Recommendations for SF, Oakland, etc.

Statewide, see my friend Dan Kalb's recommendations.
San Francisco: check out SPUR's analysis of SF propositions.

June 2010 voting summary

Here's how I'm voting today (on the Democratic Party ballot in 14th AD):

Partisan Offices:

• Governor: Jerry Brown
• Lt. Gov: Gavin Newsom (mostly out of Northern CA bias)
  
• Secretary of State: Debra Bowen
• Controller: John Chiang
• Treasurer: Bill Lockyer
• Attorney General: Kamala Harris
  
• Insurance Commissioner: Dave Jones
• Member, State Board of Equalization, 1st District: Betty Yee
• US Senator, CA: Barbara Boxer
• US Representative, 9th District: Barbara Lee
• CA State Assembly, 14th District: Nancy Skinner
• County Central Committee, 14th Assembly District (vote for 6 of 7): first 5 were Marge Atkinson, Edie Irons, Beverly Greene, Andrew Kelley, & Elizabeth Echols. My 6th vote went to Maggie Gee.

Non-Partisan Offices:

• Superior Court Judge, Office #9: Victoria Kolakowski
• State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tom Torlakson
  
• County Superintendent of Schools: Sheila Jordan
• Member, Board of Education, 1st Trustee area: Joaquin Rivera
• Since there's no competition on the 5 county non-partisan offices, I didn't pay any attention to them. I'll probably vote for them.

State Propositions: See my lengthier writeup on these. My votes are:

• 13: Yes
• 14: No
• 15: Yes
• 16: NO NO NO
• 17: NO

Berkeley Propositions:

• C: Yes to repair and refurbish our pools