Posted on 10/04/2009 9:01:43 AM PDT by SmithL
It's been a long, strange trip since Gavin Newsom became San Francisco's mayor. When he first ran for City Hall's top job, Newsom led with a campaign to do something about the city's homeless population. Well, the homeless are still here, but Newsom has moved on to a new target - he is running to be the next governor of California by picking on the personal habits of people who for the most part work hard and pay taxes.
Example:
Ask some out-of-towners to walk Market Street from the Ferry Building to City Hall. They'll tell you how beautiful San Francisco is, but it's too bad that the farther they traveled from the waterfront, the grungier, smellier and scarier Ess Eff's Main Street became. The problem? Too many panhandlers and crazy people living on the streets. Half way through the walk, the visitors were hugging their purses and hesitating before looking passers-by in the eye. It's simply not a sunny walking experience when you're trying to dodge people who want to scam you, hit you up for money so they can self-medicate or peddle the kind of sex that you suspect will require penicillin.
So what does Hizzoner want to do to clean up Market Street? He wants to get rid of automobiles - his Market Street Closure Pilot Program directs private cars off the eastbound side of the main drag from Eighth Street down.
Newsom, of course, can say his plan will promote a cleaner, less-congested city - although usually squeezing traffic onto fewer streets creates gridlock.
The idea is especially irritating because Market Street traffic is not a real problem, as urban problems go. And as long as the sidewalks are as gooey as they are, it's never going to be a venue for quaint sidewalk cafes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Here he comes ready or not!
Where liberals reign, so socialism, so decadence, so moral decline, so social decay.
San Francisco, Los Angles are perfect examples of government outta control.
The comments at the site will mostly agree with her.
Even SF libs know that liberalism is stupid, when it is applied locally and impacts them personally.
Please add Seattle to that list...
Koom bah ya oh koom bah ya.
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A couple years ago I was in SF for a conference. The damned beggars were everywhere.
Right outside my hotel was one, sitting on his ass with his back against the wall, styrofoam cup in his right hand and a paperback book in his left supported in his lap.
Everytime someone would walk by he’d jiggle his styrofoam cup, carefull not to look-up from his book lest he lose his place.
Even saw a guy taking a dump next to a car parked along the street. This was like a block from the Moscone Center. Unbelievable.
When I was there near the Hayes School of law, there weren’t too many beggars, but the streets nearby and townhomes looked like they needed a real scrubbing and hosing down. The city looks dirty.
Great column.
“The city’s middle class is, you see, so well trained. Tell San Franciscans that they consume too much and they’ll probably give you a quarter.”
Too true. Liberal guilt is one of the main reasons why we have Obama in the White House, doing to the nation what Gavin is doing to San Francisco.
Hello Liberals...stop feeding the pigeons.
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