Most emerging political organizations like splashing.They organize news, press conferences, galas to say: we’ve arrived, that’s what we are, that’s our program and that’s what we’re going to do about it.
But a well-funded new organization run by two former San Francisco families and a team of political experts has just made the impression almost entirely on Facebook, and it has made it a point of honor to be a stealth operation.
If you’re in this city, you’re on Facebook and you’re active in politics (and given Facebook’s demographics, it means you’re not a teenager or a twentysomething), you probably wouldn’t have missed the ads: “No tent camps in Golden Gate Park.Don’t let the crime break Up San Francisco.” And so on.
And the only link is the indistinct of “San Francisco works for everyone,” which still has no cliché of, to be honest, a neoconservative language that is radically disconnected from what the city is and much of what it is not.-Trump country, you’re thinking right now.
The organization says it’s a nonprofit that’s going to do politics.He registered with the Secretary of State or registered documents with the San Francisco Ethics Commission.
But it has a lot and an alarming program. And so far, he is resolutely disinterested at best and, at worst, hostile to local media.
There’s an interview with founder Daniel Lurie of Tipping Point (and the Haas family, heirs to Levi’s fortune) at the Business Times, who says he’s satisfied with car theft and homelessness on the street.
It does not give any suggestions for political solutions.
His spouse in this company is Brandon Shorenstein, Walter’s grandson and heir to one of San Francisco’s genuine real estate fortunes.
Joe Eskenazi of Mission Local dug up the organization a little, and its resources and mine proved that political experts Nate Ballard, Jack Davis and Eric Jaye were involved.
Which means a big salary None of those jobs works for little money.
Ballard is a former member of the city council who has worked for Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee.Jaye maximum was recently the crusade representative for Jane Kim, who presented a progressive challenge to state Sen. Scott Wiener and london mayor Breed, and then worked for Bernie Sanders.
The positions he has taken in those careers are diametrically opposed to what this new organization is talking about.
Davis once worked for Willie Brown, supported Donald Trump in the last election, and is still angry that the city probably wouldn’t allow his client, Maximus, to build the Monster on the Mission on 16th Street.
If Davis is very involved, there’s a lot of Maximus cash on the table.It’s not like they want it, Lurie and Shorenstein are fabulously rich.
Davis showed me his involvement. Jaye, who is usually available to the media, did not return my calls or text messages.Ballard never spoke to me, but he did talk to Eskenazi and said he was part of the team and that another 4,000 people had already registered on the site.
So what exactly is this organization going to do? We don’t know, we don’t know exactly what they’re proposing as an alternative.
Here’s what it says:
We care about the homeless without turning our streets and parks into homeless camps.
Here’s Lurie in BizTimes:
“The factor that is vital to me, and I think most of San Francisco’s inhabitants, is the homeless crisis,” said Lurie, who remains president of Tipping Point, which increases the budget for homeless facilities and other needs.”We know what works. The solution”.to the homeless is a home.This isn’t a tent on the street.In the long run, this is not a hotel room.It’s a home.”
We all agree. Now, how are you going to pay for it?
Well, not with the taxes of your countrymen. From the website:
Tax increases would likely occur in the future, but not until we have carefully analyzed existing spending.
Most of the sites have similar arguments. Damage reduction:
We embrace displayed responses, such as demanding those who are a danger to themselves and others to seek a solution rather than engaging in ill-conceived policies such as the loose source of drugs and alcohol.
They are attacking other people of color who, in this moment of national popularity of the race, seek to get rid of racist works of art and institutional names.
We our government to avoid distracting ourselves and ourselves with political battles such as converting the call for a high school and portraying murals,
They’re definitely on the point of the police reform movement.
We have the reform of our police and the end of the wave of crimes that degrade our quality of life.The citizen protection strategy will need to be more effective and equitable, and will no longer tolerate drug trafficking in neighbourhoods such as Tfinisherloin.
Here’s what Joe Wilson, CEO of Hospitality House (who has a lot more pleasure at the checkout with all those upheavals that all those experts have combined):
Please note, Mr Lurie, that the shelter reserve formula has been closed since March; shelters have been reduced or remodeled in reaction to the pandemic; hotel rooms are phased out, not increased; Finally, according to the CDC, in the absence of shelter or housing options, infection or the threat of spreading it to others: tents save lives permanent housing: even more lives saved.It’s simple, is it rarely?
Here’s another gift. According to Forbes magazine, San Francisco is home to approximately 40 billionaires, some of his friends, and his collective wealth is about $92 billion. Yes, $92 billion, more than SEPT times the city’s overall budget for approximately 900,000 people.That’s with the two hundred thousand san Francisco inhabitants that have been implemented for unemployment since March, or nearly a quarter of the city’s population.If you’re serious about a San Francisco that works for everyone, start with the unemployment line, sir. Lurie.Or homeless families. The 1% of $92 billion is $9.2 million, enough housing assistance for more than two hundred families to emerge from homelessness for an entire year.Billionaires can still stay at 99.99%. That sounds fair, doesn’t it?
And this: it’s a medical fact that for a long-term drug or alcohol consumer, withdrawal can be life-threatening. If activating a drug user can keep him alive until the help he wants arrives, I’m with the facilitators.converting the call for a school gives other young people a ray of hope that substitution is possible, let’s make a new call.I hope you see it, Mr. Lurie.Si a street mural reminds us all that BLACK TRANS LIVES IMPORTS and that there is only one side, I take a brush and paint.
Tents are not the answer. That’s right, Mr. Lurie, they’re not.But if you need San Francisco to paint for everyone, leave your golden megaphone and take a brush.
That, it seems to me, is precisely the challenge for this group, they do not have a political solution.
“If they had a concept to fight homelessness that could work, I would adopt it completely,” Superintendent Aaron Peskin told me.In fact, progressive supports have advanced in leaps and bounds to address the problem, adding the cash allowance for 8,000 hotel rooms for the homeless in the pandemic. Progressives have put Proposition C on the ballot, which, if resisting the courts, will provide immense new resources.affordable and supportive housing.
Daniel Lurie and Brandon Shorenstein have nowhere to go in those efforts.
So what exactly do they need, reduce taxes on the rich and a policy that tries to hide homelessness?How do you propose to solve the problems? I need to hear your ideas.
No one from San Francisco Works for All will do it to me.
As Eskenazi points out, many of these giant cash teams appear from time to time in the city, and regularly do not seem when it is transparent that they are not in favor or anything, they simply oppose the applicants and the measures that will take over the rich and the great.cash industries. Maybe it’s going to be the same.
They may provide genuine proposals, which can be discussed in the public forum, with spokesmen who will not only have to spread a message to answer questions.
Or maybe they’re going to invest millions of dollars in local elections and voting measures to turn the tide of progressive politics.It hasn’t worked for a while.
Meanwhile, Peskin says, it’s more than a little embarrassing.
“In a moment of profound social change,” he told me, “seeing the young people at Old School San Francisco Wealth be in the aspect of the story is and is painful.It’s disgusting.”
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