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RESUME OF EMIL LAWRENCE GOING BACK TO 1975
Resume
Mr. Emil Lawrence
660 Westfield Road
Unit 281 - 287
San Francisco, CA 94128
415-513-7705 PCS Mobile
Objective: 2011
Position: SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR 2011
Work History: 1/26/ 04--11/23/06
Data Base Specialist/Accountant: US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Produced Word documents, Excel accounting sheets and Access data mining projects using PowerPoint displays for the Regional Director. (Director for Region IX appointed by the President of the USA.) Worked with local HUD Web Designer. Part-time non-permanent position, funded by non-profits through the Dept of Commerce DOC.
Work History: 6/6/96-11/4/2001---9/5/1996-11/24/2004
Auditor/Journalist/Taxi Driver: Arthur Anderson /Hearst Corporation: Auditor, journalist, accountant, investigator, columnist, courier, taxi driver & security officer. Produced magazine/newspaper stories as a columnist & journalist while employed in multiple occupations. While employed by the Hearst Corporation worked 20-30 hours a week as an accountant & auditor- per diem for A. Anderson through 9/11/2001.
Work History: 11/20/1985-6/6/1996
Chief Financial Officer/General Partner CFO: Butler, Savin & Lawrence, LLP, SF CA, affiliated with ING Bank, Chicago, Ill. Derivatives & Securities Clearing, Strategist, Market Analyst & Compliance Officer for hedge fund portfolio services firm registered with the SEC, NFA & the CFTC. Analyzed price targets & traded in T- bonds, T-bills, Eurodollars, Eurobonds, currencies, options, futures, derivatives, securities, gold, silver & other precious metals bullion. Firm closed due to management problems associated with extensive capital requirements. Many clients associated with the Commercial Bank of San Francisco. Monitored Anti-Money Laundering Act (AML).
Work History: 3/3/1983-11/20/1985
Financial Advisor: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Account Executive, Registered Investment Advisor RIA in securities, derivatives, futures & investment banking products. Marketed investments in bonds, securities, T-bills, precious metals, tax products, annuities, futures, derivatives to public funds and individuals. Manager: Henry Auwinger. Dean Witter Reynolds merged with Morgan Stanley. http://www.morganstanley.com/ Writer/columnist Airline Executive magazine on Crude Oil/gasoline, heating oil/ as hedges for airline fuels such as JP-5
Real Estate, Law, M&A and Tax Education, Licenses and Present Training: 2010
D. R.E. California Department of Real Estate, “Real Estate Agent’s Exam” 2007
C.T.E.C. California Tax Education Council, “Certified California Tax Preparer Bond” 2009
I.R.S. Fed Registration and Certification for Preparing Taxes in this USA 2010
Updated Skills, Certifications & Continuing Education: 2004-2013
C.C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate “Paralegal” 2013
C. C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate, "Business Office Technology” 2011
C.C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate, “California Real Estate” 2006
C.C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate "Micro Computerized Accounting” 2004
(Certificates approx 30 college semester units: “Pocket Master's Degrees”)
Federal Education, Training & Licensing: 1982-1994
N.F.A. / C.F.T.C. (Commodity Trading Advisor) CTA, License--1992-1994
S.E.C. / N.A.S.D. /N.F.A. Securities Exchange Commission, Federal Exam & License, Blue Sky--1984
S.E.C. / N.A.S.D. Securities Exchange Commission, Federal Exam & License, Series VII--1983
N.F.A. National Futures Association, Federal Exam & License, Series III--1982
General Academic Education: 1975-1979
S. F.S.U. San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA, Business Administration-MA-1978
S. F.S.U. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Philosophy-Corporate Finance-BA-1977
C. C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Finance-Business-AA- 1974
MAYORAL STATEMENT FOR 2011
Emil Lawrence for Mayor
Mayor’s Statement
I am running for San Francisco Mayor because City government is no longer accountable. As a resident for 41 years, I have determined that local government needs an adjustment. Our present leaders have lost touch with the residents they serve.
As a US Navy veteran, I have two daughters that were born and raised here. As a veteran my administration will reach out to those that have served. And, I will make City government transparent.
As Mayor, you will know that I have lived and worked in the City since 1970. And, I did not come into town from Sacramento or Greenbrae, last year. Also, unlike others, I am not connected to the political machine that steam rolled into town with the Interim crew.
As Mayor, I will eliminate 5000 outrageously paid posts and replace them with others. I will, then, hire seniors, veterans, high school and college students, as well as handicapped people at ‘reasonable’ salaries. I will put “City Voters” to work. City voters will know, “I am not like our present crew, but someone just like all of you.”
With this statement, I ask for your vote.
