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Reaganesque.
The GOP refuses to coherently message on crime, so it’s some Democrats, including Mayor London Breed or San Francisco of all people, who are stepping into the vacuum and actually pushing common sense policies.
And it’s working.
Over 60% of San Francisco voters backed moves that the Left would have found unimaginable. Things are bad enough that the voters, who normally vote on the leftist line, don’t care. They booted Chesa Boudin.
Now they voted by an overwhelming margin for drug screenings for welfare recipients.
Voters also approved Proposition F by a margin of 63.02% to 36.98%… which called for anyone seeking cash assistance from the city to get substance abuse treatment if they wanted to continue getting financial help.
This is a fairly limited intervention, but it shows that the public has an appetite for common-sense reforms.
Voters also signed off on expanding police powers.
Proposition E was passed by San Francisco voters with 63% voting in favor, based on the total from late Tuesday. Prop. E called for reducing reporting requirements when police use force, letting body camera footage replace written reports for certain kinds of incidents; allowing police to install surveillance cameras without oversight and using drones with facial recognition technology. It also called for letting police initiate car chases when they suspect someone has committed certain types of misdemeanors and also limiting some power of the Police Commission.
Both F and E were opposed by San Francisco’s media, but voters are clearly sick and tired of the way things are.
Tellingly this is a primary election in a leftist city that should have drawn a super-lefty electorate. And just as clearly enough SF residents care about the crisis that they turned out to vote for public safety measures.
And they out-voted the pro-crime Left.
Sounds like SF residents are waking up after putting up with such an avoidable mess for so long. Question now is, will it gain momentum and begin to fix SF’s other woes.
No, it won’t. I live in New York and work in Manhattan. After two terms of that terrible mayor, Bill DeBlasio, and the downhill slide of NYC under the stupid leftist policies, what do NYC voters do? They elect Democrat Eric Adams mayor and the stupid leftist policies continue the ruination of NYC..
Yes. But don’t forget that there is vote fraud in NY city and state.
Yes! Whenever someone I don’t like wins an election, it’s because of “vote fraud”!
was the limey wanker born a drooling, window licking retard? or did eating tide pods soaked in cat pyss make you one?
The people are typically more “common sense” than their elected officials. It remains to be seen, if at all or by what measure, a leftist city government chooses to apply that common sense. The odds aren’t in the electorate’s favor. It is an election year, after all.