Alan Burradell
@alanburradell
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I'm politically moderate & wonder what the hell happened to SF. I'm a registered Democrat. DSA Progressives failed our City. Here for local political discourse
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Connie Chan Defunds, Discredits and Disparages our Police.
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@sfchronicle
“These monuments no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for"
Who said the purpose of the monuments is to represent our values?
These monuments represent history.
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"To say that we make it easy to be homeless in San Francisco is a lie, and you know it"
Watch
@Scott_Wiener
squirm when he hears the truth right before he then calls
@ShellenbergerMD
a "book salesman".
The truth hurts our State Senator Wiener.
Face it Senator. We make it easy.
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@GrowSF
It's on Tuesday's agenda ... Item
#27
@AaronPeskin
thinks the Governor should pick our judges instead of the San Franciscans who live with the consequences of their rulings.
Show up on Tuesday and tell him to shove it.
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Connie Chan is eaten alive by her constituents and by Mayor Breed at this recent public safety meeting in Chan's Richmond District
#canconnie
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@ArmandDoma
I thought the "this" he was referring to was a half seat and you thought the "this" he was referring to was the person next to the window.
Examine that.
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Why do we tolerate a San Francisco Board of Supervisors that represents the radical few instead of the moderate many?
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Two people killed just now in West Portal near Muni Station
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@whentoletgo
@MarinaTimes
Hey here is the video of each of us reading a portion of the excellent
@TheMarinaTimes
story of the corruption investigation of Friedenbach's
@TheCoalitionSF
in front of the Homelessness Oversight Commission Thursday morning.
@HealthRIGHT360
@SF_HSH
@SF_DPH
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I just witnessed an undercover cop race toward, detain, frisk and cuff what looked to be a drug dealer at 9th and Howard👍
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Short 🧵from last nights Police Commission meeting, where Commissioner Yanez said
@sfpd
is causing an uptick in drug deaths. We corrected Commissioner Yanez.
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Sean and Alice Kim, owners of Joe's Ice Cream in the Richmond District, hosted an "Ice Cream with a Cop" event that brought OVER 600 community members together today to get to know the men and women who, as a matter of routine every single day, put their lives on the line to
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District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, who was seen this past Tuesday dropping off her son at St. Monica's Private School in the Richmond, where no UESF workers can afford to send their children, has been endorsed by the UESF for the 2024 election because of her strong advocacy for
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@Scott_Wiener
Fentynol has been shown to be toxic to people's health. Can we phase it out too?
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This is truly a "mic drop" moment.
Speaking out against
@DeanPreston
's efforts to limit PSH tenant evictions, this speaker, a PSH tenant, says "we just want to feel safe".
Listen to him. You can tell he's an outstanding individual. We need more people like him speaking up.
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@kevinvdahlgren
It's great target marketing.
Your merchants of death are way ahead of ours here in SF.
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Yesterday another Castro small business closed.
Has anyone on our board of Supervisors ever run a small business? Any business?
@AaronPeskin
@DeanPreston
@conniechansf
@RafaelMandelman
@Ahsha_Safai
@myrnamelgar
@Stefani4CA
@shamannwalton
@mattdorsey
@JoelEngardio
@HillaryRonen
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Who's gonna start a " The Crime Loving Judges of San Francisco" website?
@TheMarinaTimes
@Stefani4CA
We need to hold all crime loving Judges accountable!
#lenientJudges
#LindaColfax
#FixSF
Get rid of horrible judges!
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The goal wasn't to lift up the struggling.
The goal was to hold back the thriving.
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San Francisco District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan says in this 2020 discussion:
"How many police officers do we really need"
When will Chan's discrediting and defunding of our San Francisco Police Department come to an end?
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Thank you Supervisors
@mattdorsey
,
@RafaelMandelman
and
@Stefani4CA
for voting NO today on Supervisor Preston and Ronen’s dangerous, divisive and distracting “Ceasefire in Gaza” resolution.
Jews and many others who opposed the resolution fearfully stayed home. They chose not
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@JuliePitta
spotted in the Richmond District with a torn up
@MarjanPhilhour
campaign sign in her hand.
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@myrnamelgar
Supervisor your refusal to call this what it is fuels the problem.
I'll tell you what this isn't. It isn't an "altercation".
It's a physical "attack"
You won your seat by a hair but you act like you won it in a landslide.
You'll follow in Mar's footsteps in 24.
