Is there no bottom to the dumpster fire that is San Francisco, California?
The good news for San Franciscans is that their mayor, London Breed, has been transparent. The bad news is that she had a 20-year friendship that included some romance with a former city worker who is being investigated by the FBI for public corruption.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-mayor-admits-past-romance-5g-car-repair-loan-from-subject-of-fbi-corruption-probe.amp">reported</a> that Breed admitted to the relationship with former city worker Mohammed Nuru on Friday with a post on Medium.
“I write this in the spirit of transparency because in the wake of a scandal at <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/state-and-local">City Hall</a>, I think San Franciscans are entitled to hear directly from their Mayor,” she wrote. She also discussed the affair at a news conference where she explained there had been “a number of rumors” floating around and she wanted to set the record straight.
“To be clear,” she wrote on Medium. “I never asked Mohammed Nuru to do anything improper, and he never asked me to do anything improper.”
Breed did, however, admit to accepting $5,600 from Nuru in 2019 for a car repair. Fox reported she had not paid back the money yet.
&#8220;Mayor Breed&#8217;s admission of thousands of dollars in unreported gifts from a subordinate is likely illegal, certainly unethical, and part of a culture of casual corruption that is eroding the faith of the public,” said San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar. “Given the seriousness of this admission, the direct connection to the central figure in the FBI&#8217;s investigation into public corruption, I believe we need to put the people of San Francisco first. I believe Mayor Breed should do the right thing and temporarily step back from her duties until a full, independent investigation can be completed.&#8221;
Breed’s political opponent, Supervisor Hillary Ronen suggested the mayor should resign, saying, &#8220;I do think she should resign. What I am sick of in this city is the culture of corruption.”
Fellow supervisor Dean Preston said Breed should face questions from the Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Aaron Peskin also said he wanted to question Breed before demanding she resign.
&#8220;She&#8217;s calling one of her staff to fix and pick up her car and get a rental car,&#8221; Peskin said. &#8220;Was he doing that instead of running the department of public works?&#8221;
Breed added that although she was being transparent, she was not remorseful for her relationship with Nuru.
&#8220;I will not apologize for dating someone two decades ago. I will not apologize for remaining close friends with him and his family for 20 more years. But neither will I make excuses for any misdeeds,&#8221; Breed said.
As Fox reported, “Nuru and restaurant owner Nick Bovis were arrested late last month and charged with corruption and lying to the FBI.”
KTVU <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/mayor-breeds-revelations-raise-questions-san-francisco-politicians-react">reported</a> San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office will investigate potential ethical violations regarding Breed’s relationship with Nuru. Boudin added that he takes “public corruption very seriously.”
KTVU also reported that Nuru and Nick Bovis, a restaurant owner, were arrested by FBI agents in late January “among five ‘schemes’ that involved trying to bribe an airport commissioner to vote in favor of a Bovis-owned business at the airport and Nuru accepting travel and gifts from a Chinese developer doing business in town.”

San Francisco Mayor London Breed

San Francisco Mayor Just Admitted To Having Relationship, Accepting Money From City Worker Under FBI Investigation For Public Corruption

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The leader of a union representing San Francisco police officers recently blasted the newly-elected, progressive district attorney, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">claiming</a> the city and county’s top prosecutor has given criminals a “green light” to attack cops.
The accusation came after D.A. Chesa Boudin, who was sworn in earlier this month, decided to withdraw criminal charges against a man who allegedly physically assaulted law enforcement in December, pending further investigation. The suspect, 24-year-old Jamaica Hampton, was shot three times by police officers during the altercation, sustaining critical injuries. He recently had his leg amputated as a result and <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">remains</a> hospitalized.
“Mr. Boudin has made it clear to criminals everywhere that you can violently attack a police officer and he’ll look the other way,” <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">said</a> Tony Montoya, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA).
On Monday, Montoya called on federal prosecutors to intervene, adding that one of the officers was attacked with a glass bottle and “received sutures to the face.” <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/newly-elected-sf-da-boudin-withdraws-charges-against-cop-attack-suspect/2220998/">According</a> to NBC Bay Area, Montoya said: “Mr. Boudin has made it very clear that it’s open season on police officers.”
Montoya also announced that the SFPOA had launched a new website, <a href="https://www.boudinblunders.com/">BoudinBlunders.com</a>, where community members can submit information about crimes that the D.A.’s office fails to prosecute.
Boudin <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">called</a> the union’s claims “plainly false” and said the two cops involved in the incident are currently under investigation for their use-of-force, possibly creating a conflict if they were to testify in the criminal case against their alleged attacker. The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reports</a> that the D.A.’s office has three years to refile the charges.
“The health of any criminal case depends on internal clarity around the charges being filed, which becomes more complicated when you are dealing with an instance where there is potentially competing criminal liability,” Boudin said.
S.F. Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reportedly</a> sent letters to every police officer in the department expressing their support.
“The D.A. indicated that this withdrawal is not a dismissal of the case,” wrote Scott. “This unprovoked attack was a violent, criminal act. I want you to know that we remain committed to working with the D.A. to see that justice is done in this case for our officers.”
Montoya <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Police-union-boss-2-goals-Chastise-chief-and-15011856.php">criticized</a> Chief Scott for inadequately standing up for rank-and-file officers.
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As the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Video of the encounter showed Hampton dodging two San Francisco police officers he had allegedly attacked with a bottle near the intersection of 23rdand Mission streets.
During the foot chase, Hampton appeared to run toward Officer Sterling Hayes, while still carrying the bottle, moments before the officer opened fire. Hampton attempted to get up when Officer Christopher Flores fired one shot.
Police said Hampton matched the description of an intruder who had broken into a woman’s home that morning…
Hampton was originally booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, assault upon a police officer and threats to an officer. The case was charged by interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus but never proceeded to arraignment while Hampton remained hospitalized.</blockquote>
The Chronicle recently <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/SF-Police-Officers-Association-is-at-a-15001827.php">reported</a> that Montoya is currently in a runoff election for his next term to lead the SFPOA. The union spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat Boudin last November over concerns that he would not support law enforcement. At Boudin’s victory party on election night, S.F. Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11785144/its-between-suzy-loftus-and-chesa-boudin-for-sf-district-attorney">led chants</a> of “F*** the POA.” After Boudin announced last week that his office ended cash bail as a condition for pretrial release, Montoya <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-DA-Chesa-Boudin-ends-cash-bail-for-14996400.php">warned</a> that the new D.A. “is in the process of building the largest criminal justice revolving door imaginable,” adding, “San Franciscans will pay a heavy price for it.”
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Six San Francisco Police Officers Indicted Multiple Corruption Charges

S.F. Police Union Slams New Progressive D.A., Says ‘It’s Open Season’ On Cops

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On Monday, the head of San Francisco Public Works (SFPW), who refers to himself as “Mr. Clean” on Twitter, and whose department is charged with cleaning up the drug needles, feces and urine on the city’s streets, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of public corruption.
Mohammed Nuru, the head of SFPW, was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts, NBC Bay Area reported, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-public-works-official-arrested">Fox News</a>. The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Public-Works-Director-Mohammed-Nuru-arrested-15010510.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported, “FBI agents on Monday arrested Nuru, 57, and Bovis, 56, at their Bay Area homes before unsealing a federal complaint Tuesday for one charge of wire fraud. Nuru is separately charged with lying to the FBI after initially being arrested on Jan. 21 and being told to keep quiet about the investigation.”
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This is a sad day for San Francisco. 
These charges against Director Nuru demonstrate the need for much broader reforms. 
We urgently need a top to bottom restructuring of the Dept, with much stronger public oversight, accountability and transparency.<a href="https://t.co/p6SO003TJU">https://t.co/p6SO003TJU</a>
&mdash; Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1222252399617642497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Chronicle added, “Nuru is a visible department head who’s been at the post for nearly two decades and is deeply intertwined in San Francisco’s so-called city family, which includes former Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee and current Mayor Breed.” The Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SF-official-arrested-by-FBI-was-go-to-guy-for-15011155.php">opined</a>, “ … a succession of four mayors ignored bright red flags about his performance for decades … Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, Ed Lee and London Breed counted on Nuru to respond to a call or text at any hour … City Hall observers said privately that Nuru’s loyalty may have discouraged mayors from looking too closely at how he ran his ship at Public Works <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Cleanup-wizard-in-a-messy-scandal-DPW-aide-has-2795062.php">despite documented complaints over the years</a>.”
The Chronicle detailed, “In 2004, a Chronicle investigation uncovered accusations that nine people from Nuru’s nonprofit, SLUG, were forced to do work for Newsom’s mayoral campaign and were pressured into voting for him for mayor. They reportedly were told their jobs with the city would be in danger if they didn&#8217;t cooperate.”
David Anderson, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, stated on Tuesday, “The complaint alleges corruption pouring into San Francisco from around the world,” and accused Nuru of “corruption, bribery kickbacks and side deals by one of San Francisco’s highest-ranking public employees.”
Nuru supervises 1,600 employees as well as the design and construction of city facilities.
Nick Bovis, the owner of the sports bar Lefty O-Doul’s, was also arrested. In 2017, the two men supported “Tiny Potties” that the Chronicle said were supposed to resemble the Painted Ladies Victorian homes near Alamo Square.
Supervisor Matt Haney slammed Nuru, saying, “It’s a shock. I think that department has been run like a one-person fiefdom for a long time. There’s an understanding that ‘everything goes through Mohammed,’ and if you piss him off, there’s retribution. I think there needs to be an overhaul of that department. We need much more accountability and transparency there.” He added, “When you have a department head who can make everything or nothing happen, it’s disastrous for both potential corruption and effective city services. Both failed. He was created by mayors for their own purposes to be able to deliver things they wanted.”
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer echoed the news “came as a complete shock … There was no buzz at City Hall, and that’s a place where secrets are hard to keep.”

