SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 11.4.2024
Walking to the neighborhood market Andronico’s in the outer Richmond district on election eve I came upon an eerie sight.
A caravan of Trumpies blasting music from their vehicles.
This is not what I expected to see in San Francisco. Is it an omen?
Will it matter in the end?
https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-threshold-of-silence-remastered-2020
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 11.3.2024
San Francisco’s newspaper The Chronicle did not endorse DA Brooke Jenkins for reelection.
It’s lame coverage of the race for chief law enforcement officer in San Francisco is a de facto affirmation for this craven political creature.
Jenkins was Foisted into office by Mayor London Breed, the behind the scenes leader of the the 2022 Recall of DA Chesa Boudin.
The Chronicle has totally ignored the campaign of Jenkins opponent Ryan Khojasteh; the former assistant district attorney in the Boudin administration.
https://ryanforsfda.com/meetryan/
In its November 2nd piece on the DA race the Chronicle skates over the ethical lapses of DA Brooke Jenkins. Perhaps the most telling being the fact Jenkins called herself a “volunteer” during the Recall campaign. Only after the Recall did she admit to having been paid over 150K by the Recall funders for her “volunteer” political chores.
Jenkins has refused to debate Ryan Khojasteh. Treating him in the most cavalier manner, dismissing his candidacy with the comment, “I don’t take Ryan to be a serious contender.”
During the 2022 election there was a debate at San Francisco State University with her foes. When pushed by people in the audience Jenkins, accompanied by her security detail, stormed out in a snit.
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 11.1.2024
Welcome to Trump’s America 2024
Of course the “Garbage” “Deplorable” MAGA morons are spewing forth bogus crocodile tears whining how bad they feel. Only because their blatant racism was uncovered and is being called out for all the world to see.
Excerpted from The Guardian 11.1.2024
A Pittsburgh-area Halloween parade’s depiction of Kamala Harris in chains and being dragged by a vehicle displaying Donald Trump’s name is being condemned as racist – and has prompted an apology from the event organizer.
Photos of Wednesday night’s parade in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, that circulated widely across social media show a person dressed as the Democratic vice-president shackled and walking behind a golf cart-like vehicle. The vehicle – a float in a Halloween parade organized by the Mount Pleasant volunteer fire department – is decorated with American flags and Trump campaign signs carrying people dressed in what appear to be Secret Service agent costumes, along with a mounted rifle.
Social media was quick to express disgust at the float’s display, which came less than a week before the presidential election between Harris and the Republican former president comes to a head on 5 November.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/pennsylvania-halloween-parade-harris-float
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 10.16.2024
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, ousted from office in a disgraceful Recall in June 2022, is very alive and well. And doing just fine, thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin
In June 2023, Boudin joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law as the founding executive director of the Criminal Law & Justice Center.
Today I learned that Chesa, a long time surfer in the waters off San Francisco’s Pacific Coast shoreline, has come out in favor of Proposition K. The November 5th ballot measure will create a permanent two mile car free space between Lincoln and Sloat.
POLITICS MAKES FOR STRANGE GREAT HIGHWAY PARK ALLIES
It’s no small irony that some of the very same individuals and political organizations who drove Chesa from office are major supporters of the Great Highway Park.
The law and order fueled opponents of DA Boudin joined with billionaire reactionaries and spent nearly 9M to oust this progressive prosecutor. It was a political lynching masterminded by Mayor London Breed and her cronies who wanted to rid themselves of someone not considered to be a City Hall insider.
These cretins drove an ethical and forward looking prosecutor from office. It was a pyrrhic victory. San Francisco is a sadder place without Chesa’s leadership.
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 10.14.2024
It’s been a long six and a half years. Hi-lighted by a gruesome and unjust pair of false citizen’s arrests inflicted on Liz and having to spend 400K out of pocket to secure a semblance of justice in San Francisco.
We stood up for our rights and have maintained our equanimity. Assisted by neighborhood friends and a weekly trip to the San Francisco Food Bank. Where to keep financially solvent we have walked our shopping cart and come home with a cornucopia of fresh food.
