The point was simply that Benioff doesn’t want to have a serious policy discussion and it’s disappointing journalists are letting him play them. Let him say that he’d still support a bill Stripe would & then justify why we should still pass this version.
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Yes it’s too bad that the only time anybody is willing to have a serious policy discussion about a serious issue that has been entrenched in the city for 36 years is 1 week before a ballot initiative with real momentum to raise money for said issue is about to pass.
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I think he’d love to have it but this is the train, he had a few weeks and this is what it will take to get it over the line.
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But honestly, most other people don’t care and don’t want to have this conversation. There were already two other funding measures that failed in June and 2016 bc voters DGAF.
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It's almost like taxing and allocating revenue through propositions is a bad idea and we should demand better from our elected officials who should be doing the governing...
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Yes initiatives are a terrible way to budget and SF has 19 setasides. Yet it’s very hard to change policy for the poorest and most vulnerable of constituents absent a way like this. It’s like reversing mass incarceration. It’s hard for a candidate to run a campaign on
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“releasing criminals” like it would be hard for a candidate to run a campaign on meaningfully increasing spending on poverty to really make a dent in it.
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The way I see it, bad ideas are easy to sell to voters as props, but hard(er) to sell to groups of experts (elected officials). Good ideas are no easier to sell to voters than to experts & prob harder bc nuance. This is why I’m a militant lowercase republican.
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Criminal justice reform is a good example. CA voters loved 3 strikes & only partially fixed their blunder 15+ years later. I suspect CA Republicans would’ve gone further sooner, & even nationally there’s bipartisan agreement it is needed.
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The most impt thing wasn’t candidates or even Prop 47. It was Brown v. Plata. It was a court decision.
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Courts are unfortunately sometimes tasked w dealing with fallout from terrible props. That’s a bad/unreliable backstop though, & ideally they’d determine policy less frequently, but much respect to the judicial branch.
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California’s prison system has been basically overcrowded since the Waban, a ship full of prisoners, docked in Marin County in 1852 and its occupants were forced to build what became San Quentin.
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