I wish I hadn't been so right about Tumlin's "make everyone equally unhappy" philosophy being a disaster.
Me in 2021: "A watered-down plan"—like the Valencia center bikeway!—"can achieve the worst of both worlds. It makes driving harder, but fails to improve... safety enough to get drivers onto alternatives. The agency has indeed made everyone unhappy, but that’s not a sign it did its job. Quite the opposite." https://scott.mn/2021/03/22/recommitting_transit_first_sfmta/#SFPol#BikeSF
"Despite being under a voter-backed mandate to do so, San Francisco has for years failed to provide residents with treatment-on-demand levels of care. There are not enough treatment beds...and insufficient staff... [Prop F] promises to pay for itself all or in part by using monies saved from disenrolling clients."
"Consider the central myth of their movement—that everything was wonderful until progressives ruined it. History tells a decidedly different story: Crime rates were higher during the decades when moderate Democratic standard-bearers such as... Feinstein [and] Newsom held the city’s top leadership positions" https://newrepublic.com/article/178675/garry-tan-tech-san-francisco#SFPol
This is the problem with the absurd wealth inequality that billionaires and centi-millionaires represent. Anyone is welcome to have political opinions; some will be good, some will be bad. But these folks can leverage their wealth to project their ideas across the voting population. They can effectively drown out other opinions and perspectives because money buys ad time and mailer after mailer and armies of canvassers and paid staff that others cannot match.
What is also crazy to me is how they’ve persuaded so many politically-naive individuals that they’re the ones that are challenging the status quo.
🚨 #SanFrancisco's Proposition E would make it easier for the police department to hide police violence and harder for the public to hold SFPD officers accountable for misconduct.
When you fill out your March 5 election ballot, vote #NoOnPropE!
When Trump was elected, my biggest fear was that fascism would also take root locally in places like San Francisco. If that happened, it was game over. I knew that if it happened, it would start with homeless people—the people it was most OK to hate here. It was a relief when that didn't happen during Trump's term. The far right has now figured out what I feared in 2017. It's happening now. https://www.kcra.com/article/california-senate-bill-1011-homeless-encampments/46665241#SFPol#USPol
If you're concerned about pedestrian safety, police surveillance and police violence: vote no on Prop E. Here's the rundown of this dangerous ballot prop in the March 4 SF election.
#SFPD has effectively been on a work stoppage since the George Floyd protests. This is not a staffing problem; they didn't suddenly lose that much staff. The whole idea of hiring more cops without accountability for the ones we have is nonsense. #SFPol
TIL the surveillance cameras going up all over SF are supplied by a company right here in the Mission: Applied Video Solutions/AVS Next, out of the US Bank building at 22nd & Mission.
Ahsha Safaí on Prop E: “I truly believe this is one of the most anti-Black, anti-brown, anti communities of color, immigrant communities [laws]. This is a racist piece of legislation.” 💯👏
Our election endorsements for the March 5 propositions are here! ⭐ We’re nonpartisan, so you can be confident these ballot measure recommendations are focused on benefitting our San Francisco community.
i really don't get why people who make death threats are called moderates, but people who want homeless people to not suffer and die are radicals whose ideas can see the light of day
After Garry Tan’s drunken tweet, SF politicians received mailed death threats WITH GARRY’S PORTRAIT on them
?!?!
Also shocking, the Asian politician received a special letter accusing her of ‘white genocide’ (presumably because she is married to a white man, and the people who sent the threats don’t like race-mixing?)
I wish people in SF would connect this to the expansion of surveillance and cops. San Franciscans are in a fantasy world if they think a big surveillance network with facial recognition and a flush police force will not be turned on women seeking reproductive care and doctors providing it. #NoOnPropE#SFPol