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It's a federal case. SF's system is almost intentionally designed to breed corruption. The reason is that elected officials are aligned with "community organiz
by jeffbee 3y ago
It's a federal case.
SF's system is almost intentionally designed to breed corruption. The reason is that elected officials are aligned with "community organizations" which are just extortion outfits, but favored ones, like MAC or TODCO. SF's policies direct the flow of bribes into these organizations, who if left un-bribed will sue to stop your project, and the groups in turn kick part of the money back into campaigns.
- primitivesuave 3y agoTODCO stopped construction on thousands of housing units for over 2 years by simply having a BoS member (Dean Preston) convince the board to perform a "race and equity study" that never happened [1]. They also refused to fire one of their directors who had sexually assaulted multiple people and left evidence of his crimes. 1. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/san-francisco-housing-17408816.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>SF's system is almost intentionally designed to breed corruption. One of the reasons for byzantine regulations and procedures in the first place is exactly to extract extraneous informal payments to those in position to smooth over the roadbumps which their kind created to begin with. It's the New Jersey way, badda-boom-badda-bing!
- renewiltord 3y agoThis is such a common thing in third-world countries that people who lived there can see it in SF immediately. It's very obvious, but I've found that Americans are a very honour-and-pride based culture, so it's best not to inform them that they're being suckered or they'll get upset at the messenger rather than the conman and will work very hard to believe anything but fact.