Legislative Record
In 2007, Peskin authored a charter amendment to increase San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) funding and implement agency reforms. The measure, Prop A, which received over 55 percent of the vote was a response to a pro-parking measure, Prop H, funded by The Gap founder and republican billionaire Don Fisher. Fisher spent lavishly in support of Prop. H, a measure that would have undone numerous transit-first measures in downtown San Francisco.
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