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The Executive Director of
@TheCoalitionSF
, who sits on the Board of the "Our City Our Home Oversight Committee" and votes as a member of that committee to funnel a quarter of a 💲million💲of OUR dollars a year to HER "nonprofit", has lots of money to spend on tents and on lawyers
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Seems like since about 20 years ago when we:
* split the city into districts
* began ranked choice voting
* put the Police Commission in the hands of the Board of Supervisors
San Francisco has gone to Hell.
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Drug dealers must LOVE Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
Check out her aswer to a question at a recent DCCC question during an endorsement interview.
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@RafaelMandelman
Thank you supervisor. Can you help us fight to require elevator operators for autonomous elevators next? This standard is incredibly important to keep our elevators safe.
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I went to the District 8 Neighbors Mayoral Forum last night. Here's the most hilarious scene of the evening. Featuring Aaron Peskin. Who thinks he's fit to be our Mayor😆
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What planet is
@myrnamelgar
from?
His name was Bob Lee.
Bob didn't "die on our streets".
Bob was savagely stabbed to death with a knife.
We want accountability and justice, not "answers".
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If we had better press here in SF, we wouldn't need to rely on citizens to ask the hard questions of the folks who run our city. Here's a short thread to show 6 short clips of what happened after
@conniechansf
's press conference today🧵
@conorj_SF
asks "Isn't it just a little
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San Francisco District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan is determined to eliminate our SFPD and tragic deaths like this are just the cost of getting us to her "police free utopia".
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@CNN
It's always jarring for me to watch a white guy tell us what black people are thinking.
Can you tell us what women are thinking too?
How about Eskimos. What are they thinking?
I'm gay. Please don't leave me out. Tell me what I'm thinking.
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Pig noises. Shouting. Jeering. Booing. Hissing.
This is what met speakers at a Monday San Francisco Board of Supervisor committee meeting during a hearing.
How many people stayed home because of justifiable fear of this mob of Hamas supporting zelots who deny the October 7th
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Watch the video below to find out what happens when you ask our smart, courageous and beautiful
@EricaJSandberg
what she means when she says there's no such thing as "permanent housing for all"👇
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Will Preston be forced to respond to a RECALL? Collecting the required 8,563 signatures in 4 months will be easy. And with a recent D5 swing of 26 points to the moderate side, how would he stand a chance?
@DeanPreston
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Why is this City so dysfunctional?
Watch
@LondonBreed
yesterday.
After she said she wants the SFBOS to stop micro-managing departments, watch
@AaronPeskin
pathetically & dishonestly pretend she accused them of treating department heads disrespectfully and unprofessionally 😵💫
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Where can we send them to learn about common sense?
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I wonder how
@TheCoalitionSF
,
@HealthRIGHT360
,
@UrbanAlchemyUA
and many others are allowed to use city funds to pay their employees to perform campaign & political advocacy work for Supervisors who write policy that fund their work.
@sf_mills
@DeanPreston
@TheMarinaTimes
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@Scott_Wiener
Siding with folks who scream, spit and kick doesn't represent my values.
Does this ratio suggest he represents anybody's values?
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At today's San Francisco rules committee hearing,
@Ahsha_Safai
decided that HE and NOT San Francisco voters should decide whether or not
@SFPD
gets the certainty of 5 years of funding for recruitment to replenish officer staffing levels.
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We don't have a problem with RECKLESS drivers in West Portal. It was a freak accident.
We have a problem with a RECKLESS Supervisor. Her name is
@myrnamelgarsf
. She turned her back on West Portal to curry favor with
@sfbike
and
@KidSafeSF
wealthy funder
@zack
. They're making
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Lucas Lux of the
@sfbike
wants
@JoelEngardio
's Prop K to close the Great Highway to cars and explains during a panel discussion last Tuesday that "we don't have bad traffic" ... 😆
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Karina Velasquez, Board Member of Stop Crime San Francisco:
"We receive emails everyday from citizens telling us they feel unsafe because of the rampant crimes affecting their daily lives. Please move this budget request to the full board of Supervisors"
Thank you Karina!
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Hotel Whitcomb will get $20 Million of our tax dollars this Tuesday.
Anybody know what the total of all settlements is for the SIP fiasco?
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Oakland's NAACP has had it. Read this scathing letter to the incompetent DSA Progressive political machine that has ground Oakland into the dirt.
@naacp_sf
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@DeanPreston
Well we're even.
We're outraged that you support this.
