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Porter has always been politically engaged. The first campaign she volunteered for was George McGovern for president in 1972. But when she became an elementary school teacher, the job absorbed most of her organizational energy. Then she retired, and political Winnie roared back with a vengeance. “I realized that all this political stuff that I had done within the teaching community was great. But it’s not going to make a big difference. We’ve got to get politicians elected to support education.

“Let us not count our chickens,” says Peskin. “There is a lot of work to do between now and November, which I think is 170 days from today.” It was not an easy decision to run for mayor, he continues, “but I was hearing from many people like Winnie that we did not have a lot of choices.”— but more conversational, and tailored toward an audience with a deeper-than-average understanding of San Francisco history and politics.

After that, it is time for questions. “How is it possible that the voters of San Francisco vote for something, get money for this thing, and the mayor refuses to spend it?” says Porter.—if you want to put a tax on the ballot and dedicate the money to a particular thing, it requires a two-thirds vote to pass. But if you want to raise a general tax that just goes into the general fund you only need a simple majority vote.

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