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"content": "\u003cp>While San Francisco’s mayoral race is likely the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive\u003c/a> in at least 20 years, money is also pouring into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco/races#supervisor-district-1\">Board of Supervisors elections\u003c/a> — especially where battles are brewing between progressive incumbents and candidates running to their right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the money is being raised and spent by moderate political action groups, which have grown in numbers and power over the last four years. This year, the wealthy tech investors and real estate interests \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/explore-big-money-san-francisco-growsf-togethersf-neighbors-larsen-moritz-tan-web/\">backing the groups\u003c/a> are angling to have an outsize say in some of the city’s tight races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this consequential election cycle, they’ve been pushing for a harsher crackdown on homelessness and the fentanyl crisis, more market-rate housing, public school reform and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most influential are Grow SF, which was founded by two tech workers and funded by Silicon Valley founders like Chris Larsen, Garry Tan and his Y Combinator high-ups; \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999003/billionaire-backed-moderate-political-group-hit-with-ethics-fine-for-2022-chesa-boudin-recall\">Neighbors for a Better San Francisco\u003c/a>, which has been backed by major Republican donor William Oberndorf and other wealthy Silicon Valley leaders as well as real estate interests like Kilroy Realty; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992466/san-francisco-sees-competing-proposals-to-reform-byzantine-city-commissions\">Together SF\u003c/a>, which is funded in large part by venture capitalist Michael Moritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their chief targets include \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dean-preston\">Supervisor Dean Preston\u003c/a>, who has become a lightning rod for the anti-progressive movement in San Francisco and is running for reelection in what has become the most expensive Board of Supervisors race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1853197073908424942\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the largest contributions in the District 5 election come from Larsen and Tan, along with Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston and current visiting partner Emmett Shear. Each has donated $50,000 to a Grow SF political action committee aimed at ousting Preston from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest in a string of efforts by big-money moderate groups to reshape San Francisco’s political landscape. The groups helped fund the recalls of progressive District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">three school board members\u003c/a> in 2022. In March, moderates took control of the city’s official Democratic Party, flipping the previously progressive Democratic County Central Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created a system in which whichever way the wealthiest Americans happen to feel about our politics, that side of things gets a gigantic megaphone to talk about their views,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of nonprofit good-government advocacy group California Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big money groups often fund TV ads and mailers, which can only be so effective, Mehta Stein said. However, in San Francisco, they have built coalitions of support to become extremely effective in the city’s recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big money in San Francisco has gotten very smart and is putting money into those sort of traditional forms of political advertising, but also is using their money to build civic organizations and a broader civic infrastructure,” he said. “When you pair that sort of people power funded by big money with campaign advertising funded by big money, I think it’s a very powerful and potent combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grow SF’s PAC, for example, has poured money into Preston’s opposition. The “Dump Dean” campaign has raised nearly $300,000. It created a website listing 31 reasons to oppose Preston and commissioned billboards around the district blasting his housing record — while they say he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992055/san-francisco-supervisor-defends-housing-record-calling-lawsuit-a-publicity-stunt\">blocks development\u003c/a>, he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997837/yimby-lawsuit-over-sf-supervisor-dean-prestons-housing-record-is-thrown-out\">staunchly defended\u003c/a> his pro-housing platform. Some of the billboards express support for Preston’s main challenger, Bilal Mahmood, a tech entrepreneur himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s and Mahmood’s campaigns have each raised around half a million dollars. Scotty Jacobs and Autumn Looijen — two other moderates in the race who have voiced strong opposition to Preston — have each raised almost $140,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big-money donors have been integral in funding Preston’s opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilary Shirazi, a Grow SF board member, gave $10,000 to the organization’s PAC to oust Preston. She and fellow board member Carolyn Chatham each donated $500 to Mahmood. Tech founder Zack Rosen, co-founder of another group, Abundant SF, and former Larsen colleague Asheesh Birla have also donated to Mahmood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network of funders is also involved in District 1, where another Grow SF PAC, colloquially called “Clear Out Connie Chan,” is spending to oust the progressive supervisor. It has raised about $82,000, while Chan and her main opponent, Marjan Philhour, have each raised between $400,000 and $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Grow SF backers are among Philhour’s donors. Jeremy Liew — who was a major contributor to Grow SF’s efforts to recall Boudin — has given to Philhour’s campaign, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and real estate developer Nick Podell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late in the lead-up to Election Day, one of the first and most endowed of the groups — Neighbors for a Better San Francisco — also jumped into a supervisors’ race, this one through a proxy committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group donated $75,000 this week to a committee opposed to closing the Upper Great Highway and backing District 7 candidate Matt Boschetto. Boschetto, who created the anti-Proposition K committee, is challenging incumbent Myrna Melgar, who represents West Portal, the Inner Sunset and much of the west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money donated to his committee opposing Proposition K can, in practice, be used to promote him if the money goes toward door-knocking, canvassing or putting out mailers and ads coupled with his stance that the highway should remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors for a Better San Francisco board member Steve Merrill has also donated $25,500 to support Boschetto — the maximum $500 to him directly and $25,000 more to a committee backing his run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the influx of money shifts San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors toward the center remains to be seen after polls close Tuesday. Six of the 11 seats on the board are up for grabs, along with the tight — and expensive — mayoral race and 15 propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whichever side that millionaires and billionaires happen to believe in at any given time, the American political system, as currently constructed, gives them a gigantic advantage if they’re smart about it,” Mehta Stein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In March, moderates took control of the city’s official Democratic Party, flipping the previously progressive Democratic County Central Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created a system in which whichever way the wealthiest Americans happen to feel about our politics, that side of things gets a gigantic megaphone to talk about their views,” said Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of nonprofit good-government advocacy group California Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big money groups often fund TV ads and mailers, which can only be so effective, Mehta Stein said. However, in San Francisco, they have built coalitions of support to become extremely effective in the city’s recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big money in San Francisco has gotten very smart and is putting money into those sort of traditional forms of political advertising, but also is using their money to build civic organizations and a broader civic infrastructure,” he said. “When you pair that sort of people power funded by big money with campaign advertising funded by big money, I think it’s a very powerful and potent combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grow SF’s PAC, for example, has poured money into Preston’s opposition. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Democratic Party endorsed Bilal Mahmood for District 5 supervisor on Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote for Mahmood, an elected member of the Democratic County Central Committee, occurred just hours after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997233/nancy-pelosi-endorses-democratic-socialist-dean-preston-for-san-francisco-d5-supervisor\">announced she was endorsing incumbent Dean Preston\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the district is represented by Preston, Mahmood or Autumn Looijen, another top candidate, might be determined by how voters feel about the Tenderloin, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982329/tenderloins-troubles-take-center-stage-in-city-elections\">San Francisco’s drug epidemic is on full display\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">deadliest on record\u003c/a> for overdose deaths in San Francisco when the city recorded 810. As of June, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/2024%2007_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">374 accidental overdose deaths\u003c/a> in 2024, according to data from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Almost a quarter — 21% — of overdoses have occurred in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2022’s redistricting, the Tenderloin was added to District 5, which now includes Japantown, Western Addition and Haight Ashbury. The overdose data and discontent over street conditions make Preston vulnerable in his reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders have tried to address the drug crisis. In December 2021, Mayor London Breed issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">state of emergency\u003c/a>, and in May 2023, her office launched the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center to streamline efforts by local law enforcement and other city departments to shut down open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.[aside postID=news_11997233 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67599_230802-CableCarAnniversary-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Mayoral candidates Daniel Lurie and Mark Farrell have promised to implement similar emergency plans if elected. Both target fentanyl, which accounted for around 80% of overdoses in 2023 and 71% this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, Mahmood and Looijen have also announced proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston has advocated for the city to adopt the “Four Pillars” strategy, an approach to combating addiction developed in Europe in the 1990s. At an April event, Mahmood said he would advocate for drug market intervention, a strategy developed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Looijen announced her “Fenta-NIL” plan in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Humphreys, who worked as a senior policy adviser in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Obama administration, weighed in on the candidates’ approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dean Preston\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preston, the only democratic socialist on the Board of Supervisors, has faced criticism over his handling of the fentanyl crisis since his district absorbed much of the Tenderloin. He has butted heads with moderate officials, including Breed, who believe increased policing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mahmood and Looijen have pointed to Preston’s apprehension to support arresting fentanyl dealers, adding that he dismissed the approach as pointless in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/fentanyl-dealers-san-francisco-17801754.php\">according\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston denied the assertion. He said that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.deanprestonsf.com/press-releases/preston-calls-4-pillars\">“Four Pillars” strategy\u003c/a> — prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement — includes policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our approach includes enforcement of laws against fentanyl dealing and targeting and disruption of the fentanyl supply,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy promotes collaboration between law enforcement, social service providers and public health officials as equal partners. The goal is to use police enforcement to maintain public order and lower barriers to treatment and harm reduction resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that idea of recognizing all four pillars as valuable. I don’t think we’ve had enough of that,” said Humphreys, who advises Congress on strategies for reducing drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Four Pillars were first implemented in Switzerland and resulted in a 50% decrease in overdose deaths in the country by 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/inside_switzerlands_radical_drug_policy_innovation\">according\u003c/a> to the Stanford Social Innovation Review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another priority for Preston is opening more safe injection and overdose prevention sites, like the defunct Tenderloin Center that was introduced as part of Breed’s 2021 state of emergency. Preston blames Breed for closing the center in December 2022 and increasing the policing of drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data released by SFPD, law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-breed-proposes-community-led-solution-increase-nighttime-safety-tenderloin-limiting\">arrested\u003c/a> 1,284 drug users and 1,008 drug dealers during the drug market coordination center’s first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve arrested almost 1,000 people for the ‘crime’ basically of being addicted to drugs instead of addressing it as a health crisis or a criminal law enforcement issue,” Preston told KQED. “That doesn’t do anything. Studies show it increases overdose deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city should open more wellness hubs like the Tenderloin Center. The Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/SFDPH%20Overdose%20Prevention%20Plan%202022_EN.pdf\">Overdose Prevention Plan\u003c/a>, released in 2022, said that at least two should have been established within two years. Despite requests from his office, none have opened, Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that overdose prevention sites do offer a safer place for those who use them, but the sites can be expensive, and the city could get better output for its money with a different strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t touch much of the population,” he said of the sites. “The people who use them don’t tend to use them very much, and people who use them also don’t seem to change their behavior much outside the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bilal Mahmood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahmood announced his plan to address the drug crisis alongside District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey at a campaign event in April. Both are supporters of drug market intervention, a strategy that has been implemented in cities across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, said the DMI approach is “long overdue to try in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t get rid of drugs, but it does get the dealers off the corner, which has all kinds of good benefits,” he said. “Kids can walk to school more safely. The whole neighborhood feels really different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMI has three components: incapacitation, deterrence and prevention. Mahmood, who California Attorney General Rob Bonta endorsed, said that the first step of DMI is identifying and building cases against drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealers are then presented with the evidence against them and offered one chance to quit before drug markets are shut down, according to Humphreys. Anyone who is arrested for dealing drugs after the initial crackdown faces prosecution and potentially jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get people to leave [drug dealing] on their own, save a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of lives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying dealers, building cases, and eventually, keeping markets closed requires collaboration between local law enforcement, prosecutors and community members. This can make DMI challenging since law enforcement and the communities they police often distrust each other, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there has to be some atonement,” he told KQED. “It often has to begin with police saying, ‘We’re sorry that what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working, about many bad incidents that have happened over the years, but we want to have a good relationship and work with you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood also supports the drug-free housing legislation proposed at the city level by Dorsey and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. The legislation would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">require the city to create more drug-free recovery housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Autumn Looijen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She gained notoriety after co-leading the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897089/its-going-to-make-it-worse-parents-wary-of-sf-school-board-recall\">recall of three San Francisco school board members\u003c/a> in 2022. She also launched SF Guardians, a political action committee with an associated program that trains candidates running for office. She said that DMI would be a part of her “Fenta-NIL” plan, which calls for cutting drug supply and demand, cleaning streets and adding beat cops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone choosing to deal drugs to our people after that day would be immediately arrested and sent to federal court,” Looijen told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1536x1043.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1920x1304.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen poses for a portrait at Alamo Square Park on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Looijen is running against Dean Preston for the District 5 Board of Supervisor seat in November. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that most drug dealers’ cases will likely be handled at the city and state levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Federal resources in this area are limited and have to be carefully prioritized,” he said. “Although it is often possible to charge low-level drug dealers under federal law, most federal prosecutors would prefer to devote their limited resources to big fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen’s plan also calls for more drug-assisted treatment beds and clearing neighborhood blocks of drug use. She also supports Dorsey and Mandelman’s proposal.[aside postID=news_11982329 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-003-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']Humphreys said that having streets free of drug sales and use would be a good indicator of whether the city’s efforts to suppress drug markets were successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen told KQED that she would also advocate for increased penalties for dealing drugs in the proximity of treatment centers and sober living housing. The penalties would be similar to a policy introduced in 2022 by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that considers enhancements for drug dealing within 1,000 feet of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is the only candidate who has said she would support compelled treatment as a last resort when drug use is affecting the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has to be on the table,” she said. “I don’t like the idea of having to arrest drug users, but I think it does need to be in our pocket as a last resort to get them into treatment. I realize that forced treatment has a much lower success rate, but that rate is not zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that coerced treatment has mixed results at best. While some people do respond to compelled treatment, it’s generally not a pathway for sustained recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research has found that coerced treatment can actually increase overdose risk after the treatment course has ended. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938130/\">Research published\u003c/a> in the Society for the Study of Addiction in 2019 found that involuntary treatment was associated with an increased risk of non-fatal overdoses for those who inject drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a strategy of last resort after we’ve implemented extensive low barrier and culturally appropriate voluntary treatment,” Humphreys said. “I think the city has done a decent job, but in the treatment system, there’s still a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mayoral candidates Daniel Lurie and Mark Farrell have promised to implement similar emergency plans if elected. Both target fentanyl, which accounted for around 80% of overdoses in 2023 and 71% this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, Mahmood and Looijen have also announced proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston has advocated for the city to adopt the “Four Pillars” strategy, an approach to combating addiction developed in Europe in the 1990s. At an April event, Mahmood said he would advocate for drug market intervention, a strategy developed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Looijen announced her “Fenta-NIL” plan in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Humphreys, who worked as a senior policy adviser in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Obama administration, weighed in on the candidates’ approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dean Preston\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preston, the only democratic socialist on the Board of Supervisors, has faced criticism over his handling of the fentanyl crisis since his district absorbed much of the Tenderloin. He has butted heads with moderate officials, including Breed, who believe increased policing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mahmood and Looijen have pointed to Preston’s apprehension to support arresting fentanyl dealers, adding that he dismissed the approach as pointless in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/fentanyl-dealers-san-francisco-17801754.php\">according\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston denied the assertion. He said that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.deanprestonsf.com/press-releases/preston-calls-4-pillars\">“Four Pillars” strategy\u003c/a> — prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement — includes policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our approach includes enforcement of laws against fentanyl dealing and targeting and disruption of the fentanyl supply,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy promotes collaboration between law enforcement, social service providers and public health officials as equal partners. The goal is to use police enforcement to maintain public order and lower barriers to treatment and harm reduction resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that idea of recognizing all four pillars as valuable. I don’t think we’ve had enough of that,” said Humphreys, who advises Congress on strategies for reducing drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Four Pillars were first implemented in Switzerland and resulted in a 50% decrease in overdose deaths in the country by 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/inside_switzerlands_radical_drug_policy_innovation\">according\u003c/a> to the Stanford Social Innovation Review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another priority for Preston is opening more safe injection and overdose prevention sites, like the defunct Tenderloin Center that was introduced as part of Breed’s 2021 state of emergency. Preston blames Breed for closing the center in December 2022 and increasing the policing of drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data released by SFPD, law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-breed-proposes-community-led-solution-increase-nighttime-safety-tenderloin-limiting\">arrested\u003c/a> 1,284 drug users and 1,008 drug dealers during the drug market coordination center’s first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve arrested almost 1,000 people for the ‘crime’ basically of being addicted to drugs instead of addressing it as a health crisis or a criminal law enforcement issue,” Preston told KQED. “That doesn’t do anything. Studies show it increases overdose deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city should open more wellness hubs like the Tenderloin Center. The Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/SFDPH%20Overdose%20Prevention%20Plan%202022_EN.pdf\">Overdose Prevention Plan\u003c/a>, released in 2022, said that at least two should have been established within two years. Despite requests from his office, none have opened, Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that overdose prevention sites do offer a safer place for those who use them, but the sites can be expensive, and the city could get better output for its money with a different strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t touch much of the population,” he said of the sites. “The people who use them don’t tend to use them very much, and people who use them also don’t seem to change their behavior much outside the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bilal Mahmood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahmood announced his plan to address the drug crisis alongside District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey at a campaign event in April. Both are supporters of drug market intervention, a strategy that has been implemented in cities across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, said the DMI approach is “long overdue to try in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t