Sincerely,
Emil Lawrence MBA
Flyer #7
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE COALITION QUESTIONNAIRE AUG 17, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE COALITIONNovember 2011 Mayoral Candidate QuestionnaireDownload a digital version of this document at www.sfbike.org/2011candidate * Please return your answers to this questionnaire via email no later than Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 4:00pm. * The SF Bicycle Coalition will only consider questionnaires from candidates certified by the Department of Elections * Responses will be shared with our board, membership and the general public on sfbike.org/vote. Our Board of Directors will make an endorsement guided by your questionnaire responses along with input from our current dues-paying members.* Please submit your responses via MS Word file or in the body of an email, so we can easily re-publish your answers on the SF Bicycle Coalition website. Submit your responses to marc
@sfbike.org* Please do not surpass the word limits stated. Any words exceeding the word limit will not be considered or published. Any additional content will be truncated. * If you have questions, contact Marc Caswell, Program Manager at 415-431-2453 x302 or marc@
sfbike.org Please respond using no more than 75 words for each response; longer responses will be truncated. For internal staff-use only:Campaign Telephone: Campaign Fax: Candidate Personal Email:Contact name for further clarification/questions about this document: Contact phone number & email: For publishing to sfbike.org/vote:CandidateÕs Name: Website: [Please include a photo of the candidate for us to use on our website] 1. How often do you ride a bicycle in San Francisco (for any purpose), and for what kinds of trips? Answer: I used to ride about once a week, but have not done so, lately. First, two years ago my bike was stolen. Second, I developed a case of “vein stasis” and when this clears I will start riding, again. 2. The City has established a goal that 20% of trips in San Francisco be made by bicycle by 2020. Do you endorse this goal? Answer: Yes, I do endorse it. What will you do as Mayor to realize this goal, providing a better San Francisco biking experience for locals and visitors? Answer: We will need more streets with just walkways, and no cars. And, we will need stuff to boost the merchants that have stores in these areas, if they lose business due to the initial lack of automobiles. Outside of this, bicycle traffic can grow. 3. It has been repeatedly shown that the most effective way to boost the number of people bicycling in San Francisco and improve the bicycling experience is to designate dedicated space for bicycling through physically separated bikeways and traffic-calmed streets. Answer: Here, we have to talk about training and more training. There is no free ride. Bicycling in a city rolling with automobiles is a dangerous affair. Once the rider understands this, learns to observe what he or she is doing, while riding at all times, learning like a boxer to be on he defensive…ridership without hazards will come. The SF Bicycle Coalition has set out its Connecting the City initiative (www.connectingthecity.org), an ambitious and achievable vision of crosstown bikeways that are comfortable and inviting for people of all ages and abilities, connecting neighborhoods and helping locals and visitors to shop, work, and play more often by bike. Reconfiguring our streets to include crosstown bikeways and other "low stress" bike routes, thereby improving the safety and quality of life for hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans who currently ride a bike, will draw concern from some neighbors unused to this next-generation infrastructure and the reprogramming of some on-street car parking and traffic lanes (though the City is often able to add parking close to project areas to balance the change). Understanding this, will you commit to bringing a mayoral mandate and urgency to completing 25 miles of continuous crosstown bikeways within four years, directing City staff to complete them on streets such as Oak, Fell, Polk and Valencia Streets, San Jose Avenue and the Embarcadero? Answer: All of this is an ambitious plan, but safety is paramount. And, this City is a long shot from a safe bicycle route. Mandatory bicyle training would help us get there. 4. Market Street, in addition to many other attributes, is centrally important for Muni and bicycle travel, with a quarter of a million daily transit vehicle boardings on or under it each weekday, and more daily bike trips than almost any other street in the United States. The City and community partners have commenced a series of trials to test ideas for improving Market Street, for the sake of transportation improvements as well as public realm and economic enhancements. Do you support continued and expanded trials to speed up Muni and create safer conditions for walking and biking, such as additional required turns to reduce traffic congestion on the street, "through streets" (e.g. Montgomery Street) which would permit private vehicles to cross but not turn onto Market Street (commercial, taxi and paratransit vehicles would be exempt, as they are now), extending the separated green bikeway further eastward, and other such ideas? Answer: I am for adding more green zones, as long as more training for bike riders takes place. I cannot tell you how many times I have almost run over a bike rider, because the rider expected me to see him, when he or she had no lights, helmet, blah, blah, blah. 5. Market Street is scheduled for full repaving in 2015. The City has begun a public process to plan for and deliver a Better Market Street when the repaving work takes place. Do you support a continuous, physically separated green bikeway the full length of Market Street (maintaining/enhancing Muni and the pedestrian realm)? Answer: At the moment, yes. 6. Sunday Streets is a popular program, now in its fourth year, which the SF Bicycle Coalition is proud to have helped launch. Sunday Streets creates miles of temporary car-free streets for people to get physically active in diverse SF neighborhoods, on bicycles, on foot, on skates, in wheelchairs, with dogs, with hula hoops, etc. Will you work to continue and grow Sunday Streets by integrating it into the City budget to ensure steady funding? Answer: I have not seen what the funding is for Sunday streets. 