In 2019 The Richmond Democratic Club honored her with some kind of award alongside Peter Lauterborn, a manager in the SF Ethics Dept
Having friends in the Ethics dept is awfully handy if your political machine might need the dept to look the other way
This was the same event with a truly rotten cast of corrupt politicians including Allison Collins who was recalled for making instruction worse for kids, removed Algebra from middle schools and merit from Lowell (and calling Asians house n-words)
Of course Chesa Boudin made an appearance. We are so lucky we sent him packing.
We booted Boudin but also put in a decisive and experienced prosecutor in @BrookeJenkinsSF
She later won her election handily over a deranged John Hamasaki (also friend to these ideologues!)
Brandee Marckmann was called to appear before the court in the testimony because of her rabid support of friend and suppressor of Asian American votes, Jason Kruta
This was literally the photo set the Internet used to identify Kruta as the petition thief.
Why is it important to call this episode to account? Because evil anti democratic action and extreme entitlement must be called to account. These ideologues ruin SF.
They had a taste of power and once gained, were willing to use voter suppression to preserve that power.
This same democratic club is a deep supporter of Sandra Lee Fewer, whose policies defunded and demoralized SFPD
Polls show 85% of voters want more policing not less. What is this policy if not purely virtue signal? Fewer and her friends cannot be allowed to hold office again.
How did we even get Chesa Boudin, someone who has never been a prosecutor and who literally dismantled the office and made our city far less safe?
This ideology driven political machine who will do anything to silence their opposition
How did they get power with such heinously incompetent and corrupt policies?
They won elections! They organized. They raised money. They rallied people and showed up!
The difference between an overhyped startup failure and a valuable real business that makes it the long haul is sometimes as simple as:
Do the founders themselves believe in what they are doing to the point where they will not quit?
This is where definite optimism matters: If startup ideas were people…
an indefinite optimist looks for more optionality, searching around the room at the party for the more interesting person to talk to.
A definite optimist engages deeply and finds themselves engrossed in the person they are talking to now.
For their startup, the problem or way to solve becomes a calling. It isn’t just words to trick people into giving them capital or to come work for them.
Melgar also vocally supports our absurdly bad SF police commission (and the worst ideologues on it)
This terrible police commission is more focused on reducing enforcement on traffic stops than actually solving any real world safety problems in our city
It’s surprisingly common to spend all your time fighting the other players in your market and then realizing years later the market didn’t really exist.
The only way to avoid this is radical focus on customers, not competition.
Early on, my startup Posterous was framed to be a Tumblr competitor. We spent a lot of time fighting that battle.
That market didn’t end up being a real durable one.
We were so focused on web publishing we underinvested in mobile and the ultimate winner was Instagram.
In the moment there are enemies to the left and right of you. But the real combatant may not be obvious to either of you.
The ultimate winner knows not just what is next to them, but the contours of the battlefield and what ground has durable advantage to hold the lands.
America is predicated on socioeconomic mobility and the San Francisco Bay Area is among the most likely in the country for children to raise their station in life.
Children of 25th percentile-earning parents averaged north of 45th percentile!
San Francisco must be saved.
People come to the SF Bay from around the world to build technology for others, and to build a life for themselves.
We need abundant housing, safe streets, and strong public schools. We need a government that works.
We have to vote better.
We demand common sense leaders!
The SF Bay Area remains unique in all the world, and instead of hating tech for being the engine of prosperity, we need to *BUILD HOUSING* and invest deeply in *ABUNDANCE*.
Done right, we make space for immigrants who make our communities vibrant, and we spread the wealth.