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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The findings come from the City Controller’s Office, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826653/bad-policies-and-practices-report-highlights-weak-sf-laws-that-enable-public-corruption\">issued a report\u003c/a> early last week detailing rules that it urged city leaders to tighten in order to better prevent government corruption, including the one pushed by Breed to streamline homeless service construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that ordinance, Public Works no longer had to set up a normal bidding process for contracts for the construction of homeless shelters, nor did they need ultimate authorization from the Board of Supervisors to award those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move had broad support, even from pro-business organizations and homeless nonprofits that often stand opposed. A broad range of groups, including the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Larkin Street Youth Services and the Mission Housing Development Corporation, all spoke publicly in support of the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the proof is really in the pudding. You have service provider after service provider” who supports the measure, Sam Moss, executive director of Mission Housing Development Corporation, said to the Board of Supervisors last year, before the legislation's continuation from a board committee to the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Board of Supervisors approved the measure within 20 seconds after it was introduced, granting the Public Works director — at the time, Nuru — the broad authority to just say “yes” to contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report, the controller’s office revealed Nuru said “yes” to roughly $24.6 million in homeless shelter contracts, about $10.5 million of which were “directly awarded” with no solicitation of any kind. Some $3.5 million in contracts were also awarded through “unclear” methods because “no outreach or solicitation documentation exists,” the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru also awarded three contracts — including the construction of a Bayview navigation center — totaling more than $2.5 million to Charles Pankow Builders, according to the City Controller’s Office, which released more detailed data in the wake of the report. The firm was subpoenaed by the City Attorney’s Office in February in connection to the corruption scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Wong, the permit expediter arrested by the FBI, was awarded a $907,000 contract to renovate Jelani House, a substance abuse rehab center, and a $110,595 contract to construct a building attached to a navigation center on Fifth and Bryant streets, according to the controller's office findings. Nuru also awarded a $171,000 portable toilet contract to restaurateur Nick Bovis, who was also arrested by the FBI in connection with the corruption schemes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Alameida, a Public Works deputy director, was among officials who publicly supported the fast-tracking measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll vouch my support for the ordinance,\" he told supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But emails of his that have since been made public, show that he solicited a donation from a city contractor Public Works oversaw to a charity run by Nick Bovis, one that allegedly used such contributions to throw lavish parties for city officials, in violation of ethics laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractor, Webcor Builders, was later subpoenaed in the City Attorney’s Office corruption investigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The possibility for corruption is rife in San Francisco’s Public Works and homelessness contract approval processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, there’s a fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/webreports/details3.aspx?id=2843\">to a new report released Monday\u003c/a> by the San Francisco City Controller’s Office, which analyzed city laws and processes following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798447/sf-public-works-director-mohammed-nuru-arrested-by-fbi\">FBI’s January arrest \u003c/a>of former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru on public corruption charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru was charged in connection with a series of alleged schemes involving public agency contracts, including an attempt to bribe a San Francisco International Airport commissioner to obtain a favorable contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI investigation has also widened, encompassing former director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services Sandra Zuniga and Balmore Hernandez, CEO of engineering firm Azul Works, Inc which holds large contracts with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controller’s report offers suggestions for closing the legal loopholes that allowed Nuru, and others, to allegedly award city contracts to close allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to ensure the transparency, accountability, and ethical behavior that San Franciscans are owed when it comes to the delivery of city services and the use of their tax dollars,” City Controller Ben Rosenfield said in a statement. “In simple terms, the Controller’s Office is seeking to rectify bad policies and practices that undermine those goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mohammed-nuru\"]The report reveals sweeping vulnerabilities in city accountability provisions, and recommends a spate of changes, including stricter reporting requirements for financial gifts, greater transparency in how city contractors are hired and more competitive bidding processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most glaring among the report’s findings is that Nuru essentially had no direct oversight for spending millions of dollars in city money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many city departments have an oversight board, usually appointed by the mayor or board of supervisors, responsible for scrutinizing and approving often lucrative contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Public Works, the department Nuru led, which was once overseen by the mayor’s office, has for years monitored itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor should reverse” that delegation, the report recommends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using that power, Nuru awarded roughly $25 million in homelessness contracts. Of those, the report found roughly $10 million were awarded “through no discernable selection process and are at the greatest risk of fraud or abuse in the award process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the contracts in that $10 million pool, the controller’s office noted, were awarded by Nuru to Walter Wong, a permit-expediter who was arrested by the FBI just last week and charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to engage in money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wong allegedly arranged for Nuru to be flown to China to be wined/dined by Zhang Li, the 555 Fulton developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new City Attorney investigative report today alleges Wong did the same for DBI director Tom Hui.