7. Will you support the launch of a trial of an every-week Sunday Streets route between April and October beginning in 2012, and a second trial in 2013, with a citywide network of Sunday Streets by 2017? Answer: I would have to know more, but the plan looks admirable. 8. San Francisco has begun a Safe Routes to School program, encouraging students and their families to walk and bike to school, through a well-developed program of education and collaboration with schools and parents, led by the SF Department of Public Health and carried out by the SF Bicycle Coalition and other public agencies and community groups. Though funding has been limited, in its two years of existence the program has taught bicycle and pedestrian safety to over 2,500 children in classrooms across the city. Will you commit to supporting a more robust Safe Routes to School program by expanding it to all schools in the city? Answer: All schools would have to be checked. 9. Thanks to advocacy from the SF Bicycle CoalitionÕs Great Streets Project and leadership by the SF Planning Department, the city has seen a wave of popular public realm enhancements over the past few years, from "Pavement to Parks" plazas to sidewalk-extending "parklets" to on-street bicycle parking "corrals" (installing bike parking racks along curb space often used for car parking). These projects are partnerships between local groups, including business groups, and the City. Do you support continuing and growing the Pavement to Parks program with three new major projects a year beginning in 2012? Answer: I accept the program on it merits, but would have to see more. 10. Do you support the ability of businesses to continue to apply for and install parklets and bike parking corrals near their businesses? Answer: Yes, if they do not obstruct pedestrian traffic. 11. Do you support the installation of at least 25 bike parking corrals a year, according to local demand? Answer: The number of corrals, I am not sure. 12. A group of city agencies has come together to create an Innovations Working Group, with the goal of testing new ways to more easily and inexpensively improve streets. They have begun looking at less-expensive versions of curb extensions and would like to develop and test similarly "lightweight" new traffic calming techniques, such as wider sidewalks and shared streets (on which the street level is flush with the sidewalks and cars are permitted to travel but at a pedestrian pace). Do you support testing such new and innovative streetscape improvement measures to help the City to more easily partner with local groups to improve the safety and appeal of streets? Answer: Having to many plans is not a great idea. 13. Pavement quality is an essential issue for safe comfortable bicycling in San Francisco ÐÊpotholes can make biking not merely uncomfortable but often hazardous. With the city's streets in such a desperately poor state of repair, more funding is needed to keep our streets in a stable condition and begin to reverse the downward trend. At the same time we need to accelerate major streetscape enhancements for biking, walking, and transit on streets like Masonic Avenue, Second Street, and of course Market Street. Do you support Proposition B, the Road Repaving and Street Safety Bond measure, on the November ballot? Answer: No. 14. Do you support bringing more funding to bikeway construction and maintenance by prioritizing at least 50% of the streets in the repaving schedule to be streets that are designated bike routes? Answer: Yes 15. What are your ideas for ongoing funding sources and mechanisms for pavement maintenance and repair? Answer: I do not know what funding sources and mechanisms entail here. 16. Funding for bikeways and other bicycle improvements and programs in San Francisco is presently made up from an array of local, regional, and federal grants, with a tiny fraction coming from the SFMTA's operating budget. Given the City's policy commitments to increasing everyday bicycle transportation, and the already significant number of trips taking place by bike (6% by SFMTA's estimate in 2009), would you support an increase for bicycle project and program funding from SFMTA's budget? 17. What are your ideas for other funding sources for bicycle projects and programs in San Francisco? Answer: Possibly tax rebates. 18. Will you include funding for San Francisco bicycle projects and programs in prospective funding requests to regional, state and federal entities as part of the City’s transportation funding agenda? Answer: Yes, based on percentage 19. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was designed to help citizens and policy makers understand the environmental impact of proposed projects by requiring structured analysis for such projects before permitting them to go forward. Under the current practice of CEQA by the SF Planning Department, projects that reduce traffic speeds and make streets safer for walking, biking and transit (e.g. transit lanes, bike lanes, wider sidewalks) are often required to complete lengthy and expensive analyses, increasing the cost of such proposals and delaying their implementation, even though these projects have a clear benefit to the environment. Would you support changes at the local level to evaluate transportation impacts differently, exempting projects which prioritize sustainable transportation modes and allowing them to come forward faster and more affordably? 20. Will you direct the SF Police Department to more energetically cite aggressive/dangerous driving and speeding within the city, placing traffic safety as a high priority within the Department, and supporting prioritized measured enforcement to protect people biking and walking? Answer: First, the SFPD is already under pressure from excessive salaries and pensions. Bike traffic safety will never be a high priority because the SFPD has their hands full with many real crimes. 