Over at the SF Bay Guardian, they're acting like a dog with its favorite chew toy. It seems to me that ALL of the candidates have serious cred when it comes to D10. The fact that Mr Moss moved back after a couple of years' absence, even if it was to run for office, is not an issue. The work that he has done with the Potrero View and SF Power are D10-centric. He knows the district, or at least Potrero Hill, and feels he knows it well enough to to let voters decide if he should represent the district at City Hall.
As for other top candidates, Enea has been living in and volunteering on multiple BVHP redevelopment CAC's and PAC's since she bought her house in India Basin in 2005, so don't go calling her a carpetbagger. Smith moved in a little more than a year ago, but his wife's family has deep roots and he's done some worthwhile things in D10 in the past few years, both of which gives him cred in this regard. Jackson's grandparents lived a long time in the Bayview, and although it's unclear when he moved back, he's only 27, so the fact that he decided to move to the Bayview tells me it means a lot to him to be here. Cohen's family goes back four generations in the Bayview, and it seems she only moved away to attend school, while Sweet grew up in the Bayview as well, so both their D10 ties are tight. Kelly has lived in San Francisco since the late 80's and has deep, self-made roots in D10. Lacy grew up in San Jose and moved to SF to attend school in '95. Duqué and Tran have lived and volunteered in Vis Valley for over twenty years each.
As far as I can tell, all of the candidates have some, if not a lot, of cred when it comes to D10 ties. This whole non-issue needs to be put to rest, and the SFBG needs to stop with the 'endorsement interviews' and just tell us whom they're backing, cuz they've obviously made up their minds and it is sure as heck isn't Moss or any pragmatists. The SFBG reporters also need to get to the issues and stop distractions like this from wasting readers' time.
D10 is so fucked up about residency, that many mofos don't want anybody outside D10 to "infiltrate" or comment about the district or their beloved candidates.
ReplyDeleteMy response: "Hey asshole, D10 candidates are largely supported financially by outsiders, even out of county and state, perhaps even out-of-country or from a different goddamned planet."
If D10 only wants D10 people involved, change legislation to only garner funds from D10, or secede from San Francisco. And how will the D10 winner handle city-wide or non-D10-specific issues. Sweet and several other losers didn't have a clue at the VidSF forum what the Board has ever voted on.
My response: "Get a fuckin' clue or get out of the fuckin' race!"
And if you wanna get real technical, the Bay Guardian IS IN d10! Holy fuck, where do you doggs get off?
OK, let's try to keep it clean here, OK? Language like that in the above comment definitely belies a sense of anger, but come on! If we can't express ourselves without resorting to this kind of language, then we're not going to get anywhere.
ReplyDeleteSome would consider a negative (not to mention unfair) piece in the SFBG a good reason to vote FOR a candidate.
ReplyDeleteAgreed on flogging the dead horse. Waste of recycled paper.
ReplyDeleteFlog a dead horse.
ReplyDeleteHow can you honestly write that SFBG is flogging a dead horse.
Moss did not live in the district when he signed the forms, perjury. Not no deal, ed Jew proved that I believe.
He misappropriated millions in tax payer and non profit dollars that he paid to himself through his own consultancy company. This was clearly contrary to the stated mission that he wrote on all the 990's and actually illegal, check IRS site on inuring your own interests.
He ran a campaign and newspaper off the back of a non profit paid for in majority by the tax payer, again illegal. All public information.
He managed to convert a building into condo's and nobody at the city can explain how, except that the application "fell through the cracks" and made him $800K.
You have the audacity to call this flogging a dead horse.
How about getting Moss to answer what he has been doing, versus hiding behind expensive attorneys and handlers, again paid for by us the tax payer.