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the full investigative report:\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/V81IOrnnG6\">https://t.co/V81IOrnnG6\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1237514322638594050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2020\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A $171,000 portable toilet contract also went to Nick Bovis, the Lefty O’Doul’s restauranteur who was indicted alongside Nuru in January. The city canceled that contract, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends greater transparency for behest payments, in which contractors donate to nonprofits at the behest of a city official. Currently, only the board of supervisors and particular city officials are required to reveal such payments. But the report shows department heads and other staffers should reveal all donations they request from contractors, even if those donations are directed to third-party charities, as those payments can be used as workarounds for bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, in response to the controller’s report, Mayor London Breed announced a set of immediate fixes and legislation to address some of the many shortcomings identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those changes, Breed pledged to rescind the unusual authority of the Public Works director to award contracts with little oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know these are the first in a series of recommendations, and we need to continue to identify problematic issues that erode public trust across our city,” Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has made an effort to clean house in the wake of the Nuru scandal, one she became tied to in February after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801734/sf-mayor-breed-reveals-she-once-dated-mohammed-nuru-received-gift-from-him\">publicly admitting\u003c/a> she had accepted $5,600 in car repairs from Nuru in 2019, a gift she did not report despite a legal requirement to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney is also seeking fixes based on the controller’s report, including limiting “insider contracting” — in which pre-qualified contractors do not have to competitively bid for new contracts — and revisiting the city’s ethics code rule that bars officials from accepting gifts from contractors, but includes an exemption for friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1277711045306417152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The controller’s analysis makes it clear that we need sweeping structural reform in City Hall,” Haney said in a statement. “We’ve let years of corruption waste taxpayer dollars, as city hall bureaucrats have awarded millions of dollars in contracts to their friends with no oversight. 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"content": "\u003cp>Harry Britt, a soft-spoken openly gay Methodist preacher who was thrust into politics when then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein appointed him to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors after Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in 1978, died Tuesday night. He was 82.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britt, a natural introvert who didn't seek the spotlight, was one of four people Milk named as his preferred successors in the event of his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harry was progressive before the word became vogue,\" said Feinstein, now California's senior U.S. Senator. \"He was a powerful advocate for the gay community who never took no for an answer. Strong, passionate advocates like Harry have done so much for San Francisco and the country, and I’m glad to have known him. He’ll be missed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britt was born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1938 and eventually made his way to San Francisco as the gay rights movement was gaining momentum. 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His fall from grace cast a pall over his department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They felt dirty, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those Public Works employees, from street cleaners and sewer workers to arborists and pavement layers, want to scrub their reputations free from “Mr. Clean’s” influence, and they’re looking to San Francisco Supervisors Matt Haney and Gordon Mar to help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 261, representing a majority of San Francisco Public Works maintenance and trades workers, voted unanimously Wednesday to support Haney and Mar’s forthcoming November 2020 ballot measures to reform Public Works and increase city oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The corruption had a huge impact on membership,” said Theresa Foglio-Ramirez, a city representative and business agent of LiUNA Local 261, which represents Public Works’ front-line workers, who do hands-on work outdoors cleaning streets, urban forestry, pothole repair and performing sewer work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The morale is now terrible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MrCleanSF/status/1150827337572741120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s professional workers, including architects and engineers, are represented by the International Federation of Technical Engineers Local 21, which have yet to vote on supporting the ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sources familiar with the matter say department employees represented by Local 21 have long-held concerns about department management and its contracts, which were a focus of the federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s measure, announced in February, would create an oversight committee for Public Works, whereas Mar’s would create an Office of the Public Advocate as an independent city watchdog, replete with subpoena powers, to root out future would-be Nurus. 