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Crystal Chamness
25,769 votes
30.16%
- Occupation: Water Quality Engineer -San Francisco PUC
 - MS - Civil and Environmental Engineering - UC Berkeley
 - BA - Environmental Science - UC Berkeley
  
Priorities:
- Establish the MUD as directed by the Calfornia MUD Act
 - Provide sound project management and civil engineering skills to make low cost pubic power a reality.
 - Phase out the polluting power plants in San Francisco and replace them with clean renewable energy sources.
  
Medea Susan Benjamin
23,962 votes
28.05%
- Occupation: Consumer Advocate
 - Founding Director of nationally recognized non-profit advocacy group Global Exchange - http://globalexchange.org
 - Her influential Power to the People coalition is leading charge for clean, affordable, public power throughout CA - http://powertothepeople.org
 - A key figure in the global anti-sweatshop movement to improve working conditions in the garment and shoe industry
 - Worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist for the United Nations
 - Masters degrees in Public Health from Columbia University and Economics from the New School for Social Research
 - San Francisco Magazine recently named Medea to their "Power List" as one of "60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area"
  
Priorities:
- Will push for affordable rates to protect residential and small business consumers.
 - Pursue a dramatic increase in solar, wind, conservation, and other renewable energy sources.
 - Will guarantee the community a strong voice in running our energy system.
  
Robin David
16,116 votes
18.86%
- Occupation: Retired Utility Worker
 - Former shop steward, IBEW 1245
 - Co-founder Bay Area Labor Task Force for Public Power
 - Author, "San Francisco & Brisbane MUD: A Local Answer to the Energy Crisis"
  
Priorities:
- Acquire PG&E's distribution system of poles, lines, and substations in order to better serve San Francisco customers
 - Increase generating capacity by studying and aggressively pursuing affordable solar power, wind power, and other renewable forms of energy
 - Shut down Hunter's Point Power Plant as soon as possible
  
Linda Perez
10,233 votes
11.98%
Jim Reid
8,915 votes
10.44%
- Occupation: Building Contractor
 - I use basic common sense in developing solutions and have good problem-solving skills.
  
Priorities:
- A master plan to systematically replace all underground utilities: sewer, water, recycled water, gas, electric, cable, fiber, and telephone
 - A twenty-year plan to build 33 clean mini-power plants around the City with underground lines
 - Free electricity and free parking for one-person electric vehicles.
  
  
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Official Information 
 
- Candidate Statements for the proposed district Board of Directors
  
Partisan Information
 
- In favor of Measure I:
 - MUD NOW - Yes on Measure I - A Community Coalition for Lower Utility Bills
  - Opposed to Measure I:
 - No on Proposition I: Stop the $3 Billion Bill
  
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