Yesterday I got an email from SEIU (the government employees union), asking me to write in opposing this deal. It turns out there are over 34,000 government emp

Yesterday I got an email from SEIU (the government employees union), asking me to write in opposing this deal. It turns out there are over 34,000 government employees in the City + Country of SF. For a population of under 800,000 . Wow. Why does this surprise you? SF has SF State, UCSF, Hastings Law, the 9th Circuit Court, USGS, GGNRA and is home to many other government agencies. Also, corruption and patronage aren't exactly new in SF, they have been part and parcel in the city going back to before the 1906 earthquake. If anything, SF is a lot less corrupt now than it was during the dot com boom when Willie Brown was mayor.