Fortuitously, Liz is one fantastic chef who keeps us well nourished through it all.
The latest creation being French Toast put together with Food Bank distributed Dave’s Killer Bread. And our store bought ingredients including organic maple syrup “Made in Canada.”
Interestingly, Dave’s bread products are produced by a number of ex-convicts including Dave himself who spent 15 years in prison. Liz knows what serving time is all about after her two false citizen’s arrests. Both of which were tossed by the San Francisco Superior Court.
Blogger Lee met with Jeff Adachi the day of Liz’s first false citizen’s arrest on April 12, 2018 in front of the Hall of Justice. Jeff Adachi sent then assistant Public Defender Chesa Boudin to meet with and comfort Liz while she was incarcerated in San Francisco County Jail.
San Francisco
Lee Heidhues 10.11.2024
The constant kvetching and bitching about the impending voter approval Great Highway Park in San Francisco by my Senior peers infuriates me.
This self indulgent flagellation by Seniors who are too damn lazy to get out of their cars or are, in many instances, unable to because they have spent their lives behind the wheels gets not one shred of empathy from me.
The complaining by some Seniors is blatant ageism and an insult to the many seniors like myself who are still very active and mobile supporters of Proposition K which will create Great Highway Park.
I am 77 years old and have spent my entire adult life as a runner and now walker. Perhaps just as importantly I have used my bicycle for transportation for nearly 53 years. I have suffered hamstring tears, meniscus tears and any number of debilitating mishaps. None of these setbacks has ever allowed me to indulge in the sense of self-pity exhibited by my peers.
The seniors, many of whom are completely apolitical, act like the country will collapse if they can’t drive their cars on Great Highway Park. It’s the same pathetic litany which the whiny seniors used to try and destroy JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park in 2022. These seniors failed then. Their sad sack effort to destroy a future oasis by the Pacific Ocean will drive to a halt on November 5th.
Just this morning a neighbor, now a fellow senior, who I have known for over 40 years walked by me in Sutro Heights Park. I was wearing my “Vote Yes on Ocean Beach Park” t-shirt. She shouted out at me “NO ON K!!!!” Having NEVER heard her utter a political comment I was taken aback. I just kept walking.
Perhaps the whiny Senior perspective is best summed up in a recent letter to the editor in The San Francisco Chronicle. It is attached below. In compelled me to write this blog post straight from the gut and the heart.
For the writer to claim in such bizarre fashion, “We sense the city would be happy to be rid of us all” is patently absurd. And is illustrative of rhetorical road kill.
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 10.9.2024
What’s the problem with San Francisco’s so called Progressives when it comes to getting the entitled motorists out of their climate killing vehicles?
It astounds me there is a line up of faux environmental Progressives who are trying to put the brakes on Proposition K. The ballot measure when passed on November 5th will move ahead with the creation of a two mile car free area adjacent to the Pacific Coast shoreline.
The Progressive opposition is inexplicable particularly when one considers that the lead argument in the voter handbook against Proposition K was penned by one of San Francisco’s most notorious reactionary loudmouths. MAGA Republican and Fox News commentator Richie Greenberg.
I fully expected the long entitled whining motorists to scream and yell that some limits are being placed on their misguided life long right of entitlement. I saw this play out during the pitched battle which resulted in the overwhelming voter approval of now car free JFK Promenade in November 2022.
San Francisco voters will soon decide whether to make the two mile stretch of land between Lincoln Blvd and Sloat Blvd, now known as The Great Highway Park, permanently car free. The motorists have gone into overdrive pulling every oily polluted argument out of the gas tank in opposition.
In a nutshell, these spoiled drivers will be inconvenienced.
The most alarming opposition is coming from so called Progressives. Quick to tout their environmental bonafides. Until a tough decision is upon them. When will these so called Progressives have some backbone and stand tall for the environment? Or will they shamelessly cave to the motorists and their fossil fuel industry climate killing vehicles?
The list of Progressive individuals and institutions is depressing.