Inequality Highest in U.S. Cities With Strong Economies

SF Official Charged With Keeping Streets Clean, Calls Himself ‘Mr. Clean.’ He’s Been Arrested For Corruption.

Gavin Newsom

With multiple confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States, including two in California, the city of  San Francisco has activated its emergency operations center in preparation for a potential outbreak.
While there have been no reported cases of the virus in the city, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is &#8220;on standby, with isolation rooms prepared for coronavirus patients if needed,&#8221; Fox News-affiliate <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-activates-emergency-operations-center-in-preparation-of-coronavirus-outbreak">KTVU</a> reported Monday.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to recognize that there are no known cases in San Francisco at this time,&#8221; said San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón, KTVU reports. &#8220;We are actively preparing for the possibility of confirmed cases.&#8221;
&#8220;We will be broadcasting in partnership with the Department of Public Health public health information about how to prevent the spread of the virus, and what to do to stay healthy during flu season,&#8221; said San Francisco Department of Emergency Management&#8217;s Mary Ellen Carrol.
&#8220;We won&#8217;t be able to tell just by the symptoms,&#8221; Dr. Aragón explained. &#8220;That&#8217;s why the history of where that person has been is the most important factor.&#8221;
As the symptoms of the coronavirus are similar to the common flu, officials are carefully monitoring those flying into the states from the regions in China impacted by the virus, namely Wuhan, outbound traffic from which has now been canceled, San Francisco International Airport announced.
WTVU notes that a flight planned by the State Department containing personnel who worked in Wuhan is scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Ontario via Anchorage. &#8220;San Francisco authorities say they are in communication with state health officials and the Centers for Disease Control to monitor developments in the progression of coronavirus,&#8221; WTVU reports.
San Francisco&#8217;s preparatory measures were announced after additional coronavirus cases were reported in the States over the weekend, totaling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-hits-u-s-more-cases-reported-in-multiple-states">five cases</a> in four states, including two in California (one in Orange County and another in Los Angeles County), one in Arizona (Maricopa County), one in Washington state, and another in Chicago, Illinois.
As reported by The Associated Press, China reported Tuesday that 25 more people have died from the coronavirus, totaling at least 106 deaths so far.
“China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak,” The Associated Press reported. “There were 1,771 new cases confirmed on Monday, raising the national total to 4,515, according to the National Health Commission. It said 976 were in serious condition.”
The Chinese government has responded to the outbreak by imposing a massive, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-hits-u-s-more-cases-reported-in-multiple-states">unprecedented</a>&#8221; quarantine, encompassing some 56 million people.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a level 3 travel warning Monday to &#8220;avoid nonessential travel&#8221; to the affected area.
“CDC recommends that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China,” the CDC <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/novel-coronavirus-china">said</a> in a statement. “In response to an outbreak of respiratory illness, Chinese officials have closed transport within and out of Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province, including buses, subways, trains, and the international airport. Additional restrictions and cancellations of events may occur. There is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas.”
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CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential travel to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a> due to the ongoing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2019nCoV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2019nCoV</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a>) outbreak. The outbreak is growing and there is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas. <a href="https://t.co/Km38IKxIAs">https://t.co/Km38IKxIAs</a> <a href="https://t.co/NHboTImlyr">pic.twitter.com/NHboTImlyr</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-chinese-reports-show-coronavirus-rapidly-spreading-deaths-infections-surging">Coronavirus Rapidly Spreading; Deaths Predicted To Be In Thousands</a>

San Francisco Activates Emergency Operations Center Preparing For Coronavirus

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Coronavirus

Some businesses have shut down in San Francisco, California due to the city’s economy. Specifically, several companies that employed robots have closed their doors.
Last week, Zume Pizza closed down in Mountain View and in San Francisco, cutting a total of 252 jobs. This also meant that the robots that were used to make the company’s pizzas would be out of work.
“With admiration and sadness, we are closing Zume Pizza today,” said Zume Chief Executive Alex Gardn in an email to employees. “Over the last four years this business has been our invention test bed and has been our inspiration for many of the growth businesses we have at Zume today.”
The job cuts are part of a company-wide restructuring that will result in a total loss of 360 jobs, The Mercury News <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/09/zume-pizza-closes-down-cuts-172-jobs-in-mountain-view/">reported</a>. The company will now focus on food packaging and delivery systems, and will allow former employees to apply for 100 newly created positions within the restructured company.
In addition to Zume, three Café X coffee shops closed in the Bay Area. The shops used robot baristas, The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Cafe-X-s-robotic-arms-wave-goodbye-at-3-SF-14957264.php?utm_campaign=sfgate&amp;utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Ffood%2Farticle%2Fcoffee-robot-baristas-3-locations-Cafe-X-close-14959241.php">reported</a>.
The Associated Press reported that “its robotic baristas joined robots that made smoothies and hamburgers or mixed and dispensed salads and quinoa bowls.” The outlet added that Café X “will continue to have competition in the automated coffee market,” as Briggo Coffee Haus, located in the San Francisco airport, also uses a robot to make 100 drinks per hour.
Robots are often used in place of humans because they are cheaper over the long run and can increase productivity (without needing breaks or benefits).
But San Francisco has become such a hostile place for businesses &#8212; not to mention residents and tourists – that even restaurants that use robots struggle. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-no-one-wants-to-open-a-restaurant-in-san-francisco">reported</a> in November that people were afraid to open businesses in the area due to a string of burglaries. One restaurant, the Pine Tar Grill, was burglarized three times in its first 16 months of business, costing the owner thousands of dollars. Numerous business owners <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/No-one-wants-to-open-a-restaurant-in-San-14842211.php">told the</a> Chronicle that opening a business in the Bay Area was difficult, with one owner saying “No one wants to open a restaurant in San Francisco.”
In addition to the crime, San Francisco is also dealing with a homelessness crisis and a literal poop crisis. The city is set to spend more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-will-spend-more-70-million-year-just-emily-zanotti">$70 million</a> trying to clean up human feces from its streets. One neighborhood has even started taking up a collection to hire its own private poop patrol, The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-neighborhood-takes-up-collection-to-hire-its-own-private-poop-patrol">reported</a>.
While residents are predictably outraged at the state of their city, they don’t appear to be doing anything to change the leadership that has allowed San Francisco to decay. In November, voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shocker-san-francisco-elects-radical-d-a-whose-parents-were-american-terrorists">elected</a> Chesa Boudin as their new District Attorney. Boudin appears to be more interested in going after police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers than criminals. He is also the son of two Weather Underground terrorists convicted for the murder of a New York policeman and security guard.