get rid of drugs, but it does get the dealers off the corner, which has all kinds of good benefits,” he said. “Kids can walk to school more safely. The whole neighborhood feels really different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMI has three components: incapacitation, deterrence and prevention. Mahmood, who California Attorney General Rob Bonta endorsed, said that the first step of DMI is identifying and building cases against drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealers are then presented with the evidence against them and offered one chance to quit before drug markets are shut down, according to Humphreys. Anyone who is arrested for dealing drugs after the initial crackdown faces prosecution and potentially jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get people to leave [drug dealing] on their own, save a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of lives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying dealers, building cases, and eventually, keeping markets closed requires collaboration between local law enforcement, prosecutors and community members. This can make DMI challenging since law enforcement and the communities they police often distrust each other, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there has to be some atonement,” he told KQED. “It often has to begin with police saying, ‘We’re sorry that what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working, about many bad incidents that have happened over the years, but we want to have a good relationship and work with you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood also supports the drug-free housing legislation proposed at the city level by Dorsey and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. The legislation would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">require the city to create more drug-free recovery housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Autumn Looijen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She gained notoriety after co-leading the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897089/its-going-to-make-it-worse-parents-wary-of-sf-school-board-recall\">recall of three San Francisco school board members\u003c/a> in 2022. She also launched SF Guardians, a political action committee with an associated program that trains candidates running for office. She said that DMI would be a part of her “Fenta-NIL” plan, which calls for cutting drug supply and demand, cleaning streets and adding beat cops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone choosing to deal drugs to our people after that day would be immediately arrested and sent to federal court,” Looijen told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1536x1043.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1920x1304.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen poses for a portrait at Alamo Square Park on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Looijen is running against Dean Preston for the District 5 Board of Supervisor seat in November. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that most drug dealers’ cases will likely be handled at the city and state levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Federal resources in this area are limited and have to be carefully prioritized,” he said. “Although it is often possible to charge low-level drug dealers under federal law, most federal prosecutors would prefer to devote their limited resources to big fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen’s plan also calls for more drug-assisted treatment beds and clearing neighborhood blocks of drug use. She also supports Dorsey and Mandelman’s proposal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Humphreys said that having streets free of drug sales and use would be a good indicator of whether the city’s efforts to suppress drug markets were successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen told KQED that she would also advocate for increased penalties for dealing drugs in the proximity of treatment centers and sober living housing. The penalties would be similar to a policy introduced in 2022 by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that considers enhancements for drug dealing within 1,000 feet of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is the only candidate who has said she would support compelled treatment as a last resort when drug use is affecting the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has to be on the table,” she said. “I don’t like the idea of having to arrest drug users, but I think it does need to be in our pocket as a last resort to get them into treatment. I realize that forced treatment has a much lower success rate, but that rate is not zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that coerced treatment has mixed results at best. While some people do respond to compelled treatment, it’s generally not a pathway for sustained recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research has found that coerced treatment can actually increase overdose risk after the treatment course has ended. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938130/\">Research published\u003c/a> in the Society for the Study of Addiction in 2019 found that involuntary treatment was associated with an increased risk of non-fatal overdoses for those who inject drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a strategy of last resort after we’ve implemented extensive low barrier and culturally appropriate voluntary treatment,” Humphreys said. “I think the city has done a decent job, but in the treatment system, there’s still a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ever since San Francisco Board of Supervisors President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/aaron-peskin\">Aaron Peskin\u003c/a> tossed his hat in the ring for mayor, Supervisor Hillary Ronen has marched in lockstep supporting his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a dispute spiraling out of a proposed ballot measure on police staffing threatens to sever the progressive lawmakers’ alliance. Ronen told KQED she’s reconsidering her support after the strife with Peskin — which this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24834146-ronen-letter\">led her to resign\u003c/a> from a key city committee tasked with evaluating such ballot proposals — caused her to question his commitment to running from the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there is a progressive candidate in this race,” Ronen said. “All you hear is them trying to compete against each other over wanting more police. I wish I could say Peskin is an alternative to that, but I’m not seeing that he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November ballot proposal, if passed by voters, would allow a handful of veteran officers to collect their salaries and pension benefits simultaneously in exchange for delaying retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rules Committee, which Ronen chaired until Tuesday, deemed the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) “fiscally irresponsible,” according to Ronen. She pointed to a similar plan enacted in 2008 that supervisors ultimately ended in 2011 after an analysis found it had increased pension costs by $52 million in those three years alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the committee voted on Monday to scrap the measure, which is supported by eight supervisors, Peskin called on Tuesday for a special meeting to reconsider it. Ronen said the move undercut the committee’s power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman speaks into multiple microphones at an outside event, with a crowd of people standing behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks during a press conference at 24th Street BART plaza in San Francisco on Monday, held by the newly formed Mission Street Vendors Association, about the new street vending ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It weakens the stature of the Board of Supervisors when the rules of order can be changed so easily for one item the minute one or two supervisors don’t agree with the chair’s findings,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Peskin maintains that the special meeting to revisit the measure was by the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A small committee on the Board of Supervisors consisting of three people does not take the board’s ability away to democratically vote for or against something,” Peskin said. “In this particular instance, a supermajority of eight board members are sponsors of this measure, and to allow two supervisors to not enable the board to take a position on it is not democratic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen, who will be termed out of her seat in January, said she “hasn’t decided” whether she will vote for another mayoral candidate, but she is indeed questioning her support of Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really thought Peskin would be the best candidate, just because he is a pretty practical common sense guy,” she said, “but it’s hard to see him be a candidate and play the same games as all the other typical politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin doesn’t seem swayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a very pleasant, albeit sad conversation yesterday where [Ronen] indicated that if we held a special board meeting, she would resign from the committee,” he told KQED. “She was clear that she would continue to support my candidacy, but that’s ultimately up to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her resignation letter, Ronen cited the city’s approval of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfpd-police-raise-approved-crime-in-sf-17897716.php\">increasing the police budget\u003c/a> by $166 million for salaries and hiring bonuses in recent years and nearly $200 million overall for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for supporting a measure that would funnel more money to police, Peskin said: “Public safety is a progressive value, and this particular relatively small piece of legislation … will help maintain our current staffing levels at the Police Department, which has undergone a host of 21st-century policing reforms.”[aside postID=news_11993629 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240406-PeskinCampaignKickoff-033-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']San Francisco’s progressive voting bloc has largely embraced Peskin. His leading opponents in the mayoral race — incumbent Mayor London Breed, nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, and former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell — have positioned themselves as moderates, with Supervisor Ahsha Safaí running slightly to the left of his fellow moderate opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Peskin secured a key endorsement from the city’s largest labor union, Service Employees International Union No. 1021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was his approach to working with our union on issues important to us, including housing and tenants rights,” said Ramsés Teón-Nichols, vice president of politics at SEIU 1021, on why the group endorsed Peskin. “Also, his record supporting social and economic justice values that align with ours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin told KQED he was “humbled” to have the support from the union, which represented nearly 16,000 San Francisco city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SEIU 1021 is a standard bearer for the labor movement, and their thousands of working members have informed a lot of my policies, from workforce housing to improving transit and public safety,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11994004/after-trump-shooting-california-republicans-hope-to-turn-down-the-burner-at-convention\">attempted assassination\u003c/a> of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend has awakened national memories of violence across the political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several Bay Area leaders, the shooting served as a reminder that threats they receive — which, by several accounts, have escalated in recent years — are real and dangerous. Political rhetoric is increasingly divisive and violent, and research shows members of marginalized groups are disproportionately targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the assassination attempt stirred painful memories of the city’s most notorious act of political violence: the 1978 shootings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former colleague in City Hall. More recently, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">attacked\u003c/a> in the family’s Pacific Heights home by a man who was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991336/jury-finds-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-guilty-in-state-trial\">radicalized by conspiracy theories\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. As soon as I got elected, I no longer felt safe in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a member of Berkeley’s City Council who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">pushed for permanent supportive housin\u003c/a>g at People’s Park resigned over “harassment, stalking, and threats” that he said took a toll on his personal and family life. Rigel Robinson wrote in a column published in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the job and associated backlash left him in a “perpetual state of stress and exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that says 'Save people's park' is hung between trees, next to a tent, in a park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mounting instances of threats and political violence are especially concerning in an increasingly tense election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show that a growing number of Americans “say that political violence would be acceptable in at least some circumstances,” according to Shirin Sinnar, a legal scholar on political violence at Stanford Law. [aside postID=news_11994004 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/RNC2024-1020x680.jpg']Political violence has escalated across the political spectrum, she said, “but right-wing attacks [are] actually more frequent and far more deadly in terms of lives lost in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the nature of the threats he receives from right-wing actors is more violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get criticized by both extremes on the left and the right, and I get sometimes harshly criticized. But the death threats I receive, it’s only one side — it’s from the extreme right,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned against “both-sidesing” the blame for increasing violent rhetoric following Trump’s assassination attempt, recalling that after the attack on Paul Pelosi, Republicans and Democrats did not exactly come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people on the right are being so aggressive and self-righteous about the [Trump] attack, falsely claiming that Democrats somehow instigated this violence — which I think is very untrue,” Wiener told KQED. “These are some of the same people who made fun of Paul Pelosi for being brutalized almost to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alex Gonzalez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. 