Posted 10:43 PM by Mr Cheng


Saturday, May 31, 2003 get some one to work on thousands T-Shirt with Mayor Reid's Chinese name.


...Contributions are not tax deductible. We may not deposit your check without
your name, address, occupation and employer and may not accept cash,
cashiers checks or money orders. You may contribute up to $500, and spouses
and domestic partners may each contribute $500, even if the accounts are
controlled by the same person. Separate legal entities (businesses and their
owners, partnerships with same general partner, parent companies and
subsidiaries, etc.) may each contribute $500. Your total contributions to
all San Francisco candidates running in the November 2003 election are
limited to $1,500. Contributions may be accepted from all sources, other
than foreign nationals, persons negotiating City contracts, and persons who
have received a contract, land use variance, grant, tax abatement, etc. from
the City which Supervisor Newsom approved. *Checks cannot be deposited
without employer, occupation, and physical street address (p.o. boxes not
accepted)....


Sunday, June 1, 2003 Joey and Alan Chu work on Volunteer Housing. Bart on Mayor Debate video tape. Mabel Lee on Chinese text of business card and T-shirt. Del, new volunteer, become Shelter One Manager. Jack, new volunteer, becomes Campaign Office Manager.

Posted 1:22 PM by Mr Cheng


Friday, May 30, 2003 Working on Ballot measure so we can began gathering signature.

Names, money and the law BY ADRIEL HAMPTON Of The Examiner Staff

...A $20 donation is suggested. ?Dark horse candidate Jim Reid may [xxx] make mayor, [that] he makes for great copy. A photo essayist with a national audience follows the maverick builder as the establishment press passes on by. ?

Posted 10:46 AM by Mr Cheng


Thursday, May 29 to June 1, 2003 Campaign Training, Washington DC Victor Fund Foundation, $400, Bart, Jack and Joey. at Oakland Hotel. total 20 people will attend.

..... According to Dr. Hung-Hui Cheng, chair of Chinese Community Committee of Jim Reid for Mayor, mayor Chinese newspapers all reported The Rally of Ballot Measure in front of City Hall on 5/27/03.

There were huge photos of Mayor Reid and over 30 supporters wearing "Jim Reid for Mayor" and "Habita for the Homeless".

So far, next Mayor Jim Reid is the most popular mayoral candidates in San Francisco Chinese Community, including Chinatown. He has met
hundreds of Chinese leaders and shake hands with thousands of Chinese in dozens of Chinese gathering.

His campaign promises of "increase bus in Chinatown" and "build automatic parking deck" and "moving homeless off street" have won the
heart of the majority of Chinese American.
.....

Posted 1:23 AM by Mr Cheng


Wednesday, May 28, 2003 May 28 for 8 weeks signature collection, require 6,000 but target 30,000 signatures, 3rd place in August. Mayor Reid bus tours full time with volunteers.

Low-budget mayor bid gains band of homeless volunteersBY ADRIEL HAMPTON Of The Examiner

.....For the past couple weeks, dark horse mayoral candidate Jim Reid has added a little bit of grassroots politics into the mix, organizing a brigade of volunteers from the army of homeless and marginally housed folks who wander the streets by day and bed down on them by night.

Early Tuesday afternoon, a line of people spilled out of Reid's tiny campaign headquarters across from U.N. Plaza, waiting for a free volunteer lunch and a raffle for new backpacks and sleeping bags.

Most wore t-shirts proclaiming "Jim Reid for Mayor" or "Habitat for the Homeless." The latter shirt, based on Reid's new ballot proposal to house the homeless at the former naval shipyard at Hunters Point, features a small house with a picket fence sheltering a raggedy homeless man with shopping cart from the driving rain -- inside the house, the sun is shining.

Most of the volunteers had moved down from a noon press conference at the steps of City Hall, where Reid and about 30 supporters began gathering signatures to put a declaration of policy on the November ballot. Middle-aged homeless men, Chinese Americans and a couple transgender women listened to Reid outline his quest to put low-cost housing on the Hunters Point land, where city officials currently plan a new neighborhood of homes for working-class and upper-income residents.

