Pat Kernighan didn’t change her vote – she didn’t have a vote, because she isn’t on Rules Committee. Chang, as a member of the Committee, is welcome to change his vote to move an issue on to the full Council. Kernighan, along with Quan and Nadel, bypassed the committee process by calling a special meeting of the Council.

In any case, the full Council (as well as Finance and Management Committee) already discussed, and rejected, an increase in Kids First funding back during the Spring. The ballot initiative people were there then as well with their threats, and the Council said no anyway. In any case, there was not a 2-2 vote on Quan’s request at Rules as you seem to think. As dto510 already explained, no motion could even get a second in order for there to be a vote.

If Quan wanted the Council to revisit the issue and discuss a compromise in light of the signatures submitted, she’s had since the beginning of June, over a month, to do so. Instead, she waited until the absolute last minute to request a discussion, when it was to late for the item to move through the proper channels.

While it would be nice if the organizers withdrew their measure, do you seriously think that that will happen? Dellums is quite probably the only one with enough clout with the groups involved to have a chance, and I haven’t seen him demonstrate that form of leadership. If he does manage to pull it off, I will have to take back other things I have said about him. “Blackmail’ is such a negative term. It is really are the art of political compromise, but call it what you will. This is a complicated political decision, and I really don’t see the problem with having the full council discuss and agree on the best way to go forward. Maybe the council will come to the decision to tell the KF2 group that if they put their measure on the ballot, then the full weight of the council and mayor will come down against them. Cause it is not clear to me that anybody on the council is in favor of either the original KF2 measure or Quan’s compromise. I think that the only conclusion you can come to is that Quan thinks that her compromise is less damaging than the original.

And I just realized when I looked back at V’s post that Henry Chang changing his vote to get the police measure considered by the full council is great news, but Kernighan changing her vote to put the KF2 compromise before the full council is a subversion of democracy. Huh?

Subject: Jane Smith – Settlement Agreement From: Office of the City Attorney Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing And Directing The City Attorney To Settle The Case Of Jane Smith, Et Al. V. City Of Oakland, U.S. District Court Action No. C06-07171 MMC (JCS), Our File No. X02981, In The Amount Of $2,000,000.00. This Case Involves Alleged Civil Rights Violations (Police Department)

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To paraphrase William Blake:

Oakland! Awake! Awake! Awake!

why are so many people caught up on the $100K barometer? a $100k in the bay is the equivalent of $65k

i am so sick of those annoying surveys sorry – now back to regularly scheduled programming

If I were you, Id just give it up now. The factual errors in your last four messages are too numerous to even count. Leave the arguing to people who understand how the city works and have half a clue about whats going on.