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The mayor’s office noted San Francisco is facing a budget deficit, a difficult time to create new oversight bodies that would balloon government costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Considering we have a $1.5 billion deficit, we shouldn’t be adding more spending and bureaucracy through ballot measures,” Jeff Cretan, spokesperson for Mayor London Breed, told KQED. “We have real challenges ahead to support our existing workforce and provide basic city services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a statement from LiUNA Local 261, neither measure can come soon enough to battle “casual bureaucratic corruption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Working for ‘Mr. Clean’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Foglio-Ramirez said Public Works staff had — for two decades — lived under the spectre of corruption, which was only revealed when Nuru was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had no problem in ruling with an iron first,” Foglio-Ramirez said. 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She could recall at least a dozen employees pushed out of Public Works after trying to sound the alarm to its now publicly known corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Nuru cut standards across the board, Foglio-Ramirez said, including winnowing some safety training for her union members, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Public Works] was a respected department. We had top-notch equipment, the best safety training, you were proud. 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He also stands accused of planning to bribe an airport commissioner, though that bribe was not consummated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just this month, Nick Bovis, a San Francisco restaurant owner who was charged alongside Nuru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11819898/owner-of-lefty-odouls-pleads-guilty-to-wire-fraud-charges-agrees-to-cooperate-in-case\">agreed to plead guilty\u003c/a> to two counts and cooperate with the ongoing investigation, according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to learn from the FBI investigation,” Foglio-Ramirez said. “[Public Works’] budget is huge. You need to make sure that money is spent where it’s supposed to be spent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to have oversight,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Haney’s proposed ballot measure is intended to provide: It would also split off Public Works’ street cleaning functions into an independent agency, leaving other functions of the behemoth department — like the construction of city properties — under the jurisdiction of the existing Public Works department. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco told the Trump administration to expedite the return of a gay man who was deported to Chad last year while he was seeking asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer told federal officials, including a representative from the Department of Homeland Security, to speed up the delivery of a boarding document to Abderaman Oumar Yaide that will allow him to return to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if they don't provide that letter before the next court-ordered status conference in two weeks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government needs to put a boarding letter for a plane in Oumar's hands by that time and, if not, he'll order someone from the State Department to appear in front of him in court,\" said Yaide's lawyer, Sean Lai McMahon with Pangea Legal Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaide came to San Francisco in 2009, seeking political asylum. His case was denied by an immigration judge in 2014, and for years he's been appealing the decision. Since then, Yaide has come out as gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11801925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Oumar-Yaide-With-Friends-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Oumar Yaide, pictured with friends in San Francisco, has been in hiding in Chad since he was deported. 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"content": "\u003cp>London Breed might have breezed into her first full term as San Francisco mayor on Nov. 5, but Election Day was a loss for her moderate faction at City Hall — one that could stifle the mayor's agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784760/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-easily-wins-full-term\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landslide victory\u003c/a> against a field of little-known candidates was one measure of her popularity among voters and progressives' hesitance to challenge her campaign directly. Yet two of her strongest allies lost to more progressive candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-reform Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786019/reformer-chesa-boudin-defeats-suzy-loftus-in-race-for-s-f-d-a\">defeated\u003c/a> interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus — a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778248/s-f-mayor-breed-picks-suzy-loftus-as-interim-da-to-replace-gascon-one-month-before-election\">appointed by Breed\u003c/a> after DA George Gascon resigned in October — and democratic socialist Dean Preston beat incumbent District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown, whom Breed hand-picked as her own replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For progressives, the victories are twofold. They not only represent a rejection of Breed's relatively moderate ideology, but they also forge a clear path for more reformist policy changes — particularly at the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jason McDaniel, political science professor at SF State\"]'There is a sense in the board now that they are going to be driving the agenda much more so than the mayor.