This is a Historic part of San Francisco we’re we have Flea Market Vendors trying to make a living Wage but it’s occupy by illegal Fentanyl vendors in the fencing operation
#thatsfentalife
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"Mr Dorsey you went to drug rehab to recover. You didn't sit in no 'safe consumption site'. Addicts should get the same treatment you got"
Meet Mr. White 🔥🧨💣
He had a well thought out message about our drug crisis and "safe consumption sites" at y'days BOS meeting
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Often, when Susan Reynolds of
@TheMarinaTimes
performs journalistic investigations, the
@SFDAOffice
,
@AGRobBonta
and/or
@USAO_NDCA
announce felony charges shortly thereafter. Excellent work
@SusanDReynolds
!
@TheCoalitionSF
1/ District Attorney
@BrookeJenkinsSF
announced today that multiple felony charges have been filed against Lanita Henriquez, Director of San Francisco’s Community Challenge Grant Program, and Rudolph Dwayne Jones, founder & president of RDJ Enterprises + a former city employee.
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Some of the folks who want us to stop driving cars are the same folks who just can't seem to stop driving.
Robin Pam of
@KidSafesf
is probably one of the loudest and best financed voices calling for Prop K's closure of the Great Highway. Let's say NO to Pam and NO to
#PropK
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The SF Board of Supervisors just passed the Mayor's SFPD budget supplemental with
@DeanPreston
and
@shamannwalton
voting no.
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Can't make this up
Our
@sfbos
appoints
@BevanDufty
to an OVERSIGHT commission ... after his BART board is accused of blocking OVERSIGHT from the Office of the Inspector General.
San Francisco is beyond satire:
Our new “oversight commissioners” include the incompetent director of BART who is under fire for blocking oversight of his mismanagement.
Sup
@Ahsha_Safai
recycling the same pols that drove SF into the ditch 🙄
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@myrnamelgar
Supervisor do you think the young boy with the bloody face would describe this as an altercation?
Can you provide the
@sfpd
case number that is investigating this ASSAULT by those who are very easy to identify in the video?
Do you condem racial violence porn video?
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@DeanPreston
DSA must have done a focus group on the word "cruelty" ... they use it all the time now
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If you didn't vote against this $26M SFPD budget cut, then it's 'factually accurate'
@AaronPeskin
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Last night D7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar called in sick hours before a scheduled D7 candidate debate in Forest Hills was to be held and where 225 people had RSVP'd. Today, the very next afternoon, Melgar is filmed speaking here at this neighborhood gathering in Ingleside Terrace.
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@sfstandard
My favorite Tan quote:
“Every way they come after me,” he said, “I’m going to go after them 10x.”
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At the SFMTA outreach session in West Portal yesterday, this was a really interesting, brief discussion ... the
@SFMTA_Muni
proposal has nothing to do with the tragic event. The investigation is not yet complete. The L line is not yet complete. This proposal serves Melgar's
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Castro District. Are building owners paying the vacancy tax in San Francisco?
If so, why?
@RafaelMandelman
why should they pay a vacancy tax, a business tax or their property tax?
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Here are my comments at yesterday's Rules Committe meeting where Supervisor Safai poison pilled Supervisor Dorsey's effort to let San Francisco voters decide how to staff up our SFPD ... with Supervisor Walton's response at the end of this clip ...
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In this🧵
@mattdorsey
lays out facts around the
@Ahsha_Safai
hijacking of what had been an excellent police staffing charter amendment
“Safai’s 11th hour hostile amendment turned this into a cop tax scheme that postpones progress on police staffing until voters pass a future tax”
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Here's the short story of when Judge Michael Begert kept RELEASING the same guy after the SFPD kept CATCHING and arresting him.
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@SFCPA
Yes I'm with you. I don't fault her for wanting her kid to get a good education either. I fault her for not supporting the school board recall and not loudly holding the school board or the union accountable for all of the reasons that led her to enroll her kid at St. Monica's.
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District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar ENDORSED Chesa Boudin for DA in 2019. But now after her District 7 supported his recall at 63%, Melgar is running away from the truth. Here is a clip of Melgar lying to Westside Family Democratic Club.
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Read this well researched ten year "look back" to grasp Prop 47's crushing impact.
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Judge Michael Begert is like a dangerous package. Open the package up and what do you get? A toxic combination of Chesa Boudin, the SF Bar Association, the SF Public Defenders office, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston and several others ... you get the picture.