21. The AmericaÕs Cup series of regattas will be bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors and locals to San Francisco's waterfront during the summers of 2012 and 2013. Due to the large numbers of people attending, excellent bicycling conditions to and through the event area will be essential for the events' success as a transportation practicality. Will you work to ensure that bicycle access and bicycle parking are given high priority in America's Cup planning and investment? Answer: I am a veteran of the United State Navy. I think boats and bikes do mix well. 22. Will you support permanent post-America's Cup legacy improvements for key bicycle routes such as the Embarcadero and Polk Street, at a high level of comfort and continuity for bicycle riders as envisioned in Connecting the City (www.connectingthecity.org)? Answer: I support riders in this city. 23. The SFMTA Board of Directors oversees Muni, taxicabs, bicycle and pedestrian programs, parking policy and enforcement, and traffic enforcement, as well as having authority over all traffic changes to the city's streets, from stop signs to speed limits to bike lanes. Clearly the SFMTA Board of Directors is critically central to providing safe, sustainable mobility and access for all. The entire SFMTA Board is appointed by the Mayor. What are your priorities for SFMTA Board appointments and what do you want to accomplish with the Board? Answer: If I am elected to the Mayor’s Office, I am going to dissolve the present MTA Board, with the exception of the new CEO. The present Board has done a terrible job overseeing the MTA, the taxis, jitneys, bikes, motorbikes, motorcycles, trucks, buses, parking spaces, yellow and white zones, walk ways and other city transit issues, because they have been too involved with giving upper management a “Horse and Pony Show” while they were sucking up fantastic paychecks for very simple jobs. Bicyclists will be on this new Commission. They will be on the old MTA Commission as well. The present MTA Board has too many sycophants and attorneys and not enough accountants and City laymen, bicycle riders and real bus users. The MTA Board needs taxi drivers that have no pensions, medical and dental plans, day offs with pay, and more real City residents that actually live and work here. They need to know that there are real costs involved in everything Muni does, and these costs will affect their income, if they go into orbit. As mayor, I will split the MTA in half and create a new Taxi, Limousine, Jitney, Shuttle, Motorcycle and Bicycle Commission, with 12 Commissioners. It will have only taxi, limousine, jitney, shuttle and bicycle and motorcycle riders, (real ones) for the board. And, this board will have these people as accountants, doctors, lawyers and laymen, administrators and women from the City voting roles. All the phony appointments will be history.
I have been a speaker before the MTA since 2006, and they know my views well. We need bicyclists as MTA Commissioners so that he whole City can get involved in bicycle training, at either high school or City College of San Francisco. One Commissioner on the Board is Tom Knowlton from San Mateo County, who claims: I ride the Muni regularly.” But, in reality, he drives in from San Mateo, parks in the City Hall garage, then drives back. He also claimed, “Nate Ford’s personal problems of embezzlement and other issues would not follow him here. Before Ford was fired, yes fired, Ford awarded one of his Atlanta friends, a City garage contract, and this garage contract dude left shoeboxes full of cash in Ford’s office.
Emil Lawrence MBA
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LETTER TO INTERIM MAYOR FOR DISMISSLE OF THREE MTA COMMISSIONERS
April 25, 2011
Interim Mayor Ed Lee
Members of the Board
City hall, Room 400
One Carlton Goodlett
San Francisco, CA
Mayor Lee:
SUBJECT: Dismissal of the Police, SFMTA, & Civil Service Boards or Commissions
Mr. Mayor, I am directing this letter to your attention. I am doing so not just due to the pension reform that this City and County need, but due to the reform of up to 1/3 of the bureaucracy of here, too. This City is top heavy with worthless Commissions, boards which do not do what they were intended to do. I have three cases in point:
Police Commission: Our new District Attorney, a man that is masquerading as a Latino DA, when he left the post of Chief of Police, felt no need to let them know of his decision. At present, this Commission has attempted to manipulate the Public Speaking format during hearing times, by cancelling hearings and pushing the public times to the end of the session. The Commission has never adequately addressed runaway police pay, their main job. This is what the MTA accomplished under Ford.
SF Metropolitan Transportation Agency (SFMTA): At present, this bureaucracy is totally out of control. Not only does the MTA have a deficit which is most probably over 200 million dollars a year (forget the lies they are publishing) their Chief Nate Ford is so incompetent, for the past year, the board that hired him has been trying to get him to apply for jobs which will let him leave, quietly. This is one big joke at the agency. Nate Ford took Atlanta’s MARTI into the biggest bankruptcy in their history, and he is doing the same here. His background in finance is zero, yes 0. Mercer College gives academic credit for bus driving. In actuality, Ford is a just bus driver from New York City. He was picked in Atlanta, according to one newspaper there, “He was picked because they no longer wanted a white guy to do the job.” In Atlanta, he was accused of embezzlement, ($175,000) and sexual harassment (settlement approx 1.1 million) while on the job. Atlanta paid $190,000 a year, for his incredible incompetence. We pay him $310,000 a year here. And, fire Ms Johnson, his aid. For special services to him, Nate Ford has pushed her pay up and above anything she deserves. More on Ms. Roberta Johnson and this scandal, later.
