Manifesto (Ellis L. Keyes)

From: ekeyes@mercury.sfsu.edu (ELLIS L. KEYES)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:39:51 -0700

PLAN FOR BUDGET REFORM
 In the public interest the 2.9 billion dollar budget expenditures will have
to be reduced. As Mayor I will not need to be excused from making decisions
on any issues because I do not have any conflicts of interest which would
prevent me from doing so. I will bring the budget under control. The wages,
benefits and pensions cost for 24,000 public employees must be dealt with in
an equitable fashion.  I suggest an approach which will be opposite the
trickle down theory, whereas first the highest paid public employees need to
take salary reductions. I will bring employee compensation under control.
With perhaps more than fifty percent wasteful spending currently happening at
the expense  of the taxpayer it shall be my mission to reduce the cost and
increase the services provided. Cutting the funding for unconstitutional
activities may balance the budget and even afford excesses. The Muni and
other service workers shall be rewarded, complimented and encouraged for
their good work, to build morale and improve productivity.
 Mine will be a labor of love.

DEALING WITH EXPECTED CUTS IN STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS
About 35 percent of the budget is sure to decrease substantially. We must
 budget according to constitutional criteria. I plan to cover the loss of
funding by stimulating our local economy. Through adherence to democratic
principles, with the slogan "LIFE IS A PARTY" constitutional policies will in
turn create more commerce. I plan to increase revenues for vital services to
the public in Health care, Social and other services. We should  privatize
many services through competitive contracting and partnership with non profit
organizations. I will rule out any tax increases and insist we make due with
existing resources more productively. I will seek to increase services by
making available resources for voluntary service work programs in exchange
for room and board. This program will provide public services. Many of the
homeless are San Franciscans and former employees or veterans. Let us help
them by offering adequate shelter space. The Presidio could offer a location
from where to organize a workforce dedicated to improving public housing and
providing other services.

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO DEAL WITH CRIME
The practice of searching every citizen who enters into city hall is an
insane militaristic police state tactic. Let's put aside the bureaucratic
attitude of paranoid entrenchment. When I take the oath of office to uphold
and defend the Constitution the  contract is binding, the actual checks and
balances preserved. I will abolish the practice of having the general public
 searched for weapons on entry into local Government places of businesses
such as City Hall or the hall of justice. Government services cannot be
contingent on a waiver of Constitutional rights. Citizens are to be free from
unlawful invasion of privacy. This action is mandatory to deter crime created
by an entrenched bureaucracy.
 I support decriminalization of drugs. Empowering the people through
upholding constitutional law will require more individual responsibility. The
drug problem may become obsolete. We should not make a big deal out of a fad.
Juvenile justice system reforms are needed so to empower  parents with the
authority they are naturally entitled to. The juvenile court  is a mechanism
that creates  criminals by violating parents natural right to care and
control of minors.
I support a curfew for teenagers to a limited extent, providing that they
have right to decline to accept service or assistance from peace officers.
Matrix programs have not worked and it is unconstitutional in the way
implemented, having inadequate shelter space available and making poverty a
pretended crime.

IMPROVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
I will be a high profile advocate for schools and education. I am for music
and art. As Mayor I will see to it that we have adequate funding for these
programs in our public schools because our sons and daughters will bring
forth the manifestation of a better world. It is through ongoing learning
that we will collectively attain a knowledge of all that is good.

CITY CHARTER

Charter reform is necessary but I object to ballot initiatives which raise
multiple questions. I insist on simplification of questions presented to the
voters so we may decide only one issue at a time rather than having to
approve many separate issues. There are many old laws in the books that we
can simply have for historic significance.



Ellis Leonard Anthony Keyes (415) 922-1567