Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day all! Here’s the latest on SB 50: In a surprise move, Sen. Toni Atkins sent Senate Bill 50 to the Rules Committee, which she controls, in hopes of moving it THIS WEEK to the senate floor for a vote. We must stop this Draconian bill which ends single-family zoning and rewards developers to destroy existing housing in 400 California cities.
· WRITE AND CALL NOW: Go to the Livable California Action Page! It takes less than 20 minutes to fight this awful bill. You’ll be sending prewritten emails to each of the 20+ state senators who together can stop SB 50 in January on the senate floor. CLICK HERE
· VISIT YOUR SENATOR FRIDAY: Call his or her district office today for an appointment Friday to meet with your state senator at the district office. Take our printable 7 Talking Points Against SB 50. Download at www.livablecalifornia.org/sb-50-impact-analysis/
· DONATE TO STOP SB 50: Thanks so much! Your contributions this month let us hire a lobbyist to fight Wiener! We urge you to generously donate to keep this fight viable through June. Wiener used every backroom trick last year, but we had enough money to stop him. We ALL stopped him. CLICK NOW to DONATE to STOP SB 50.
· LOBBY TOMORROW, JAN 21: If you can get to Sacramento Tuesday, please email Livable California board president Rick Hall at [email protected] to work out details.
HOT NEWS: Crowd of 200 at South L.A. Town Hall Opposes SB 50!
A crowd of 200 at the South Los Angeles Town Hall to Oppose SB 50 on Saturday heard from a lineup of top L.A. elected leaders and candidates, all slamming the hated gentrification bill that would hand key planning decisions in 400 cities directly into the hands of developers. Livable California co-sponsored this event.
State Sen. Holly Mitchell, Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, L.A. City Council candidate Grace Woo, and L.A. County Board of Supervisors candidate Jan Perry all opposed SB 50. An aide to powerful L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson slammed the bill authored by "trickle-down" economics proponent, state Sen. Scott Wiener.
Respected community leader and former LA City Councilwoman Jan Perry attacked SB 50 as decimating historic black South L.A., saying with disgust, “People who stayed here, and built equity here? You don’t punish them!” Weiner would end single-family zoning, transforming much of South LA — and thousands of single-family communities statewide — into market-rate fourplexes too small to house families. SEE THE SB 50 MAP.
Watch the South LA Townhall to Oppose SB 50, livestream video, here: https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Steiner.LA/videos/vb.1138104490/10221357199936313/
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