Community Newspaper. Former co-owner/EIC/
#ReynoldsRap
columnist
@SusanDReynolds
broke the City Hall corruption stories. Dean Preston tried to defund us.
“Peskin used a lot of my plans that I couldn’t get approved and got them approved … how does the project they opposed become a single-family home? I’m no fan of Aaron’s. I don’t think he’s an honest person.”
— JoAnne Trafton, former owner of 224 Filbert
Boudin is in Chile I hear. Never coming back to the office — he has someone else clearing it out for him. He’s going to Europe after Chile. So much for caring about victims — self-absorbed, entitled, rich white dude. Plans to run again in 2023. Clueless.
When Farrukh Mushtaq's wife confronted him at a strip club, he sped off in his BMW, ran a red light, and killed bicyclist Kate Slattery. He was facing a minimum of 8 years in prison, but
@SFDAOffice
recently struck a plea deal — and Mushtaq is a free man.
In 2019 James McGee bludgeoned Arif Mohammed Qasim to death with a metal pipe. McGee was charged with murder, but when
@chesaboudin
took office, he fired the head of homicide and let McGee take a plea for involuntary manslaughter.
UPDATE:
@chesaboudin
“filed charges” (felon in possession of a firearm) against last night’s
@SFBART
killer
#ShaneHolman
on Aug. 16, 2021 — and he dismissed the charges two weeks later on Aug. 30.
Wait. What? No sooner do I get back to San Francisco after two months of fun all over NorCal than I get a SCOOP! I saw
#ConnieChan
dropping her kid off at a private school in the Richmond. I thought she was all about public school and
@SFUnified
😱😬
Hanako Abe was killed by a repeat felon fleeing a crime last New Year's Eve. Her mother Hiroko hopes changes to the justice system will be her daughter's legacy.
Sacramento DA’s office “begged” the parole board not to release one of the men arrested in the mass shooting, saying he would continue to commit crimes and had no regard for human life. 👇
The richest person in SF is Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz at $17 billion. His wife is one of several tech billionaires’ wives (including the wife of Reed Hastings CEO Netflix) who are funding the
@chesaboudin
anti-recall.
“One SF [homeless] nonprofit had a budget of $3.9 million and $2 million went to salaries.” “They’re driving new BMWs, buying office buildings, and hiring their friends. Where is the accountability? Join
@StanleyRoberts
now 👇
Is it really a surprise that the Safeway on Webster is closing? I filmed this a few months ago — it was the third shoplifting incident I saw in 15 minutes where “kids” casually walked out with carts full of beer and food and fought with armed guards.
I’m sick of the sanctimonious “unhoused” term. The majority are drug tourists, and many have criminal records. Encampments are a great place to hide, and since places like Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco offer free money and treat them as victims, why leave?
BREAKING: A source inside
@SFDAOffice
tells me more than a dozen
@chesaboudin
hired ADAs took a two-week leave to go work for
@StoptheConSF
— forcing other ADA’s to handle their active cases.
1 year ago: ”
@chesaboudin
dropped the charges in favor of having Dwayne Grayson go through a city justice program.” Was Grayson rehabilitated? No. In January 2021, Grayson was arrested for “street terrorism” and addict in possession of a firearm.
‘Bernstein said she was “somewhat surprised” by the lopsided poll results and it’s “very rare” to see such high unfavorability numbers for a San Francisco politician. In fact, Boudin is the least popular elected official in San Francisco, Bernstein said.’
Thanks to my tech team for building this searchable database of all the nearly 9,000 tweets deleted by
@HamasakiLaw
— if you’re going to run for public office, you need to be transparent. I’m working on an article about that very thing…
One thing
#GothamSF
will be digging into is how
@CalNurses
endorsed
@chesaboudin
when every nurse I’ve spoken to who deals with gunshot victims and fentanyl overdoses wanted him gone — and was angry their Union dollars went to support
#NoOnH
.
Why should this little blonde punk get housing? He moved here from Santa Cruz — a wealthy beach and college town just south. If he wants to stay do what everyone else who moves here does — get a job and 6 roommates. Otherwise give him a one-way bus ticket back over the hill.
As a former student athlete whose father coached high school boys’ sports, godmother was a U.S. diving champ, godfather coached diving and judged at the Olympics, I don’t understand how anyone believes
#LiaThomas
— a fully intact male — competing against women is fair.
Clerk: “Get a job.”
Thief: “Fuck you, you piece of shit.”
Anyone who doesn’t think California’s lax laws and court systems don’t contribute to this brazen criminal behavior hasn’t been anywhere outside of California.