"House the homeless first," Reid said, after waiting 10 minutes for fresh megaphone batteries. Reid, a general contractor by trade, two years ago built a fully functional 10-by-10 home and compares his new initiative with the way The City took care of its poor after the 1906 earthquake, housing them in thousands of cottages in San Francisco's southeast corner.

Now, Reid and his volunteers must collect nearly 10,000 valid signatures from registered voters by July 7 to put the plan on the ballot. He plans to buy monthly Muni passes for the most dedicated signature gatherers.

Jack Davis, Reid's volunteer coordinator, calls the little house that Reid built, Shelter One, the solution to homelessness for a wide segment of the indigent population. Obviously, he told a reporter, people who sit around talking to themselves need services -- but many able-bodied men just need a place to shave and clean daily so they can hold down a job.

Charles Maxwell, who's lived on Social Security in San Francisco's cheap hotels for the past year, loves that Reid is a tradesman with an answer. Maxwell had collected 11 signatures around City Hall.

"I like the way he has it all laid out," Maxwell said.

Tony Simi, who read about Reid and came out to support him at the signature-gathering kickoff, is a retired INS worker who's lived in The City 20 years. Simi is sold on a permanent housing solution for people on fixed income like himself.

"I was really edified by it," Simi said.

While volunteers headed down to the campaign office for lunch and took away election materials by taxi, Reid went over to a group of Chinese Americans who were protesting for neighborhood schools and against District 4 Supervisor Fiona Ma.

"I know how to do a recall petition," Reid, who once tried with little success to start a campaign to recall Mayor Willie Brown, told them. He said they should work to put their plight into the form of a ballot initiative, government by referendum. Across the street, another supporter checked out the engine on Reid's one-person electric car.

While City Hall workers and reporters passed by with just a glance, the streets bustled, the little campaign grew.

Posted 11:01 AM by Mr Cheng


Tuesday, May 27, 2003 noon Rally with 60 volunteers at steps of City Hall with homeless T-shirt collect 20,000 signatures ballot measure for Hunter Pointers Ship Yard Navy to city. (Joey) Will get 500 homeless volunteers with Jim Reid for Mayor sign at City Hall behind Mayor Reid (Jack).

Detail of HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD HOMELESS REHABILITATION CENTER; DECLARATION OF POLICY can be seen at Jim Reid for Mayor Weblog

Posted 12:08 AM by Mr Cheng


Monday, May 26, 2003 1-3pm Official Campaign Committee Meeting will be held at 870 Market Street, Rm 622. We will be picking the key up from Ste. 559. Mai Kai Lee and Dr. Cheng will be there as well, in addition to Mayor Reid, Bart Kylstra, Alan Chu, Joey Hodges, Jack Davis. The meeting lasted for 3 hours.

Get another 48 T-shirts for volunteers.

Campaign Committee Meeting Agenda

Dr. Cheng
Alan Chu
Jack Davis
Joey Hodges
Bart Kylstra
Mai Kai Lee
Jim Reid

May 25, 2003, 1-3 pm
870 Market St., Conference Room 622

Fellow committee members:

This is our first official campaign committee meeting. I will make suggestions here how I believe it should function. We will come to some consensus tomorrow as a group how it will function from that point forward.

We will begin by discussing and revising the short campaign strategy document attached to this email. The online calendar is our long-term organizing tool, along with the budget. Our weekly meeting will drive our short-term planning. Each of us will bring a list of things that we believe need to be accomplished in the next week. We will then put all the lists together and divide them among ourselves. At the next meeting we will go over the lists and check of those that have been accomplished and then produce a new list for the following week. My list includes:

Telephone in office, then DSL
Gem keys arrive, get it functional
Current photo of Jim at portrait studio
Order large-format printer
Set up telephone fundraisers
Volunteer, supporter, contributor database format
Add 20 volunteers to database every day
Deliver volunteers to rally on Tuesday
Checklist for rally
Contact voters on bus
Organize ballot initiative
Attend functions
Campaign legal and ethical paperwork
Campaign office hours
Victory Fund training
Content and look of campaign material
Enter important events on online calendar
We will also decide on ongoing responsibilities for each committee member. This will become part of the campaign strategy document.