Civil Service Commission:
Emil Lawrence MBA
660 Westfield Road
San Francisco, CA 94128
1-415-513-7705 PCS
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON OUTRAGEOUS TAXI DRIVER FEES
May 6, 2011
Interim Mayor Ed Lee
Members of the Board
City hall, Room 400
One Carlton Goodlett
San Francisco, CA
Mayor Lee:
SUBJECT: Additional Outrageous Fees for San Francisco taxi drivers & firms
This letter is being sent directly to you for a purpose. The MTA, with a deficit which is really over 200 million dollars a year and growing, (without your off balance sheet accounting) due to the incompetence of their Chief, Debra Johnson, the man’s special services partner, the MTA Commission and administrators, has found a new gold and silver mine in the ranks of this City’s taxi industry and particularly the taxi drivers. Since the MTA took over the SF Tax Commission, all taxi fees have been heading to the stars. And, their new taxi group agenda keeps adding new fees. The MTA and the new taxi authority no longer serve the public; they just sit back and collect fat paychecks and benefits.” Our taxi industry fees are going straight up with their paychecks.
On May 3rd, 2011, your local taxi drivers, who are now being ripped off, raped, squeezed, pruned, stapled, and hit by this City for more and more money, did not circle City Hall for amusement, they are just fed up with business as usual. In the last 15 years, between Willie Lewis Brown and Gavin Getty Newsom, taxi driver income has been stretched to its limits. After 15 years of these dudes helping drivers, many taxi drivers still live in their cars, yes in their vehicles while serving the public, in this tourist town, paying fantastic taxi fees and citations to support your salaries and pensions. Do not take my word for it, read the enclosed three page flyer. Then wonder why drivers sill use General Hospital, with not much in medical insurance or a pension plan or a medical & dental plan, when you and the Board have it? Also, drivers are being forced to buy more and more expensive equipment, our costs are becoming catastrophic.
Emil Lawrence MBA
CA/Fed Tax preparer,
Tax Analyst, Strategist
(Fed-PTIN # PO1364976)
660 Westfield Road
Units 281-287
San Francisco, CA 94128
1-415-7705 PCS
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LETTER TO INTERIM MAYOR ED LEE BEFORE HE BIG LIE RETRACTED
July 26, 2011
Interim Mayor Ed Lee
Members of the Board
City hall, Room 400
One Carlton Goodlett Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94102
Interim Mayor Lee & the Board of Supervisors:
SUBJECT: Ed Lee for Mayor & other City Offices on City/state Salaries & Pensions
I am enclosing this letter as a document to be read in city hall, and even printed in the local papers as an Op/Ed story, if a local newspaper decides to publish it. And, I am doing so because as the August 2, 2011 deadline for the United States of America’s deficit limits bang on the 14.3 trillion dollar ceiling, once again I feel, the present system in this City and County is broken, busted, and in dear need of much repair. And, as our Interim Mayor, Mr. Ed Lee, you are being “pushed” by an ex-mayor, that ran in “last place for the spot as Governor of California,” and now, also, the United States Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who has her own closet full of skeletons just waiting to “dance and sing” if any paper in America will publish their “soul defying act.” This Senator is pushing you to run, because her husband needs another luggage cart concession like the one the family owns at SFO, for the Mayor’s Office of San Francisco. These two politicians are not statesmen or stateswomen, but only memories of Christmas past that are now hoping you have been mesmerized by seeing your own name in print, everyday of the week. But, I say to you Mr. Lee: “Do not jump into this pit from your present position.” You will be sorry for losing your integrity, and once lost it will not come back. And if you lose, you should be fired, at once. I say so as one of the other 38 or so candidates running for this office.
And, as I continue this publication, I will read or paraphrase this letter’s introduction at the Board of Supervisors meeting, during “Public Comments,” on Tuesday, the 26th of July, 2011. I am producing these “Notes on San Francisco Politics, for many reasons. One reason is the present format for future City Mayors. From what I have determined, as one of the 38 or so mayoral candidates for the San Francisco City & County (CCSF), that there is something going here that the “public,” at large, does not fully understand or see. And, what the residents of this CCSF have failed to understand and see, is one of the big secrets that City paid employees running for public office have failed to tell this “public,” to show the people they serve, which is this: City employees, with top tier salaries and pensions even if they lose, which are paid for with higher and higher citations, fees and taxes in this state and county, have plenty of City/state salary money to continually help finance campaigns for the Office of the Mayor for the CCSF, or any other office they may choose in this City and state; that this endeavor for the City Mayor’s Office or other city offices, is a full time job and due to this situation, and the spectrum of increasingly higher outrageous salaries and pensions, during our “Worldwide Economic Contraction” also in this USA, the State of California, and the CCSF,” that as such, in this present political format, these potential City and state paid political leaders feel none of this economic pain which City residents feel; because all these City/state employees as candidates for office, are using their City/state salaries as funds to finance their campaigns; that this very endeavor leaves no room for any other candidate to enter these elected offices, unless she or he has hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars to spend on just mere name recognition, alone. This is so, even if some of these candidates are millionaires. For the mere fact they are there, local papers print their names, daily. And, this kind of “mesmerizing” help, the full and total name recognition of City candidates, comes from these local daily papers repeating of these present City employees names for the media, to help the public remember who they are, “which has absolutely nothing to do with their abilities to be mayor or hold any other public office.” And, this includes Mr. Ed Lee, another hand picked alumna of the City Job Club
And, while I am on the subject of Interim Mayors possibly using their paychecks to finance higher electoral sums, there is now talk or rumors in the same 24/7 media, that helps anyone already in the light of this media news, which only expands by repeating their names on topics of minutiae over and over, by the hour and minute or daily, that you the Interim Mayor Ed Lee, may have finally decided to run for the Office of Mayor of San Francisco, as the August 2nd & 5th, 2011, deadline approaches. And, as we approach this federal and County Deadline, for the almost 40 potential candidates for the Office of San Francisco Mayor, what the CCSF does not need is another City salaried and well pensioned candidate, already on the public dole, that has absolutely no risk whatsoever in the office undertaking, who can get his old job back while working on his new job or campaign, to plunk down the $5000.00 fee and run for the Mayor’s Office. If you lose Mr. Lee and I win, I will fire you the day I take office.