#GothamSF
So
@HealthRIGHT360
pays over 65 MILLION bucks in salaries and wages. No surprise their well-compensated employees are pushing for safe injection sites. It’s another boondoggle like most of the homeless and drug nonprofits in San Francisco.
@StanleyRoberts
#GBTB
One of the world's most beautiful cities is collapsing before our eyes. The San Francisco of Newsom, Pelosi, and Kamala Harris is a warning to America.
Garret “bashing a skull in is fine if they disrespect me” Doty is back in the Marina, hanging out with his friends Ashley “you’re on dick payment for meth” Buck and Nate “I throw rocks at babies in strollers” Roye. Only in San Francisco would they have more rights than residents.
Security guards at the defunct SF Art Institute tell residents in the area neither the school nor the city has any plans to guard the buildings, which contain millions in artwork — including the Diego Rivera mural — and historical architecture 👇
Sean Carsetti attacked a man with a knife and left an ice pick in a woman's head. Both
@GeorgeGascon
and
@chesaboudin
agreed to plea deals. A month after his latest release under Boudin, he stabbed two people to death and nearly killed a third.
#GBTB
This is why San Francisco can’t have nice things. When we were dining at Sanraku in San Jose six cops chased a guy with a backpack of stolen stuff, pushed him off his bike to the ground, and cuffed him while the crowd applauded.
Video climbing out of the car, witnesses galore, Jen says on video “I’m sorry Kevin,” owner says they carjacked him; Kevin is repeat violent felon who faced murder charges in 2015, she has felonies…
@BrookeJenkinsSF
couldn’t make it stick?
“Price was stunned last month when an Alameda County judge rejected the plea deal.” For a guy who murdered THREE PEOPLE
@JustMrPhillips
😳
@PPriceCares
was STUNNED? Maybe because she’s totally unqualified for the job.
Remember when
@chesaboudin
sent out a press release bragging about the 16-month prison sentence for the infamous Walgreens bike burglar? The Chron later added “released for time served” to the headline. 🙄 Well, guess what? He was just rearrested doing the same thing. 👇
Oh Emily.
@DavidSacks
donated to candidates and causes he believed would dig SF out of its mess.
@Jason
gave me the GoFundMe to do what I already do — investigate corruption and incompetence. Chesa is gone. Brooke, Joel, Matt are in. So far so good.
Here’s what I just heard from an anonymous source: “18-24 y.o. shot today on Haight & Masonic was arrested Oct. 9 after a pursuit with SFPD. They recovered 10+ backpacks and belongings from multiple break-ins. Boudin released him. Now he’s dead.”
“A right to rest.” I have friends in retail who get two 10-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch in 8 hours. Send them to the Central Valley to pick fruit and see if they have “a right to rest.” The majority of these people have never worked in their lives.
“Unless you want to live in a police state, truly addressing crime is about uplifting historically disadvantaged communities…” A police state? There is something in between a police state and lawlessness. It’s called holding people accountable.
So many SF nonprofits are violating IRS rules on political activity. Example:
@sfblackwallstreet
has been a vocal critic of
@Ann4SFboe
— yet they signed paperwork agreeing not to “participate or intervene in any political campaign…including publishing statements.”
Adam Moore says, "I've been homeless in San Francisco for basically 26 years. The 46-year-old…” FORTY-SIX? And he can’t get a damn job? Everyone is hiring! These are the people who need ultimatums: Rehab, jail, or a bus ticket back home.
He spent the last two years saying he was the champion of “marginalized communities” and “Black and Brown people.” But he was all talk and his policies actually hurt those communities most. He still has at least another month to get some work done. Instead he goes globe-trotting.
The nonprofit grift goes deeper than anyone knows. Supervisors like
@DeanPreston
push their preferred organizations and get them contracts without competitive bidding of any kind. That’s what he did with HYA.
@StanleyRoberts
and I will have more on the
#nonprofitgrift
soon.
@TheQuinn177670
@SusanDReynolds
@b8ta
@ChaseCenter
Tourism WAS our number 1 industry for generations. Apparently our elected 'leaders' got bought off by the homeless nonprofits, who are awarded lucrative contracts and then get their unions to support the very same elected officials who gave the contracts.
Tax payers suffer.
“Humboldt County had 35 fentanyl deaths last year. The Humboldt County Drug Task Force followed suspected drug dealers to the Tenderloin in San Francisco, where they observed them purchasing fentanyl that they then attempted to bring back to the county.”
