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Seeking donations, Newsom takes rich on tours of public housing
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 8/29/7
| Heather Knight
Posted on 08/29/2007 8:01:10 AM PDT by SmithL
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:01:11 AM PDT
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SmithL
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:01:38 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
To: SmithL
It struggles because of all the socialist garbage that goes on.
I don’t think it’s right to “donate” to a damned PUBLIC housing project when it’s already got the government taxes going to it - and the government stink about it. Why invest in a CEO that always fails?
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:03:49 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: SmithL
Yes, the People’s Republic of San Francisco just continues its Marxist-mania. What a liberal-socialist dung heap.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:03:56 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: SmithL
“unleashing a tirade at San Francisco Housing Authority Director Gregg Fortner and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development after discovering that a playground at the housing complex had been vandalized.”
As usual - never blame the COMMON SCUM that TERRORIZE neighborhoods, but blame some other esoteric entity.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:05:58 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:06:32 AM PDT
by
B.O. Plenty
(Give war a chance......)
To: SmithL
I'm picturing this as something like a mafia protection racket:
"Uhhh, ya know, dis neighborhood ... it's an eyesore, ya know? People should fix it up, capiche? Now, maybe we're gonna have to raise taxes, yaknowaddImsayin? Or, maybe you could give generously so that nuthin' bad happens to your tax rate, eh?"
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:07:05 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agammemnon dead.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Personally I think this is where they should get their money. If these socialists believe in it they should donate to it and not extort it from tax-payers.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:07:12 AM PDT
by
stevio
((NRA))
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:07:50 AM PDT
by
Califreak
(Go Hunter!)
To: SmithL
Explaining the roots of his outrage on Tuesday, Newsom said that during the backpack giveaway, he learned that a plastic playground set that had been built by the city with money donated by the Dave Matthews Band had been burned - not once, but twice."I go to see something where we did try to make their lives better, and it's melted. It breaks my heart, and I'm angry - I'm angry at myself, I'm angry at HUD, I'm angry at Gregg, I'm angry at the city for not stepping up and every single person who lives in every district who's never been to the housing (developments)," Newsom said. "I'm angry at all of us."
Angry at pretty much everyone except the barbarians who burnt the playground.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:08:02 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SmithL
Explaining the roots of his outrage on Tuesday, Newsom said that during the backpack giveaway, he learned that a plastic playground set that had been built by the city with money donated by the Dave Matthews Band had been burned - not once, but twice.
"I go to see something where we did try to make their lives better, and it's melted. It breaks my heart, and I'm angry - I'm angry at myself, I'm angry at HUD, I'm angry at Gregg, I'm angry at the city ...
The only people he is not angry at are the animals who vandalized the playground.
To: stevio
And here I thought his main interest was homosexual marriage. Glad to know he’s a good Democrat and shocked at the state of public housing. Did he blame it on Bush though?
To: stevio
But that’s the PROBLEM - if it is socialist, it is ALWAYS supported by taxpayers. Hence, why add private money to it? I say screw them. They’re trying to HIDE that government mugging & administration is a failure by adding private dollars to it.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:14:00 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: SmithL
Anyone who dosen’t like it doesn’t have to live there. It’s a free country.
I don’t live there. But then I wouldn’t fit in either there OR in the Bible Belt.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:14:09 AM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(When the government fears the People= Liberty. When the People fear the Government =Tyranny)
To: SmithL
I think it would be better to close public housing. If big business wants to help, how about putting a family in a house in a middle or working class neighborhood ( just one) and help them raise their standard of living.
To: SmithL
Sounds like that scene out of "Gangs of New York" where the wealthy New Yorkers would go "slumming" down to the Five Points and gawk at the poor Irish.
Rich liberals never change, and the lives of those they look down upon never get better until they take it upon themselves to make it better.
That's not gonna happen with all those addicts on the street in SF.
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:18:39 AM PDT
by
Kenton
(All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
To: SmithL
Wait a minute does RAT-run paradise SF collect no taxes? or do they just waste it and then have to ask for more “donations” to do things that the tax dollars were suposed to cover?
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:20:01 AM PDT
by
rod1
To: SmithL
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom says he is leading some of the city's wealthiest residents on tours of the city's decrepit public housing developments in the hope they will donate to help rebuild them.
They already are....its called HIGH TAXES being wasted./
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:20:26 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: DuncanWaring
I too - am waiting for liberals to get angry at those who do evil. We shouldn't hold our breath waiting for them to get tough on those who break society's rules instead of repeatedly making excuses for their behavior and blaming society for making them do bad things in the first place.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:23:31 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SmithL
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is a complete idiot and this tactic sounds like a Tony Soprano shakedown scheme.
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08/29/2007 8:24:26 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(dhimmicrats and the liberal media have .chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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