Posted on 06/25/2022 8:29:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Maybe San Franciscans aren't as blindly left as they appear to the rest of the country. First, Democrat mayor London Breed had to backtrack on defunding the police when faced with the reality of what happened after the police were defunded. Crime increased...a lot. Then the public recalled members of the school board who were more interested in pushing ideology than keeping schools open.
Democrat district attorney Chesa Boudin didn't see or refused to see what was happening in his city. Residents grew tired of his failure to go after criminals and enforce laws.
Boudin, a political newcomer, took office in January 2020. He was elected as part of a wave of progressive prosecutors who wanted to find ways not to jail criminals and to go after the police.
Since that time, residents had about a 1-in-16 chance of being subject to a property or violent crime in a given year, according to the Hoover Institution. He replaced cash bail with a risk-based system to determine if defendants would be held. Then, when COVID hit, he reduced the jail population by 40 percent. He didn't move them to another jail. He put criminals back out onto the street, which is the opposite of what his job is. By the end of his first year in office, burglaries were up 46 percent. Many of the perpetrators were repeat offenders, according to police chief William Scott.
In 2021, he won just three drug-dealing convictions. His defense: Many of the dealers were illegal aliens who would be deported if charged with a crime. It seems as if that would have made his job easier without burdening the prison system.
Well, Boudin's day of reckoning came during California's primary elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
An attendee at Boudin's Election Night party, Dane, did not support Boudin and was not surprised at the results. He told Fox News, "I think if you talk to most people in the city it was very obvious. Even just looking at the polling coming into this, it's pretty obvious that this is the most likely outcome. People are responding to what they saw was an unsympathetic D.A. confronting what a lot of people thought were serious quality of life crimes in the city."
Will nanzi be back in the house next January? There’s yer answer.
I doubt it. I don’t believe these people are having any sort of ideological epiphany.
They want less crime but see no logical linkage between their liberal ideology in general and how it got them here.
No.
The short (and correct) answer.
Ummm..no. Having watched these people all my life, they are bat crap crazy. The hippies moved
In and turned a somewhat liberal city the frequently elected Republicans to leadership, and they turned it into an asylum. They really and truly are bat crap crazy and they really and truly give more than 90% of their vote to whatever presidential candidate has a (D) after the name
I can only hope the Bolshie swarm has finally awakened those who are blinded by the bling.
Nope. San Francisco is cooked.
“Or maybe most people in San Francisco are sane”
I mostly live in SF, and, sadly, I’d say that, no, most people in San Francisco are not sane. Some of the Chinese-Americans and Asian immigrants are sane. Some of the old-timey white middle and upper-middle class natives whose families have been in town 75, 100, 1600+ years are sane. But there are very large other cohorts who are most definitely not sane. (1) LGBTs. These folks are mentally ill... in a big way. (2) Hippies/bums/drug users. These folks came in the ‘60s and keep coming. Some of them might be semi-sane when they’re not stoned, but they’re always stoned so it’s a moot point; (3) Limousine liberals. I’m talking about the Zucks,,, and Reed Hastings... and the Tom Steyers... and the ANN Gettys. and the Susie Buffetts of the world... I’m talking about rich liberals who made their money in tech or inherited it or married into it. These folks, and their less famous, mere multimillionaire brethren are a dime a dozen in SF and are most definitely not sane.
And (1), (2) & (3) run the town.
I’ve worked (but not lived) in San Francisco for 28 years. I’ve come to understand that the voters and residents there are simply this: pathologically TOLERANT. End of story. They tolerate everything—all filth and crime and unpleasantness without end. The school board recall and DA recall was simply due to Asians finally registering to vote, God bless them.
There is Dem fraud. But like people assuming all the establishment Rinos are being blackmailed, assuming Dems win everywhere via fraud is retarded.
SF is a Dem shithole, no cheating required.
In short they have learned to live in the sh## they created and smile
The last time San Francisco had a Republican Mayor (elected), George Christopher, was from January 8, 1956 to January 7, 1964. Then came the hippies, the anti-war types, the eastern gay community, and the radical educators. It has been all downhill ever since.
How long does it take for a libtard to tire of living in a crap hole? 🤪
The world may never know
FRiend, you said a mouthful! It’s so tiresome on this forum that “cheating” or “blackmail/bribery” is the go-to answer, when dishonesty, stupidity, or just plain malice are the most likely cause. When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
I miss those Cow Palace gun shows. Fondly remember walking out of there with rifle bags and ammo boxes and met with smiles in the parking lot. The libs in SF kept trying for years to shut it down despite it being in San Mateo county, until it ended. My Dad was career military and would sometimes park an Army Jeep outside our home in SF and walked around in uniform and everyone was friendly - but that was the 1950's when SF was Republican. It went downhill in the late 1960's with an influx of Democrats from eastern states (Pelosi, Willie Brown, etc.).
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