Read my brief summary
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A middle finger🖕from our
@sfbos
to the business community in SF👇
How can we hope for a functioning and viable
@Walgreens
on 23rd & Mission, if we allow this?
24th BART has turned into a magnet of illegal dealing&stealing, under the watch of Sup. Ronen,
@Calle24SF
,
@sfpublicworks
,
@SFBART
,
@SFPD
, BART Police,
@LondonBreed
. All complicit.
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To tell Governor Newsom to veto AB819 that decriminalizes FARE EVASION, hit link👇 Do it. It takes 30 seconds.
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@DeanPreston
You're thanking the public for their 'condemnation' and at the same time acknowledging we don't know any of the details surrounding Jenkins' charging decision.
Way to stir the pot.
You don't lead.
You follow the pitchforks.
You gotta go.
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@thehoffather
"Starbucks is a window into America. We are facing things in which the stores were not built for".
Like DA's that won't prosecute crime? Like meth addicts trashing your bathrooms and harassing customers and employees? Like staffing shortages because people fear for their lives?
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Check out our comments last night at the
@SFPDCommission
"No Commissioner Yanez the
@sfpd
officers are not killing drug users and no, Commissioner Oberstone, nobody is using public meeting law to silence Police Commissioner voices"
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@dannoyes
"Our office is working on a partnership with the Asian Law Caucus to support AAPI victims of violence in ways that open up broader possibilities for healing & non-carceral forms of accountability"
What about the part where the public gets protected from bullets on freeways...
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@myrnamelgar
"We have a robust network of folks working with youth in communities throughout the City. Let's support them to provide these services now"
Please be specific: WHO are these people in this robust network? HOW much money do they get? WHAT services are you asking us to support?
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My first job after college was with The Quaker Oats Company. The company provided us with the history of all of their brands and I remember the story of Aunt Jemima well. I came across this today👇
"A great woman was erased from history by idiots.
The branding of the syrup was
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A San Francisco City Charter Amendment back in 2004 upended nearly a hundred years of Mayoral accountability for our Police Commission.
The results have been disastrous.
We need to repeal Charter Amendment 4.109
@SFMayorsOffice
@sfbos
@SFPD
@SFPDCommission
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Please consider my comments here in front of yesterday's Police Commission meeting👇
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Folks ... give this a listen ... wow ... just wow ...🎤
On 09/13/23, I made it known to the Board of Supervisors that they will not get to pass decrees unchallenged. My speech below:
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In 2020 Myrna Melgar won the ranked choice contest for the D7 Supervisor seat despite coming in THIRD place among first choice votes. Let's correct that costly mistake. It's simple. Here's how: rank Boschetto, Pinto and Yee but DO NOT rank Melgar. DO NOT FILL IN AN OVAL NEXT TO
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Excellent points by
@StephenMPinto
at the City Hall hearing about police funding.
"I'm a firefighter. If you don't properly fund the police, who secure fire and emergency scenes for us, you put the public in danger as well as first responders like me"
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yes
"San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who has taken a leading role in The City’s evolving homelessness policy, called the UCSF study a “political document” tailored to meet its authors’ preconceived notions."
@mattdorsey
@SusanDReynolds
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@sidhant
Coming headline from
@sfchronicle
:
"Hungry Refugees Seeking Bread and Water While Fleeing Extreme Weather and Authoritarianism are Cruelly Dehumanized and Traumatized by Settler Colonizer India"
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@MLNow
Castro Library, thank you for finally stopping your long practice of enabling street camping at 16th and Market.
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.
@conniechansf
is desperately pointing the finger at our Mayor. Chan is not proposing real solutions to the real issues we face. Chan campaigned to dismantle the police. Chan cut $2MM from the police budget last year as budget chair. Chan then campaigned in March to condition
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Commissioner Oberstone said he thinks I and Commissioner Walker use public meeting laws to silence dissenting views😆
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@IDoTheThinking
No. What everyone knows is that not too long ago, you didn't have to be worried about being pepper sprayed or hit with a chair while at the mall. But please, continue excusing this. It's entertaining.
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@Trevor4SF
Your statement is weak at best and inaccurate at worst.
If this is the kind of statement you make during such a pivotal San Francisco moment, it makes me hesitate to seriously consider your Supervisoral candidacy for D9
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Harm reduction activists appeared before a Seattle City Council Committee recently and fell apart after being pulled from the echo chamber inside of their bubble by
@cmsaranelson
as they stammered and stuttered when attempting to answer her simple questions.
So called
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