Constant Readers,
Don't forget that today is Muni Crime Story Day down at City Hall. Also, there will be a rally in support of saving SEIU City jobs at 5 p.m. According to this morning's email on the demonstration, "Last week we took over the Mayors’ office, on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 we take it to the next level..."
Whoa! Should be interesting.
I try to answer your questions as emails come in, but sometimes I get the same questions over and over again. I figured it might be worth answering some right here.
1) What is the status of new Sanctuary City law?
The law was finally passed over Mistermayor's veto on November 10. It takes 30 days to go into effect. (December 10) In the meantime, City Attorney Herrera has asked that the United States Attorney for Northern California, Joseph Russoniello, promise not to prosecute any law enforcement officials who fail to report undocumented juveniles at the time of arrest. Herrera's letter asks for a response by December 7.
Despite the fact that Russoniello said he would give no assurances, he has not answered Herrera's letter in writing (note that he does not have to). In the meantime, the Herrera's office is waiting until December 7 to see how and if Russoniello formally responds.
2) What is the status of Healthy San Francisco?
Right now the lawsuit claiming that the employer contribution requirement violates federal law is pending at the United States Supreme Court. On October 5, the Supremes asked the United States Solicitor General to weigh in on whether the Supreme Court should hear the case
While there is no time limit on how long the Solicitor General can take to get back to the court, usually such opinions are dispatched withing 30 days. It has been longer than 30 days, of course, so the opinion could come at any time.
My guess is that the battle over federal health care system changes has muddied the water on this issue, so we probably won't see the letter until after the final reform bill can be examined by the Solicitor General.
3) What happened to Friday videos?
Having so many videos on the screen was slowing down people's mobile devices, so I'm working on a separate tab that will open up to a page of videos.
So, there you go.
Feel free to send your political questions to melissagriff@gmail.com
Also, constructive criticism about the new page design is welcome. I'm still tweaking it.
Happy Monday!
-Melissa
What's up with the redesign?
Geez, I use the RSS for a coupla weeks and you change the furniture all around.
Posted by: generic | November 23, 2009 at 19:46