Last week, on the 2,232nd day of her tenure as mayor, London Breed put out an executive order calling to remake San Francisco government.
Mayor London Breed raising a toast at the Juneteenth pop-up market at the Ferry Building on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros.a pressing and vital endeavor that Breed’s plan calls for us to place this matter before voters on theIt was Berkeley free speech activist Mario Savio who said that, when a certain level of odiousness is achieved, it “makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even tacitly take part.
“I’ll reform you, you soft-headed sumbitch! How you gonna run reform when we’re the damn incumbent? Is that the best idea you boys can come up with? Reeee-form? Weeping Jesus on the cross!” On literally hundreds and hundreds of occasions these former aides sat with mayors in City Hall Room 200 as those chief executives outlined what they wanted to do.
. But merely streamlining government isn’t enough. The city likely only had the best of intentions when it moved to expedite the creation of homeless housing and navigation centers via no-bid contracting. And yet the practical result of this was to put “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian ; San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.
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