Robot Barista

Economy In San Francisco So Bad, Even The Robots Are Losing Their Jobs

A disturbing scene unfolded in San Francisco over the weekend as numerous people posted on social media about a man who walked into a Safeway grocery store and defecated in the middle of store.
The incident reportedly happened at a Safeway in northern San Francisco, inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s district, with a store employee telling The Daily Wire that the incident happened on Sunday.
The employee, who did not wish to be named, said that when they arrived at work today that other employees were talking about the incident from yesterday, which the employee said was the first time that it happened inside the store.
The employee said that public defecation has become such a problem in San Francisco that people in the area love when it rains because it cleans off the sidewalks and the streets.
Journalist Deborah Kan tweeted out a photo of the incident and wrote in a tweet to the Mayor of San Francisco: &#8220;. @LondonBreed here’s a pic of a man on drugs taking a poo in aisle 10 of @Safeway Marina Sunday morning in #SF. Why is this okay?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/LondonBreed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LondonBreed</a> here’s a pic of a man on drugs taking a poo in aisle 10 of <a href="https://twitter.com/Safeway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Safeway</a> Marina Sunday morning in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SF</a>. Why is this okay? <a href="https://twitter.com/KTVU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KTVU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kpix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kpix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kron</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KGOdesk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KGOdesk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sfchronicle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sfchronicle</a> <a href="https://t.co/4ef4S6Qs8n">pic.twitter.com/4ef4S6Qs8n</a>
&mdash; Deborah Kan (@debkhk) <a href="https://twitter.com/debkhk/status/1206359030576238592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Congressional candidate John Dennis, who is running for Pelosi&#8217;s seat as a Republican, wrote in a tweet: &#8220;Cleanup in Aisle 3! Thank you Nancy Pelosi. I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse. The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice. Jail or rehab. Just got this photo. A homeless man defecating in our local Safeway.&#8221;
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Cleanup in Aisle 3! Thank you Nancy Pelosi.
I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse.
The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice. Jail or rehab.
Just got this photo. A homeless man defecating in our local Safeway. <a href="https://t.co/4mrpzDNA9T">pic.twitter.com/4mrpzDNA9T</a>
&mdash; John Dennis for Congress (@RealJohnDennis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJohnDennis/status/1206307250240798720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Between 2011 and 2018, San Francisco experienced a massive increase in reported incidents of human feces found on public streets,&#8221; SFGate reported. &#8220;In 2011, just over 5,500 reports were logged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works; in 2018, the number increased to more than 28,000.&#8221;
The report says that the numbers are most likely much higher than what the statistics show because the statistics are based only on reported incidents.
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Lately there has been a brownout in the Bay Area&#8230; Since 2011, there have been at least 118,352 reported instances of human fecal matter on city streets. <a href="https://twitter.com/ForbesOpinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ForbesOpinion</a> <a href="https://t.co/4nzW2iNLvf">https://t.co/4nzW2iNLvf</a> <a href="https://t.co/4itldSUafq">pic.twitter.com/4itldSUafq</a>
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The problem is so bad now that San Francisco now employs a &#8220;Poop Patrol&#8221; to deal with the issue. Business Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-feces-sidewalks-housing-crisis-2018-8">reported</a> in August:
<blockquote>In San Francisco, people call the city&#8217;s telephone hotline about 65 times a day to report piles of human feces on streets and sidewalks. &#8230;
&#8230; Starting next month, a team of five employees from the Department of Public Works will take to the streets of San Francisco&#8217;s grittiest neighborhood, the Tenderloin, in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner. They will ride around the alleys to clean piles of poop before citizens have a chance to complain about them &#8230;</blockquote>
San Franciso Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sf-mayor-theres-more-feces-on-the-sidewalks-than-ive-ever-seen/62590/">said</a> in a recent interview: &#8220;I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I&#8217;ve ever seen growing up here. That is a huge problem, and we are not just talking about from dogs — we&#8217;re talking about from humans.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t think that the city is poorly spending what it already has,&#8221; Breed added. &#8220;I spend a lot of time on Fillmore Street. I see the people who are part of a program, out there power washing. They’re out there doing what they can to keep the community clean, almost every day, and then right after they leave, maybe an hour or two later, the place is filled with trash again.&#8221;

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‘Cleanup In Aisle 3!’: Horrifying Scene Shows What Is Going On In Pelosi’s District

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In the People’s Republic of San Francisco, where drug needles, urine, and homeless people abound, the 24 Pit Stops run by the city for public peeing and pooping that are open 24-7 are costing taxpayers $28.50 per flush.
According to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/SF-s-public-toilets-a-big-relief-and-the-14879898.php">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “Public Works has estimated that keeping all 24 of the city’s Pit Stops open around the clock would cost an extra $8.25 million a year. Staffing is the primary cost. The attendants ensure the public bathrooms are kept safe, clean and used for their intended purpose.”
The Chronicle adds that public toilets sans attendants were often used for drug activity and prostitution; thus the city erected the Pit Stops on Sixth and Jessie streets South of Market, Market and Castro streets in the Castro, and Eddy and Jones streets in the Tenderloin, where two attendants were present to monitor the toilets 24 hours per day, costing the city $300,000 between mid-August through mid-November.
Public Works logs found that the toilets were utilized 10,518 times between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. The Chronicle stated, “So the extra $300,000 for 10,518 after-hour uses comes to $28.52 per overnight flush.”
Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who initiated the program five years ago, defended his project, stating, “The Pit Stops provide a place for people to take care of their bathroom needs with dignity, improving neighborhood livability and reducing demands on Public Works staff to clean up human waste from the city’s sidewalks, doorways and streets.”
But the Chronicle points out that the supposed reduction in demands on Public Works staff is not entirely accurate, noting:
<blockquote>In the quarter-mile radius around the Tenderloin Pit Stop, calls went from 188 in the three months prior to the test to 176 during the three-month test — that’s a drop of four calls per month. Calls for cleanups in the quarter-mile radius around South of Market Pit Stop dropped to 166 from 190 — eight fewer per month. Calls in the quarter-mile around the Castro Pit Stop dropped from 68 to 61, less than three per month.</blockquote>
Yet Supervisor Matt Haney is bullish about the project, asserting, “We should open all of them downtown, in my district, 24 hours. I know there is a need there. The other locations we should look at in a case-by-case basis and review the use data. I’m certain there are other parts of the city with similar needs.” He added, “The people who do the work are almost entirely recently formerly incarcerated, so it also serves as a sort of jobs program. So there are significant additional benefits other than only the bathroom uses.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-neighborhood-takes-up-collection-to-hire-its-own-private-poop-patrol">The Daily Wire</a> has noted that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-homeless-animal-human-feces-tenderloin-district-pressure-wash-sidewalks-program">Fox News reported</a> that the Tenderloin, which, according to the San Francisco &#8220;<a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/news/?CategoryId=105">poop map</a>,&#8221; is &#8220;ground zero&#8221; for the city&#8217;s waste problem, with dozens of reports of human feces littering the sidewalk being called into the city&#8217;s 311 non-emergency hotline every month, and despite San Francisco&#8217;s reported overtime commitment to keep the streets feces-free, the city&#8217;s &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; cleanup unit is only able to thoroughly wash the Tenderloin&#8217;s public sidewalks around once per month because demand is so high.
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RITZY CITY: San Francisco 24-7 ‘Pit Stops’ Costing A Whopping $28.50 Per Flush

San Francisco is now famously the city of feces-covered sidewalks. But one particularly affected neighborhood &#8212; the city&#8217;s Tenderloin district &#8212; is so fed up with the mess they&#8217;ve taken up a collection from local businesses and residents to hire a private company to clean the sidewalks in between visits from the city&#8217;s official &#8220;poop patrol.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-homeless-animal-human-feces-tenderloin-district-pressure-wash-sidewalks-program">Fox News reports</a> that the Tenderloin, which, according to the San Francisco &#8220;<a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/news/?CategoryId=105">poop map</a>,&#8221; is &#8220;ground zero&#8221; for the city&#8217;s waste problem, with dozens of reports of human feces littering the sidewalk being called into the city&#8217;s 311 non-emergency hotline every month, and despite San Francisco&#8217;s reported overtime commitment to keep the streets feces-free, the city&#8217;s &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; cleanup unit is only able to thoroughly wash the Tenderloin&#8217;s public sidewalks around once per month because demand is so high.
The new program, the Tenderloin hopes, will increase powerwashings to at least once per week.
&#8220;The Tenderloin Community Benefit District, which is a non-profit neighborhood group, secured an additional $260,000 this year to essentially quadruple the number of times the neighborhood’s sidewalks are professionally cleaned a month, according to the program’s supervisor Matt Haney,&#8221; reports Fox News. &#8220;Property owners within the district’s 30 square blocks helped fund the program as the neighborhood continues to be plagued by a large homeless population.&#8221;
The program won&#8217;t supplant the city&#8217;s &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; efforts, run by the San Francisco Department of Public Works. But that group can only wash the sidewalks with industrial grade equipment once per month. Otherwise, the &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; hoses down the sidewalks with fire hoses and and steam cleaners once per day.
The daily wash doesn&#8217;t get everything, and going a month between industrial washes leaves the sidewalks a mess. So the Tenderloin wants a private company to come in and do a thorough deep clean once per week, ideally before the work week begins and employees of big-name tech companies like Twitter, whose headquarters are located nearby, have to wade through the mess to get to work.
The city of San Francisco has been dealing with the &#8220;poop problem&#8221; for more than a year now. While there aren&#8217;t reliable numbers available yet for 2019, in 2018 there were 28,084 instances of sidewalk feces reported to the city&#8217;s 311 hotline (those &#8220;incidents&#8221; could involve either human or animal poop).
<a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/city-officials-deal-with-growing-poop-problem-in-san-francisco/">A local NBC affiliate</a> estimates that the city has received over 25,000 complaints so far, which would make 2019 San Francisco&#8217;s poopiest year ever &#8212; and that&#8217;s based only on documented reports. The real number could be much, much higher.
The city has tried to handle the issue by focusing on cleaning up the mess as often as possible and providing more public restrooms for the city&#8217;s ever-growing homeless population, but those efforts have mostly failed, if only because they barely scratch the surface of what is an endemic city issue. The Tenderloin district, for example, did get a new public restroom, serviced by Pit Stop and paid for by the city, but it&#8217;s not enough, and it doesn&#8217;t have 24-hour security, which means those sleeping rough aren&#8217;t always using it for its intended purpose.
The problem does actually seem to be San Francisco&#8217;s non-enforcement of rules against setting up camp on city streets and sidewalks. Although an estimated 7,500 people call the streets of San Francisco home, the city refuses to do much more than provide them with temporary housing and facilities. There&#8217;s no room for shelters (and rent is far too high for non-profits to afford, anyway), and public housing doesn&#8217;t seem to be an option. Short-term jail time could prove useful, but only as a temporary fix to a permanent &#8212; and growing &#8212; problem.

