As taxes increase, schools decline, crime surges and a recession looms, residents may, as in San Francisco, vote with their feet.
San Francisco
The two locations have much in common. They have roughly the same population. Both became magnets for educated professionals, attracted by niche jobs and top schools. Both are essentially one-party governments. The last time San Francisco elected a Republican mayor, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. Montgomery County has never had a Republican city council president; its last Republican majority was during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration.
Progressive prosecutors decline to prosecute crime, while local politicians bash the police. As a response, Montgomery County, like San Francisco, is facing a major police recruitment and retention shortfall. Violent crime is rising, as is drug abuse.
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