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, progressives gained their first solid majority on the 11-member board in years, after Supervisors Matt Haney and Gordon Mar were elected in November 2018. Come January, after Preston takes office, their majority will be even stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that leaves little incentive to cooperate with the mayor and her dwindling number of City Hall allies, said Jennifer Snyder, Preston's campaign manager and soon-to-be legislative aide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no reason that any supervisor now has to work with the mayor,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Preston, it's an opportunity to hit the ground running with ambitious policy proposals on housing, homelessness and power redistribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's our job in Supervisor Preston's office to push things as far left as we can,\" Snyder said. \"Folks have a serious appetite for progressive reform. They want it. They're not afraid of democratic socialism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Snyder said, Preston's team is optimistic that their relationship with Breed won't be entirely adversarial. \"Hopefully she'll work with us to push super progressive policies,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cooperation isn't a necessity, at least when it comes to passing legislation. With nine out of 11 supervisors now identifying as progressive (if you include Preston), Breed's ability to set the legislative agenda by signing or vetoing legislation — perhaps the strongest tool of the executive branch — is muffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They [progressives] have enough to override any veto that she may use,\" San Francisco State political science professor Jason McDaniel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there is a sense in the board now that they are going to be driving policy and driving the agenda much more so than the mayor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A veto or signature still holds symbolic power. But it remains to be seen how Breed might wield her signature — and that's something to keep an eye on, according to McDaniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How to navigate that?\" he asked. \"She is going to maybe use that to call out policy differences where she disagrees, but still highlight some things that she might agree with as she begins her statement about the legislation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11786689 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/chesa-boudin-1020x680.jpg']Mayor Breed's communications director, Jeff Cretan, said in a statement that the mayor has a \"clear record of working\" with all supervisors, including on issues like affordable housing and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan also noted that Breed can work outside of the board to push her agenda \"on her own\" with \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/mayoral-executive-directives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive directives\u003c/a>, which don't change law but call on city departments to take certain actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will always be areas of policy disagreement with members of the board,\" Cretan said. \"But the mayor will continue to focus on moving forward solutions that make a difference for the people of San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Nov. 5, there have been a couple of glimpses into how Breed might navigate the progressive majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the election, she announced a compromise with Supervisors Haney and Hillary Ronen, among the most progressive on the board, on a sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786202/s-f-mayor-breed-and-supes-agree-on-plan-to-overhaul-citys-mental-health-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental health care proposal\u003c/a> that they've been sparring over for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's unlikely that the deal was entirely a result of the newly strengthened progressive majority — Breed, Haney and Ronen had been in talks since before the election — the election results sped up negotiations, according to Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we saw a pretty immediate shift,\" he said. \"The mayor came on board pretty much right after the election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan said the deal was in no way related to the election and that they reached an agreement before Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11786202 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/GettyImages-1149905349-1020x690.jpg']Regardless of the timeline, the move could illustrate what City Hall might look like over the next few years, according to SF State's McDaniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think you'll continue to see things like that,\" he said, especially when it comes to measures on issues like mental health, health care and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another example of emerging political dynamics, McDaniel said, came after supervisors unanimously passed legislation that aims to create more housing funding for the city's middle to low-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed didn't veto or sign the legislation, which was introduced by Haney. Rather, she returned it unsigned, allowing the measure to become law — but not without expressing her reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=7906098&GUID=37345889-CDDE-487E-B0D7-1AC6AC5695CB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the board, Breed said she does support generating cash for affordable housing, but she voiced frustration over the particular measure, saying it wasn't financially feasible and that it could hurt small businesses, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remain concerned that this legislation, while well intended, will not produce the revenue it promises for affordable housing,\" Breed wrote, arguing that the measure's $400 million funding promise was misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Haney, it was clear that the mayor was trying to send a message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a little unclear to me what the point of it was, at this stage, when it is going to become law,\" he said. \"It certainly raises questions as to whether she's going to be able to be independent from some of the bigger developers and different forces in the city to be able to work with us when we challenge the status quo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, both the progressive faction and Breed's wing have more upcoming elections to consider as they navigate changing power dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2020, six seats on the Board of Supervisors will be open, which could be an opportunity for progressives to further isolate the mayor. 