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If you have any understanding of San Francisco politics, or San Francisco at all, you have to have noticed that basically everything in this city breaks down to a battle between the "Downtown Business Interests" and that of the "Progessive Community." This is the Hatfield vs the McCoys, the Republicans vs. Democrats, the Backstreet Boys vs. N'Sync that splits our fair city.
But who exactly are the "Downtown Business Interests" and the "Progessive community?" What do they believe in and what do they think of the other side? And what do they want out of this city and how do they hope to achieve it?
Well, after the break, SFist breaks it all down for ya.
| Downtown Business Interests | Progressives | |
| Dream vision of how San Francisco should be... | Like Manhattan, only more expensive and more fabulous! | The world's first municipal anarcho-syndicalist commune |
| Most commonly found in | Pac Heights & the Marina | the Haight and the Mission |
| Thinks the city needs more | Condos | Art collaboratives and activist collectives |
| Thinks the role of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors should be... | To give more handouts to the most downtrodden of San Franciscans, mainly themselves | To end racism, povery and war throughout the world |
| Views the other side as being nothing but a bunch of... | Commies | Republicans |
| Thinks all the political views expressed by the other side are caused by... | Greed | Trust funds |
| Opinion of Gavin | Nice, affable, and completely ineffective. But we love the whole Gay Marriage thing | Nice, affable, and completely ineffective. But we love the whole Gay Marriage thing |
| Opinion of Willie Brown | Threw the most fabulous parties | The Anti-Christ. Well, that is if we believed in the Anti-Christ but we don't because we think organized religion is a sham. Instead, we believe spirituality is something one discovers organically and holistically through self-journey and exploration. As a result, we have come up with a belief system that integrates various components of Eastern, Pagan, and Native American traditions. As for what we think God would say about all of this, we're sure She's fine with it. |
| Favorite Event | Anything that opens- opera, ballet, baseball, H&M | Burning Man |
| Supports the idea of neighborhood parites? | No. They are too crowded, too loud, too full of drunk people and most of all, they attract people from Walnut Creek. | No. They are too crowded, too loud, too full of drunk people and most of all, they attract straight people. |
| Favorite radio station | Radio Alice | Down with Corporate radio! We only listens to podcasts and pirate radio. |
| Favorite sports team | the Giants | Who cares about sports when there are oppressed people in the world? Besides, sports are a medium in which the coporate elite uses to distract the masses from comprehending the true plight of the working class |
| View of the dot.com days | "Boy the way the market played/ Stocks that made the hit parade/ Guys like us we had it made/ Those were the days/" | Worst thing to happen to the city since the '06 Quake. No wait, even worse. |
| Views the homeless as | "Oh my God, do we have to, like, step over them everytime we go to Macy’s?" | The more the merrier! |
| House Organ | The Chronicle | the Bay Guardian |
| Does their bit to help the poor by... | Having lots and lots of fabulous fund raisers to raise money for them | Affecting blue collar poses |
| Thinks the main qualification for being a congressman is... | Adressing the main issues of the day by raising gob loads of cash | Addressing the main issues of the day through interpretive dance |
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css problems? more like really bad markup.
try removing all the excess <br/> tags from in between the rows and cells in your table and it might work in "some" browsers (like both IE and FF on Windows - what the hell do you test in?)
Fun list. Where do pesky nitpickers who gloss over the contents in lieu of badmouthing design fall in?