The usual political alliances in San Francisco have gone topsy turvy when it comes to the efforts to make the City a more pedestrian, cyclist friendly place. Some of more moderate, tech friendly, pro law enforcement organizations stand firmly on the side of Proposition K.
This Progressive ambivalence is unfathomable and unacceptable.
TOP PHOTO: ARTWORK FROM NO ON PROP K CAMPAIGN LIT _ HIGHWAY ROBBERY
San Francisco
Lee Heidhues 10.8.2024
Election Day is 28 days away. So I gotta say it and play it.
“The Lunatic is (sadly) in my Head.”
Only in America.
The idea of this convicted felon and sociopath liar Donald Trump being President is incomprehensible. So, I gotta bury my fear and loathing accompanied by The Pink Floyd.
Lyrics
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games
And daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade
You make the change
You rearrange me ’til I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
I can’t think of anything to say except, laughing is nice
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 10.3.2024
Where is the Judge who will mete out a sentence to convicted criminal, liar and election denier Donald Trump???
When will the election deniers learn that doing Trump’s dirty work for him is a fools mission which will result in jail time?
Excerpted from Colorado Public Radio 10.3.2024
Tina Peters is headed to prison.
The former Mesa County Clerk was sentenced to nine years of incarceration, most of which will be served in the Colorado Department of Corrections.
Peters was found guilty of three felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. She was also convicted of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failure to comply with an order from the Secretary of State, all misdemeanors.
Her sentencing was handed down in a packed courtroom Thursday that included supporters of Peters, several uniformed sheriff’s deputies and local elected officials. Interested parties also gathered just outside the courtroom, streaming the proceedings on their phones from feet away.
Peters was found guilty by a jury of Mesa County residents in August on seven counts, including four felonies after she helped facilitate unauthorized access to county voting equipment that she was supposed to safeguard.
During Thursday’s hearing, the prosecution argued that Peters should face the maximum penalty for each charge and said Peters should serve time in prison, noting her lack of contrition even after she was found guilty.
“I don’t think anybody in this room would make a straight-faced argument that Mrs. Peters has demonstrated any respect for the law,” 21st Judicial District Attorney Dan Rubinstein said.
https://www.cpr.org/2024/10/03/tina-peters-former-mesa-county-clerk-prison/
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 9.21.2024
In her latest act of environmental betrayal and duplicity, Supervisor Connie Chan is an active foe of Proposition K on the November ballot. Which, when passed, will pave the way to enshrine Great Highway Park as a permanent reality along the Pacific Coast shoreline of San Francisco.
Connie Chan, branded herself as a friend of the environment during her 2020 drive to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Earning the endorsement of environmental groups such as Sunrise Bay Area.
Safely ensconced in City Hall Connie dropped her environmental happy talk. Connie became arguably the most strident foe of all measures to get people out of their cars, including the slow streets program.
Arguably, Connie was the most strident foe of JFK Promenade. She nearly killed this citizen oasis in Golden Gate Park at the Board of Supervisors. Meeting with the monied foe of JFK Promenade Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco lobbyist Platinum Advisors 14 times. Despite her opposition the Supervisors voted to make JFK Promenade car free in April 2022.
In the November 2022 election Connie opposed Proposition J, the successful ballot measure which passed with a 63 percent YES vote. Proposition J confirmed the Supervisors vote and resulted in JFK Promenade becoming permanently car free.
During the summer of 2021 Connie was a moving force to halt permanently car free Great Highway which had been a pedestrian, cyclist oasis beginning in April 2020. Connie rammed through the “compromise” which resulted in The Great Highway being car free ONLY on weekends and holidays
Connie was Not satisfied with her own “compromise.” In November 2022 Connie supported Proposition I which would have seen cars return to The Great Highway FULL TIME. That ballot measure was crushingly defeated with a 65 percent NO vote.
Connie’s act of environmental betrayal
Now, as her final act of environmental perfidy, in her drive to be reelected Connie is putting her foot on the gas with the motorists. Campaigning actively to defeat Proposition K as her campaign mailers make perfectly clear.
Connie Chan’s perfidy cannot be allowed to stand.
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