‘She Has to Go’: Democrats Wary Of Nancy Pelosi Having Another Term in Leadership After Midterms
Four years after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly made a deal to serve only four more years — when some Democrat lawmakers dissented on her rise to the speakership in 2018 — she will not say if she intends to keep a leadership position after the midterms, but other members may be quietly making the decision for her.
CNN reported further on Pelosi’s 2018 deal:
The 2018 deal Pelosi agreed to with dissident members limiting her to four more years as speaker was an informal agreement, and caucus rules were never changed imposing any time limits on her tenure. Several members told CNN that if the midterms go well for their party, a combination of shocked euphoria and deference to both her fundraising prowess and the importance of female voters, could make them reconsider.
Several noted, though, that a surprising victory in holding the majority might be the perfect time for the exit that Pelosi has said she originally planned to make six years ago if Hillary Clinton won the presidency, and that any decision to stay would have to come with a clear timetable for leaving.
However, CNN noted that Democrat lawmakers are not on the same page regarding Pelosi’s future.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a vulnerable member, who has been relying on the speaker’s help in his reelection bid, said that he supports Pelosi and that we would “support her for whatever position.”
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), another vulnerable member, said if the Democrats keep the majority in the House, “she’ll deserve it – it’s as simple as that.” But if the Democrats lose the majority, it will be a “dynamics change” and that “it changes the game.”
On the other hand, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), who has voted for Pelosi to be Speaker and said she is “one of the most extraordinary speakers in history,” added that “It’s time for generational diversity of our leadership ranks – regardless of the outcome of the election.”
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) also said, “I certainly have long thought it’s time for new leadership…She’s done an incredible job, but we really do need to grow new leaders.”
“When you have the top three people in our caucus in their 80s. … There does need to be a new generation coming up and starting to lead. And that’s something that I think the Democratic Party shouldn’t be afraid of,” Sherrill added.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a critic of Pelosi, added, “I think if we’re in a minority, then I think that the desire for change will be broader, potentially within the party. But I think that desire exists.”
“We saw and heard that desire in the last two terms that Democrats were the majority, so it really is just a question of, not if people want that, but how many,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
CNN also acknowledged that Democrats have privately been more forthcoming.
One senior Democrat told CNN, “She has to go.”
“No way she can stay,” another House Democrat told CNN, while another vulnerable democrat, who vowed not to vote for Pelosi added, “She doesn’t have the votes.”
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
Democratic House Speaker Pelosi to rail workers: Accept a pro-company deal or we’ll force you to
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Among those praising the tentative rail agreement, worked out in the middle of the night between Wednesday and Thursday, is House Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In a statement issued yesterday, Pelosi heaped praise on the Biden administration and “the representatives of the labor unions who wouldn’t leave the table without achieving justice for their workers.”
What “their workers” think of the “justice” that has been achieved at the table with Biden and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is evident in the outpouring of anger at the deal worked out behind their backs.
Pelosi, with a net worth of $135 million, is one of the richest individuals in a Congress composed largely of millionaires. When Pelosi declares that the agreement is “good for our economy,” she really means it is good for Wall Street. When she adds that it is good “for our security,” she means that blocking a strike of railroad workers is a necessary part of American war planning.
After her words about “justice for workers,” Pelosi proceeded to threaten workers that if they don’t accept this “justice,” then other measures will be necessary.
In her statement, Pelosi acknowledged that the Democrats would have sided with the carriers and barred any strike:
With hope for an agreement but concern for the challenges that a strike would present, Congress stood ready to take action. Congress under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution has the authority and responsibility to ensure the uninterrupted operation of essential transportation services and has in the past enacted legislation for such purposes. Led by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the House prepared and had reviewed legislation, so that we would be ready to act, pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act.
That is, Pelosi and the entire political establishment (Democrats and Republicans alike) stood ready to bar a strike and force through an agreement that workers rejected.
Lest anyone think that this threat applies only to the past, Pelosi added: “Thankfully this action may not be necessary. We congratulate the unions and railroads for coming to an agreement, because it is in the national interest that essential transportation services be maintained” (emphasis added).
The implications are clear enough. Accept this “justice,” Pelosi is declaring to workers, or else we’ll force you to.
Rank-and-file rail workers had their own say the day before Pelosi’s remarks. At a mass meeting held Wednesday night by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee, workers voted by 98 percent to endorse a resolution that stated:
1. We will not accept any act by Congress that violates our democratic right to strike and imposes upon us a contract that we do not accept and has not been ratified by the rank and file.
