Meet the candidates: Ahimsa SumchaiThe Bay Guardian is interviewing the candidates for the 2007 elections. We'll be updating this entry as more information comes in. Post your thoughts or comments below.
Mayoral candidate: Ahimsa Sumchai
"Just as we looked at AIDS as an epidemic, we should look at violence as an epidemic."
Ahimsa Sumchai interview (play time: 59:15)
Ahimsa Sumchai news on SFBG.com
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Comments (2)
Patrick Monk, R.N., asked me to post this for him.
Greetings,
Thank you for the well reasoned and timely analysis of the upcoming Mayoral race. While I disagree strongly with your statement that Quintin has "the strongest progressive credentials", I agree wholeheartedly with your concerns about the sad state of affairs prevailing in local politics and the importance of encouraging a high turnout of progressive voters, no matter who they support, so as to register our deep discontent with the increasing corporatization of city resources and neglect of the needs of city residents.
I would also like to mention one of the key issues in Ahimsa's platform that you did not reference, Universal Single Payer Health Care.. While Tom Ammiano's program to provide affordable health care is a positive step towards addressing this crisis locally, it may face some legal challenges, and unless this problem is resolved on a state and national level we will continue to experience the negative effects of our current, for profit, lack of health care scam. This has long been a top priority for Ahimsa and, as a health care professional myself, is one of the many reasons why I unreservedly support her candidacy.
Some other reasons are eloquently expressed below in the words of compadre Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of SF, and one of her earliest endorsers.
MAYOR AHIMSA
By Jack Hirschman.
(Copyright Jack Hirschman - with permission)
Because memory serves an African American
the story of such monstrous injustices,
such lashes and blowtorches and ropes,
such cruelty and hatred and blight of body and soul,
and because an African American woman
has been the vessel most scuttled yet most enduring,
most swarmed and throttled yet ever emerging
as the open fist of the living community,
and because I remember the fighting words
of struggle and compassion that young poet Ahimsa
sounded in the days that are no different than today
with respect to the plight of the poor, the fight
against displacement at the hands of those
landlawless bootlickers of corporate greed,
happily I cast my vote for Ahimsa Sumchai
for Mayor of San Francisco
whose race is the one of Reason
whose color is all the People of this town.
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PROGRESSIVE UPDATE.
We are very pleased to announce that at a rally in the Bayview this past weekend, both Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan gave their enthusiatic endorsement to Ahimsa's mayoral campaign. Cynthia also announced she had officially registered as "Green", expecting more 'exciting' progressive news soon. These two powerful, principled women join a growing list of Ahimsa's supporters that includes; Medea Benjamin; Krissy Keefer; Renee Saucedo; Marie Harrison; Jane Kim; Espanola Jackson; Denise D'Anne; Mesha Irizarry, to name but a few.
For more information please visit:-
www.ahimsa4mayor.com
Thank you, sincerely,
Patrick Monk. RN. Noe Valley.
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Posted by tim redmond | October 9, 2007 04:46 PM
Sumchai seems to be going up on the polls since the endorsement of Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan, as well as Mark Sanchez and Barry Hermanson.
Concommitently,Powers Exchange Powers seems to bypass multiple hits's sfaeguard on SFBG polls and gives himself a laughable 40+ %...
But I forgot to laugh... Infantile and irresponsible, dividing the votes of the progressive left through self indulgence, megalomania or Power Exchange (which, however I would wholeheartedly support)demagogical promotion?
Very sad and disappointing...
mesha
ISF
Posted by mesha Monge-Irizarry | October 28, 2007 05:19 AM