Four Things Dems Must Do to Save SF and Improve ’24 Election Chances
These problems are certainly not confined to San Francisco, but since the issues are well-known Nationally and (SF is in the right-wing crosshairs), they must be fixed. Count me as one of those who once loved this City and then watched in dismay as its tolerance veered too far leftward. Aside from the liberal Court system (which is a kind of wild card), these problems seem also a relatively easy fix. So here goes…Homelessness, Drug-dealing/Petty Crime, Education, and whacko Trans…
As a kid, we would drive the approximate 100 miles from my dreary rural hometown to the magical Emerald City of San Francisco. There, beyond the foggy mists, awaited Mays, McCovey, Chamberlain, Broadway plays, fancy restaurants with people that wore ties, cable cars, the smell of cooking crab, beatniks, strippers, and later Golden Gate Park hippiedom. When I was 5, I won the Chronicle “Junior Art Champion” contest, and got a storybook key to the SF Zoo, which seemed just a half step from a real African jungle or savannah. Relatives from NY State (and there were many, as Dad had perfected the one-day San Francisco tour) would rave about how “polite” SF drivers were…”they actually wait to let you cross the street!” No one epitomized SF better than late columnist Herb Caen, who described late 50s San Francisco as a big small-town. The 1958 Hitchcock movie…