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It asks the court to step in “to instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is in San Francisco, we are always willing to take risks,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told KQED. “We’re always willing to put ourselves out there and do what’s necessary to address the injustices we see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the resolution calling the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization,” it contended the group spreads propaganda that seeks to deceive the public about the dangers of gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This action is an assault on all advocacy organizations across the country,” said William A. Brewer III, the NRA’s lawyer. “There can be no place in our society for this manner of behavior by government officials. Fortunately, the NRA, like all U.S. citizens, is protected by the First Amendment.”\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Supervisor Catherine Stefani\"]“They continue to stand in the way of gun violence reform and people are dying because of it.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s resolution follows some recent high-profile shootings, including the one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763883/active-shooting-reported-at-gilroy-garlic-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gilroy\u003c/a> on July 28, when a gunman entered the annual garlic festival with an AK-style long gun, killing three people and injuring 17 before killing himself. Since that shooting, there have been at least three mass shootings — in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766745/police-el-paso-shooting-suspect-said-he-targeted-mexicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Paso, Texas\u003c/a>; Dayton, Ohio; and in the West Texas towns of Odessa and Midland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Catherine Stefani said she drafted the resolution after the Gilroy shooting, driven in part by the vision of one of those killed while playing in a bouncy house at the festival. Stefani, an attorney who has been involved for years in gun control organizations, said the thought sickened her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had enough,” she told The Associated Press. “They continue to stand in the way of gun violence reform, and people are dying because of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also criticized NRA leadership for how it spends dues from its self-proclaimed 5 million members — a sore point among some gun rights activists as well as those who believe its longtime CEO, Wayne LaPierre, and some of those in his inner circle have misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars on such things as expensive clothing, travel, housing and inflated salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The NRA is a terrorist organization that isn’t succeeding at much of anything: They’re dealing with dwindling membership, financial troubles and a Russian spy scandal. This lawsuit is just their latest unsuccessful effort,” Stefani told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael McGough, senior editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times\"]“Police shootings and gun violence understandably inspire strong emotions, and elected officials are no exception. But they need to watch their words, especially when those words are contained in legislation or, in this case, pseudo-legislation.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stefani told the AP that she believes the lawsuit is a “desperate move by a very desperate organization,” taking note of those allegations by some NRA members. “I truly believe their time is up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NRA has been battling a number of challenges to its operations in recent months, including an investigation by the attorney general in New York, where its charter was formed, and the attorney general in Washington, D.C., where authorities are questioning whether its operations are in violation of its nonprofit status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There also have been internal battles over NRA leadership with the group’s then-president, Oliver North, and its top lobbyist, Chris Cox, stepping down, giving gun rights activists pause about the NRA’s ability to hold sway in the upcoming 2020 presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a light shined on, not only what’s happening with our policymakers, but who’s actually influencing our policymakers and why they can’t act on getting rid of assault rifles and things that should never be in the hands of anyone for any reason in this country,” Breed said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat leaders in Congress on Monday urged President Trump, a favorite of the NRA, to push Republicans to agree to expand background checks, and there have been efforts to make it easier to seize firearms at least temporarily from people who are exhibiting mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NRA would rather go to court than tackle the “epidemic” of gun violence in the U.S., said John Coté, San Francisco City Attorney’s Office spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people would be better served if the NRA stopped trying to get weapons of war into our communities and instead actually did something about gun safety,” Coté said. “Common-sense safety measures like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban and restricting high-capacity magazines would be a good start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"nra\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaPierre, the NRA’s CEO, vowed to fight the move by city officials, saying in a statement: “This lawsuit comes with a message to those who attack the NRA: We will never stop fighting for our law-abiding members and their constitutional freedoms. Some politicians forget that all 5 million of us in the NRA stand for freedom and that we believe it is a cause worth fighting for. We will always confront illegal and discriminatory practices against our organization and the millions of members we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move by city officials has received some pushback from those who believe it amounts to “virtue signaling.” An editorial in the Los Angeles Times written by Michael McGough argued that although the NRA should be criticized for blocking efforts to stem gun violence, it’s not accurate to label it a “domestic terrorist organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police shootings and gun violence understandably inspire strong emotions, and elected officials are no exception. 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