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"content": "\u003cp>Housing and homelessness. Mental health and fentanyl addiction. Public safety, public transit and police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first opportunity for San Franciscans to see mayoral candidates make their case to be the city’s next mayor on a shared stage was Wednesday night. Hosted by City Arts & Lectures at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, the debate sold out the 1,600-seat auditorium. The YouTube audience hovered around 1,200 for most of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between rattling off statistics, trading barbs and talking about their favorite burritos and drag queens, Mayor London Breed, former Mayor Mark Farrell, Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí argued their visions for San Francisco’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed painted a rosy picture of the city, claiming that crime is down, homeless encampments are disappearing and businesses will soon see tax relief. Peskin dug down on positions partial to progressive Democrats, like funding affordable housing and hiring more union city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Lurie described the city as a haven of crime, drug use and homelessness. Safai, an underdog candidate who lags in fundraising, struggled to raise his profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989776/san-franciscos-first-mayoral-debate-is-here-the-stakes-are-high\">stakes couldn’t be higher for San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city with seemingly intractable problems that have made national headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her opening remarks, Breed said her opponents are tearing down San Francisco to win office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys have one thing in common — they want us to feel bad about San Francisco,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2402\" height=\"1601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3.jpg 2402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2402px) 100vw, 2402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill the sidewalk in front of the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrell drew first blood, rebutting Lurie’s critique of his record funding the San Francisco Police Department. Lurie, the Levi Strauss heir, said the late Mayor Ed Lee wanted $6 million for the police, money Farrell allegedly refused to allocate when he was on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel, this is where your inexperience shows,” said Farrell, landing a zinger that caused a crowd eruption. “You have not been part of the budget committee in City Hall or mayor of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safai swiped at Lurie’s lack of government service. Lurie responded by echoing a line he has used on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to talk about experience all night long. They’ve got a combined 70 years of experience on this stage. Look where it’s gotten us,” he said as he spread his arms in exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Lurie struggled at times to offer solutions that differ from what current elected officials are already implementing. When the candidates were asked what they could do to revive downtown, Farrell said San Francisco should give tax incentives for businesses. Breed and Peskin teamed up to put forward a ballot measure in November that would exempt 2,500 businesses from some city taxes while lowering taxes for hotels and entertainment organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to be incredibly pro-active with our business community and bring them back to the downtown core,” Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate was moderated by Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times. Yekutiel told the audience “not to clap, sneer or jeer.” That didn’t stop the crowd from intermittently booing. The candidates were civil even as they criticized their opponents. The exchanges between the moderators and the candidates were much lighter, providing comic relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a NIMBY?” Knight asked Peskin, using the acronym for Not in My Backyard, shorthand for homeowners who oppose housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said his policies led to more housing construction than any other candidate on stage. He critiqued Farrell, ticking off affordable housing projects Farrell opposed while he was a supervisor. In his retort, Farrell said that Peskin relies too much on voter-backed bonds to build affordable housing instead of the free market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight also drew laughs after forgetting to ask Safai a question she asked the other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill the sidewalk in front of the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed seemed taken off guard when Yekutiel asked what she had done to solve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988252/sf-bribery-scandal-could-see-fishermans-wharf-restaurant-forced-out\">corruption\u003c/a> in her administration. Breed said she had not hired any of the people who were ensnared in the corruption scandal, omitting that former San Francisco Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">Harlan Kelly\u003c/a>, the former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, were close allies. Both were found guilty of taking bribes and sentenced to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As mayor, I’ve had to oversee the biggest corruption cleanup in city history,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Live-updates-from-TotalMuni2018-12873525.php\">rode every bus, train, cable car and street car in the city in one day\u003c/a> during her time as a San Francisco Chronicle columnist, pressed the candidates on their solutions to save BART and Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin touted his tax on Uber, Lyft and similar companies to help fund the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and said pedestrian safety should be a priority. Lurie said it was important to make sure Muni is safe, noting that many Asian seniors are afraid to ride after some have been physically assaulted and endured racist slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said Muni needs to focus on its existing operations, not expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe strongly in our city’s transit-first policy,” said Farrell, who wants the cars that were banned in favor of transit and pedestrian safety back on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When was the last time you rode a bike or Muni bus in San Francisco?” Knight asked Farrell. When he said he rode a bus just a few weeks ago, she requested the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 1-California,” Farrell said, almost triumphantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaches to homelessness by Lurie and Peskin represent a fundamental difference in views: Lurie’s solution assumes unhoused people flock to San Francisco for services, while Peskin’s asserts people who fall behind on rent are vulnerable to becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to send the message to the country, to the world: You do not come to San Francisco to do drugs, to deal drugs or to sleep on our streets,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin noted that 69 percent of people who are homeless lived in San Francisco before they were homeless, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986991/peskin-ballot-measure-aims-to-pay-rent-for-thousands-of-low-income-households-in-sf\">rent assistance\u003c/a> can be a powerful tool to prevent homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will make it my mission to prevent more homelessness before it happens,” Peskin said. “Every family we save from eviction is one less person living on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Housing and homelessness. Mental health and fentanyl addiction. Public safety, public transit and police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first opportunity for San Franciscans to see mayoral candidates make their case to be the city’s next mayor on a shared stage was Wednesday night. Hosted by City Arts & Lectures at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, the debate sold out the 1,600-seat auditorium. The YouTube audience hovered around 1,200 for most of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between rattling off statistics, trading barbs and talking about their favorite burritos and drag queens, Mayor London Breed, former Mayor Mark Farrell, Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí argued their visions for San Francisco’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed painted a rosy picture of the city, claiming that crime is down, homeless encampments are disappearing and businesses will soon see tax relief. Peskin dug down on positions partial to progressive Democrats, like funding affordable housing and hiring more union city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Lurie described the city as a haven of crime, drug use and homelessness. Safai, an underdog candidate who lags in fundraising, struggled to raise his profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989776/san-franciscos-first-mayoral-debate-is-here-the-stakes-are-high\">stakes couldn’t be higher for San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city with seemingly intractable problems that have made national headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her opening remarks, Breed said her opponents are tearing down San Francisco to win office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys have one thing in common — they want us to feel bad about San Francisco,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2402\" height=\"1601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3.jpg 2402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2402px) 100vw, 2402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill the sidewalk in front of the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrell drew first blood, rebutting Lurie’s critique of his record funding the San Francisco Police Department. Lurie, the Levi Strauss heir, said the late Mayor Ed Lee wanted $6 million for the police, money Farrell allegedly refused to allocate when he was on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel, this is where your inexperience shows,” said Farrell, landing a zinger that caused a crowd eruption. “You have not been part of the budget committee in City Hall or mayor of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safai swiped at Lurie’s lack of government service. Lurie responded by echoing a line he has used on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to talk about experience all night long. They’ve got a combined 70 years of experience on this stage. Look where it’s gotten us,” he said as he spread his arms in exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Lurie struggled at times to offer solutions that differ from what current elected officials are already implementing. When the candidates were asked what they could do to revive downtown, Farrell said San Francisco should give tax incentives for businesses. Breed and Peskin teamed up to put forward a ballot measure in November that would exempt 2,500 businesses from some city taxes while lowering taxes for hotels and entertainment organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to be incredibly pro-active with our business community and bring them back to the downtown core,” Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate was moderated by Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times. Yekutiel told the audience “not to clap, sneer or jeer.” That didn’t stop the crowd from intermittently booing. The candidates were civil even as they criticized their opponents. The exchanges between the moderators and the candidates were much lighter, providing comic relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a NIMBY?” Knight asked Peskin, using the acronym for Not in My Backyard, shorthand for homeowners who oppose housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said his policies led to more housing construction than any other candidate on stage. He critiqued Farrell, ticking off affordable housing projects Farrell opposed while he was a supervisor. In his retort, Farrell said that Peskin relies too much on voter-backed bonds to build affordable housing instead of the free market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight also drew laughs after forgetting to ask Safai a question she asked the other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill the sidewalk in front of the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed seemed taken off guard when Yekutiel asked what she had done to solve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988252/sf-bribery-scandal-could-see-fishermans-wharf-restaurant-forced-out\">corruption\u003c/a> in her administration. Breed said she had not hired any of the people who were ensnared in the corruption scandal, omitting that former San Francisco Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">Harlan Kelly\u003c/a>, the former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, were close allies. Both were found guilty of taking bribes and sentenced to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As mayor, I’ve had to oversee the biggest corruption cleanup in city history,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Live-updates-from-TotalMuni2018-12873525.php\">rode every bus, train, cable car and street car in the city in one day\u003c/a> during her time as a San Francisco Chronicle columnist, pressed the candidates on their solutions to save BART and Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin touted his tax on Uber, Lyft and similar companies to help fund the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and said pedestrian safety should be a priority. Lurie said it was important to make sure Muni is safe, noting that many Asian seniors are afraid to ride after some have been physically assaulted and endured racist slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said Muni needs to focus on its existing operations, not expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe strongly in our city’s transit-first policy,” said Farrell, who wants the cars that were banned in favor of transit and pedestrian safety back on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When was the last time you rode a bike or Muni bus in San Francisco?” Knight asked Farrell. When he said he rode a bus just a few weeks ago, she requested the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 1-California,” Farrell said, almost triumphantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaches to homelessness by Lurie and Peskin represent a fundamental difference in views: Lurie’s solution assumes unhoused people flock to San Francisco for services, while Peskin’s asserts people who fall behind on rent are vulnerable to becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to send the message to the country, to the world: You do not come to San Francisco to do drugs, to deal drugs or to sleep on our streets,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin noted that 69 percent of people who are homeless lived in San Francisco before they were homeless, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986991/peskin-ballot-measure-aims-to-pay-rent-for-thousands-of-low-income-households-in-sf\">rent assistance\u003c/a> can be a powerful tool to prevent homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo was a rising star in the progressive wing of San Francisco politics when a colleague \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly accused him of rape in 2021\u003c/a>. At that time, he largely escaped scrutiny from members of his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Josh Koehn of the San Francisco Standard reported in mid-April, three more women have publicly accused Jacobo of sexual abuse and domestic violence. And they say that leaders treated their allegations with indifference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6773718564\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/16/san-francisco-housing-jon-jacobo-accused-of-sex-crimes-abuse/\">Women accused a rising SF political star of rape and abuse—and met a wall of silence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/09/san-francisco-sexual-assault-hearing-supervisors-police/\">San Francisco created an agency to fight sexual crimes. It’s never met with police\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/02/san-francisco-democrats-metoo-sexual-assault-rape/\">San Francisco Democrats are having a #MeToo moment as women share stories of rape, abuse\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Hey, just a quick warning before we get started here. This episode describes sexual abuse. Please take care while listening. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There’s a whole network of people who make San Francisco politics and government go round, and that network has been shaken up. And it all centers around a community activist named Jon Jacobo, a once rising political star who was being groomed for the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>He was very much someone who was climbing up the ranks, up the ladder of politics, and was seen as someone who could be an heir apparent to become supervisor of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jacobo had been super active in San Francisco’s Mission District and was the director of a powerful affordable housing nonprofit called TODCO. But behind the scenes, women were coming out to accuse Jacobo of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. And they say their stories were ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The woman felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the allegations against Jon Jacobo and how his political allies turned a blind eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And the last few years, Jon Jacobo has been a community activist in the Mission District of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Josh Keene is a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>He served as a director for TODCO, which is one of the most powerful affordable housing nonprofits in the Bay area. He did a lot of work around helping community nonprofits in the mission. He served on the board of a group called Chi Venti Quatro. He also was, instrumental in the Latino Task force. This is someone who was deeply connected in San Francisco politics, particularly when it comes to the progressive wing of Democratic politics in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how did people describe Jon Jacobo’s personality?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>John Jacobo was described to me as someone who’s very gregarious, can be quite charming, someone who is very astute politically and knows how to make connections. Whether or not those connections are genuine is up to the person who was meeting with him. I was told by multiple people that John Jacobo is someone who can be a little bit manipulative and use, those political connections to get to the next rung of the ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>He’s this rising political star in San Francisco, this really charismatic guy. And then in 2021, a woman named Sasha Perrigo comes out and accuses John Jacobo of rape. What was she alleging? Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So Sasha Perrigo, in the summer of 2021, published an open letter on Twitter, and it was a seven page document that laid out in very excruciating detail how she felt that Jon Jacobo had raped her in a night in which she had come to his apartment. She had been telling him that, hey, I’m just going to come. We’re going to hang out, you know, maybe have some drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And over the course of the night, she said that he was very aggressive and kept advancing on her until the morning after they were hanging out. She woke up and he forced himself on her, is what she alleged. When Sasha Perego came forward, the document that she published laid out a whole host of allegations, but it also included a rape kit that she took, within the days of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>It sent shockwaves through the whole political community. Not only was this a rising star in politics, but she also worked in the affordable housing space similar to much of Cobo. And so this had layers to it in which people in the housing community, people in the political space, people in Latino politics and the mission, everyone was kind of taken aback by these allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I remember this happening and it really being like a bombshell moment. Did Sasha Perrigo pursue charges against Jacobo after this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Sasha decided that she was not going to press charges with police. She had a lot of distrust of the criminal justice system, particularly in the way that it treats communities of color, but also in the way that it treats victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she felt that there were other forms of accountability that could be obtained by coming forward in the fashion that she did. However, she was very disappointed to see that there were not a lot of steps taken. Jacob did step down from a commissioned post with the city, but he retained his job and many of his political allies came to his defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So in other words, there was a little bit of shock, a little bit of a response, but things sort of just fizzled out from there. It sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. For him, I think it was a chance to step back, I think, where his political aspirations were to probably run for supervisor. Those were probably eliminated. But other than that, he very much actually was starting to make a return to the limelight in just the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Josh, that was three years ago that Sasha Perrigo posted those allegations on Twitter. Flash forward to April of this year, and we’re talking about this now because of a story that you broke for the San Francisco Standard about even more accusations that have come out against Jon Jacobo. What did you find?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Three women actually got in touch with me, and they told me, you know, we have been wanting to tell our story because actually, we filed police reports after Sasha came forward. We went to people in local politics that we knew to try to get their help, and those efforts didn’t go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Let’s talk about these women and their stories a little bit. I mean, who are these women exactly? Are they people like Sasha who are also sort of working within the realm of local San Francisco politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah, very much so. These three women, I have all worked at very high levels of local government and public policy. These are people that are well known in the political space. In some ways, that actually were acted as a detriment to them in trying to get their story out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>What they found is that the people in power, Jacobo’s political allies, were uninterested in hearing their stories, and they also knew that not only was there a potential risk for retribution from him and his allies, but that could end up leading to damage to their professional careers. 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And I wonder if you could tell me a little bit more about her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The allegations made by the first woman in our story, they started dating in 2015 and they dated for over three years. Almost immediately, he began to abuse her. She didn’t know what to do, and she kind of fell under a trap and felt like she couldn’t get out. The accusations range from breaking their furniture, breaking through doors to get to her, locking her into their home, choking her multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Threatening to kill her, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Threatening to kill her. 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She only later realized through quite a bit of therapy. She said, that this was in fact rape because she had told him no many times as he was removing her pants and forcing himself on her. So the third woman, her incidents there were two occurred in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She says that after a night out in which John had been drinking, she allowed him to stay at her apartment in a common area, and she had roommates. She says that when she woke up in her bed, she thought her boyfriend had come home late. And instead, what she found was that Jacomo had allegedly entered her room, gotten naked and into bed with her, and then tried to force himself on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That morning, she managed to get him to snap out of it, apparently, and he quickly left and she tried to rationalize it. Which is, again, when we talk about locking up, out of fear or trying to rationalize someone’s behavior because you feel like maybe this is not indicative of who they are. Over time, she kind of stayed away from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then there was a night out with friends later in 2016, in Oakland, in which they went out a group for drinks and dancing and went back to a friend’s house, and she passed out and found out later that her friend actually had to allegedly rescue her from Jacobo, trying to take advantage of her while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And that friend, who’s a commissioner for the Recreation and Parks Department in Oakland, who actually went on record saying that she felt that if she had not come in and stopped it, that she feels like he would have raped her. So those are the the three incidents in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, yeah, has has reporting these to the police led to anything for these women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So the women went to police in the months after Sasha Burgo came forward with her public accusations. All of the women told me that they did not necessarily feel supported or believed. You know, it’s common for law enforcement to try to be very frank with the survivors and let them know these are very difficult cases. We need to get a lot of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But the women I spoke with said this isn’t that this was different. And looking at their police reports, they said that there were a lot of things that were left out. One of the women said she provided evidence that was not even mentioned in her police report. There were also not efforts made. They said, to connect them with outside jurisdictional police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That would also have a role in an investigation. The police would counter that argument, and they have been very aggressive in pushing back, saying that they have done everything they can in these cases. However, the women, their story should not be discounted because they have gone through this and they were very brave to come forward and do all of this from the police reports all the way to, telling the story with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how these women say the political machine protected Jon Jacobo. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>In the first part of this episode, we heard about how multiple women accused Jon Jacobo of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. The three women who talked to Josh keen for this story say they were ignored not only by police but also by people who worked with Jon Jacobo, including former San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim, who hired Jacobo back in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The women felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence. Supervisor Jane Kim, who was his former boss and is now the head of the California Working Families Party. She ran for mayor. She ran for a state senate that she brought Jacobo to a political gala just weeks after Sasha Perrigo accused him of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then I was also told by a very legitimate source that Jane Kim was working to hire John, an attorney, to deal with Sasha Perrigo’s accusation. So that’s one example. John Oberlin, the head of TODCO. He actually was grooming John to take over Taco’s financial operations, which would then make him a significant political player in deciding how to fund ballot measures polling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So when they saw these reports and then they saw him doing TV interviews for the Mission Street vendors, and they knew that he was back on these community boards, they felt, you know what, we have to get this story out because that the very least, we want to make sure that our story is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When it comes to folks like Jane Kim, who are accused of not responding adequately to these accusations against John Jacobus. How has she responded? How has she and others? I mean, in the party responded to accusations that they protected Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So I spoke with Jane Kim for this story. It was a very curious response I got from her, because she seemed less concerned with the fact that there were three more women who had disturbing allegations against John, who was a protege of hers, and that they had filed police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And she seemed more concerned with the timing of the story, asking me, why is this happening now? Her level of outrage with each answer, and this is just to me, seemed to amplify when she realized the serious nature of what I was asking her. You know, I asked her if she was aware of other allegations against John, and she said, no, no, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, actually, yes, I had heard from the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee that there might be others out there, but she never pursued it. I have not seen any response from her since the story published in that, probably because there were people who said that she went out of her way to protect Jon Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Though she denies that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She did deny it. And she said that she’d never tried to help him find an attorney. You know, when it comes to TODCO, TODCO announced the day the story ran that Jon Jacobo had resigned from his position as a director with the housing organization. They said that they were not aware of the extent of the allegations in my story. Despite having an internal review of his work, even the the nonprofits within the mission that he had coordinated with very muted statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Has Jon Jacobo said anything in response to these accusations in your story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>No. Jon Jacobo did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including an email with very detailed questions. And he has not said anything that I have seen since the story published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After Josh’s story came out in mid April, allegations against other figures in San Francisco politics have surfaced. They include Kevin Ortiz, a former staffer for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and Jay Chang, who runs the moderate group neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Josh says these stories, regardless of party, show a pattern of people choosing to protect their political allies first. Why do these political figure. What what stake do they have in protecting someone? I guess like Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, in this kind of it’s a, a deeper, complex question, but it comes down to the way that political tribes protect themselves, that if one of us is accused that we have their back, or if we don’t have their back, we just make sure that we can’t be harmed politically as a result of their alleged improprieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>This is not a partisan issue within the Democratic Party, or even really Democrats and Republicans. There is always going to be this instinct to. Make sure that your click of politics is not harmed, or that you are not personally harmed. And so the the immediate reaction generally is to shut up and and just make sure that, like, let the story go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The media cycles so fast these days that if you can just hunker down for a few days, maybe it’ll blow over. Yeah, but this one has not necessarily blown over. And I think it also just shows that, you know, once you put the lens really on the people hunkering down as well, not just the, accused predator, that a story can maybe have a little bit more impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>As a result of the story, there were two different hearings that were held. One was by the Democratic Party for San Francisco looking into sexual assault and harassment in political spaces. And then there was also a hearing at City Hall called by Supervisor Hillary Ronen to look into a group called sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>Good morning, everyone. First, I really want to thank chair Stephanie and supervisor Mel…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>SHARP Stands for the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention. It’s actually under the umbrella of the Human Rights Commission. And their responsibilities are to advocate for survivors of sexual harassment and assault, and also try and transform the systems in place to address sexual violence in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>In the time that Sharp’s been created in six years, they have had zero meetings with the police department. A captain for the San Francisco Police Department, Alexa O’Brian. She runs the Special Victims Unit. Said that she wasn’t even certain they had had a phone call. Was sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen \u003c/strong>Have you ever met with SHARP and in any way, shape or form?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexa O’Brien: \u003c/strong>I think they have been on a call with us. Share. Like a call that I’ve been on with maybe one of my other partners. The case, they might have showed up on a call, but no, I have never met directly or had a meeting with sharp. I’ve never sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Officials, and it’s a small two person team. Seem to have actually not understood the mission. And instead of actually working with victims to better coordinate, with departments and hold these departments accountable if they’re not seen as supportive, they instead, went out and tried to find victims of sexual assault who were not reporting crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Keene: \u003c/strong>The sharp hearing on May 9th was. I would call it a dog and pony show. I think it was completely worthless, if I’m being honest. It was a lot of, elected officials thanking each other for trying to do the job, but failing miserably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, ultimately, what do survivors want? I mean, I feel like the answer is accountability, I guess. But I mean, could there be criminal charges against Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Every every survivor of sexual assault has, you know, their own priorities. And the women in this story are no different in that sense, in which each of them had a different goal for coming forward, where Sasha Perrigo said that she wanted accountability but did not want to go through the criminal justice system. The three women who came forward in my story say no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>We would like to see him charged with crimes. I will add that the story, does end with Sasha Pago, reconsidering whether to press criminal charges. She wasn’t aware of many of the stories that these women told in in our piece. And so when she saw the totality of this, she was aware of other allegations, but nothing to the extent of what was in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she said that she was going to have a conversation with police and, you know, decide whether or not to move forward. And if if Sasha Perrigo were to press criminal charges against John Jacomo, there is a possibility that the allegations in my story could be part of a larger, prosecutorial case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how does all of this ultimately affect. All of us. Josh, right? Like, even if you’re coming to this story for the first time, maybe you’re not plugged in to San Francisco politics. How does this affect the average person?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If you don’t know these people and you don’t vote for these people? It may seem like it’s just like, oh, well, politics is gross and I move on with my day. But my hope is that anyone who reads this story maybe actually says for a second, well, if this is happening to women in power, they are advancing in their careers. And, you know, there’s no way this could happen to them because they’re the people that actually could sound the alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If it’s happening to women like that, then it’s probably happening to women all over. You know, also, if you see behavior, with someone you’re close to and, and there’s some kind of encounter that you know, of, but it’s kind of ambiguous, you know, these are the kind of things that maybe, like, we need to check ourselves and say, okay, maybe, maybe I need to be in more open ear, or I’m more helpful to my friends, family, colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Josh, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Josh Koehn, a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard. We’ll leave you some links to Josh’s reporting on this topic in our show notes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Hey, just a quick warning before we get started here. This episode describes sexual abuse. Please take care while listening. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There’s a whole network of people who make San Francisco politics and government go round, and that network has been shaken up. And it all centers around a community activist named Jon Jacobo, a once rising political star who was being groomed for the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>He was very much someone who was climbing up the ranks, up the ladder of politics, and was seen as someone who could be an heir apparent to become supervisor of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jacobo had been super active in San Francisco’s Mission District and was the director of a powerful affordable housing nonprofit called TODCO. But behind the scenes, women were coming out to accuse Jacobo of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. And they say their stories were ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The woman felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the allegations against Jon Jacobo and how his political allies turned a blind eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And the last few years, Jon Jacobo has been a community activist in the Mission District of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Josh Keene is a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>He served as a director for TODCO, which is one of the most powerful affordable housing nonprofits in the Bay area. He did a lot of work around helping community nonprofits in the mission. He served on the board of a group called Chi Venti Quatro. He also was, instrumental in the Latino Task force. This is someone who was deeply connected in San Francisco politics, particularly when it comes to the progressive wing of Democratic politics in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how did people describe Jon Jacobo’s personality?