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John Fielding,
CEO
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City Hall insiders began whispering that Detroit auto manufacturers such as General Motors may have instigated the media ambush to prevent competition from Berkeley's electric car.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The Berkeley Four majority refused to allow a BTOC representative to speak and voted down a Hancock/Kelley motion to let legal representatives of tenants and the Rent Board attend a Council executive session to discuss the city's response to Bostick's decision.
Carlos Estrada is the only candidate for City Council that pledges to work to rebuild the movement that made Berkeley the most progressive city in the country.
He attacked the police shooting and teargassing of Berkeley's citizens and called for an end to the city's occupation by Governor Reagan's National Guard troops and the curfew.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Marty personally drafted and collected nearly all the signatures for an Initiative Charter Amendment to move Berkeley's city election from April of odd-numbered years to November of even-numbered years, when it would be consolidated with the state general election.
As the city of Berkeley's residential curbside recycling contractor, the Ecology Center in now running its entire ten truck Clean Air Fleet exclusively on Biodiesel, a DOE and EPA certified alternative fuel made from transesterized spent restaurant vegetable frying oil.
The election law reform package I helped develop was based upon the fundamental principle that Berkeley's election rules must be in the City Charter rather than state general law.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The California Court of Appeal has agreed to "publish" its ruling upholding the city of Berkeley's right to refuse facilities to the Boy Scouts because of anti-gay discrimination.
In the City of Berkeley's first major legal victory of the l970's, both the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals rejected nearly all of plaintiff's arguments.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Since both Berkeley's city government and the school district were heavily dependent upon property taxes as their major revenue source, Proposition l3's adoption created an immediate, long-term budget crises.
In April 1981, Berkeley's voters rewarded the conservative coalition with an ABC/BDC sweep of all four City Council seats.
Conservatives often decry Berkeley's "unfavorable business climate", for which they hold the City Council and BCA responsible.
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