As a San Francisco resident & lifelong tech industry person, I for one would want public officials who are informed & yet fight the growing power of rich/tech group & represents real San Franciscans. Too many politicians are supplicants to tech!
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Maybe the city has billions of dollars in financial obligations it agreed to, has no way to pay for and can’t legally renegotiate. So it just has to attract more business/capital just to prevent the city budget from eating itself? And both political factions are complicit in it?
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There is only one faction here..politicians. No matter where you look from, they are not working for people, but political system.
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There are two factions in SF. Progressives and moderates. Moderates are more pro-business so they are friendlier to tech. Progressives are unions, tenants, NIMBY neighborhood groups. But if you sign the city for $5.7B in obligations, some subsequent mayor is gonna have to
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Figure out a way to pay for that (probably by attracting more business) so you can’t say that you’re innocent. We were supposed to be running ~$1B in deficits by now but we’re “only” at $200M/yr bc of the tech boom.
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This is the financial situation the city is in despite its wealth:https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/992412815104315394?s=21 …
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