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  Internet Archive: Details: Matt Gonzalez
Gonzalez was running as a Green Party Candidate, and powerful Democratic Party leaders and their wealthy sponsors had spared no expense or scruples to derail a victory of someone outside of their party.
Gonzalez confesses that he was naive at one time: how he was once convinced that the Democrats really wanted a better society, but failed to achieve their objectives only because the Republicans stood in their way.
Gonzalez tells the audience that he planned his speech to be short, and that he had just arrived from a house party.
www.archive.org /audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=Gonzalez&collection=opensource_audio   (770 words)

  
 :: My Green Manifesto | by Matt Gonzalez
In early 2002, Matt Gonzalez was asked by the Green Party of the United States to write a fundraising letter that would help gather new support for the party.
Matt's response was a playful yet thoughtful manifesto that goes to the root of many issues facing the progressive movement, especially in relation to the growing dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party.
Matt read the manifesto to the crowd of energized supporters for what was to be an intensely emotional moment.
www.mygreenmanifesto.com   (386 words)

  
 What Matt Gonzalez Stands for? :: Frontlines :: Newspaper of the Left
Matt Gonzalez entered the Mayoral race and from the word go has been trying to define the issues around which the struggle should be waged.
Gonzalez cut to the chase and stated clearly from the beginning that the race should be defined by what the candidates proposed for economic development, the mother of social justice.
Matt is proposing a package to revitalize the economy based on the interests of the poor, small businesses and workers – a program the other liberal and neo-liberal candidates would not touch with a ten foot pole.
www.sf-frontlines.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=455   (2748 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez would govern from the left
Gonzalez said Ammiano didn't have what it would take to get elected and that he was best suited to articulate progressive politics on the campaign trail and to take on the moderate front-runner, Supervisor Gavin Newsom.
Gonzalez explains it this way: "I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately," he said.
Gonzalez says that his progressive politics are not fl and white, noting his calls for shrinking the city's workforce and the pay-as-you-go public works project funding.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/18/MNGLC2EG4M1.DTL   (2176 words)

  
 Gonzalez & Leigh: Matt Gonzalez
Matt Gonzalez is a native of McAllen, Texas.
Gonzalez was a trial lawyer at the Office of the San Francisco Public Defender where he handled all types of misdemeanor and felony cases including numerous life-in-prison matters.
Gonzalez was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first member of the Green Party to win elective office in San Francisco.
gonzalezleigh.com /matt_gonzalez.html   (248 words)

  
 BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » Matt Gonzalez's Political Legacy
Matt Gonzalez burst on the political scene like a comet and it is hard to believe that he leaves public life (likely temporarily) this week.
Gonzalez finished far ahead of the field in the November 2000 election, and was a shoo-in to win the runoff against Owens.
Matt's announcement that he was leaving the Board at the height of his power and influence was a setback for the city's progressive forces.
www.beyondchron.org /news/index.php?itemid=2458   (1816 words)

  
 Gonzalez & Leigh: Matt Gonzalez
Matt Gonzalez is a native of McAllen, Texas.
Gonzalez was a trial lawyer at the Office of the San Francisco Public Defender where he handled all types of misdemeanor and felony cases including numerous life-in-prison matters.
Gonzalez was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first member of the Green Party to win elective office in San Francisco.
www.gonzalezleigh.com /matt_gonzalez.html   (248 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez - Reviews on RateItAll
The main components of Matt Gonzalez's campaign platform are as follows: protection of light industry zones, reducing the size of government, eliminating the business payroll tax, provide homeless with housing plus services, promotion of tidal energy as alternate energy source, raising the minimum wage, and completion of a citywide bike plan.
Matt Gonzalez may not be the most effective communicator or the most conciliatory leader, but even the great Willie Brown has praised Matt Gonzalez as improving his social skills over the past few years.
Matt's election to President of the Board of Supervisors is proof of his ability to unify diverse thinkers.
www.rateitall.com /i-28039-matt-gonzalez.aspx   (1789 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Matt Gonzalez (born June 4, 1965) is an American politician, attorney, and editorial writer.
Although Gonzalez was endorsed by several key local Democrats, including five of his peers on the Board of Supervisors, national Democratic figures, concerned about the Party's loss in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election and Ralph Nader's role in the 2000 presidential election, became involved on Newsom's behalf.
Gonzalez sought to tighten spending caps and expand public financing, and Newsom was accused of campaign improprieties and violating spending limits [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23].
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Matt_Gonzalez   (2705 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez for Mayor: Biography
MATT GONZALEZ was born in McAllen, Texas in 1965.
In 2000 Gonzalez was named the “Lawyer of the Year” by the La Raza Lawyers Association, and during the summer, he taught an undergraduate class in “Evidence” at New College of California.
Gonzalez is also a strong supporter of the arts and hosts a monthly art opening in his office at City Hall.
www.mattgonzalez.com /article.php?id=5   (1298 words)

