Community Rallies Against Prop 98; Decries Landlord TacticsPaul Hogarthbyline‚ Apr. 28‚ 2008Over 50 tenant activists from San Francisco, Marin County, the East Bay and South Bay gathered on April 25th at the Oakland Airport Hilton – to protest the Apartment Owners Association (AOA)’s seminar on how to evict tenants. The landlord group has provided crucial seed money to pass Proposition 98 in June, and its President – Dan Faller – has called tenant advocates “terrorists” and “suicide bombers.” The tenant activists denounced new “Yes on 98” radio ads that are running in the Bay Area as dishonest, and stressed the need to run a grassroots campaign to defeat the measure. In related news, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein came out against Prop 98 – further proving that the AOA is a fringe group that does not represent California. |