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San Francisco Neighborhood Takes Up Collection To Hire Its Own Private Poop Patrol

Restaurateurs are avoiding opening new establishments in the City by the Bay and there&#8217;s a good  reason for their decision. According to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/No-one-wants-to-open-a-restaurant-in-San-14842211.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, numerous break-ins have occurred recently, plaguing restaurant owners. The Chronicle listed some examples:
Pine Tar Grill was burglarized three times in the first 16 months after it opened, costing the owner, Dave Martin, thousands of dollars and triggering his decision to close the diner. Martin told the Chronicle, “To balance everything out when it comes to the costs, I would have had to charge like $85 for a cheeseburger.&#8221;
Another example: bubble-tea chain Boba Guys has been hit with three break-ins in the past year, according to co-owner Andrew Chau. He stated on Instagram that <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xegcupISd/">San Francisco “is a shell of what it used to be</a> — I’m a local, son of a retired Muni bus operator and Pacific Bell call center representative. I’ve seen this city transform into Gotham, and it makes me sad. It’s time for radical solutions that think long-term.”
Kim Alter, owner of Nightbird, attested that the restaurant had suffered from repeated vandalism attempts. She told the Chronicle, “No one wants to open a restaurant in San Francisco.”
Laurie Thomas, a board member of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and the owner of Terzo and Rose’s Café, said some incidents of vandalism go unreported because the insurance deductible they would have to pay would be greater than the cost of the damage. She added that some owners believe the police will not take any action after a report. She asserted, “The more pressing issue is the physiological and emotional damage break-ins have on a staff. When this happens often, these places can feel unsafe. Female servers and bartenders carrying cash from tip outs, they all worry.”
In late October, President Trump targeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the state of her home city, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054937839775744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">tweeting:</a>
<blockquote>I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is impeachment &#8230; We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!</blockquote>
San Francisco has been plagued by all sorts of problems in recent years; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-residents-discover-heavy-solution-for-homeless-problem">The Daily Wire</a> reported in late September, &#8220;A group of residents in San Francisco have come up with a novel solution to inhibit homeless people from camping on their residential street: placing roughly 25 boulders on the sidewalk.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-map-shows-human-poop-complaints">Fox News</a> reported in April 2019, “A <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/map/?Map=32504&amp;MapType=Pin&amp;Zip=94103" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new map</a> pinpointing the locations where human feces are reported to have been found in the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">California</a> city since 2011 shows San Francisco has a staggering problem with the stinky stuff. Nearly every city block has had a poop sighting in recent years as the city grapples with homelessness, according to data compiled by Open The Books.”
<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-human-waste-feces-homeless-Reddit-13044317.php">SFGate</a> reported in July 2018, &#8220;Complaints about human waste around San Francisco increased by 400 percent from 2008 to 2018, according to 311. There were more than 21,000 reports made to 311 in 2017 alone.&#8221;

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Report: ‘No One Wants To Open A Restaurant In San Francisco’

On Saturday, San Francisco voters elected a new District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, who “<a href="https://www.chesaboudin.com/issues">wants</a> to free criminals but prosecute police and ICE agents for doing their jobs,” as townhall.com noted.
As Bronson Stocking of <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/11/10/radical-son-of-cop-killing-terrorists-wins-san-fransisco-da-race-n2556228">townhall.com noted</a>, Boudin comes by his antipathy for police quite naturally; a Yale graduate, he is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Weather Underground terrorists who were convicted for their participation in the murder of two Nyack, New York policemen and a security guard when they helped rob a Brinks armored security car in 1981. Boudin was convicted of felony murder and released on parole in 2003. She went on to become an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/research-scientists/kathy-boudin/">co-director and co-founder</a> of the Center for Justice there. Gilbert was also convicted of felony murder for the incident; he is still in prison.
Stocking noted, “After his parents killed the cops, Boudin was sent to live with two other terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Dohrn <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/women-on-fbis-most-wanted-list/4/">declared</a> war on the United States and was on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted list. Ayers <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bill-ayers/">bombed</a> the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol building, and the New York City Police Department before he and Dohrn became fugitives and went into hiding. The pair eventually came out of hiding and settled in as university professors.”
Chesa Boudin <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/sf-public-defender-running-for-da-calls-for-unit-to-protect-immigrants-from-deportation/">stated last June</a> that if he were elected district attorney he would create a unit to help illegal immigrants charged with crimes from being deported. He said, “This isn’t about trying to privilege immigrants. It’s about helping to protect our immigrant communities from being punished by the federal government for something that we’ve already punished them for.”
Boudin called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) racist, snapping, “There are lots of situations in San Francisco where ICE is making arrests. We know it’s racist, we know it’s targeting immigrants, and unfortunately right now no one in the DA’s office has the resources or the mandate to investigate those interactions.”
Columnist <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/30/radical_spawn_chesa_boudin_nations_most_toxic_da_candidate_141616.html">Michelle Malkin</a> wrote of Boudin:
<blockquote>While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco&#8217;s feces-clogged street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize &#8220;universal legal representation&#8221; for illegal immigrants facing deportation. While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will &#8220;help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa.&#8221;</blockquote>
Bernard Goldberg, in his book “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&amp;pg=PA75&amp;lpg=PA75&amp;dq=sad+that+my+parents+have+to+suffer+what+they+have+to+suffer+on+a+daily+basis&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=zllexNHMqL&amp;sig=ACfU3U2AvUeY4SffPCTOPy8Eo9oHRi0J4Q&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi9296ItOLlAhUIPa0">Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite</a>,” quoted Chesa Boudin bemoaning his parents’ incarceration, complaining to The New York Times, “My parents were dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I’m dedicated to the same thing … I’m sad that that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis, that millions of other people have to suffer as well.”
Goldberg continued, “While we hear much about Chesa Boudin’s suffering and hardships, and about the suffering and hardships of the poor around the world, neither the Times nor our Ivy-League educated Rhodes scholar tells us anything about the suffering of other children much closer to home —the nine children left behind by the policemen and the guard who were murdered, in cold blood, with the help of Chesa Boudin’s parents. On this the Times and young Mr Boudin are silent. They say not a word.”

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SHOCKER: San Francisco Elects Radical D.A. Whose Parents Were American Terrorists

