Joe Nation, the landlord's man
The Marin Organizing Committee held a rally May 8th in San Rafael that attracted all three state Senate candidates to discuss issues of social welfare in the county. More than 600 people showed up, and by Marin standards, that’s a huge crowd.
Among the top issues: Prop. 98, the horrible ballot measure that would end rent control in California.
All three candidates say they are against 98.
Mark Leno and Carole Migden got to the rally on time. Joe Nation was a bit late. The reason: He had to stop first in San Francisco – at a fundraiser sponsored by some of the same landlord groups that are funding Yes on 98.
That’s right: Nation went and took some big checks from the pro-Prop. 98 landlords, then drove across the bridge for a No on 98 rally.
Lisa Christensen, Nation’s campaign manager, told me that Nation “has been against Prop. 98 from the start, and wears his No on 98 button everywhere he goes.” As for his alliance with the landlords? “San Francisco politics is a melee,” she said. “Some of my dearest friends are passionately against me on some issues, and we work together on others.”
I wonder if he took the No on 98 button off for the landlord party.
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Comments (3)
I asked him weeks ago, politely, for a position on F & G, have followed up a couple of times, silence, almost as non-responsive as Carole, god bless her.
If that's any indication of his respect for constituents well, go fish joe.
Posted by Patrick Monk.RN | May 12, 2008 05:13 PM
Joe Nation may have come out against Prop 98, but for his campaign manager to say he's "been against it from the start" is dishonest -- to say the least. He didn't take a position on Prop 98 until last week (after being asked about it at least twice before), while both Mark Leno and Carole Migden have been rallying against it for months.
Posted by Paul Hogarth | May 12, 2008 07:25 PM
Joe is interesting in an uninteresting way. He told an airline ticket clerk before losing his last election that he would be NOTHING if he didn't get elected. So how far will he go to keep from being nothing? All the way.
Posted by Greg Grim | May 14, 2008 07:53 AM