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what about a ballot prop to dissolve the government of San Francisco and start over, in an emergency election?

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Not enough incentive for enough competent people to do this and fill all the vacant seats. Even if you found them, could you afford to pay them competitively? Why wouldn’t people vote for the same disaster all over again? Best case you all work hard and make the landowners rich.

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SF’s local tradition for remedying a dysfunctional, corrupt city government is a temporary ‘Committee of Vigilance’, which hangs the miscreants – often Australian mobsters – then organizes a new, more-responsive government:

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San Francisco Committee of Vigilance

The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851. The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks gang. It was revived in 1856 in response to...