2. We demand a contract that addresses our needs, including a major pay increase to make up for years of declining wages; cost-of-living adjustments to meet soaring inflation; an end to brutal attendance policies; guaranteed time off and sick days; and an end to the push for one-man crews.
3. We inform the unions that any attempt to force through contracts that we do not accept and that have not been voted on, or to keep us working without a contract, will be in violation of clear instructions given by the rank and file.
The unions, the Biden administration, Congress may have blocked a strike from happening this morning, but the conflict between the workers and the whole corporate-union-political establishment is only in its initial stages.
Surging cost of living in US drives class tensions to the breaking point
The latest inflation data published Tuesday shows that the working class confronts months of immense hardships as wages lose their value in the face of rising living costs. The ruling class’s attempt to make the working class pay for the crisis of capitalism is driving workers into struggle across the world, including in the United States, where teachers, nurses, and possibly railroad workers are launching powerful strikes.
Price increases in virtually all consumer items led to a 12-month inflation rate of 8.3 percent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. Rents, groceries, and medical care costs drove the rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in August. Household furnishings, new vehicles, motor vehicle insurance, and education also saw increases.
For the working class, life is becoming intolerably more expensive by the day.
Rental housing costs rose another 0.7 percent in August, bringing the 12-month increase to 6.2 percent, the highest since 1986. Utilities were up 2.1 percent in August and are up a staggering 19.8 percent over the past year. The cost of food was up 0.8 percent last month and has risen by 11.4 percent over the last year, the sharpest rise since 1979.
President Biden did not refer to the new figures during a White House event to celebrate the passage of the phony “Inflation Reduction Act” Tuesday afternoon, only saying glibly, “We have more to do.” The president touted the three-month fall in gasoline prices, without mentioning that gas is still up 26 percent over the last year.
Biden, the Democrats and Republicans have provided at least $50 billion to arm Ukraine this year, but they have done nothing to alleviate the impact of rising costs on working class and middle-class families.
In a separate report Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said real average hourly earnings fell another 0.2 percent from July to August. Over the last year, real average hourly pay of an American worker fell by 2.8 percent.
“Everything is going up except our paychecks,” James, a Detroit Chrysler (Stellantis) worker, told the World Socialist Web Site. “I’m working two jobs and at least 80 hours a week to make it. It’s crazy. I don’t have any time to sleep.”
The rise in living expenses—which has added $341 to a typical family’s monthly costs—is escalating class conflict in the United States and internationally. This week alone, 15,000 nurses in Minnesota participated in one of the largest private sector health care strikes in US history; 6,000 Seattle teachers walked out of classrooms; and more than 100,000 railroad workers are set to strike at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Friday morning.
The American ruling class, and the Biden administration in particular, is relying on the trade union apparatus to enforce contracts with wage increases that are far below the rate of inflation. Indeed, workers in trade unions have seen nominal wage increases that are significantly lower than for workers who are not in unions.
In an effort to enforce labor “peace” at home, while it wages war abroad, the Biden administration is working on further integrating the trade union apparatus—and its thousands of officials making six-figure salaries—into a tripartite corporatist relationship directed against the working class.
The teachers unions are doing whatever they can to suppress the fight of educators against horrific conditions and the spread of the pandemic as schools open. The health care unions are isolating the powerful struggle of Minnesota nurses, while limiting their strike to only three days. The AFL-CIO apparatus is desperately trying to keep a lid on anger that is boiling to the surface.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the rail industry, where workers have not had a raise in years and have no sick days. Many are forced to remain on call 24/7, leaving no time for their families or rest.
While the Biden administration and the millionaires in the US Congress are threatening to use strikebreaking legislation against workers, the unions are engaged in a divide-and conquer strategy aimed at forcing through a sellout agreement. They promoted the fiction that a “Presidential Emergency Board” would propose a contract favorable to workers—the very same proposal that Congress is preparing to try to ram through over overwhelming opposition.
The ruling class is engaged in a policy of class war. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, with the full backing of the Biden administration, has made it clear that he is willing to throw the economy into a recession with sharp increases in rate hikes, which are designed to “exert pain” and use mass unemployment to beat back workers’ demands for raises that keep up with the rate of inflation.