The committee will make all major decisions, decided by a simple majority vote. This includes internal strategy and how the campaign is presented to the outside. This includes any promotional material. We need to present a consistent message. Step-by-step we will make good progress.

Bart Kylstra
(415) 385-4508

The tortoise won the race.

Get attention however you can, then reel them in with substance, then talk about being mayor. Focus on issues of voters (homelessness, housing, transportation, and economy), nothing else. Do not let the agenda change for any reason. 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration, the tortoise approach

Maximize Strengths
Vision, Charisma
Courage, ingenuity
Speaking ability
Cubicle
Flexibility
Minimize Weakness (or flaunt and ask forgiveness)
Seen as Don Quixote
No organizational experience, micromanage, looses focus, never held political office
Bankruptcy, Ethics
Rather be dead and right?
Self-talk may be disconcerting to others
1st tier of strategy
Bus, Bus, Bus (business cards)
Continue getting interest of the press
Campaign headquarters as meeting place, nucleus
Organize people that are then interested
Web site to capitalize on interest of press, voters, and volunteers
Fundraising (ask for help, ask for help, video, Mr. Cheng, telefunding)
Consistent graphic look and message (stock photos)

2nd tier of strategy

Circulate among leading policymakers and organizations
Bus advertising signs
Ballot measure taken over by Joey Hodges
Register voters
Door-to-door, targeted cards
Gem Billboard
Sparrow placement

3rd tier of strategy

Critical Mass
Important milestones:
6/29 Gay parade
Signature in lieu deadline
Ballot measure deadline
Talk with David Binder, remember successful models: Chris Daly, Willie Brown, Jesse Ventura, and anti-models Tom Ammiano, Angela Aliota?

Campaign Tools:

External communication and organization tools:
Web page
Database (volunteers, supporters and contributors)
Telephone and email
Internal organization tools:
Two page strategy, organization document
Calendar online (http://www.calsnet.com/jim_reid)
Short term “to do” list from committee meeting
Monthly budget
“Wish List” budget
Campaign organization:

Fundraiser, Wunjei Cheng
Set up and support telephone fundraisers
Continue getting large contributions from donors
“Take care” of past and future contributors

Volunteer organizer, Jack Davis
Add 30 volunteers, potential supporters to database every day
Responsible for delivering volunteers and supports to events, election
Organize so office open all day

Campaign manager, Bart Kylstra
Maintain Campaign strategy documents
Organize campaign meetings

Treasurer, Alan Chu
Understand legal and ethical requirements on campaign
Maintain financial documents
Maintain campaign paperwork

Candidate, Jim Reid
Provide leadership for the campaign (lead by example)
Direct contact with voters (primarily bus)
Attend functions

Ballot Initiative, Joey Hodges

Mai Kai

Administrative Assistants, Paul

Campaign Committee:
All strategy and tactics approved.
Short-term “to do” list.

Posted 8:29 PM by Mr Cheng


Sunday, May 25, 2003 Setup SFMayor Weblog by Mr. Cheng

Postcards from the fringe with Jim Reid by Hank Donat at Heart of the City

Letter to the Editor:

Hank Donat's interview with Jim Reid was a revelation, and a change in my thinking about Jim. His is the most brilliant civil idea proffered to the Citizens of this City in decades. What a project to be completed! San Francisco needs this so that we all have fair reason to feel important again.

Sincerely,
Rob Tackes

P.S. Hank Donat's writing style brought this very interesting saga alive. Its true to me that Jim's Hunters Point plan is earth-shattering in its potential for making S.F. great again Hank balanced that idea with the more obvious element of the mayor's race. Wonderful .

Contact 70 volunteers to show up on Tuesday's Rally at steps of City Hall (Jack)

Invite Realtors to the Open House of Shelter One (Jack)

Posted 5:08 PM by Mr Cheng


Saturday, May 24, 2003 $7,500 check arrived and cashed into Campaign Committee Account, according to Tracy
Bart, Jack, Joey,
I appreciate each of you agreeing to attend the Victory fund training. This intense four-day workshop will introduce you to campaign professionals who have won campaigns in the past. It will provide the three of you the opportunity to work together as a team to plan a fictitious campaign that we can apply to our campaigns. I would like to join you each night after the training so that we could brainstorm our campaign based on the information that you gained that day.

