have been working on the marriage equality movement for many years. A number of LGBT legal advocates have pointed out significant factual errors in Becker’s account as reported by the press thus far (none had received a copy of the book in advance) and expressed astonishment at her cavalier pronouncement that the marriage equality movement had been “languishing” in “obscurity” before Griffin and Olson came along. Becker wrote that LGBT legal activists planned to win marriage equality in 30 states before filing a federal lawsuit. “Lambda Legal did not have a strategy of getting to 30 states with marriage equality (or any particular number for that matter) before we would consider bringing a federal case,” said Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Jon Davidson. Becker’s portrayal of Roberta Kaplan, attorney to Edith Windsor in the Supreme Court case that struck down the key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, as an “outsider” to the establishment legal activists was also widely disputed. “Robbie was not an outsider,” said Gay and Lesbian Advocates and De-
fenders spokeswoman Carisa Cunningham. “She had worked for the ACLU for years, just as she did on Edie’s case. She also worked with Lambda on the New York marriage case, Hernandez.” Becker was not hired by the movement to write its history. If she and her book promoters had just been a little more careful to pitch the book as a behind-the-scenes picture of the Proposition 8 litigation, the hue and cry might not be so harsh as it is. The drama achieved by portraying the marriage equality movement pre-Griffin-Olson as “languishing” and “obscurity” extracts a price from Becker’s credentials. For LGBT people, the Baehr v. Miike trial in Honolulu and its subsequent legal victories – and even its political defeats, including passage by Congress of DOMA – warrant neither of those dismissive assessments. There ensued an intense political war over marriage equality on state ballots around the country beginning in 1998, and, while supporters of same-sex marriage lost those battles, they came back with a steady, methodically planned and executed series of legal challenges that won civil unions in Vermont in the late 1990s and marriage equality in Massachusetts in 2003. And just a month before Griffin and Olson first joined that battle with the filing of the Prop 8 lawsuit, Lambda Legal won a unanimous victory in Iowa. The decades of cultural and legal combat opened up the country to a conversation that became both personal and national and moved public opinion. The Prop 8 case was definitely part of that effort and, near the last paragraph of her book, Becker tempers her assessment of the GriffinOlson effort as having brought the dream of equality “within reach.” The Prop 8 litigation enabled same-sex couples in California to be married, and other political activists and lawsuits have won marriage equality in more than a dozen other states. The legal team of Olson and David Boies is back at work with a case in the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and other legal teams have similarly situated cases in other federal appeals courts. Each is hoping to win marriage equality for all states. Almost certainly, one of them will succeed. But the credit will belong to the many, not the few.t
their regular lives to be of service to city voters. There is a training class prior to the election, in which duties are explained in detail. Lead poll workers must also pick up materials before the election and transport them to their assigned polling place the morning of June 3. Applicants must be lawful permanent residents of the U.S., age 18 or older. All positions are one-day assignments that pay between $145$195. Applicants who speak Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese in addition to English
are highly encouraged to apply. Interested people must apply in person at the Poll Worker Hiring Office, which is open Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is located in the Department of Elections, in the basement of San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. For more information, visit www. sfelections/org/pollworker or call (415) 554-4395.t Matthew S. Bajko contributed to this report.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOME CARE AND CLEANING, 440 9TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARK MANGAMPAT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/14.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEAN N SAVE DRY CLEANERS, 647 BOSWORTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed FUTIAN HUO & HUI YING ZHU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/31/14.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALMA HOLISTIC, 2040 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALMA E. ARCINIEGAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/17/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/17/14.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EARLYWOOD CARPENTRY, 1009 CABRILLO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed KELLY ROGALA & MICHAEL ROGALA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/24/14.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BETTER WIRED ELECTRIC, 258 EUREKA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JOSHUA FROST & JAMES FROST. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/14.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APP ACADEMY, 1061 MARKET ST, 4TH FLOOR, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HASH MAP LABS, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/11/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/14.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CITIPETS, 183 WEST PORTAL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed ALLISON WERGER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/00. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/14.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEATHER ALLEY; MR SAN FRANCISCO LEATHER; MR SF LEATHER; 584 CASTRO ST #660, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LEATHER ALLIANCE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names 03/10/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/14.
APR 03, 10, 17, 24, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550227 In the matter of the application of: SIOBHAN KATHERINE DUNY, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SIOBHAN KATHERINE DUNY, is requesting that the name SIOBHAN KATHERINE DUNY, be changed to SIOBHAN KATHERINE BAMFORD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 5th of June 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.
APR 10, 17, 24, MAY 01, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“District”), 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for Graffiti Removal Systemwide, Request for Proposal No. 6M3250, on or about April 18, 2014, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District intends to engage the services of a company (“CONTRACTOR”) to provide graffiti removal systemwide. The District presently intends to enter into a three (3) year Agreement with the CONTRACTOR selected with two options, exercisable by the District at its sole discretion, to extend the term of the Agreement for one (1) year each. A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2014. The Pre-Proposal Meeting will convene at 10:00 a.m., local time, at BART Offices located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor – Conference Room #1715, Oakland, CA. At the Pre-Proposal Meeting the District’s Non-Discrimination Program for Subcontracting/Small Business Program Policy will be explained. All questions regarding these programs should be directed to Alma Basurto, Office of Civil Rights at (510)464-6388 – FAX (510) 464-7673. Prospective Proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District’s Contract Administrator, telephone (510) 464-6543, prior to the date of the Pre-Proposal Meeting. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after April 18, 2014) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: A PDF version of the RFP will be sent to all firms on the Interested Parties List at time of advertisement; or (1) By E-mail request to the District’s Contract Administrator, Aminta Maynard, at amaynar@bart.gov (2) By arranging pick up at the above address. Call the District’s Contract Administrator, (510) 464-6543 prior to pickup of the RFP. Dated at Oakland, California this 16th day of April 2014. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 4/24/14 CNS-2612879# BAY AREA REPORTER
APR 03, 10, 17, 24, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035721900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLAWLESS TAN, 5462 NEWPARK PLAZA, NEWARK, CA 94560. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZILIKA OMAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/18/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/14.
APR 10, 17, 24, MAY 01, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035762200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAME PLAN STRATEGIC, 222 COLUMBUS AVE #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed STEFANIE P. KELLY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/04/14.
APR 10, 17, 24, MAY 01, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035748500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STRIVE 360 CHIROPACTIC WELLNESS CENTER, 166 GEARY ST #1102, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL AGEGNEHU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/14.
APR 10, 17, 24, MAY 01, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035746500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHANG’S KITCHEN, 1030 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CHANG SHENG INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/14.
APR 10, 17, 24, MAY 01, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035756900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 21TECH, 1390 MARKET ST #1202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 21TECH, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/96. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/14.
APR 10, 17, 24, MAY 01, 2014 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-035185600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: KEVIN’S KIMCHI HOME COOKING, 510 26TH AVE #508, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by KEVIN CHRISTOPHER ROBERTSON. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/17/13.
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