Inflation, however, is not caused by workers’ demands for raises to keep up with rising costs but the infusion of trillions of dollars by the US government and central banks to bail out Wall Street and prop up the stock market bubble. The economic crisis has been exacerbated by the limitless resources handed over to the Pentagon to wage war against Russia and China.
Urgent action by the working class is needed to defend living standards. The Socialist Equality Party calls for workers to form independent organizations of working-class struggle, rank-and-file committees, in every workplace and neighborhood.
A network of rank-and-file committees, as part of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, should prepare strikes, mass demonstrations and other class actions to win the following emergency demands:
- Raise base hourly pay by 40 percent to offset declining real income over the last five years. Two thirds of American workers are living paycheck to paycheck.
- Immediately index all wages to the current inflation level and introduce an automatic monthly Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) escalator to keep pace with rising expenses.
- Increase all employer-paid medical and pension benefits in line with inflation.
- Sharply raise government-funded Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security benefits to protect retired workers and spouses.
- Immediate relief for unpaid credit card, student loan, car and housing debt.
- Stop price-gouging by the energy monopolies and roll prices back to the November 2020 level of $2.00 a gallon. The profits must be reclaimed to meet social needs, and the energy industry must be nationalized under public ownership and democratic control.
Rank-and-file committees have already been initiated in critical industries, including among rail workers, health care workers, educators and autoworkers. The campaign of Will Lehman for president of the United Auto Workers is spearheading the fight for a rank-and-file rebellion against the union apparatus and the establishment of democratic control on the shop floor. It is winning a powerful response from autoworkers and other workers throughout the country.
A counter-offensive in the working class, freed from the constraints of the union apparatus, is the only way to break the dictatorship of the corporate and financial oligarchy and its two parties, the Democrats and Republicans. Only in this way can any of the great problems confronting workers be resolved.
The development of the class struggle must be connected to the building of a socialist and revolutionary leadership in the working class, in the United States and throughout the world. Capitalism offers nothing but poverty, exploitation, war and dictatorship. If there is to be a future for workers, it is through the fight to expropriate the ruling elites, establish genuine democratic control over economic life, and reorganize society on the basis of social need, not private profit. That is, it is through the fight for socialism.
San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over BLACK crime surge: She doesn't care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SewBXWKj2g
SF Suffers Highest Rate of Car Break-Ins Compared to Atlanta, DC, Dallas, LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTLPISB7xig
PHOTO: Grandma Accused in San Francisco $1 Million Looting Spree
Among the 25 largest U.S. cities, San Francisco has had the highest
property-crime rate in four of the most recent six years for which
data is available, bucking the long-term national decline in such
crimes that began in the 1990s. Property crimes declined in San
Francisco during the first year of the pandemic, but rose 13% in
2021. Burglaries in the city are at their highest levels since the mid
1990s. There were 20,663 thefts from vehicles last year—almost 57
a day—a 39% increase from the prior year, although still below the
record of 31,398 in 2017, according to the police. Zusha Elinson
Half of San Franciscans Have Been Robbed
How bad can crime get when the laws are no longer enforced, criminals are released as soon as they’re caught and the police hardly bothering to respond to calls?
Here’s life for ordinary people in the pro-crime utopia of San Francisco which doesn’t just have streets covered in human waste, it also has human waste walking the streets.
“Forty-five percent of people surveyed for the poll said they had an item stolen within the last five years. Proportionally, Black and mixed-race respondents felt a more severe impact than other groups, with a majority — 54% of Black respondents and 55% of mixed-race respondents — reporting they had suffered theft. Property crime rates were lower for white residents, 43% of whom had a possession swiped within the time period.”
Equity. There’s the disproportionate impact of pro-crime policies.
“Rates of physical and verbal assaults appear to be lower than property crimes, the poll indicated, with roughly a quarter of respondents — 24% — saying they had been threatened or attacked.”
24% is 1 in 4. That’s a horrifying number.
This is the result of Democrats adopting pro-crime policies. And it’s only going to get worse until they start enforcing the law again.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Watters: The Five (CRIME) Families of the Democrat Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpvvHethg0
WHAT DID NANCY PELOSI DO FOR HER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
OF MELTDOWN SAN FRANCISCO? - NADA! - BUT SHE SURE
RAKED IN THE MONEY BEING A FAILURE
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-did-nancy-pelosi-do-for-her.html
SAN FRANCISCO POPULATION IS ONLY 8% BACK, HOWEVER, BLACKS PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME (these are pre-covid numbers).