“We want people to know that there’s gonna be support for someone to challenge him,” said
@GrowSF
Director
@agarwal
. “He’s completely detached from popular opinion in San Francisco. His views don’t align with what people want.”
Wow.
@chesaboudin
following a guy he’s supposed to be prosecuting for a hate crime. And on the platform where the guy has been openly bragging about breaking the law by attacking Boudin recall volunteers. Serious conflict of interest. Recuse yourself
@SFDAOffice
.
According to public records, Doty is running from two warrants — one in New Mexico for stealing a car and one in his home state of Louisiana for strangling his girlfriend. And he still receives mail in Louisiana, which makes him a resident there. So why is SF paying him $670?
This appears to be the man who attacked
@BettyKPIX
and her cameraman — he was arrested last night for assault and battery. 11 arrests since July 2019 — 7 in 2020/2021 alone, and one just last month. Charges include carrying a dirk/dagger, possessing tear gas, and threats.
I applaud
@LondonBreed
for her tough stance. Notably absent was
@chesaboudin
— holding dealers accountable doesn’t fit his narrative. Boudin hasn’t prosecuted a single narcotics case that’s led to jail time👇
“The former mayor calls the emergency declaration in the Tenderloin ‘very bold.’” Very bold? It’s 90 days and will change nothing. Very bold would be calling in the Feds to go around
@chesaboudin
and start prosecuting and deporting dealers.
“So, both Boudin and Jenkins fired people. The only difference is Boudin fired qualified prosecutors and replaced them with unqualified public defenders, while Jenkins fired unqualified public defenders and replaced them with qualified prosecutors.”
Just got a tip that
@chesaboudin
@SFDAOffice
are planning to drop the assault charge against Sergio Lugo tomorrow morning. He attacked two
@SFPD
officers with a razor blade 👇
Read to the end of this saga by
@stjbs
— in which a San Francisco man who has repeatedly had his van stolen by the same alleged culprit approaches the apparent thief with a crowbar and wrestles with him.
As is often the case, the cops have done little.
My latest for
#GBTBMedia
: Why
@chesaboudin
released
#TroyMcAlister
— and the timeline leading up to New Year's Eve, 2020. Over a seven-month period, McAlister was arrested five times with no new charges filed, serving a combined total of 11 days in jail.
“I’ve done 136 jury trials in my career – never, never withdrawn from a case before," he said. "I've seen decisions made in this office in the last year plus, since Chesa took over, that shocked my conscience – and I've been a prosecutor for 30 years."
Found out from my friend Sebastian that
@MercedesBenz
is leaving SF due to crime. The manager of the
@Tesla
dealership also says their windows have been busted and something is “always going on there.” Last week a man threatened him with a large knife. Great job
@LondonBreed
🙄
BREAKING:
@StanleyRoberts
and I have discovered the names of the two Palace of Fine Arts bippers involved in the crash Saturday night — they were both “public service aides” at
@PublicWorksSF
#GothamSF
👇👇👇👇
Ok
@SusanDReynolds
and I have done a deep dive related to the two individuals involved in the deadly crash at Paul Ave. in SF on Saturday. We now know their names and here is where it gets bizarre. Marcellus Gayden, 26 (deceased), and Michael Humphery, 27, were according to
Market St. stabber Effrim Baker has a long violent record in multiple counties. Last S.F. arrest 2/26/20 for felony parole violation. Other crimes include false imprisonment, battery with intent to commit serious bodily injury, selling narcotics, and weapon-making.
#GothamSF
We now know the name of the stabbing suspect. He stabbed 3 people and assaulted a person in a wheelchair over the weekend.
He is 60 year old Effrim Baker he was charged with assault with force likely to commit great bodily injury.
#GothamSF
Anti police
@hyphy_republic
asking police to arrest someone for “lying about him” is the funniest thing I’ve seen on X all week 🤣
#TrashNightKaren
4/4 🦇🦇🦇🦇
“Every community, Black, Asian, white, Hispanic, LGBTQ+ and even the police, have been terrorized by the so-called “homeless” population. And no matter where they are taking place, these incidents are not the result of these individuals being homeless.”
April, 2023, Supervisor Shamann Walton’s wife filed for divorce. They tried to sell their primary residence in Vallejo in June, had no luck, and took it off the market. Walton’s mentor
#DwayneJones
was recently arrested on 59 counts of fraud, and I’m sure he’s talking.
#WhosNext
@svqjournalist
Oh Sergio. Do your homework. Come with me to the land of Valley Fair where new eateries and shops are opening, parking is scarce, profits are up, and stores and restaurants are packed. And San Jose has twice the population of San Francisco but they don’t tolerate it.