I am going to ask our financial patron Wunjei Cheng to make a $1,200.00 tax-deductible donation to the Victory Fund Foundation in our name so that the campaign can benefit from the training without using our limited resources.

I look forward to this long weekend of learning campaign skills and putting it into practice in our campaign.
Perhaps we could recruit some of your fellow students to participate in our campaign.

Thanks again for your time in doing the training.

Sincerely,
Jim Reid

Posted 9:49 AM by Mr Cheng


Friday, May 23, 2003 Joey Hodges working on building new Housing Committee and recruit committee members to obtain corporate donation and over $500 donation to the Shelter One Housing Project. Joey will chair the committe while co-chair Fund Raising committee for the moment. 12:30pm Campaign Ethics Meeting at City Hall, Jack Davis and others will attend.

[Jim Reid in] Mayoral Maneuvers by BY ADRIEL HAMPTON Of The Examiner Staff
..... In other homelessness and ballot news, mayoral candidate Jim Reid, he of the smallest house in San Francisco, on Tuesday begins a signature gathering campaign to put a statement of policy on the ballot. Reid's statement would give a voter mandate to create a housing and services depot at the Hunters Point Shipyard for all The City's homeless. Additionally at the shipyard, Reid wants to expand the artists' community, develop a 2007 World's Fair and a hydrogen car assembly plant and -- whoa! -- a floating red light district. ... Reid, described by one astute politics watcher as "not a kook, but kooky," has a team of homeless and nearly homeless volunteers ready to collect the pen marks he'll need. One new campaign volunteer, Jack Davis (no relation) of Nashville , is testing out Reid's 10-by- 10 prototype affordable home, Shelter One in Bernal Heights, as a housing model for the nation. .....

Posted 8:29 AM by Mr Cheng


Thursday, May 22, 2003 sfmayor.com will be switched to new much more powerful website hosting.
Working on Ballot measure so we can began gathering signature Wednesday May 21 for Shipyard where we want to to build Shelter One for homeless. Publish legal notices in newspaper.
12:30pm Mayor Rreid, Bart, Jack Davis, Joey Hodges attend meeting at Department of Election about ballot signature collection.

Coalition for the Homeless visited Campaign Office.

Posted 9:55 AM by Mr Cheng


Wednesday, May 21, 2003 .
[Next Mayor Jim Reid] at Raucous Vets Forum by BY ADRIEL HAMPTON Of The Examiner Staff

....Jim Reid's dozen volunteers in bright colored t-shirts have dominated the show Tuesday night at the Swords to Plowshares mayoral forum...

......Reid, with a group of volunteers, got props from Alioto and Denny for his Shelter One proposal to house worthy homeless individuals in tiny, cheap homes...

....Reid pledged to teach the homeless how to do plumbing, electrical and sheetrock to get jobs and build their own homes, calling for an effort like the housing of survivors following the 1906 quake.

"We haven't burned to the ground," Reid said. "But we have no money."

He criticized Newsom's Care Not Cash homeless plan, like the rest of the candidates emphasizing that services and housing are not adequate and long shelter stays are intolerable....

Posted 10:17 PM by Mr Cheng


Tuesday, May 20, 2003 10am Joey Hodges and Jack Davis will meet at Library and got all the phone numbers of the donar list from US reference database. Joey will divide the list and email to fund raising committee nation wide for telemarketing volunteers to do tele fund raising.
6:00 p.m. Swords to Plowshares mayoral Debate in Herbst Theatre in the Veterans building across from City Hall. We need
people to wear T-shirts and pass out signs, cards, and ShelterOne raffle
tickets. Call for details or just show up. Jack Davis and Ms Lee will organize dozens volunteers to show up with T-shirt and sign.

Posted 12:37 PM by Mr Cheng


Monday, May 19, 2003 2pm Mayor Reid meet with Joey, newly join volunteer serve as co-chair of Fund Raising Committee and discuss strategy on fund raising through donar list obtain from Ethic Commission last Friday.
6:00pm Campaign Team weekly meeting, introduce Jack Davis and Joey Hodges to the committee. Work on tomorrow Mayoral Debate issues. 9pm Huan-Ching Liao brought in $500 donation check to be sent to "Jim Reid for Mayor Committee". 11pm Jerry Renville from Sauk Rapids MN also join fund raising committee; Jerry had extensive telemarketing experience.

