If you want to do the homeless in Santa Rosa a favor, phone Jack Tibbetts, 707-495-7438 (his office number), and ask him to vote for Chris Rogers for mayor. The only other possibility would be Tom Schwedhelm, and if he were mayor, there would be all-out police war on the poor. Schwedhelm has had great influence on SR police, and they're keeping the homeless from their prescription medications, moving them out of every out-of-the-way place they find to camp in and, last weekend, confiscating the homeless people's campers, rv's and cars and bulldozing all their tents--all with their belongings still in them; people have lost medical supplies, sleeping bags, human services paperwork and everything else but what they were wearing. Then the police stand around and laugh at them.
Schwedhelm would require even more severe police attacks on the homeless. Please call Tibbetts this month, October; the vote for mayor is next month.