Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Middle school math geniuses at Palo Alto Unified have been denied access to accelerated classes, because of EQUITY.
Seems like public education in California has become more above leveling than developing young minds.
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Bay Area transit is thirsty for taxes, because ridership is down.
But they already have their mouths on a funding firehose.
Besides 10 existing sales taxes, guess how many ways we fund them without a new tax?
We are not their ATM.
Vote NO on RTM.👇
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Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
PLEASE @CA_Dem leaders, could you do something about Oakland??? This is YOUR city!
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
High tides could flood low-lying coastal and waterfront areas this weekend. Check the forecast before heading to the waterfront. Plan extra travel time and avoid flooded areas. Latest forecasts: weather.gov/mtr. Prepare for El Niño impacts including flooding at sf.gov/storms.
Las mareas altas podrían inundar las zonas costeras y del paseo marítimo que se encuentran en niveles bajos este fin de semana. Revise el pronóstico antes de ir al paseo marítimo. Anticipe necesitar tiempo adicional para desplazarse y evite las zonas inundadas. Últimos pronósticos: weather.gov/mtr. Prepárese para los impactos de El Niño, incluyendo inundaciones en sf.gov/es/storms.
潮漲期間，低窪沿岸地區及海旁一帶可能於本週末出現水浸。前往海旁前，請查看天氣預報。請預留額外行程時間，並避開水浸地區。最新天氣預報：weather.gov/mtr。請瀏覽 sf.gov/zh-hant/storms，了解如何應對聖嬰現象（El Niño）可能帶來的影響，包括水浸。
Maaaring bumaha dulot ng mataas na tubig sa mga mabababang lugar sa tabing-dagat at dalampasigan ngayong sabado at linggo. Alamin ang taya ng panahon bago pa man magtungo sa dalampasigan. Maglaan ng dagdag na panahon para sa pagbiyahe at iwasan ang mga binahang lugar. Para sa pinakabagong taya ng panahon: weather.gov/mtr. Maghanda para sa mga epekto ng El Niño pati na sa mga pagbaha sa sf.gov/fil/storms.
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
This is the Great Highway Compromise. 👇
Share access for everyone on weekdays.
20,000 daily commuters could use the Great Highway while cyclists used the bike lanes on both sides, and people walked their dogs and enjoyed ocean views from the elevated paved pathways. Weekends and holidays remain car-free for recreation. That's a fair share.
For years, people shared 2-mile Great Highway and made the compromise work.
The Sunset Dunes park is 50-acre, not 2-mile.
Why insist on absolutely no sharing and absolutely no compromise? There's enough room for everyone.
San Francisco can have both safe streets and great parks. SF can Compromise.
Vote YES on G.
greathighwayforeveryone.com/
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Hi Sam. I live here in San Jose. VTA does not need the money. They admitted this publicly. Voters already passed Measure RR in 2020 to provide a dedicated sales tax and Caltrain promised to be fiscally secure. We were promised that would solve their funding problem. Whoops. 1/5
Hi Thunder. Around my home in Santa Clara County, the measure will generate $285 million a year for transit service, and the income profile of transit-dependent residents is far lower than the general population. Nobody on the Right seems to gripe, though, about the inequity that American taxpayers subsidize Big Oil to the tune of $3.8 billion annually in special tax credits, deductions, accelerated depreciation, and other subsidies. congress.gov/crs_external_pr…
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Measure RTM is not about helping local residents. It is just using Santa Clara County taxpayers to bail out San Francisco riders which are ~80% of the transit debt. Ridership has declined for a decade and costs are spiraling. Even BART is running 18.5% more service than 2019. 3/5
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
You also claim the income profile of transit-dependent residents is "far lower" than the general population. Yet Caltrain average rider makes $171,000. That actually exceeds the median household income in Santa Clara County. 2/5
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
You yourself recognized that extending BART past Diridon to Santa Clara was redundant and unnecessary. When is VTA going to start showing some fiscal responsibility?
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
There goes bay area @kron4news again disguising political propaganda by transit "insiders" as just an ordinary "report", to help pass all the local tax increases on the ballot. Pretty sure they have an ethical obligation to disclose the bias of the "report" that says you should dump your car and rely only on transit.
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Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
When we say SFMTA has zero incentive to fix or reduce their budget if both Prop H and RTM pass in November…We mean it.
SFMTA is banking on both measures to pass so they can please labor unions. Instead of reducing attrition/absenteeism, overtime spending, and more.
Vote NO on Prop H and Prop RTM.
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Ignores a few important things, but then again, it comes from a pro-transit agency that wants to keep its funding:
1. increase in travel time
2. loss of convenience - stopping for groceries on way home, going to gym, etc.
3. carrying groceries home in the rain
4. if people switch from cars, which fund the roads (e.g. via gas tax, EV fee, DMV fees, bridge tolls), then how is that funding loss recovered?
- We still need roads for Fire, Police, Last Mile Deliveries, Trucks, bikes, scooters, oh, and Buses, you know, Transit.
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Is it any surprise that the corporations and unions who make money off transit are 97% of the donations to the RTM campaign?
It's cheaper for them to fund a campaign to tax us, than to pay their fair share of the profits they make from transporting workers and customers to them...
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
The new art installation at Berryessa BART called:
The Money Pit
Thank you, I'll be here all election.
Vote NO on measure RTM
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
The Yes on RTM campaign has raised $8.7 million thus far. Here's a breakdown by donor category.
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Honored that @Change reached out to me on TT after seeing my self produced NO on RTM video titled "Essential Workers".
I grew up shoveling driveways, delivering papers, picking corn. My blue collar background is in my blood.
Check it out
VOTE NO on RTM
change.vote/u/thunder.parley…
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
When asked about the merits of RTM, they plead the 5th.
It's that simple.
A $17 BILLION regressive tax, pushed by PG&E, Anthropic, Billionaires and corrupt transit contractors.
You wanna get in the weeds, put on your SPURs, I got the dirt.
Hi-ho Jacobs, away.
Vote NO on RTM
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Transit contractors, engineering firms and equipment suppliers have contributed more than $1.6 million to the Yes on RTM campaign.
I'm sure they are just donating for the good of humanity.
Gina Tse-Louie retweeted
Medi-Cal has expanded to a $218 billion program: the state's largest. So you'd think the State would invest adequately in program integrity. But that is not what the State Auditor found. Plenty of waste, fraud, and abuse and not a lot of people trying to root it out.