San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over BLACK crime surge: She doesn't care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SewBXWKj2g
Small-business owners have been hit Petty Thieves Plague San Francisco. ‘These Last Two Years Have Been Insane.’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crime-san-francisco-petty-thieves-small-businesses-11647797642
By Zusha Elinson
SAN FRANCISCO— Terry Asten Bennett’s family has been running Cliff’s Variety Store since 1936. In all that time, they’ve never experienced the amount of burglaries and property damage that they have recently, Ms. Bennett said.
Thieves smashed a display window and broke down a door to steal items as small as spray paint, and people shattered glass doors on two occasions for no apparent reason.
“These last two years have been insane,” she said. “It used to be a rare occurrence.”
Although violent crime in San Francisco is lower than in many other major U.S. cities, business owners, residents and visitors here are dealing with a rash of thefts, burglaries and car break-ins.
Among the 25 largest U.S. cities, San Francisco has had the highest property-crime rate in four of the most recent six years for which data is available, bucking the long-term national decline in such crimes that began in the 1990s. Property crimes declined in San Francisco during the first year of the pandemic, but rose 13% in 2021. Burglaries in the city are at their highest levels since the mid-1990s. There were 20,663 thefts from vehicles last year—almost 57 a day—a 39% increase from the prior year, although still below the record of 31,398 in 2017, according to the police.
Smashed storefronts are so common that the city launched a program to fix them with public money. Car owners leave notes declaring there is nothing of value in their vehicles, or leave their windows open to save themselves from broken glass. Videos of shoplifters hauling goods out of drugstores such as Walgreens have gone viral, and a smash-and-grab robbery by 20 to 40 people at a Louis Vuitton store last November made the national news.
Owners of small businesses say the costs of security and repairs are eating into profits already diminished by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Castro, the neighborhood where Cliff’s is located, shops have recorded nearly 100 instances of smashed windows and doors that cost $170,000 to repair since the beginning of 2020, according to the neighborhood’s merchant association.
Criminologists say San Francisco’s high density of retail stores and its mix of tourists, commuters and wealthy residents have made it an inviting target for thieves. Locals point to a host of other factors that may be exacerbating the problem, including the tactics of the police and prosecutors, statewide changes intended to reduce the number of people behind bars, and the city’s dual crises of drug use and homelessness. There has been no end of finger-pointing.
Despite the city’s long history of progressive politics, some business owners and residents are demanding that political leaders shift to a more law-and-order approach.
San Francisco’s mix of retail stores, tourists, commuters and wealthy residents have made it an inviting target. The Union Square retail district, top, and the Chinatown neighborhood.
District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who took office in 2020 as part of the national “progressive prosecutor” movement and has de-emphasized the prosecution of low-level offenses, will face a recall election in June.
“Nothing is more important than to make sure that people who live in this city, people who work in the city, people who visit San Francisco, feel safe,” Democratic Mayor London Breed said at a news conference last month. “The fact is, that does require police officers.”
Some former police officials and business owners blame Mr. Boudin’s focus on keeping people who commit small-scale crimes out of prison. His office, for example, discourages filing charges in cases where suspects are pulled over for traffic infractions and officers find small amounts of drugs. Others point the finger at the police, who cleared just 6% of the city’s property crimes in 2020, more than 8 percentage points lower than the national average. A case is considered cleared if a suspect is arrested, charged and turned over to a court for prosecution, or is identified with sufficient evidence for a charge but can’t be taken into custody for circumstances beyond police control.
Some business owners say the city’s large population of people living on the streets and using drugs such as fentanyl is a big factor in the small-scale thefts. Law-enforcement officials, though, say they suspect organized crews of petty criminals are carrying out a large portion of them.
Police Chief Bill Scott has deployed more officers to tourist spots such as Fisherman’s Wharf to stop car break ins, and to retail shopping districts to stop thefts and burglaries. He has beefed up his retail theft investigations unit.
Businesses have been affected in every corner of San Francisco, even traditionally low-crime areas such as the Sunset District, where commercial and residential burglaries rose 80% in between 2019 and 2021.
Michael Hsu’s Footprint shoe store got broken into for the first time in February 2021. The thief used a blowtorch to crack the glass door without setting off the alarm and took tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end North Face jackets. More people arrived soon after, taking whatever they could grab before they set off the alarm.
