Posted on 11/12/2008 8:47:42 PM PST by SmithL
It's been said that San Francisco politics is like a dysfunctional family. But that's unfair to dysfunctional families.
In the last eight years, the city's leading politicians have seemed more concerned with petty personal grudges than governing. There are supervisors - hello, Chris Daly - who will reflexively oppose anything Mayor Gavin Newsom proposes. Again and again, the mayor's office is quick to rise to the bait but not so eager to reach out and build bridges.
And so, as four new members of the Board of Supervisors prepare to take their seats, here's some advice: Knock it off.
This is a particularly good time to start acting like grownups. In the afterglow of Barack Obama's election, a wave of optimism, goodwill, and cooperation washed over the country, especially San Francisco.
"I never thought I'd see hipsters on Valencia Street in the middle of the night singing the national anthem, " said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, on the morning after the election.
Then came the hangover. This week Daly called a news conference to attack Newsom's plan for the (already funded) Community Justice Center, and the mayor's press office responded with a snarky statement that included the phrase "unlike Chris Daly, it's our job to live in reality."
Everyone is tired of this bickering, even some of those who have done some of the sniping. Outgoing supervisors' President Aaron Peskin, who has instigated his own beefs with the mayor, is appealing for a new day in City Hall.
"It is time to stop the petty partisanship and move forward," Peskin said. "On Tuesday night of last week, Barack Obama won our country back. Here in San Francisco, we could take a page out of Obama's book, lay down the swords,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Left & Lefter can’t play nice with each other.
San Francisco another lost cause. It’s riffed with corruption and is just as bad as New Orleans. It has the lowest under 18 population in the nation and the cost of living is much higher than New York.
>>>>>>Community Justice Center
lol what is this
Probably just another bathhouse.
Based on past actions it’s a place where they hold young (supposedly) ilegal alien drug sellers before they ship them out to other counties.
Based on past actions it’s a place where they hold young (supposedly) ilegal alien drug sellers before they ship them out to other counties.
Yes, now that the libs are in power, let’s all just get along.
What else should we expect from this collection of misfits?
I guess it will soon be, probably should have been long ago, an “adults only” city. Or, better yet, with no children to renew it, it will just fade away?
Sanctuary victims city
No chance it’s a jail. LOL!
It has the lowest under 18 population in the nation and the cost of living is much higher than New York.”
You are NOT including the under 18 illegal population that is getting sanctuary in SF.
They are the ones that keep committing crimes over and over again- most of then very violent, and SF keeps trying to Re-Hab them.
Maybe because so many of the movers and shakers in SF have been Re-Habbed themselves.
It has the lowest under 18 population in the nation and the cost of living is much higher than New York.”
You are NOT including the under 18 illegal population that is getting sanctuary in SF.
They are the ones that keep committing crimes over and over again- most of then very violent, and SF keeps trying to Re-Hab them.
Maybe because so many of the movers and shakers in SF have been Re-Habbed themselves.
It has the lowest under 18 population in the nation and the cost of living is much higher than New York.”
You are NOT including the under 18 illegal population that is getting sanctuary in SF.
They are the ones that keep committing crimes over and over again- most of then very violent, and SF keeps trying to Re-Hab them.
Maybe because so many of the movers and shakers in SF have been Re-Habbed themselves.
Didn’t think that part. D’OH! Are illegals are even accounted for in Census population?
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