Socialist Bernie Sanders just endorsed the bleeding-heart candidate for San Francisco District Attorney who makes President Obama&#8217;s Attorney General, Eric Holder, look like Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Meet Chesa Boudin. He&#8217;s the Bay Area public defender and former shill/translator for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez who plans to turn the craphole of San Francisco into an even bigger sanctuary for the homeless, drug abusers, illegal immigrants, gangsters, vandals, thieves, recidivist criminals and cop-haters than it is already. Boudin leads a spooky field of left-lefter-leftists running for DA on the Nov. 5 ballot.
The cornerstone of Boudin&#8217;s campaign is sabotaging immigration enforcement. He has called for prosecution and imprisonment of ICE and police officers for doing their jobs and vowed to create an &#8220;immigrant defense unit&#8221; within the DA&#8217;s office to &#8220;stand up to Trump on immigration.&#8221;
While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco&#8217;s feces-clogged street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize &#8220;universal legal representation&#8221; for illegal immigrants facing deportation.
While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will &#8220;help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa.&#8221;
Boudin&#8217;s campaign tagline claims he wants to build a criminal justice system &#8220;for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.&#8221; The chutzpah. It burns.
Well-connected? Boudin has been endorsed by a who&#8217;s who of far-left celebrities, from Sanders to Hamas-linked &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; co-founder Linda Sarsour to Black Lives Matter hate crime hoax propagandist Shaun King to radical Chicago DA and Jussie Smollett fixer Kim Foxx to Black Panther Party commie revolutionary Angela Davis.
Wealthy? Boudin is the top fundraiser in the San Francisco DA&#8217;s race, raking in more than $623,000 in donations this year — a significant chunk from out-of-state academics, entertainment industry executives, and East Coast lawyers in New York and D.C. I discovered from Boudin&#8217;s most recent campaign finance disclosures that one of his top donors is Chloe Cockburn. She is a prominent partner of globalist billionaire George Soros&#8217; Democracy Alliance. Cockburn moderated a crucial 2017 summit with Soros and other deep-pocketed liberal philanthropists to strategize on taking over local and state offices to reclaim &#8220;our progressive future.&#8221; Other bigwig Boudin donors hail from the Soros-allied Tides Foundation and Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice.
What makes Boudin especially toxic is his family tree. Boudin is the militant offspring of spoiled-rich radicals Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of the violent Weather Underground terrorist group, which bombed government buildings and corporate headquarters, aided convicted felons in jailbreaks and participated in a 1981 Brink&#8217;s armored car holdup in Nyack, New York, with the Black Liberation Army. That crime took the lives of three innocent Americans — police officers Edward O&#8217;Grady and Waverly Brown and private security guard Peter Paige.
Kathy Boudin was an 11-year fugitive from justice after an accidental homemade bomb explosion at her New York City townhouse resulted in three other deaths. At the time of her arrest in Nyack, Boudin gave police one of many false identities she had used to evade the law. She was paroled in 2003 after convincing parole board members that she acted nobly out of &#8220;white guilt&#8221; to protest racism against blacks. (Reality check: Officer Waverly Brown was a black, working-class military veteran.) Gilbert remains in prison. Their story was glorified and romanticized by Robert Redford in the 2013 movie, &#8220;The Company You Keep.&#8221;
After Kathy Boudin dropped off toddler Chesa at a babysitter&#8217;s house so she could help perpetrate the bloody $1.6 million Brink&#8217;s heist, this privileged elitist was adopted by another pair of America-hating domestic agitators, unrepentant Weathermen colleagues Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers celebrated bombing the Pentagon in his radical memoir, &#8220;Fugitive Days,&#8221; taught at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and mentored Barack Obama. Dohrn declared war on &#8220;AmeriKKKa,&#8221; helped stage the &#8220;Days of Rage&#8221; in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from justice before settling into a comfy post as former director of the Legal Clinic&#8217;s Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
Steeped in Marxist ideology and self-pity, Boudin moaned to The New York Times that he was &#8220;sad that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis&#8221; because they were &#8220;dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world.&#8221; No compassion for the families of the officers his parents helped murder, but the Yale grad and Rhodes Scholar did earn praise for his crusades against &#8220;urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala.&#8221;
Now Boudin wants to avenge his cop-killing parents by imposing &#8220;restorative justice&#8221; and &#8220;decarceration&#8221; policies that will incentivize violent crime and endanger lives in San Francisco and beyond. If you think California is on fire now, just wait until this red diaper baby takes control of the prosecutorial wheel.
Michelle Malkin &#8216;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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MALKIN: Radical Spawn Chesa Boudin: Nation’s Most Toxic DA Candidate

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President Trump on Saturday took aim at House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the dismal state of her home district, San Francisco.
Trump said the California Democrat ought to spend less time trying to impeach him, and more time fixing the city.
&#8220;I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is impeachment,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!&#8221;
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I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars &#8211; and all she works on is Impeachment&#8230;..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054936942198784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054937839775744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump has hammered lawmakers from various parts of the country over the ghastly state of their major cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, and Baltimore.
In July, Trump ripped former Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who represented Baltimore before passing away this month.
&#8220;Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA&#8230;&#8230;
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073964634517505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;&#8230;Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately! &#8230; As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place,&#8221; Trump wrote.
During an interview with Fox News from Osaka, Japan, Trump said some U.S. cities run by Democrats are in bad shape.
“You can’t have what’s happening – where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,” he said in July. “I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick – where the people living there are living in hell, too. Although some of them have mental problems, where they don’t even know they’re living that way. In fact perhaps they like living that way. &#8230; And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings, and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
Trump also talked about Pelosi&#8217;s city. “I own property in San Francisco &#8230; it was so beautiful,” he said. “And now areas that you used to think as being, you know, really something very special, you take a look at what’s going on with San Francisco, it’s terrible. So we’re looking at it very seriously,” he said, adding that his administration might “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up.”
San Francisco is literally overflowing with poo. “Since 2008, over 23,800 cases of human waste were reported in the heart of San Francisco. There were 13 reports of human feces in front of City Hall; 17 events at the U.S. Marshals office; and 67 reports at the Tenderloin police station on Eddy Street,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/mapping-san-franciscos-human-waste-challenge-132562-case-reports-since-2008/#365c0b8b5ea5">Forbes</a> reported.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Mayor-Theres-more-feces-on-the-sidewalks-than-Ive-ever-seen-488156431.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News</a> last year. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs – we’re talking about from humans.”

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Trump Blasts Pelosi For Letting San Francisco ‘Rot Away’ While She Pursues Impeachment

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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) slammed the city of San Francisco on Friday for blacklisting nearly two dozen states over pro-life legislation that those states have enacted.
&#8220;Progressive cancel culture is dumb,&#8221; Sasse said in a <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/10/sasse-statement-on-san-francisco-s-nebraska-ban">press release</a>. &#8220;Most Nebraskans, like a whole bunch of Californians, are pro-life and want to reflect our pro-science, pro-woman, pro-baby beliefs with common-sense laws. Folks in San Francisco are free to disagree, but it&#8217;s childish to try to shut down a big cultural debate.&#8221;
&#8220;Pro-lifers aren&#8217;t out to silence the other side – we believe in persuasion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;San Francisco progressives can throw a tantrum – Nebraskans will continue to act like grownups.&#8221;
Sasse&#8217;s remarks were in reference to an announcement by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Vallie Brown, who authored <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3975467&amp;GUID=43DE4694-F5B2-4D0E-8AED-9D97BB52F794">the ordinance</a>, which not only restricts travel to the U.S. states that prohibit abortion prior to the viability of a fetus, but also declares the city&#8217;s decision to refrain from entering into any new contracts with companies that are headquartered in any of the blacklisted states, reported <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-16/san-francisco-blacklists-22-states-for-restrictive-abortion-laws">The Los Angeles Times</a>. Accordingly, nearly half the states in America are included on the blacklist.
&#8220;Every day in this country, women&#8217;s reproductive rights are threatened, and we have to fight back. Just as we restricted spending with states that have laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people, we are standing up against states that put women&#8217;s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms,&#8221; Breed said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;By limiting travel and contracting with certain states, we are sending a clear message to states that disregard the right to abortion.&#8221;
The aforementioned states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. However, California has already blacklisted nine of those same states over their LGBTQ stance, according to The Times.
All of these 22 states have prohibited abortions after at least 24 weeks. Five of them have proposed or enacted legislation to ban abortion based on the presence of a heartbeat, which occurs at approximately six weeks.
&#8220;Although tax revenue from San Francisco alone may not be sufficient to encourage states to rethink their laws, if other cities and states follow San Francisco&#8217;s lead, the financial pressure might be enough to prompt policy changes,&#8221; Breed&#8217;s office continued in a statement.
Sasse has been a staunch defender of the sanctity of life. In February, the Nebraska senator introduced legislation that, if enacted, would require medical care and legal protections to infants who survived attempted abortions. Sasse&#8217;s bill failed largely along party lines, with only three Democrats – Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Doug Jones (D-AL) – <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00027">voting for</a> the anti-infanticide legislation.
&#8220;The Democrats are also out of step with our fundamental American conviction that all men are created equal – all men and women and babies,&#8221; Sasse said while on the Senate floor in June. &#8220;Instead, they are increasingly committed to the proposition that some people are less than human, and are therefore disposable.&#8221;

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‘Progressive Cancel Culture Is Dumb’: Ben Sasse Goes Off On San Francisco’s Travel Ban

