Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea!

1. Mount Baker SUSPENDED membership in the SEDC.

2. Mount Baker did not completely withdraw from the SEDC.

3. There is no City Neighborhood Coalition - Jonah must have created a new organization out of thin air. He means the CNC, which is the City Neighborhood Council.

4. The CNC has not taken no position as of this date.

5. The "two groups" are not the SEDC and MBCC.

6. The "two groups" are the SEDC and the newly formed SE Neighborhood District Council, or SENDC. MBCC is only one of many participating organizations in the SENDC.

7. The CNC did not ask the SEDC and SENDC to "work out their problems".

8. MBCC is not seeking a seat on the CNC.

9. The SENDC is seeking an at-large membership at the CNC.

10. Boyd Pickerell first contacted MBCC's president, Pat Murakami, a few days ago to sit down for a talk. This was done through the SEDC's secretary. Boyd did not contact Pat directly regarding this meeting which will take place next week.

11. Jonah clearly has no idea how much community councils and business associations would like the situation to change and the rift to be bridged.

12. I was asked what we would do if the CNC did not give the SENDC an at-large membership and stated we may have to go up the chain of agencies. However, no decision has been made at this time. That decision would be made by the entire SENDC body.

13. Again, any "hugging out" would occur between the SEDC and SENDC, not between SEDC and MBCC.

The only accurate statement in the entire story:

The Southeast District Council as it exists right now, is in violation of its own bylaws, and they don’t care," she says. "We need a true voice of community."

Sorry about that Boyd.

Jonah - Perhaps the number of errors in your story is prophetic of the number of seats there will be at the CNC.

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

Jonah, your blurb about this important issue is trite and attempts to trivialize the importance of this fight. Not to mention all the factual errors in your reporting regarding the basics: WHO'S WHO and WHAT'S WHAT.

Jonah, you should read the City of San Francisco's new grand jury findings regarding the relationship between the city's policy to house the homeless and the non-profits that execute that policy. It's here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/17/BABT11PHFJ.DTL&hw=homeless+panhandling&sn=001&sc=1000

As the SF grand jury report states (pg 8),

Role of Non-Profits - Where Most of the Money Goes

...Most of the City's spending on supportive housing (at least $90 MM) goes to over 80 private, mostly non-profit organizations. Most depend largely or entirely on City contracts for their funding.

Perhaps because of this dependence, politics infuse their relationship with the City...On the other hand, one non-profit manager feared (rightly or wrongly) that a visit he got from a Controller's Office auditor was the result of his having publicly expressed views on a policy issue that differed from the Mayor's."

...To the extent that some non-profits may, in fact, feel a sense of entitlement, the Jury believes this can be remedied to a great extent by strengthening performance measures as recommended later in this report.

I will be writing to your editor, Jonah. The amount of factual errors just makes me wonder about the other "facts" presented throughout The Stranger! Ultimately The Stranger is responsible for allowing this poor performance of journalistic professionalism to be issued, but in the meantime, shame on you.