Oct 17, 2020
SPECIAL EDITION
Tying the tourniquet. I’ve lived in San Francisco for ten years. In that time, our budget has more than doubled and just about every responsibility under the purview of our elected leadership — housing, homelessness, drug abuse, education, public transportation — has significantly degraded. Unfortunately, our opportunity to improve the city is limited this election cycle. With just a small handful of exceptions, which we’ll get to in a moment, we’re mostly looking at races between useless people and crazy people, or between crazy people and somehow even crazier people. But this cycle it’s important we at least tie the tourniquet and vote for the best of all options. The truth is, this is our fault (blaming sane people here). We know our city’s broken, and we could have taken this election more seriously 6 or 8 months ago by running a full ballot of strong, well-funded candidates with a coherent goal for improving the city, and a reasonable strategy for getting us there. But we didn’t do that, so here we are. No use belaboring the point. Next election, we learn our lesson and mobilize (stay tuned for that). For now:
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