At present, Mr. Lee, you have integrity for sticking to your position, that, “I will not run.” But, if you now change it, run and lose this election, you will no integrity at all. And, then, The “Mini” Governor, Newsom who is now also Governor “Lite” and the retire ring Senator will just abandon you. You were picked as the Interim Mayor by a mayor of San Francisco that was voted into office by approximately 33% of the total voting public in CCSF, in the last election. I would not call this a mandate, which one local paper did, because approximately 65% of the voting public did not vote at all, in this past election for mayor. And, this was due, maybe, to the mayor’s sitting on such a fat pot of money. No one candidate wanted to be humbled, for seeking the job. But, I feel most CCSF voters and residents have just given up on CCSF politics because it is has become rigged, like a rigged jury and judge. Politicians, once in the gate, pay themselves well by deciding their own salaries and pensions. And, they are so well paid by any county standards that these CCSF paid employee’s wall of money leaves no room for most other city candidates, when they decide to run again for another office. As such, it becomes almost impossible as resident laymen and others from “Main Street” to realistically enter the job, when the CCSF needs their real knowledge of this City.
I know, I have spoken in front of the Board of Supervisors, the Taxi, Police, Airport, Planning, and the MTA Commissions, on and off for five years. In this period of time, I have given over 100 speeches or talks, and have asked hundreds of questions, on SFGTV, and not one local paper or TV station has ever mentioned my name. To these papers, I do not exist on this earth. But, you Mr. Lee, you get this non-stop press, 24/7, from journalists that only watch TV for their stories all day and night, but never reveal where they got the story. In the news, I have seen many stories based on my questions at these Commissions that always left out my name.
Another reason why I am introducing this document, is due to the fact that our last past mayor Mr. Gavin Newsom, a man who came into town on the coattails of the Getty oil fortune, an “oil slick” who claimed he started 15 or more businesses without mentioning the Getty oil money that funded these businesses, did not launch his well oiled campaigns until he was appointed a Supervisor, from Willie Brown’s School for Mayors. This appointment got his name out there in the press. And, then Mr. Newsom just enrolled in the “Willie Brown School for Mayors,” and Willie, also known as “DA Mayor,” appointed dozens of his very close friends or ex girlfriends to posts, where many times there were no jobs, just salaries. Yes, “DA Mayor” appointed hundreds of Assistant Mayors, at $130,000 a year, and made them friends. And the “oil slick” just appointed hundreds of sycophants whom he called friends, before he decided to leave town. But, he did not leave town the way he wanted to leave. As Governor Lite, one sucks up a paycheck for doing, nothing at all. Now, this clown of the past is pushing you Mr. Ed Lee, to run, as well. But, Newsom made other appointments, as well, below are a few of them.
Not too long ago, Mr. Newsom appointed three Taxi Directors from the pool of attorneys in his inner office. Since 2005, he appointed three of them. I know, because I was bumped three times for the post of Taxi Director, by this very Mayor, for the San Francisco Taxi Commission, which called for an Administrative Financial Analyst, from the CCSF Civil Service Registry (CSR)from Classes 1823-1825), with needed “extensive taxi background,” for the post. To just get on the CSR list, one needed an MA in Business Administration. To get the post, one needed this very “extensive taxi background” for the job. But, Newsom’s three picks did not have extensive taxi background nor were they on the CSR list, which claimed to be mandatory. None were Administrative Analysts, either. A CSR Administrative Analyst is not an attorney; he or she is an accountant or auditor. But, in each case, Newsom picked an attorney, from his Inner Office payroll. The present taxi post, now under the (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) MTA, and this taxi post is being held by the Newsom’s last Inner Office pick, which is the third Inner Office female taxi Commission or barrister in a row. And, each of these attorneys decided to revamp all the taxi rules, regulations and fees, each time. Each Director added new fees.