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>John Jacobo was described to me as someone who’s very gregarious, can be quite charming, someone who is very astute politically and knows how to make connections. Whether or not those connections are genuine is up to the person who was meeting with him. I was told by multiple people that John Jacobo is someone who can be a little bit manipulative and use, those political connections to get to the next rung of the ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>He’s this rising political star in San Francisco, this really charismatic guy. And then in 2021, a woman named Sasha Perrigo comes out and accuses John Jacobo of rape. What was she alleging? Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So Sasha Perrigo, in the summer of 2021, published an open letter on Twitter, and it was a seven page document that laid out in very excruciating detail how she felt that Jon Jacobo had raped her in a night in which she had come to his apartment. She had been telling him that, hey, I’m just going to come. We’re going to hang out, you know, maybe have some drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And over the course of the night, she said that he was very aggressive and kept advancing on her until the morning after they were hanging out. She woke up and he forced himself on her, is what she alleged. When Sasha Perego came forward, the document that she published laid out a whole host of allegations, but it also included a rape kit that she took, within the days of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>It sent shockwaves through the whole political community. Not only was this a rising star in politics, but she also worked in the affordable housing space similar to much of Cobo. And so this had layers to it in which people in the housing community, people in the political space, people in Latino politics and the mission, everyone was kind of taken aback by these allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I remember this happening and it really being like a bombshell moment. Did Sasha Perrigo pursue charges against Jacobo after this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Sasha decided that she was not going to press charges with police. She had a lot of distrust of the criminal justice system, particularly in the way that it treats communities of color, but also in the way that it treats victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she felt that there were other forms of accountability that could be obtained by coming forward in the fashion that she did. However, she was very disappointed to see that there were not a lot of steps taken. Jacob did step down from a commissioned post with the city, but he retained his job and many of his political allies came to his defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So in other words, there was a little bit of shock, a little bit of a response, but things sort of just fizzled out from there. It sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. For him, I think it was a chance to step back, I think, where his political aspirations were to probably run for supervisor. Those were probably eliminated. But other than that, he very much actually was starting to make a return to the limelight in just the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Josh, that was three years ago that Sasha Perrigo posted those allegations on Twitter. Flash forward to April of this year, and we’re talking about this now because of a story that you broke for the San Francisco Standard about even more accusations that have come out against Jon Jacobo. What did you find?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Three women actually got in touch with me, and they told me, you know, we have been wanting to tell our story because actually, we filed police reports after Sasha came forward. We went to people in local politics that we knew to try to get their help, and those efforts didn’t go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Let’s talk about these women and their stories a little bit. I mean, who are these women exactly? Are they people like Sasha who are also sort of working within the realm of local San Francisco politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah, very much so. These three women, I have all worked at very high levels of local government and public policy. These are people that are well known in the political space. In some ways, that actually were acted as a detriment to them in trying to get their story out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>What they found is that the people in power, Jacobo’s political allies, were uninterested in hearing their stories, and they also knew that not only was there a potential risk for retribution from him and his allies, but that could end up leading to damage to their professional careers. And they also had fears for their own safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And they all wanted to remain anonymous and talking with you for this story. Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So I reported this story over the course of a year. Lots of interviews, lots of conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What are the range of accusations they make against him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah, the accusations are quite horrific. They range from harassment, stalking, domestic violence that included strangulation threats, sexual assault and rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Zooming in on one of the women. Actually a former partner of Jacobus. Right. And she actually is the one who accuses him of domestic violence. And I wonder if you could tell me a little bit more about her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The allegations made by the first woman in our story, they started dating in 2015 and they dated for over three years. Almost immediately, he began to abuse her. She didn’t know what to do, and she kind of fell under a trap and felt like she couldn’t get out. The accusations range from breaking their furniture, breaking through doors to get to her, locking her into their home, choking her multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Threatening to kill her, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Threatening to kill her. She she said that he would point a gun at her and talk about killing her and her family, and we also had audio recordings in which he is heard threatening her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And for the other women, what about them wanted their the allegations they made take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So the other two women who are featured in this story, one of them alleged that Jon Jacobo raped her in the winter of 2018. Her allegations are very similar to Sasha Burgos, in which she says that John continued to pester her to come over and see her. She allowed him to come to her apartment. She said, we are not hooking up or anything like that. We can just talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And she says that almost immediately after he came to her home, he forced himself on her and she froze. Which is not an uncommon experience for many victims of sexual assault. She only later realized through quite a bit of therapy. She said, that this was in fact rape because she had told him no many times as he was removing her pants and forcing himself on her. So the third woman, her incidents there were two occurred in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She says that after a night out in which John had been drinking, she allowed him to stay at her apartment in a common area, and she had roommates. She says that when she woke up in her bed, she thought her boyfriend had come home late. And instead, what she found was that Jacomo had allegedly entered her room, gotten naked and into bed with her, and then tried to force himself on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That morning, she managed to get him to snap out of it, apparently, and he quickly left and she tried to rationalize it. Which is, again, when we talk about locking up, out of fear or trying to rationalize someone’s behavior because you feel like maybe this is not indicative of who they are. Over time, she kind of stayed away from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then there was a night out with friends later in 2016, in Oakland, in which they went out a group for drinks and dancing and went back to a friend’s house, and she passed out and found out later that her friend actually had to allegedly rescue her from Jacobo, trying to take advantage of her while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And that friend, who’s a commissioner for the Recreation and Parks Department in Oakland, who actually went on record saying that she felt that if she had not come in and stopped it, that she feels like he would have raped her. So those are the the three incidents in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, yeah, has has reporting these to the police led to anything for these women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So the women went to police in the months after Sasha Burgo came forward with her public accusations. All of the women told me that they did not necessarily feel supported or believed. You know, it’s common for law enforcement to try to be very frank with the survivors and let them know these are very difficult cases. We need to get a lot of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But the women I spoke with said this isn’t that this was different. And looking at their police reports, they said that there were a lot of things that were left out. One of the women said she provided evidence that was not even mentioned in her police report. There were also not efforts made. They said, to connect them with outside jurisdictional police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That would also have a role in an investigation. The police would counter that argument, and they have been very aggressive in pushing back, saying that they have done everything they can in these cases. However, the women, their story should not be discounted because they have gone through this and they were very brave to come forward and do all of this from the police reports all the way to, telling the story with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how these women say the political machine protected Jon Jacobo. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>In the first part of this episode, we heard about how multiple women accused Jon Jacobo of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. The three women who talked to Josh keen for this story say they were ignored not only by police but also by people who worked with Jon Jacobo, including former San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim, who hired Jacobo back in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The women felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence. Supervisor Jane Kim, who was his former boss and is now the head of the California Working Families Party. She ran for mayor. She ran for a state senate that she brought Jacobo to a political gala just weeks after Sasha Perrigo accused him of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then I was also told by a very legitimate source that Jane Kim was working to hire John, an attorney, to deal with Sasha Perrigo’s accusation. So that’s one example. John Oberlin, the head of TODCO. He actually was grooming John to take over Taco’s financial operations, which would then make him a significant political player in deciding how to fund ballot measures polling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So when they saw these reports and then they saw him doing TV interviews for the Mission Street vendors, and they knew that he was back on these community boards, they felt, you know what, we have to get this story out because that the very least, we want to make sure that our story is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When it comes to folks like Jane Kim, who are accused of not responding adequately to these accusations against John Jacobus. How has she responded? How has she and others? I mean, in the party responded to accusations that they protected Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So I spoke with Jane Kim for this story. It was a very curious response I got from her, because she seemed less concerned with the fact that there were three more women who had disturbing allegations against John, who was a protege of hers, and that they had filed police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And she seemed more concerned with the timing of the story, asking me, why is this happening now? Her level of outrage with each answer, and this is just to me, seemed to amplify when she realized the serious nature of what I was asking her. You know, I asked her if she was aware of other allegations against John, and she said, no, no, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, actually, yes, I had heard from the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee that there might be others out there, but she never pursued it. I have not seen any response from her since the story published in that, probably because there were people who said that she went out of her way to protect Jon Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Though