Posted 1:46 AM by Mr Cheng


Sunday, May 18, 2003 Bay To Breakers We need volunteers who are willing to walk the full route wearing a Jim Reid for Mayor T-shirt and/or carry a Jim Reid for Mayor sign. Bart and Mayor Reid $40 per person recruit volunteers Jack Davis will prepare volunteers
Get more decoration and signs for campaign office.

Posted 1:40 AM by Mr Cheng


Saturday, May 17, 2003 Green party campaign training 9:30am to 3pm 533 Sutter St Bart and Mayor Reid attend, 75 spaces.
6pm Invited Annual Dinner Party with National Political University Alumni Association, accompanied by supporters and Dr. Hung-Hui Cheng, Chair Chineses Community Committee. The dinner party had close to 1,000 attendents with hundreds of Chinese Community Leaders came from San Francisco Bay Area, including almost all Chinese leaders from major organizations of San Francisco Chinatown. Major Chinese media like World Journal all reported Mayor Reid's visit. The sponsor of the Dinner party who had had lunch with Mayor Reid weeks ago, spended 15 minutes to briefly introduced Mayor Reid to all the attendence. The dinner ticket was $50 per seat.

Posted 9:03 AM by Mr Cheng


Friday, May 16, 2003 9:00 P.M. Jack Davis, Chair of Volunteer Committee fly to San Francisco from Nashville TN.
meeting with volunteer Joey Hodges today at 11:00 at the campaign Office. I called and spoke with him for half an hour last night.
Working on Ballot measure so we can began gathering signature Wednesday May 21 for Shipyard where we want to to build Shelter One for homeless.
We got lots of volunteers, over 100 volunteers, with several extra ordinary candidates with resumes submit with extensive polical campaign experience.

Posted 7:59 PM by Mr Cheng


Thursday, May 15, 2003 Ms Lee will call up dozens of volunteers to prepare for May 20 Mayoral Debate.

Posted 7:46 PM by Mr Cheng


Wednesday, May 14, 2003 Small office, big ideas BY TIFFANY MALESHEFSKI Of The Examiner Staff


Photos of next Mayor Jim Reid and Supporters on The Examiner


Wednesday, May 11, 2003 POLITICS, Making Book on City Hall S.F., mayoral hopefuls make a run for the roses By Michael Yaki of San Francisco Chronicle
..........
Only Reid, who has shown a gift for publicity through his "mini-house" solution for the homeless and his marathon MUNI ride, has any chance of being this race's Sarava (the longshot in the Belmont who upset War Emblem's chance for a Triple Crown last year). Odds: 70-1, the same as Sarava's.
..........

Posted 12:18 PM by Mr Cheng


Wednesday, May 14, 2003 work on Campaign Housing to accomodate dozens of full time volunteers. Work on Bus tour and meet voters.
....
we need to simplify and focus the campaign message and tactics. We have to distill the
message and repeat it over and over again with every means of
communicating with the voters: the press, the campaign headquarters,
direct contact on the bus, public appearances, both formal and informal,
meeting with policymakes, etc. Then immediately we have to focus 99% on
execution, not thinking and planning. We know what we have to do, now
we have to do it. I am sure we can have a big impact IF we do this.

I have a meeting with Jim at 6 discuss and implement.

Bart Kylstra

Posted 11:13 PM by Mr Cheng


Wednesday, May 14, 2003 work on Campaign Housing to accomodate dozens of full time volunteers. Work on Bus tour and meet voters.


Thursday, May 15, 2003 Jack Davis, chair of Volunteer Committee fly to San Francisco from Nashville TN.


Sunday, May 18th Bay To Breakers We need volunteers who are
willing to walk the full route wearing a Jim Reid for Mayor T-shirt and/or
carry a Jim Reid for Mayor sign.


Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:00 p.m. Swords to Plowshares mayoral Debate in
Herbst Theatre in the Veterans building across from City Hall. We need
people to wear T-shirts and pass out signs, cards, and ShelterOne raffle
tickets. Call for details or just show up.