Mr. Hsu, who grew up in the Sunset, said he recalled thinking: “Oh, they finally got me.”
Michael Hsu's shoe store in the Sunset neighborhood has been burglarized repeatedly.
He now keeps some merchandise locked with security cables.
He turned to a grant program for small businesses to fix his shattered storefront.
Security footage shows a thief using a blowtorch to crack the glass door at Footprint.
Michael Hsu
Mr. Hsu was the first recipient in the new grant program for small businesses to fix their storefronts. Three weeks later, his store was hit again, this time by a thief who climbed up scaffolding, broke in through a second-story window and made off with several boxes of shoes.
He now equips his employees with pepper spray and a key fob that calls the police directly. He upgraded his security system and is putting money aside for other antitheft measures.
The grant program has distributed more than $500,000 to nearly 400 businesses to fix their storefronts.
Sharky Laguana, who is president of the city’s small business commission and runs the van-rental company Bandago, said thieves frequently smash his vehicles’ windows and steal his customers’ belongings. “It gives customers a bad experience, it costs them a lot of money and it costs us a lot of money,” he said.
Police and prosecutors say the majority of car break-ins are committed by organized crews. Mr. Laguana grew so frustrated he launched a reward program for information that leads to busts of big fencing operations that buy merchandise from such thieves. He thought he would be able to raise tens of thousands of dollars at best; he got $250,000 in pledges from rental-car companies and other businesses.
The day after the Louis Vuitton smash-and-grab robbery, San Francisco police deployed a mobile command center that still sits across the street from the luxury-goods store. The department sent more foot patrols to the Union Square retail district, pulling officers from all over the city, said Captain Julian Ng who oversees the area.
“It’s a resource drain, but if I had my way, we’d do this forever because it’s such an important area for the city,” said Capt. Ng.
Police Capt. Julian Ng, top, on the street in Chinatown. Shattered auto glass in the parking lot of a popular tourist destination.
Five people were arrested in connection with the Louis Vuitton incident. Captain Ng said there are many reasons for the city’s overall low rate of clearing property-crime cases, including the department’s no-chase policy for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, which aims to reduce unnecessary accidents. Car break-in crews can easily zip away in their own vehicles without police cars chasing them, he said.
Some former police officials said in interviews that officers don’t feel it is worth making an arrest in low-level cases because they assume the district attorney won’t file charges. They also point to a statewide ballot measure passed in 2014—Proposition 47—that raised the dollar amount at which theft can be prosecuted as a felony from $400 to $950.
Mr. Boudin, a former public defender, said his office hasn’t changed the way it prosecutes property crimes from the previous district attorney, George Gascon, who is now district attorney in Los Angeles and facing his own recall campaign. The office’s rate of filing charges against people arrested for burglaries and thefts dipped to 41% in Mr. Boudin’s first year in office, but increased to 58% in 2021, similar to the rate during Mr. Gascon’s tenure.
Mr. Boudin has pointed the finger back at the police, arguing that the certainty of arrest is low in San Francisco compared with other cities. More consistent arrests of criminals, he has said, would be a more powerful deterrent than the length of prison sentences.
Last November, officers were caught on a surveillance camera sitting in a squad car, watching as burglars made off with stolen product from a cannabis dispensary. The department is investigating the incident.
Lt. Scott Ryan, who heads a unit that investigates property crimes, said clearance rates aren’t a good measure because police often nab serial offenders who they believe to be responsible for far more burglaries or thefts than they can prove.
He said consequences aren’t severe enough for repeat offenders. Police investigators have a list of 48 people arrested five or more times for burglaries in recent years, he said, and more than half of them are no longer behind bars. “There’s got to be a line in the sand,” he said.
In February, Ms. Bennett, the owner of Cliff’s Variety, received an email alert that angered her. The burglar who broke into her store to steal spray paint and gloves was being released from jail, it said.
Charles Andrews, who was convicted in the burglary, was getting out of jail after 244 days. It was the second time that Mr. Andrews had been arrested for breaking into Cliff’s, the first coming in 2017.
The other burglar, who smashed a $4,500 display window to steal a $200 emergency kit, was never caught.
Terry Asten Bennett, right, in front of her family-owned store, Cliff's Variety Store.
She said the store has been burglarized more than once by the same person.
Security footage shows a break-in at Cliff's Variety.
