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Ah, I see, you prefer to believe the narrative presented by police press releases and ads on the sides of buses, rather than actua(ria)l statistics. A note abo
by uoaei 4y ago
Ah, I see, you prefer to believe the narrative presented by police press releases and ads on the sides of buses, rather than actua(ria)l statistics.
A note about the recall campaign: the funding for both sides would have been roughly equal except for one PAC -- NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SAN FRANCISCO ADVOCACY.[1] That PAC ultimately took in 84 donations for a total of roughly $5.8MM, meaning average donation size was roughly $70k. If each donation was given by one person (reasonable estimate) and each person lives in SF (provably false) then that represents around 0.01% of the population of SF. Not exactly the groundswell of support it was portrayed to be.
An article in The Nation[2] goes into detail about the context around Boudin's time in office and the hysteria of commercial real estate interests who, rather than working to mitigate the problem that generates such fears, stokes the fears instead.
[1] https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1431167&session=2021&view=received&psort=TRANS_DATE&ssort=TRANS_DATE https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.asp...
[2] https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/chesa-boudin-recall-backlash/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/chesa-boudin-reca...