Wednesday, May 21, 2003 (tentatively scheduled) Tina Bow (founder) and Serena Dow (exec director)
fly from Los Angeles to meet Mayor Reid to discuss endorsement of

Posted 11:10 PM by Mr Cheng


Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at Noon at 1155 Market Street across from UN Plaza;
our Campaign Kickoff on the sidewalk in front of our Small Campaign Office.
Lunch provided. Flower baskets sent by Mr. Cheng, Rosa (AGA Warehouse), Polly (Polo Tour), Tracy (Toyota) ...

Posted 9:28 PM by Mr Cheng


Monday, May 12, 2003 at 2pm, Mayor Reid, Bart (drive) and Alan Chu; Ms Lee, Dr Cheng, Xizhe Wang (drive) and wife are going to visit Rosa's warehouse at Hayward CA. There will be warm welcoming from all the employees and many donation checks collected to be present to Mayor Reid.



Friday, May 9, 2003 Mayoral candidates react to ruling by The Examiner.
....
Jim Reid, the official opponent of Care Not Cash last November, said the measure would have hurt the homeless.

    "I don't want money to go to drug users or alcohol, but there were actually homeless people who use their money responsibly," Reid said. "I think if we built a shelter system and housing, Care Not Cash would be irrelevant. Housing is the problem, not food or clothing. You could get fat living homeless in San Francisco."
.....



Monday, May 5, 2003 S.F. mayoral wannabes leave some wanting more by San Francisco Chronicle
.....
MEANWHILE, ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: In the world of big-name, big-money and big-idea politics, San Francisco mayoral candidate Jim Reid is one man who is definitely thinking small.

One hundred square feet, to be exact. That's the size of the Lilliputian house (complete with bed, bathroom and kitchenette) that Reid is promoting as a cure for the city's homeless problem.

And when it comes to small, Reid doesn't stop there.

The other night he pulled up to a debate in the Mission District in a one- passenger, lime-green, fully electric Sparrow.

"It's what you get when you mate a VW and a Harley -- and check out the license plate," Reid said after pulling into about a quarter of a parking space.

Mayor O3.

"And that's where I intend to be when this is over."

....



Friday, April 25, 2003 Rich New Jersey man adopts S.F. candidate by The Examiner

While mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom might have the local market on homelessness solutions cornered, San Francisco homebuilder Jim Reid is suddenly the darling candidate for a network of homeless "bloggers" and their benefactor, Wunjei Cheng.

    Cheng, a New Jersey resident and UC Berkeley graduate, found out about Reid and Shelter One, the mayoral candidate's 10-by-10-foot homeless housing solution, earlier this month. Since then, Cheng's been networking with Bay Area family members and friends to form a fundraising committee for Reid. Already, Reid has opened his campaign bank account with three $500 checks, and more are in the mail.

    "I've already bought like 10,000 Spanish-speaking business cards thanks to this man," Reid said. "He really believes in me, and I like this."

    Reid (www.sfmayor.com) also plans a fundraising committee meeting on Monday, after which he will print 10,000 Chinese-language campaign cards to hand out on Muni.

    His story is also up on the TheHomelessGuy.net, the online journal of a Nashville homeless man profiled in the national media.

    Reid, who in the past few weeks has cut back on his 40-hour weeks of riding Muni buses to focus on the fundraising, says he hopes Cheng and his friends can help him stop worrying about money. In an e-mail to his sister in the East Bay, Cheng wrote that he thinks he can raise $100,000 to help Reid win.

    Cheng, a property owner who works on Wall Street, runs a Web log (http://homeless123.blogspot.com/) -- participants on the web log are called web loggers, or "bloggers" -- devoted to helping the homeless. Besides the simple solutions offered on the site, Cheng also helps homeless people in the New York area relocate to small towns with cheap housing and blue-collar jobs.

    Reid now hopes homeless people in Nashville will build an inexpensive home for the homeless based on the Shelter One prototype that sits in his Bernal Heights backyard.

    "The Internet is an incredible tool," Reid said. "I'll bet you we get Shelter One on the cover of Time Magazine in a couple of months."