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	<title>FutureOakland &#187; elections</title>
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		<title>Blog on hiatus</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2010/06/blog-on-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends and readers, This blog will be on hiatus until the election on November 2, 2010. I have accepted a position with Rebecca Kaplan&#8217;s campaign for Mayor of Oakland, and I cannot fully aid her exciting campaign if I continue to post my thoughts about public policy. I will spend the next four months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The grassroots case for increased campaign finance limits</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2010/03/the-grassroots-case-for-increased-campaign-donation-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow the Public Ethics Commission takes up campaign-finance rules (PDF). Campaign donation and spending limits are justified by a vague but widely-accepted notion that money is not great for politics, and limited money levels the playing field, encouraging grassroots candidates and competitive elections. As someone who served on the campaign committee of a grassroots challenger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election year begins, campaigns not yet</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2010/01/election-year-begins-campaigns-not-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://futureoaklandblog.com/?p=560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 is of course an election year, and it&#8217;s looking like an exciting one in Oakland, with a likely open mayoral seat, perhaps an open Council seat, and two open County Supervisor seats. Two x-factors complicate the elections: the adoption of Ranked Choice Voting and November City elections; and the effect of campaign finance rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three years of Oakland&#8217;s future</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2009/04/three-years-of-oaklands-future/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2009/04/three-years-of-oaklands-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago today, V Smoothe and I started this blog, FutureOakland (then on blogspot). We were disappointed by media coverage of the mayor’s race, and felt the minority of Oaklanders opposed to growth and revitalizing the city were completely dominating the public discussion of Oakland’s future. Under the reactionary handle of OaklandNative, I hoped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland voters choose cops over kids</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/12/oakland-voters-choose-cops-over-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/12/oakland-voters-choose-cops-over-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, Councilmember Jean Quan presented an alternative to the Kids First 2 measure that would appear on the ballot as Measure OO. Though acknowledging that the city could ill-afford any funding increases, Ms. Quan held no hope that a Kids First 2 ballot measure could be defeated. “I know it will pass, because kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIMBY initiatives lose across California</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/12/nimby-initiatives-lose-across-california/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/12/nimby-initiatives-lose-across-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the clock runs out on election interest, this is the first of two blogs noting electoral trends. Real estate development is a political football in many cities in California, with some battles reaching the ballot box. This November, NIMBY initiatives across the state were defeated. The three most radical anti-growth measures in California were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voters give Oakland a new councilmember, new transit plans, and an old fight</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/11/voters-give-oakland-new/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/11/voters-give-oakland-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dto510</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, voters set a course for Oakland’s future. Certain races have something to tell engaged Oaklanders about voters’ wishes, the effectiveness of different kinds of campaigns, and about the current and future policymaking boards that govern our city and our transit service. The passage of Measure OO (and failure of Measure NN), Rebecca Kaplan’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endorsements: Oakland, November 2008</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/10/endorsements-oakland-november-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/10/endorsements-oakland-november-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Council: AC Transit Director Rebecca Kaplan Though I first met Rebecca Kaplan seven years ago during an internship at a transit advocacy organization where she worked, I was slow to support her for this November’s election. I didn&#8217;t vote for her in 2000. I endorsed Clinton Killian in June, because of his experience as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endorsements: Too many propositions</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/10/endorsements-too-many-propositions/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/10/endorsements-too-many-propositions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prop 1A: NO I am the first person to take a bullet train. I love Los Angeles, and I don’t have a car. I would certainly seize the opportunity to take a weekend to visit my grandparents and hit the downtown clubs. Sounds fabulous, right? But an investment of this size needs to be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End the week with links: Endorsement edition</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/10/end-the-week-with-links-endorsement-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/10/end-the-week-with-links-endorsement-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dto510</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your Friday afternoon and even weekend perusing pleasure, here are a selection of endorsement blogs to help you make up your mind on November’s vote. I will provide my own endorsements next week, in two parts: state and local. A veritable slew of blogs endorsing Rebecca Kaplan for City Council indicate that the front-runner [...]]]></description>
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