In 2006, at the MTA, after the MTA Commission and Mayor Newsom appointed Nathan Ford as CEO/Director for the agency, Ford was codified or certified by the Board of Supervisors, immediately, for the post. All Supervisors and MTA Commission members agreed on his fantastic salary of $300,000 a year; that Ford could bring up to 20 or so fired cronies with him, from Georgia. And, that many of the last Board of Supervisors knew that Nate Ford was accused of embezzlement in Atlanta, Georgia, at MARTI, (Atlanta’s equivalent of our MTA) when he was hired. And, the embezzled amount was approximately $170,000. In Atlanta, the CEO/Director Nate Ford made $180,000 a year, but Newsom was willing to pay him $300,000 or more a year, to come here to San Francisco. Clown Newsom did not want an embezzler living like a cab or bus driver. But, in reality, Mr. Ford was a ‘bus driver,’ one from New York City. He was just a bus supervisor when he was picked for the top post in Atlanta, according to one paper’s inside view. Mr. Nate Ford was picked in Atlanta, because new MARTI Board members in Atlanta did not want ‘anymore ‘white people’ in charge.” Nate Ford was as black as an Ace of Spades, with a college degree from a school not accredited anywhere in this USA, and according to this one Atlanta paper, this was the full reason why he got the job in Georgia. Ford never had a background in finance or accounting; his academic units at this one college were from “bus driving.”
In 2003-2005, as a part time job, I worked at the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) doing tasking jobs like answering the phone for callers during the Katrina Hurricane in Louisiana and, also, I did database on government computers. I helped extract information from search engines for HUD’s web sites. I hacked and used these sites, later, to dig up information on the Taxi Commission Director Heidi Machen and the MTA Director Nate Ford. And, I was shocked on what I found. Without discussing the 49 page dossier I put together on Ms. Machen, which was given to 12 Supervisors on her live in house partner that led to Newsom’s lies and his termination of her post, I found that Nate Ford was also another corrupt appointee of our society fly of a mayor, Newsom. Nate Ford was accused of sexual harassment in his office in Atlanta, in a written complaint. A reason why the “oil slick” was able to put up to 18 million dollars of his Inner Office payroll on MTA’s official plate, according to one local paper. (As a mayoral candidate, I may have to file a complaint to get a full criminal investigation of ex-Mayor Newsom’s Inner Office Payroll going back seven years at City Hall) The part of my “Low on Finances” campaign for San Francisco Mayor, is financial accountability.
Another reason for this letter is this episode, something you and Board should appreciate. Between 2005 and 2009, during the time I applied for over 400 CCSF Administrative Financial Analyst posts on this same CSR, throughout San Francisco, with scores of 1000-1060 points for analysts jobs all departments in San Francisco, I failed to get one job or post. And, actually, I have been turned down for posts, in the CCSF for ten years. Mr. Lee, would you find this a bit strange? Mr. Lee, you are Chinese and Asian, and I am Caucasian or American European, but I cannot find a job at City Hall and you did. At SFO, my 9255 Economic Planner application, with scores of 1060 points on the chart, the maximum one could obtain was blocked by up to four Chinese female Human Resource workers, at the Airport. We can verify this claim very easily. In other departments I was blocked by non other than the Governor Lite, himself. Mr. Phil Ginsburg who was the Human Resource (HR) Director in the CCSF at one time, also Chief of Staff for Gavin’s Inner Office too, at one time, who is now at his new post in the Park and Rec, gave me these high scores, which were, actually worthless when filling out CSR Class 1820-1827 Administrative Analyst post 12 page applications, and others. And, although my scores are in the top 96% of all post applicants at HR in this CCSF, the MTA, also, turned me down on over 25 of their Administrative Financial Analyst applications, related to their new merger with the San Francisco Taxi Commission. The MTA, under Ford and his protégé Roberta Johnson, also turned me down when I requested to be a member of several of the Taxi Advisory Groups, that they had up and running over the past three years. Ten years after my first jib application in the CCSF, with all my credentials, this Caucasian-American still drives a taxi. Mr. Lee, I am not happy about it. And, I am bringing this forth in my campaign.
When the CCSF found out about Nate Ford giving his Atlanta buddies garage contracts, this year, with all the rumors of shoe boxes of cash coming into his Ford’s office, Dennis Herrera, a candidate for mayor should have filed a criminal investigation of the matter, which would have led to an indictment. But, Herrera did not, since he is running for mayor, and he is one of the dudes that certified Ford’s background, education and character, he could not do that. But, running for the Mayor’s Office, he could hit up 100 or so of his inner office payroll for campaign contributions. They were all just waiting and willing to do this. Mr. Lee, all of this would put you in the gang of six.
All of Ford’s crooked behavior was taking place when this City Attorney Herrera was going to DC, weekly, in an attempt to stop the feds from arresting up to 60 San Francisco employees for not applying federal law in apprehending illegal aliens. City Attorney, Dennis Herrera just ran for City Attorney. And, now on this City Attorney salary, (a couple of hundred thousand or more) and once he won, he felt compelled to hit his City Attorney’s office workers for campaign funds. The man has no ethics or morals, but he is a City Attorney with the mayoral motto: “Can You Imagine a City that Works.” It works for him. I have asked his office for forty financial documents related to CCSF’s finances. The Civil Grand Jury of 2009 wanted to know why he had not investigated dozens of cases of pension spiking, in the two most powerful unions in the City. He has ignored their requests and has ignored mine as well. These issues I am going to use in this mayoral campaign.
