For reference, SF’s per capita budget is significantly higher than NYC’s but SF is the one with uninhabitable streets, sandbagged development, underfunded schools and transit, record setting property crimes, and Supervisors letting it all burn
Dean Preston is up for election this year in District 5 - he spent hours last night trying to block new houses in a lot that’s been empty for years. Vote him out.
San Francisco is a geographically blessed city w a $14B budget for 800k people. That's the highest in the entire USA other than DC.
This means every SF crisis is self-inflicted by political incompetence or straight up corruption.
This election we can fix it. Voting guide 🧵:
@GrowSF was one of the first groups to promote transparency and general competency in local government. They have a regular and excellent voting guide for San Francisco.
If you're tired of San Francisco leading the nation in property crimes and drug overdoses, the @TSFAction voting guide is focused on public safety, crime, and forcing our politicans to clean up the rampant drug markets.
Supervisor @Ahsha_Safai also banned new dispensaries when existing dispensaries in his District 11 asked him to block competition, effectively forming a cartel:
More recently Supervisor @Ahsha_Safai tried to poison-pill minimum staffing of SFPD by requiring new taxes, basically extorting voters to pay more for public safety minimums their already record-high taxes are supposed to cover:
incredible, this entire article hinges on editor @AlexShultz being upset that a reporter quoted the mother of a toddler shot to death who is distraught bc the DA is trying to remove gun charges
“how dare these reporters report when it inconveniences my ideology!” 🤡
Wildly condescending for @AlexShultz to scoff at constituents for protesting the DA saying she wants leniency for the toddler’s shooter
Editor @AlexShultz: “it’s not my place to weigh in on how the parents feel”
Also Alex: “the parents are only expressing grief bc they were tricked by a reporter! They would never do so otherwise! They should shut up!”