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Nebraska

A group of residents in San Francisco have come up with a novel solution to inhibit homeless people from camping on their residential street: placing roughly 25 boulders on the sidewalk.
Clinton Park in the city&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/environment/cities">Mission Dolores neighborhood</a> has been plagued by homeless people; one resident told <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/homeless/boulders-placed-on-san-francisco-sidewalk-to-keep-homeless-residents-away">KTVU</a>, &#8220;They&#8217;ll shoot up and stay overnight. A bunch of my neighbors, we all chipped in a few hundred dollars and I guess this is what they came up with.&#8221; Another resident added, &#8220;Since the rocks, it has helped,&#8221; neighbor Ernesto Jerez told KTVU. &#8220;It&#8217;s something. We&#8217;ve got to do something. I feel like there is nothing being done.&#8221;
Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homelessness, argued to KTVU, &#8220;There&#8217;s actually a name for it. It&#8217;s called anti-homeless architecture.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeless-crisis-san-francisco-neighborhood-boulder-sidewalk">Fox News</a> noted, “Similar landscaping measures have been implemented in other parts of the city. The California Department of Transportation has put rocks in an open space off Bayshore Boulevard to deter encampments, while the Eureka Valley-Harvey Milk Branch of the San Francisco Public Library – in the same neighborhood – has made design choices that are perceived as anti-homeless, according to KTVU.”
On Wednesday, radio host Mike Slater <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/mike-slater-san-francisco-homeless-crisis-boulders">told </a>Fox &amp; Friends:
<blockquote>We’ve got people taking matters into their own hands is what we have because the governments of California refuse to do anything about this problem. They refused to do anything for decades, and the things that they are doing just make it worse; they make it worse for everyone: business owners, for families, and for homeless people. And so this is the one point, if I may, that I want to get across, especially to our progressive friends: It is not compassionate to let people sleep on the street, it is not compassionate for people who are mentally ill or addicted to spiral darker into their addiction and illness on the street. Critics of this say that it is inhumane to put these boulders out on the street; I say it’s inhumane to let people sleep on the street. We can’t allow this anymore; people need help, and people are taking last resorts; they’re doing anything they can because the government’s not doing anything.</blockquote>
Slater noted: “The government does this too; the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals building in San Francisco has metal spikes and metal bars over flat surfaces. Oakland’s city hall has spikes; this isn’t like an evil citizen thing to do. And these are good people who are doing this; these aren’t &#8216;evil conservatives&#8217; in San Francisco who are setting these boulders up.”
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-will-spend-more-70-million-year-just-emily-zanotti">reported</a> last May:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Cleaning-up-SF-s-Tenderloin-costs-a-lot-of-13808447.php?psid=2g32E">The San Francisco Chronicle reports</a> that the city has spent more than $70 million cleaning feces and drug paraphernalia from streets and sidewalks this fiscal year, but it&#8217;s nowhere near what is needed to make San Francisco&#8217;s streets safe for pedestrians. The city says crews are operating constantly, trying to get the &#8220;poop problem&#8221; that plagues San Francisco&#8217;s streets under control, but even as the city finds new and innovative ways for residents to report and avoid piles of feces on public sidewalks, the poop problem, they say, keeps growing.</blockquote>

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San Francisco Residents Discover Heavy Solution For Homeless Problem

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On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about President Trump’s recent California fundraisers and how Trump is using Hollywood leftists for his strategic advantage. Video and partial transcript below: 
President Trump got a great deal on his two- or three-day swing through California. He was just in Beverly Hills, and I think the total he&#8217;s taking out of that state is 15 million bucks. The big takeaway here for the Left, for the chattering class, is that 15 million bucks didn&#8217;t come from nowhere. We talk about California as though it&#8217;s just monolithic, completely leftist, there isn&#8217;t a conservative anywhere. I mean, I make jokes about it, too. But there are [conservatives there].
I mean, we used to have a group out in Los Angeles called “Friends of Abe,” and &#8220;Friends of Abe&#8221; was friends of Abraham Lincoln. It was all the secret conservatives in Hollywood. There were a lot of us. The Obama administration tried to get a list of our members. Everyone wanted to know who they were, because if you asked anybody in the industry they&#8217;d say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know any conservatives out here, I don&#8217;t need any conservatives in Hollywood.&#8221; And yet there were a lot. They just were afraid of speaking up because the Left is so vindictive in California.
I suppose this is what we mean by the phrase, &#8220;the silent majority.&#8221; Republicans — conservatives have been relying on that silent majority since Nixon, since Reagan, and all the way up through Trump. There are different names for them: The forgotten Americans, the great men and women of the middle of the country. Whatever, they&#8217;re out there. They&#8217;re even in California. I think what Trump is seeing here is [that] he doesn&#8217;t need to win California for California to help him win in 2020. You know it&#8217;s true.
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Hillary Clinton won California in a landslide. Trump got four and a half million votes there, four and a half million people voted for President Trump in 2016. That was the harder election to vote for Trump, because we didn&#8217;t know what he was going to do. We didn&#8217;t know how he was going to behave. He&#8217;s exceeded pretty much everybody&#8217;s expectations. We were told the economy was going to collapse, we were told we&#8217;re going to go to World War III, we were told all the terrible things would happen if Trump got elected. Instead, pretty much everything has improved. The economy&#8217;s great, we have record-low unemployment, relative peace abroad, re-negotiated trade deals. Things are looking pretty good.
How many votes is he going to get in 2020 [in California]? Enough to win? Almost certainly not, but it could galvanize some support for him. Four and a half million votes in 2016. He also raised $333 million in California in 2016. That&#8217;s a lot of money. What this tells you is there are Trump supporters in California. I probably know most of them personally, but there are [some], there actually are.
This isn&#8217;t even a Left/Right thing. Trump made a central pillar, of his fundraising swing through California, how the cities are deteriorating — Los Angeles and San Francisco. I live in L.A., [and it&#8217;s] falling apart. Homelessness is up 16% in just one year in L.A. San Francisco is falling apart, there are drugs all over the street, they&#8217;re decriminalizing the homeless behaviors there as well. There&#8217;s public defecation on the streets in San Francisco.
You don&#8217;t need to be some rock-ribbed Reaganite Republican to say this isn&#8217;t good, maybe we don&#8217;t want this, maybe we want the state to move in another direction. So I think Trump is very smart to bring this up — to talk about this. He was talking about L.A. homelessness; obviously the president of the United States is probably not going to fix a municipal problem like L.A. homelessness, but it&#8217;s a symbol for the rot that comes as a result of these leftist policies.
More importantly even than that, &#8230; the reason why Trump probably should swing back through Hollywood next time he gets a chance is just for the rest of the country. He gets to use Hollywood as a foil for him and for his policies. That liberal, vindictive Hollywood can be the foil. It&#8217;s like the anti-Trump. I mean, we saw just a few weeks ago the stars of &#8220;Will and Grace,&#8221; Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, who Trump then nicknamed Deborah &#8220;The Mess&#8221; Messing in his very Trumpian way. They came out and they called for the public naming of any Trump supporters in Hollywood.
We&#8217;re talking about McCarthyite blacklists. I even hesitate to use the term McCarthyite to describe what they were doing, because at least Joe McCarthy was going after communists, at least Joe McCarthy was going after enemies of America. Those two, Will and Grace, were going after people who support the president and saying — they said explicitly — we want you to name their names so we know who not to work with. We want you to name their names so we know who to blacklist, to ruin their reputations, ruin their careers, take away their livelihood. That is a bad look.
I mean, there was even some pushback from liberal Hollywood about that, and Trump gets to come out there and &#8230; trigger them [and] whip them up into [a] frenzy, and then show the rest of the country. So you have genuinely a choice, not an echo. You know Hollywood has widespread reach. They are exporters of culture, and so Will and Grace going out and calling for a blacklist, maybe it won&#8217;t change votes in California — it&#8217;s almost certainly not going to flip California to become some Republican state — but, that sort of vindictive leftism is not going to play in Peoria &#8230;
Every election is about a choice, if [you] have to choose between Trump who&#8217;s given us a pretty good economy — you know he&#8217;s got some mean tweets, but whatever, they&#8217;re pretty funny — and relative peace, and he actually seems pretty normal and [you] get to choose between that or these lunatics out there in Hollywood, who [are you] going to pick? Obviously, you&#8217;re going to pick President Trump.
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KNOWLES: How Trump Will Use California To Win In 2020