I have said for years they could hire one of many high tech firms to build a database to find redundancies and I bet you could cut city staff in half. There’s no reason the mayor needs 11 people beneath her, nor do supervisors need 4 to 5 aides.
Why San Francisco doesn't work
We have a major overstaffing problem at the city. Why do we have 35,000 city workers for 750,000 ppl?
This job makes no sense. We need a city government that holds employees accountable & insures tax dollars aren’t being wasted on unproductivity
His response is predictable. Makes it about race, he’s the victim, BS about not being paid enough to buy a house in SF, despite making six figures for over a decade, having access to “Community Benefits,” and running a consulting firm. Doesn’t address the mortgage fraud. 🤷🏻♀️
Noise? I met a couple from Germany in Japantown — their rental car was broken into and they were shocked by the homelessness and open drug sales and use. They said they “heard the stories about SF” but figured it “couldn’t be that bad.” Now they say they won’t be coming back.
So
@LondonBreed
called the videos we see of car break-ins and violence “NOISE” from the “right wing media” I am farthest from “left” or “right” winged and I see the problem as systemic. SF has become the playground for the criminal element!
“Fuck the lying media… Heather White Knight, Jill Tucker Carlson, and Susan Cryer Reynolds…” Then the clerk says, “Thank you, Jordan.” 🤦🏻♀️
@AaronPeskin
are their no rules of decorum for public speakers?
The fight ahead of YOU? Does this mean you’re hopping a plane to Gaza to join the battle? Or is this like when a sports fan says from his armchair, “We’re going to win this game”?
A social club for spoiled trust fund babies at the “protest” on the
#GoldenGateBridge
— Starbucks, expensive cameras, and lovely views included! Bet their professors at
@UCBerkeley
and
@ucsantacruz
are proud — and don’t worry, mom and dad will bail their cars out.
After months working with data experts, here's my article on diversion and how
@chesaboudin
is using it — despite extensive failures cited in two progressive think tank studies. It took a
#1A
attorney to get Boudin's response. Now you'll see why.
Crime data from
@SFPD
over 5 years for the month of May. Look at the huge jump since
@chesaboudin
took office. Crime is definitely not down — and this doesn’t include shootings or homicides.
Our prayers are with the Oakland PD officer shot this morning while doing their job and all the officers at
@oaklandpoliceca
and OPOA. We stand with you.
Serial shoplifter Jean Lugo Romero, from the infamous
@Walgreens
video, was arrested again on Nov. 4.
@SFDAOffice
released him despite the 15 charges
@chesaboudin
levied in June. This time he was caught in Daly City for — you guessed it — shoplifting.
Unfortunate and frankly tone deaf that John Burris, who became wealthy off of these tragedies, would sue the security guard, a young man who grew up homeless and struggled his entire life, only to have it devastated because another person wanted to steal.
“So,” a former high-ranking police officer said this week, “you could literally get caught stealing $949 worth of stuff a day and it never becomes a felony.”
Sorry
@jackiefielder_
no more
@DSA_SF
— Campos and Ronen spent the last two decades destroying it. Plus you’re to sensitive — you already blocked me and
@TheMarinaTimes
because you can’t take criticism. Ask comrade
@DeanPreston
how that went for him.
Called out across the SF political spectrum? By spectrum, do you mean the 13 bots who liked your tweet? Sorry the First Amendment is inconvenient for you. Or are you afraid the next corruption story I break will involve one of your favorite nonprofits or DSA politicians? 🤔
No wonder
@LondonBreed
doesn’t know her “Tenderloin Emergency Plan” isn’t working — she’s in Soho NYC at a maskless party with “friends” and an amazing spread.
@gregorypetan
Love that Alison is retweeting about gentrification when she’s married to a white developer who accelerates gentrification every single day — and pays her $100K a year to “consult” about it.
Well
@EricaJSandberg
and I along with other commonsense old school reporters like
@StanleyRoberts
will be teaming up on The Voice of San Francisco, a new 501c3 nonprofit online newspaper. The website is being built and we have a launch date scheduled for mid-April.
#VOSF
@FightForSoma
@GrowSF
@EricaJSandberg
@SusanDReynolds
Erica and Susan played massive, massive roles. They've spent years as lonely voices in the wilderness. But the entire infrastructure needed to be built, and GrowSF is huge there.
McCoy was dismayed that it took
@SFPD
“10 minutes” to arrive. That’s because the city is losing hundreds of cops to other departments, and they have more pressing calls, like gang and drug killings in the Tenderloin and the Mission.