I know you were all hanging on the edges of your chairs, wondering how this vitally important proposition came out.

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Election results for San Francisco propositions
Marisa Lagos

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

(11-04) 23:57 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Voters overwhelmingly approved two measures that would provide funding for construction at two city facilities - a hospital and a 65-acre waterfront area - Tuesday night, but shot down a measure that would decriminalize prostitution in the city.

The $887 million bond to rebuild San Francisco General Hospital needed a two-thirds majority to pass and easily won, with 84 percent of the vote. The Pier 70 measure, meanwhile, would allow the city to help finance redevelopment of the waterfront area, which is owned by the Port of San Francisco. It needed a simple majority to pass, and claimed 68 percent of the vote.

But Proposition K, the prostitution measure, lost by 16 percentage points.

City voters, who were asked to weigh in on 22 local ballot measures, voted to keep a military program, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, in city schools. But they gave Mayor Gavin Newsom a surprise loss with Proposition L.

Prop. L would have provided the first-year funding for a Tenderloin community court to prosecute quality-of-life crimes such as public urination and aggressive panhandling. Funding for the pilot program, a pet project of the mayor's, has already been approved, so the measure was more of a policy statement from voters. It wasn't expected to be very controversial, but lost after garnering just 41 percent of the vote.

Meanwhile, this election's wackiest ballot measure, Proposition R - which would rename a city sewage plant after the current president - went down in flames.

R

An ordinance changing the name of the city-owned Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

98 percent of precincts counted. Requires majority.
Yes - 31 percent. No - 69 percent.