  
 StudioZ.tv - Matt Gonzalez for Mayor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Matt Gonzalez in his underdog battle to beat Brown's chosen successor.
Gonzalez has a huge responsibility here – he needs to reach out to the candidates he defeated and to their supporters and bring back together the progressive-neighborhood-independent coalition that grew out of Ammiano's 1999 mayoral campaign.
If Gonzalez pulls off an upset and becomes the next mayor, he'll be in a position to transform local politics, by both changing the direction of public policy and effectively tamping down the last vestiges of the old machine.
www.studioz.tv /events/mayor113003   (827 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez Editorial Board Interview
Gonzalez near the door of the conference room were associates of the candidate.
Gonzalez responds to several questions about how he would handle the homelessness issue from John Diaz and to a follow-up question from John Wildermuth about his ideas for funding homelessness programs.
Gonzalez to respond to published reports that his family has an ownership interest in a Mexican maquiladora.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/12/04/gonzalezivu.DTL   (692 words)

  
 sfbg.com | A and E
But the Matt of this particular moment is demonstrating his ability to be "mayoral," even at an event titled "Mutts for Matt," which includes one passionate "Cat for Matt" – a woman who's painted whiskers on her face to celebrate the possibility of a pet-friendly mayor.
Gonzalez arrives with a song request for Richman, a Boston native who's donating most of his day (he'll be at GAMH later) for the cause, then the whisper-voiced mayoral hopeful demonstrates acumen in areas besides sensie-indie rock: pedestrian safety, schools, minimum-wage law, the Public Utilities Commission.
The success of the Rockers for Matt event is sweet, considering Newsom's campaign has run television ads that use the fact that Gonzalez used to play bass in a band as a reason to not vote for him.
www.sfbg.com /38/10/art_mattgonzalez.html   (1320 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez for San Francisco
While Marshall Kilduff praises Matt Gonzalez in today's SFGate.com ("The Gonzalez insurrection") for his "canny intelligence," and says he is "more careful and tractable than most think,” he really goes out of his way to characterize Gonzalez as an unlikely victor in next Tuesday’s election.
Matt Gonzalez briefly took to the main stage today at the second annual Green Festival, after Greg Palast finished a scorching 40-minute talk on the war in Iraq, the Florida election, and the murder by burial of Tanzanian miners by the Barrick Corporation, which employs former President George H.W. Bush.
Matt Gonzalez is the current President of the Board of Supervisors, a Democrat who turned Green, a child of immigrant parents, graduate of Columbia University and Stanford Law, and a patron of the arts.
www.testpattern.org /mattformayor   (7178 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez & San Francisco's Green Earthquake | Solidarity
Gonzalez announced his campaign for mayor relatively late in the general election (a mere three months before the vote), and in a field of nine candidates (three of them self-proclaimed "progressives") came in second, forcing a runoff against J. Paul Getty protegee Gavin Newsom.
Gonzalez's approach seeks to address the problems of the homeless community, through a series of measures designed to help the helpless overcome emotional and substance dependency problems, and find permanent low-cost housing alternatives.
Gonzalez, who graduated from Columbia University and Stanford Law School on scholarships, has had a lifetime of service in the public defenders' office and as a member and president of the city's board of supervisors.
www.solidarity-us.org /node/489   (985 words)

  
 Full Biography for Matt Gonzalez
MATT GONZALEZ was born in McAllen, Texas in 1965.
Gonzalez also worked in the school's East Palo Alto Community Law Project on immigration law matters and worked for the California Appellate Project, which directly handles or supervises all death penalty cases pending in California.
In 1999 Gonzalez ran an impressive campaign for District Attorney where he focused on issues largely ignored by the other candidates, including the need to prosecute illegal evictions, environmental crimes, and political corruption.
www.smartvoter.org /2003/12/09/ca/sf/vote/gonzalez_m/bio.html   (547 words)

  
 sfbg.com | news
Camejo also points out that while some critics say Gonzalez's affiliation with the Green Party hurt him, "the fact that he was a Green was what got all those kids to come into the campaign, to volunteer and to vote.
Gonzalez, who represents one of the city's most liberal districts, is probably about as safe as a supervisor can be, but the others are all potentially vulnerable.
Because the fact is, for at least some of the Gonzalez supporters, this was a new and fun adventure, driven by an attraction to a young, charismatic leader.
www.sfbg.com /38/12/news_gonzalez.html   (1746 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez for Mayor
Despite being outspent 10-1 by his heavily backed Democrat opponent, and after only four months in the race, Matt energized a whole new electorate and managed to attract a large and diverse coalition of voters.
He is proud of his campaign and of having brought to the fore important issues facing the city.
Matt extends his deepest thanks to the thousands of San Franciscan voters who braved the rain to give him their support, and to his thousands of extraordinary volunteers who dedicated their time, energy and passion to his genuinely grassroots and uniquely San Franciscan campaign.
www.mattgonzalez.com   (233 words)