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Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday evening as he flew back to the White House from California, President Trump, disturbed at the environmental degradation of San Francisco, warned that the Environmental Protection Agency will be “putting out a notice” of violations in San Francisco.
Trump stated, &#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible situation that&#8217;s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And we&#8217;re going to be giving San Francisco — they&#8217;re in total violation — we&#8217;re going to be giving them a notice very soon,&#8221; adding, &#8220;They have to clean it up. We can&#8217;t have our cities going to hell,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7480161/Trump-warns-hell-punish-San-Francisco-EPA-violations-homeless-population-waste.html">The Daily Mail</a>, which noted, &#8220;… tens of thousands of hypodermic needles are collected every month from the streets of San Francisco. In August 2018 alone the city&#8217;s Public Health Department&#8217;s needle recovery program retrieved 164,264 needles through a disposal program and street cleanups.&#8221;
Speaking to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/us/politics/trump-san-francisco-homeless.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">The New York Times</a> Wednesday evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed fired back, &#8220;To be clear, San Francisco has a combined sewer system, one of the best and most effective in the country, that ensures that all debris that flow into storm drains are filtered out at the city’s wastewater treatment plants. No debris flow out into the bay or the ocean.&#8221; She sniped, &#8220;In San Francisco we are focused on advancing solutions to meet the challenges on our streets, not throwing off ridiculous assertions as we board an airplane to leave the state.&#8221;
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) chimed in that Trump was &#8220;right that homelessness is a big problem in California. But how he explains the situation is wrong and raises significant concerns that his so-called solutions will only make matters worse.&#8221;
But House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) countered, &#8220;When he’s talking about homelessness and solving that problem, and affordability, that goes across party lines. Drive around — every community, even in Bakersfield — homelessness is the No. 1 issue.&#8221;
On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted, &#8220;The Trump Administration is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions in order to produce far less expensive cars for the consumer, while at the same time making the cars substantially SAFER. This will lead to more production because of this pricing and safety advantage, and also due to the fact that older, highly polluting cars, will be replaced by new, extremely environmentally friendly cars.&#8221;
Prior to that, on Tuesday Trump tweeted, &#8220;We have people living in our … best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings &#8230; where people in those buildings pay tremendous taxes, where they went to those locations because of the prestige. In many cases, they came from other countries and they moved to Los Angeles or they moved to San Francisco because of the prestige of the city, and all of a sudden they have tents. Hundreds and hundreds of tents and people living at the entrance to their office building. And they want to leave. And the people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-map-shows-human-poop-complaints">Fox News</a> reported last April, &#8220;A <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/map/?Map=32504&amp;MapType=Pin&amp;Zip=94103">new map</a> pinpointing the locations where human feces are reported to have been found in the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california">California</a> city since 2011 shows San Francisco has a staggering problem with the stinky stuff. Nearly every city block has had a poop sighting in recent years as the city grapples with homelessness, according to data compiled by Open The Books.&#8221;
In May, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Cleaning-up-SF-s-Tenderloin-costs-a-lot-of-13808447.php?psid=2g32E">The San Francisco Chronicle reported</a> that the city had spent more than $70 million cleaning feces and drug paraphernalia from streets and sidewalks this fiscal year, but it didn&#8217;t suffice to make San Francisco&#8217;s streets safe for pedestrians.

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Trump Targets San Francisco: EPA Will Be ‘Putting Out A Notice Of Violations’

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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51366/cliff-san-francisco-board-supervisors-names-nra-hank-berrien">reported</a> yesterday, the comically leftist Board of Supervisors for the city of San Francisco took it upon itself to deem the nation&#8217;s oldest continually operating civil rights organization a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221; That organization, of course, would be the <a href="https://home.nra.org">National Rifle Association</a> (NRA) — a group originally founded in 1871, following the nadir of the Civil War, to help promote rifle marksmanship. At the time the NRA was founded during Reconstruction, white supremacists in the South were still engaged in a systemic and conscientious effort to deprive blacks of their Second Amendment rights — rights which had only recently been secured for free blacks via the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 and overruled the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857. As then-Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in <a href="http://keepandbeararms.com/silveira/enbanc.asp">a 2003 dissent</a> from a denial to rehear a case en banc:
<blockquote>Disarmament was the tool of choice for subjugating both slaves and free blacks in the South. In Florida, patrols searched blacks’ homes for weapons, confiscated those found and punished their owners without judicial process. See Robert J. Cottrol &amp; Raymond T. Diamond, The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, 80 Geo. L.J. 309, 338 (1991). In the North, by contrast, blacks exercised their right to bear arms to defend against racial mob violence. Id. at 341-42.</blockquote>
Put another way, at the time the NRA was founded, its mission to promote rifle marksmanship was inextricably linked with its activism in helping promote the inalienable right to self-defense for the nation&#8217;s most vulnerable population — a population unconscionably subjected en masse to chattel slavery during the first seven-plus decades of the American republic, and whose abolition had just torn a beleaguered nation asunder and resulted in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51234/hammer-washington-post-contributor-compares-pleas-josh-hammer">deaths of over 600,000</a>.
Indeed, to this day, the NRA, in addition to its much-ballyhooed pro-Second Amendment lobbying presence in the nation&#8217;s capital and in state capitals across the country, <a href="https://firearmtraining.nra.org">helps train</a> and <a href="https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org">educate the public</a> in terms of gun safety, competency, and ownership responsibility. Anyone who has ever visited a firing range has likely seen advertised the presence of a &#8220;<a href="https://www.nrainstructors.org">NRA-certified instructor</a>.&#8221; In terms of national firearms training certifications, there is likely no more universally recognized or prestigious honor. The NRA remains the gold standard certifier for the noble business of assisting Americans in the exercise of one of their cherished, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment">textually enumerated</a> constitutional rights.
Alas, the radical Jacobins on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors do not care about any of these niceties. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien reported, the Board&#8217;s farcical resolution concludes: &#8220;RESOLVED, That the City and County of San Francisco intends to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to assess the financial and contractual relationships our vendors and contractors have with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should encourage all other jurisdictions, including other cities, states, and the federal government, to adopt similar positions.&#8221;
It is nearly impossible to describe how reckless this stunt is. Planned Parenthood, the nation&#8217;s largest abortion mill, is systemically engaged all across the country in the shameless promotion and enactment of taxpayer-funded prenatal infanticide. If anything, that <a href="https://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/">eugenicist</a>-inspired genocidal organizational history might theoretically lead a conservative city, such as Oklahoma City or Wichita, to declare in a resolution that Planned Parenthood is a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221; But the careful reader will note that, to date, that has never happened. And it is shameful for the woke white liberal denizens of San Francisco to disingenuously defame a decorated, longstanding civil rights group — one founded in the aftermath of the Civil War to, in part, secure the newly enshrined constitutional rights of black freedmen — with such a label.
Our collective rhetoric comprising the national discourse is dangerously overheated in this country. As I <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/50303/hammer-our-national-discourse-dangerously-josh-hammer">lamented</a> last month, &#8220;Our markedly polarized polity — divided like never before between the monolithically anti-Trump bi-coastal clerisy and the deigned rubes and yokels of the American heartland — feels like it is at a breaking point.&#8221; Via such a disdainful, divisive, and utterly dishonest resolution, the uppity white leftists of San Francisco — the very embodiment of that &#8220;bi-coastal clerisy&#8221; that looks scornfully upon the gun-owning &#8220;yokels of the American heartland&#8221; — have done their small part to only further tear apart our nation&#8217;s social fabric. We conservatives, who are <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17662/stop-alinskyization-american-right-josh-hammer">less cynical and morally superior to our leftist brethren</a>, have a general responsibility to refrain from engaging in such unscrupulous tit-for-tat crossfire. At the same time, conservatives can only be expected to unilaterally disarm so much. With each grievous blow leftists deal to our polity&#8217;s sense of unity and camaraderie, the closer we inch toward a <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/06/igniting-civil-war/">dark outcome that all parties should surely wish to avoid</a>.
At a bare minimum, in the year 2019, is it too much to ask that everyone refrain from labeling as &#8220;domestic terrorist organizations&#8221; those groups founded to secure for a free citizenry one of their constitutionally enumerated rights?

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HAMMER: San Francisco Has Beclowned Itself By Labeling The NRA A ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization’

