A California politician that Spock will like

[jarnon]

Daniel Lurie, Mayor of San Francisco for the past year. From an interview on ABC News last week:

We lost our way as a city. We all know that. We had, you know, career politicians that were focused on what was next for them instead of what was best for San Franciscans.

I think we got away from the basics of government. Now, today, if you come to San Francisco to commit a crime, we're going to catch you and we're going to prosecute you. If you come to San Francisco to deal drugs or to do drugs, we're going to prosecute you. And I think we sort of had a laissez-faire attitude. We said, OK, it's somebody's right to do drugs. Our progressive values sort of overtook common sense. We had 812 people die of overdose a few years ago in our city — in a single year. There's nothing progressive about that. There's nothing progressive about car break-ins. This year, this past year, we're at a 22-year low when it comes to car break-ins. We have fundamentally shifted what's happening and how people feel.

We still have our challenges. There's no question. I'm not going to sit here and say you can't go down a few of our streets and see some of the things you saw in the last few years. But we've made great strides.

Crime in San Francisco, Jon, is down 30 percent citywide. It's actually down 40 percent in our downtown.

[BackInTex]

Why just Spock? Why not all folks who won't let "progressive values" overtake common sense?

My daughter lived in San Francisco (in the city) from December 2018 until this past September when she moved to Denver. It got pretty bad from 2020-2023. It is still bad in some areas, but I will agree it's improved somewhat. I'm glad she's out of there. Still too many "progressives" with little to no common sense.