At the MTA, in my Caucasian-American job search, with the African American Director/CEO named Ford, the person that officially turned me down for every job including all taxi and Administrative Financial Analysts posts, was none other than the African American Roberta Johnson, the Ford protégé. This woman had her salary doubled by Nathan Ford; her income went from $100,000 to approximately $200,000 per year, in three years time. (And, last week before the new MTA Chief came on board, the Board of Supervisors was getting ready to give her another fat raise for her Interim MTA CEO post, while waiting for your official choice of a new CEO at the old MTA.) Ms. Roberta Johnson may have been everything including Nate Ford’s mistress, because she handled all of his inner office affairs, in this never-ending salary and pension story. Yes, she knows how to get a “raise,” you bet.
Mr. Lee, when I talk to people about incomes, salaries, I mean, no one on this earth or in this City trusts the salary and pension cuts you threw at the Board of Supervisors last week, to approve. I think they are fabrications, lies and possibly fraudulent. Your quant figures from the Investment Bankers you worked with are worthless. Many CCSF residents I have talked to call these figures, “lies and more lies.” No one in this CCSF is going to really believe any of it, unless outside auditors are brought into San Francisco to look at all of the CCSF books, and sign off on them the way they do so today, on corporation after Enron, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns. Unless one is getting kickbacks in shoeboxes of cash from garage contracts at the MTA, like Ford, all the numbers that the Board passed for savings in salaries and pensions are just more of CCSF funny stuff.
Almost last, there is George Gascon, the ex-police chief who sucked up a paycheck of a half million dollars from CCSF, before he was hand picked like you by the Governor Lite when he was mayor to be the new District Attorney. Do you think you could run a decent DA campaign on a half a million dollars given to you by the CCSF for working only 20 months, in San Francisco? This is what this dude is doing. Our local papers claim he is a Cubana and running as a Latino DA. He is a Cubano like I am a Huntington “Beacher.” As DA, he dropped over 2000 cases he administered at the SFPD, when he was he was top cop, there. At the SFPD he wanted Capitol Punishment, but now that he is a certified Democrat instead of a Republican, which he has claimed, “I was really not that all of my life,” He now claims he also voted may have voted for Obama In 2010, I tried to talk to COP Gascon, at the Hall of Justice and then the Police Commission. At the Hall of Justice, he barricaded himself behind a wall of police officers and telephones. At the Police Commission, he sat there mostly like a Sphinx. Around town, he went with a full police escort, like Theodore Roosevelt. He tried being an attorney once, but this did not work. So, he got back into police work for the steady paycheck. Now, he wants to be an attorney, again. After all of his nonsensical talk with the clown Newsom, we are supposed to trust this District Attorney. He did not bother to tell the Police Commission about his new plans, either; they had to read about them in the papers. “Senor Gascon,” was just another Newsom pick.
Finally, with this document, in behalf of the 30 or so other potentials running for the Mayor’s Office, who have a marginal chance of winning, against CCSF employees who are dipping into fantastic and stunning CCSF salaries for their run for Mayor, or other City Offices, while these present CCSF employees pretend to reduce salaries and pensions for all CCSF employees, that they have this huge lead in campaign funds, so that these CCSF employees are the first in line for City matching funds, in their quest for higher political offices, I am requesting that you Mr. Ed Lee step aside from the Mayor’s race, as an example, or be prepared to hand over the full paycheck you have collected as the Interim Mayor for the City, this year, since your appointment, and or hand over the checks you received as City Administrator, and this document is making the same request for Jon Avalos, David Chiu, Dennis Herrera, Wilma Pang, Phil Ting and Leland Yee, whom are all on the CCSF and state payroll at this time. To all of you, the CCSF is not paying you to do two jobs. So, this document is asking you to either resign from your present campaigns, or resign from your present City post and return all of the funds you have been paid, since your political higher office campaign was started. All of you, as CCSF and state employees have no real financial risk in taking on a public office, when you should have one, like all parties. The 30 other candidates have a real financial risk. If you run for this office, and if you do not return these funds, and continue with a campaign in the present tense, you will have abused your present office. And, this document should not just apply to only San Francisco, but across these United States of America, as well.
· The nation is broke, the state of California is broke and this City is going broke, but you as officials of the CCSF do not realize or feel any of this economic pain, nor do you want to talk about it. You have restructured payroll, but you have not cut it. Your present budget is worthless, but you signed it. You & the Board have raised all of our fees, taxes, citations and added new fees, taxes and citations and thousands of more parking meters, as if we are your just your subjects, and not the group that holds all of you accountable to all the residents of this CCSF. Mr. Lee, I hold you accountable, too.
· Mr. Lee, if you run for the Office of Mayor, the voters will hold you alone, accountable for all the dirt which lies ahead, if you win. If you lose, well… Senator Feinstein will not be able to help you at that time. Neither will Governor Lite. Any mayor coming into office, then, should fire you.
Sincerely,
Emil Lawrence MBA
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