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Recently, a prominent restauranteur in San Francisco <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51100/prominent-san-fran-restaurant-owner-bernie-was-paul-bois">accused</a> socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of being a rude old crank. On Tuesday, that characterization appeared to show itself when he told a crying baby to &#8220;keep it down&#8221; while he spoke at a New Hampshire town hall event.
&#8220;A squealing baby tested Bernie Sanders&#8217; cool during a town hall event on Tuesday in New Hampshire,&#8221; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-climate-change-abortion-birth-control-julian-castro-aoc-family-cycle">reports</a> Fox News. &#8220;The Democratic presidential candidate was about to answer a health care question from an audience member when the little one broke out into a shrill cry.&#8221;
At first, Sanders proceeded to answer the question from the audience member until the squealing cries became too much to bear.
&#8220;Thank you very much, because it’s not easy getting up in front of a TV camera to talk about this. Did I hear you correctly say you have to cut your pills in half?&#8221; Sanders asked the audience member before turning his head towards the crying baby. &#8220;If we could keep that down a little bit? OK. Thanks.&#8221;
Trump campaign officials shared the video on Wednesday and trolled his campaign. &#8220;Sanders not feeling the Bern for kids in the audience yesterday,&#8221; tweeted campaign official Zach Parkinson.
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During the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump had a similar moment when an audience member&#8217;s baby began to cry. Trump used it to humorous effect, although the media tried to paint him as being insensitive — claiming he literally kicked a baby out of a campaign rally. Even left-leaning Snopes had to <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-crying-baby/">rate this claim</a> &#8220;False&#8221; at the time:
<blockquote>Trump, however, didn’t actually kick the squalling child out of his rally.
Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/08/02/no-donald-trump-did-not-eject-a-baby.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> that he was sitting near the baby during the rally, and that while Trump really did make the comments captured in the above-displayed video, the incident was mischaracterized and Trump never actually ordered the tot be removed from the room.
According to Dale, Trump said “Don’t worry about that baby” when the infant first started crying, and when the child cried again, the mother quickly left the room to avoid interrupting the candidate. Trump noticed the woman leaving and called after her, “You can get the baby out of here.” But the woman and the child both returned to their seats later in the rally.</blockquote>
Bernie&#8217;s apparent &#8220;baby gaffe&#8221; comes shortly after San Francisco restaurateur John Konstin described Bernie as being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51100/prominent-san-fran-restaurant-owner-bernie-was-paul-bois">both rude and cranky</a> when visiting his establishment, John&#8217;s Grill, during a campaign stop.
&#8220;Dems in town for DNC packed in John&#8217;s Grill, the 111-year old bistro that&#8217;s become a go-to for pols in San Francisco,&#8221; reported POLITICO at the time. &#8220;Owner John Konstin tells POLITICO he hosted a full house, including a big party with Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, all led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was &#8216;pure class.'&#8221;
While the others were indeed &#8220;pure class,&#8221; Sanders, as it seems, was pure crank by refusing to shake hands and being fairly rude to the staff.
&#8220;It was all very nice, except for cranky Bernie,&#8221; Konstin told Politico. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t want to shake hands, he didn&#8217;t want a picture. He wasn&#8217;t nice to any of the staff.&#8221;

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WATCH: Bernie Tells Crying Baby To ‘Keep That Down A Little Bit’

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, eager to join far-leftists around the country who harbor a virulent hatred for the National Rifle Association, passed a resolution that calls the National Rifle Association a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221; Not satisfied with that, the board also called on the federal government to name the NRA a terrorist organization, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-board-brands-nra-a-domestic-terrorist-organization">Fox News</a> reports.
The <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&amp;amp;ID=7568748&amp;amp;GUID=DF64490F-D8BC-4BF7-A43D-287F02BECCCA">resolution</a> starts by citing the Declaration of Independence&#8217;s statement that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable rights before seguing to the Constitution stating that the United States was founded to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and promote the general welfare.
The resolution turns to the Department of Justice defining terrorist activity as &#8220;The use of any &#8230; explosive, firearm, or other weapon or dangerous device, with intent to endanger, directly or indirectly, the safety of one or more individuals or to cause substantial damage to property.&#8221; The resolution states that the DOJ &#8220;includes any individual or member of an organization commits an act that the actor knows, or reasonably should know, affords material support, including communications, funds, weapons, or training to any individual has committed or plans to commit a terrorist act.&#8221;
Then, the attack on the NRA: &#8220;The National Rifle Association musters its considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence, and the National Rifle Association spreads propaganda that misinforms and aims to deceive the public about the dangers of gun violence, and the leadership of National Rifle Association promotes extremist positions, in defiance of the views of a majority of its membership and the public, and undermine the general welfare, and the National Rifle Association through its advocacy has armed those individuals who would and have committed acts of terrorism.&#8221;
The resolution opines, &#8220;All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association&#8217;s influence.&#8221;
Then, the critical statement:
<blockquote>RESOLVED, That the City and County of San Francisco intends to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to assess the financial and contractual relationships our vendors and contractors have with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should encourage all other jurisdictions, including other cities, states, and the federal government, to adopt similar positions.</blockquote>
According to <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-designates-nra-domestic-terrorist-organization">KTVU</a>, the NRA fired back with a statement: &#8220;This ludicrous stunt by the Board of Supervisors is an effort to distract from the real problems facing San Francisco, such as rampant homelessness, drug abuse and skyrocketing petty crime, to name a few. The NRA will continue working to protect the constitutional rights of all freedom-loving Americans.&#8221;

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OFF THE CLIFF: San Francisco Board Of Supervisors Names NRA A Terrorist Organization

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Amid the city&#8217;s interconnected and rapidlly escalating crime and homelessness crises, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has determined that one of the ways it can help inspire the city&#8217;s expanding criminal population to good behavior is to simply play some games with language.
In a non-binding resolution passed last month and which has gained the support of the district attorney, the city presents the grim statistic that now one-fifth, one out of every five, residents of the city has a criminal record. In response to this alarming criminal reality, the board has introduced its new &#8220;person first&#8221; terminology, in which old terms the city fears might encourage &#8220;negative predispositions&#8221; and &#8220;unfounded assumptions&#8221; have been swapped out for more positive and &#8220;stigma&#8221;-free language.
In the resolution, the city spells out its new terms for the old,&#8221;attitudinal barrier&#8221;-creating phrases: A &#8220;convicted felon&#8221; or &#8220;convict&#8221; or &#8220;felon&#8221; that has been released from jail should now be called a &#8220;formerly incarcerated person,&#8221; or a &#8220;justice-involved&#8221; person, or even a &#8220;returning resident,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/SF-Board-of-Supervisors-sanitizes-language-of-14292255.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports.
Rather than acknowledge that someone is &#8220;on parole,&#8221; the city will now describe that person as simply &#8220;under supervision.&#8221; ​People who were once called &#8220;substance abusers&#8221; or &#8220;drug addicts&#8221; are now to be called people &#8220;with a history of substance use.&#8221;
And a &#8220;juvenile delinquent&#8221; is now to be referred to as either a &#8220;young person with justice system involvement&#8221; or a &#8220;young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.&#8221;
The resolution insists that the old terms &#8220;only serve to obstruct and separate people from society and make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal.&#8221;
While one might note that the language fails to specify what the person is &#8220;returning&#8221; from, leaves out exactly how the person is &#8220;involved&#8221; in &#8220;justice,&#8221; employs a child-like phrase for parolees, and makes a young criminal sound like a victim of the system, the progressive city&#8217;s board of supervisors feels that the new terms will help prevent the spreading of &#8220;inaccurate information.&#8221;
&#8220;Inaccurate information, unfounded assumptions, generalizations and other negative predispositions associated with justice-involved individuals create societal stigmas, attitudinal barriers and continued negative stereotypes,&#8221; the resolution states. The old terms, said one of the members who voted for the resolution, serve as a &#8220;scarlet letter&#8221; and thus prevent peole from becoming &#8220;contributing citizens.&#8221;
The resolution has been met with widespread blowback, including from the Chronicle, which provides this mocking response:
<blockquote>The language resolution makes no mention of terms for victims of crime, but using the new terminology someone whose car has been broken into could well be: “A person who has come in contact with a returning resident who was involved with the justice system and who is currently under supervision with a history of substance use.”
In other words, someone whose car was broken into by a recently released offender, on parole with a drug problem.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51054/knowles-san-francisco-just-solved-all-its-problems-daily-wire">Michael Knowles</a> had a similar reaction on his podcast Friday. In reference to the new politically correct term &#8220;justice-involved&#8221; individuals, Knowles said:
<blockquote>This is my favorite PC jargon of all because it is actually the opposite of the truth. Criminals are not justice-involved persons. Criminals, by definition, are injustice-involved persons. They are committing injustices, not justices. It would be like San Francisco referring to their their epidemic of drug and feces infested streets as &#8220;sanitation-involved sidewalks.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense. But this is what PC does. You know, instead of solving the problem instead of grappling with reality, these politicians in San Francisco think that they can just change the name because it&#8217;s a lot easier.</blockquote>
The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/blog/san-francisco-crime/">Washington Free Beacon</a> also underscored the problematic nature of the PC resolution in part by noting the city&#8217;s apparent trouble with prioritizing issues:
<blockquote>San Francisco is a city in decline. The cartoonish wealth of Silicon Valley surrounds an urban landscape beset by rampant homelessness and the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Francisco-ranks-No-1-in-13267113.php">highest property-crime rate in the country</a>. Also, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/bf7275bba3dd425ca79dc4f1af47202a">poop</a>.
Local officials are doing everything in their power to confront the city&#8217;s challenges, for example, by targeting a &#8220;racist&#8221; <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/racist-george-washington/">mural of George Washington</a> at a high school bearing the founding father&#8217;s name. They are intent on doing something about all the crime as well, just not in the traditional way that most cities confront crime.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50785/update-after-viral-video-violent-attack-san-fran-james-barrett">UPDATE: After Viral Video Of Violent Attack, San Fran Judge Issues New Order On Homeless Suspect</a>

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