  
 Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Symposium: New Metropolis - Matt Gonzalez
In 2000 Gonzalez was named the “Lawyer of the Year” by the La Raza Lawyers Association, and during the summer, he taught an undergraduate class in “Evidence” at New College of California.
Gonzalez is also a strong supporter of the arts and hosts a monthly art opening in his office at City Hall.
Matt Gonzalez resides in the Western Addition, on Hayes Street, between Webster and Fillmore.
www.law.berkeley.edu /centers/csj/symposia/ca_cities/gonzalez.html   (1201 words)

  
 The Lowell - San Francisco needs Matt Gonzalez (11/03)
Gonzalez has the capacity to build a coalition because he’s left-wing enough for the true blue radicals, but also fiscally responsible enough for the moderates.
Gonzalez’s further bridge-building measures include appealing to the immigrant community by proposing to give non-citizens a vote in school board elections, as well as appealing to youth, seniors and the disabled by proposing to let them ride MUNI for free.
Gonzalez defends the dispossessed and is proud to live in San Francisco.
www.thelowell.org /content/view/209/29   (861 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez Discussion
Given the unexpected, spontaneous, grass-roots nature of Matt Gonzalez¹s campaign for Mayor of San Francisco in 2003, we felt it important to focus on the campaign and the potential birth of a ³new politics² in the U. that it may signify.
To me, what's significant about Matt's campaign is that it brought to light the alienation people feel toward politics, period.
Even though we know that Matt won that election in terms of all that came forth that was "supra" party.
www.leftcurve.org /LC28WebPages/GonzalezDiscussion.html   (7571 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez for Congress : Indybay
Gonzalez would have to run as an independent or write-in at this point as the deadline for getting qualified to run in the Green Party primary passed a month or so ago.
The deadline for Matt to have left the Green Party, to be an "Independent" candidate, was October 7 of last year (See: http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_candqual06.htm).
The reason why Matt needs to have Green Party absentee voters write his name in, in addition to day-of-the-election Green Party voters, is because he needs almost 2,000 Green Party write-in votes, which is a substantial number when your name isn't on the ballot, and when only about 5,000 Greens will probably be voting anyway.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/04/18/18162281.php?show_comments=1   (1445 words)

  
 Green Focus | Matt Gonzalez Elected President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Gonzalez credited his election to his non-partisan commitment to openness and honesty in government.
Gonzalez’s election marks the growing strength of San Francisco Greens, who make up 3% of the city’s registered voters, three times the state average.
This November Gonzalez also hopes to place on the ballot a measure for a citywide minimum wage of between $8.25 and $8.75.
www.cagreens.org /greenfocus/gonzalez.html   (543 words)

  
 [Hpn] SF Supe Matt Gonzalez: Boost minimum wage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Too few people benefit from the existing law, Gonzalez said Wednesday as he publicly endorsed consideration of a minimum wage law that would apply to private-sector workers as well.
But Gonzalez suggested no specific amount for a new minimum wage and said talk about one would be premature until its potential effects were studied.
Gonzalez said The City obligated itself to consider expanding its wage controls when it adopted the minimum-compensation ordinance in 2000.
projects.is.asu.edu /pipermail/hpn/2002-February/005629.html   (695 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez
Matt Gonzalez has been an advocate for the middle-class, but he has also been willing to champion the rights of San Franciscans who haven't had a voice in politics: low wage workers, immigrant laborers, homeless people.
Matt Gonzalez is not hostile to the downtown business community, but unlike his opponent, he does not believe that they should determine the direction of our city.
Matt Gonzalez understands that the cultural richness of San Francisco is worth both celebrating and defending.
www.testpattern.org /mattformayor/crubellier.html   (1024 words)

  
 Matt Gonzalez for Mayor | The Substantially Similar Weblog
I attended a Matt Gonzalez for Mayor· party tonight, one of 100 such parties happening in 30 days·.
Although Matt wasn’t there, I was struck by the energy and enthusiasm of the volunteers and attendees.
The Indymedia· founder spoke about Matt’s commitment to the public interest in media and communications issues, including the upcoming renewal of the cable franchise for San Francisco.
adam.rosi-kessel.org /weblog/politics/electoral/matt_gonzalez_for_mayor.html   (213 words)

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