Terry Asten Bennett
A large TV displays the many security cameras throughout the store.
Sylvia Cediel, a public defender who represented Mr. Andrews, said his repeated arrests “reflect the circumstances of his life—primarily extreme poverty.” Mr. Andrews has been homeless since he came to the Bay Area more than a decade ago, she said, and his time in jail has been the only time he has spent off the streets. Ms Cediel said the city needs to do a better job addressing poverty and lack of housing.
Ms. Bennett said she believes the worsening drug problem within San Francisco’s homeless population has led to thefts and some of the property damage at Cliff’s. Last year, Mayor Breed declared a state of emergency because of overdoses in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
In an effort to deter shoplifters, Ms. Bennett now stations employees at the door to greet customers. She installed a camera system and gave employees walkie-talkies so they could monitor shoplifters and confront them before they leave the store. Shoplifting losses have since dropped from 2% to 1% percent of annual sales, she said.
The increase in burglaries, which often involves breaking into closed shops, may be driven in part by emptier streets during the pandemic, police and criminologists say.
Ms. Bennett, whose great-great-grandfather Hilario DeBaca started the business, said the increase in crime hasn’t made her consider closing Cliff’s, which she said is woven into the neighborhood. But the break-ins are eating into the store’s bottom line.
New metal gates to protect the entrances plus repairs from the two burglaries and shattered door totaled about $22,000, less than half of which was covered by insurance, she said. She is applying to the city grant program to fix the most recently shattered door.
“When you’re a small-business owner, you spend more hours at work than at home, so you take it very personally when someone attacks you,” she said. “Whether it’s an attack on you or just your building, it really doesn’t matter. It feels the same.”
Signs warn visitors to remove valuables from vehicles at the tourist destination of Twin Peaks.
REALITY: DEM POLS SPEND TOO MUCH TIME SUCKING OFF BRIBES THEY SIPHON THROUGH FAMILY MEMBERS, SERVICING BANKSTERS AND BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS. THE REST OF US ARE FUCKED BIG TIME.
PHOTO: Grandma Accused in San Francisco $1 Million Looting Spree
AMERICAN THE FAILED NATION!
BLACK GHETTOS IN AMERICA
The 10 WORST (MOSTLY BLACK) Neighborhoods in America. It's Shocking and Terrifying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12vnzZSw9f8&t=77s
ONLY 8% OF S.F. IS BLACK. THEY PERPETRATE MORE THAN 40% OF THE CRIMES.
17,000 CARE BREAK-INS
SF Suffers Highest Rate of Car Break-Ins Compared to Atlanta, DC, Dallas, LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTLPISB7xig
It's your message, Democrats
Yesterday, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she does not understand where the lawlessness is coming from. She was talking about all of those attack on shops in San Francisco.
Maybe Mrs. Pelosi finally noticed when the mob attacked her favorite places!
The mayor of San Francisco noticed the looting, too. This is the story:
The mayor's plan includes a series of initiatives to implement a 180-degree reversal from blind compassion to "tough love." Outlined in a Medium post, Breed's proposals take aim at illegal drug sales and restore funding for police with targeted resources dedicated to the low-income Tenderloin neighborhood. The mayor calls for:
Executing an Emergency Intervention Plan in the Tenderloin neighborhood
Securing emergency police funding to ensure we have the resources to combat major safety problems over the next several
Amending our surveillance ordinance so law enforcement can prevent and interrupt crime in real time — something they're effectively barred from doing now — to better protect our homes and businesses
Disrupting the illegal street sales of stolen goods that have become a clear public safety issue and are contributing to retail theft
Well, at least the strategy is changing. Let's hope it goes beyond talking points.
Why are Democrats suddenly talking about crime?
The answer is twofold:
First, this level of "lawlessness," as the speaker would say, is driving taxpayers away. My guess is that it keeps a lot of people from driving downtown for dinner on a Saturday. I was in a city in Maryland last summer and asked about Little Italy, a once-charming neighborhood for eating Italian food. My friend said it was still there, but many people were afraid of going down in this atmosphere.
Second, the violence must be hurting Democrats with African-Americans and Hispanics, or the people who live in those areas, which may be both. Check out Chicago and the weekend shootings. It's hard to blame Trump when everyone running the city is a liberal Democrat.
Memo to Democrats: Let the police do their job, and you will see how quickly the "lawlessness" will disappear.