she denies that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She did deny it. And she said that she’d never tried to help him find an attorney. You know, when it comes to TODCO, TODCO announced the day the story ran that Jon Jacobo had resigned from his position as a director with the housing organization. They said that they were not aware of the extent of the allegations in my story. Despite having an internal review of his work, even the the nonprofits within the mission that he had coordinated with very muted statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Has Jon Jacobo said anything in response to these accusations in your story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>No. Jon Jacobo did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including an email with very detailed questions. And he has not said anything that I have seen since the story published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After Josh’s story came out in mid April, allegations against other figures in San Francisco politics have surfaced. They include Kevin Ortiz, a former staffer for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and Jay Chang, who runs the moderate group neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Josh says these stories, regardless of party, show a pattern of people choosing to protect their political allies first. Why do these political figure. What what stake do they have in protecting someone? I guess like Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, in this kind of it’s a, a deeper, complex question, but it comes down to the way that political tribes protect themselves, that if one of us is accused that we have their back, or if we don’t have their back, we just make sure that we can’t be harmed politically as a result of their alleged improprieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>This is not a partisan issue within the Democratic Party, or even really Democrats and Republicans. There is always going to be this instinct to. Make sure that your click of politics is not harmed, or that you are not personally harmed. And so the the immediate reaction generally is to shut up and and just make sure that, like, let the story go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The media cycles so fast these days that if you can just hunker down for a few days, maybe it’ll blow over. Yeah, but this one has not necessarily blown over. And I think it also just shows that, you know, once you put the lens really on the people hunkering down as well, not just the, accused predator, that a story can maybe have a little bit more impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>As a result of the story, there were two different hearings that were held. One was by the Democratic Party for San Francisco looking into sexual assault and harassment in political spaces. And then there was also a hearing at City Hall called by Supervisor Hillary Ronen to look into a group called sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>Good morning, everyone. First, I really want to thank chair Stephanie and supervisor Mel…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>SHARP Stands for the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention. It’s actually under the umbrella of the Human Rights Commission. And their responsibilities are to advocate for survivors of sexual harassment and assault, and also try and transform the systems in place to address sexual violence in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>In the time that Sharp’s been created in six years, they have had zero meetings with the police department. A captain for the San Francisco Police Department, Alexa O’Brian. She runs the Special Victims Unit. Said that she wasn’t even certain they had had a phone call. Was sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen \u003c/strong>Have you ever met with SHARP and in any way, shape or form?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexa O’Brien: \u003c/strong>I think they have been on a call with us. Share. Like a call that I’ve been on with maybe one of my other partners. The case, they might have showed up on a call, but no, I have never met directly or had a meeting with sharp. I’ve never sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Officials, and it’s a small two person team. Seem to have actually not understood the mission. And instead of actually working with victims to better coordinate, with departments and hold these departments accountable if they’re not seen as supportive, they instead, went out and tried to find victims of sexual assault who were not reporting crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Keene: \u003c/strong>The sharp hearing on May 9th was. I would call it a dog and pony show. I think it was completely worthless, if I’m being honest. It was a lot of, elected officials thanking each other for trying to do the job, but failing miserably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, ultimately, what do survivors want? I mean, I feel like the answer is accountability, I guess. But I mean, could there be criminal charges against Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Every every survivor of sexual assault has, you know, their own priorities. And the women in this story are no different in that sense, in which each of them had a different goal for coming forward, where Sasha Perrigo said that she wanted accountability but did not want to go through the criminal justice system. The three women who came forward in my story say no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>We would like to see him charged with crimes. I will add that the story, does end with Sasha Pago, reconsidering whether to press criminal charges. She wasn’t aware of many of the stories that these women told in in our piece. And so when she saw the totality of this, she was aware of other allegations, but nothing to the extent of what was in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she said that she was going to have a conversation with police and, you know, decide whether or not to move forward. And if if Sasha Perrigo were to press criminal charges against John Jacomo, there is a possibility that the allegations in my story could be part of a larger, prosecutorial case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how does all of this ultimately affect. All of us. Josh, right? Like, even if you’re coming to this story for the first time, maybe you’re not plugged in to San Francisco politics. How does this affect the average person?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If you don’t know these people and you don’t vote for these people? It may seem like it’s just like, oh, well, politics is gross and I move on with my day. But my hope is that anyone who reads this story maybe actually says for a second, well, if this is happening to women in power, they are advancing in their careers. And, you know, there’s no way this could happen to them because they’re the people that actually could sound the alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If it’s happening to women like that, then it’s probably happening to women all over. You know, also, if you see behavior, with someone you’re close to and, and there’s some kind of encounter that you know, of, but it’s kind of ambiguous, you know, these are the kind of things that maybe, like, we need to check ourselves and say, okay, maybe, maybe I need to be in more open ear, or I’m more helpful to my friends, family, colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Josh, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Josh Koehn, a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard. We’ll leave you some links to Josh’s reporting on this topic in our show notes. This 45 minute conversation with Josh was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ellie Prickett-Morgan is our intern, they scored this episode and added all the tape. Our senior editor is Alan Montecillo. Music courtesy of the Audio Network. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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The following year, it reopened the northern stretch, but continued to block cars from entering the western section of blacktop — between the Upper Reservoir Parking Lot and Mansell Street — which will become a permanent promenade if the legislation is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is great and amazing and I think it would vastly improve the park,” said Myrna Melgar, who co-sponsored the legislation, which is backed by Mayor London Breed and appears likely to pass. “I spend a lot of time there because it’s closer to my house than Golden Gate. It’s overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964778\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11964778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg\" alt=\"A map of San Francisco's McLaren Park, showing the stretch of Shelley Road that could be permanently closed to cars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1020x824.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-160x129.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1536x1240.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-2048x1654.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1920x1550.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the section of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park that is currently closed to cars and could become a permanent promenade.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, before the Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to advance the proposal to the full board, Brian Stokle, an urban planner with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, urged supervisors to approve the permanent ban, arguing that doing so would “create a slower and more walkable park street that’s also safer, more accessible and improves mobility and equity.” At a community meeting on the issue earlier this year, he added, attendees expressed overwhelming support for permanently closing the section of road, which on sunny days offers expansive views of the city’s skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stokle also noted that an analysis by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency found that closing the stretch of road, which is part of a loop and doesn’t intersect major roadways, had little measurable impact on neighborhood traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the bid to make the car-free designation permanent has faced little vocal pushback, especially compared to \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2022/11/san-franciso-jfk-drive-cars-bicycles-proposition-j.html\">the fervor of last year’s ultimately unsuccessful effort\u003c/a> to get vehicles back onto Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive. The Board of Supervisors approved that permanent road closure in May 2022 by a vote of 7–4, despite several of its members arguing that doing so was unfair to people with disabilities and the elderly, and one even calling the ban\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/closing-jfk-drive-is-recreational-redlining/article_e62404ef-4e23-54fa-86db-a1a2aa0b0c47.html\"> a form of “recreational redlining”\u003c/a> that disadvantaged communities of color who lived far from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board’s vote hardly settled the issue. A vociferous group of opponents\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/vehicles-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park-and-great-highway\"> sponsored a referendum to reverse the legislation\u003c/a>, only to have supervisors qualify\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/recreational-use-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park\"> a competing ballot measure\u003c/a> to affirm their decision. In November, city voters went on to approve the permanent road closure by a wide margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, a handful of dog walkers — and their sizable canine packs — headed along the car-free section of Shelley Drive, en route to the dog-play area known as “the Field of Dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Amy Brown, one such dog walker who visits the park five days a week, permanently closing the road to cars would be a major safety improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people give treats to a cluster of several dogs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Hunt and Kristen Narita walk their dogs on the car-free stretch of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park on Oct. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for the park. I think we get to use all the trails more,” said Brown, who noted that drivers in the park used to throw garbage out of their windows, and sometimes even used the road to do donuts. And motorcyclists often sped through the park and tore across walking trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the closure, we’ve seen a lot less of that,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while park visitor Maria da Costa said she supports a vehicle-free stretch of road in the park, she questions the location of the promenade. 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The following year, it reopened the northern stretch, but continued to block cars from entering the western section of blacktop — between the Upper Reservoir Parking Lot and Mansell Street — which will become a permanent promenade if the legislation is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is great and amazing and I think it would vastly improve the park,” said Myrna Melgar, who co-sponsored the legislation, which is backed by Mayor London Breed and appears likely to pass. “I spend a lot of time there because it’s closer to my house than Golden Gate. 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