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Supervisor Chis Daly went on the defense against Mayor Gavin Newsom's quality-of-life pipedream at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting. Daly introduced legislation that would yank funding from Newsom's Community Justice Center and put it back into city's main spending account.
The Tenderloin court, scheduled to open on Polk Street early next year, would prosecute minor quality-of-life violations - stuff like public urination, panhandling, drug use.
According to the Chronicle, Daly is just doing what voters asked for on election day.
Daly said he was following the will of 57 percent of city voters who on Nov. 4 rejected a ballot measure to secure funding for the court. He also said it would help solve the city's budget problems. The city controller has estimated that the shortfall in the current year will be between $90 million and $125 million, meaning massive cuts will be have to be made by the end of June.
Newsom buddy/spokesman Nathan Ballard described the mayor as a "true believer" in the quality-of-life court.
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Thanks Chris. Douche
Why hasn't someone taken him out yet?
Boy, did Newsom drop the ball on not getting a campaign together for this measure ... I can't imagine most San Franciscans WANTING to keep our courts clogged up with meth heads, drunks, and other folks who are slowly but surely determined to kill themselves and who really need the help this court was going to try to offer as an alternative.
We have hope in the White House, but only petulance in San Francisco's City Hall ... and the beat goes on.
Rincon: I wonder if Gavin was laying low across the board (locally) during the election because he was such the face of the Yes 8 campaign. That is, he was kind of politically toxic about a month ago.
It'll be so nice when Daly is gone.
Given our Dan White, Harvey Milk history, I'd like to register my displeasure with Ginger's comment. Not witty, funny, insightful nor on-topic.
Chris is correct to point out that a majority of San Francisco voters rejected the funding of the court. My guess is that an even higher percentage in his district rejected it. So by the standard of representing the city and his district, Chris is only doing what we ask.
Thanks Chris!
Well, if Chris wants more quality of life crimes, he'll sure get them. Keeps rents down, ya know.
Time to take my shopping and dining business elsewhere.
Chris Daly needs a golden shower.
I think the failure of the ballot initiative indicates only that voters in this time of economic crisis were hesitant to mandate additional spending in the future. I don't think this should be read as SF residents not wanting quality of life crimes to be prosecuted.
I thought Daly had an alternative approach to deal with the same issues. Shouldn't he direct the funding to that?
Chris Daly is pretty damned sexy, but his lack of maturity pisses me off sometimes. Were I to believe that Daly gleefully pulling American dollars from this project was in response to some sort of fiscal responsibility on his part, I might dig what he's doing. However, we all know he's just against this idea because Gavin stole it from New York and anything Gavin does Daly is opposed to regardless of how good an idea it may be. Daly cuts off his nose to spite his face which I guess he has to do since his whole district smells like pee.
His alternative approach is, as far as anyone can tell, to completely ignore the quality of life problem. And why shouldn't he? He got re-elected on exactly that platform!
Aj - you should take your shopping and dining business elsewhere, probably to a jurisdiction where that kind of empty threat holds some sway.
There is another issue at work here, (which I'm not defending, but we should at least consider) namely that closely the budget deficit will mean helping those very same people likely to commit the quality of life crimes we would rather not have.
I know its chic to say that Daly is pro letting people piss on our streets, but Gavin's court won't make bathrooms readily available either, so...
The voters of San Francisco voted NO!!!!!
I believe the reason the CJC was voted down was the cost, so Daly's probably doing the right thing here. I don't see how the mayor can justify putting money into the CJC while simultaneously requiring the Department of Public Health to cut $26.7 million in spending, much of which would normally be going to the services that the CJC is supposed to be getting people into.
What good is the CJC if substance abuse and mental health treatment services are no longer available to the people who are sentenced to use them?
Agree with Periqueblend. If people pissing on the street is a problem we need more public bathrooms, not more courts. If you live on the street, where the hell else are you going to pee? Being poor is not a crime!
MHTH: You're right about Ginger's comments.
Talk of "taking him out" is completely unacceptable, in SF or anywhere.
I think SFist should remove the comment
Regardless of the merits or lack thereof of the Community Justice Center, Chris Daly is a lying cow. In the very ballot argument he signed off on, he stated that a major reason to vote no on L was that it was redundant; the funding for the Center was already secure. For him to turn around and use the result of the election to take away that funding is dishonest and immature. Yes, some of the people who voted no on L probably did so because they didn't want the center at all, but others did so because of the redundancy argument. We don't know which is which, period.
agreed. while it's normal to daydream about cutting the brake lines one the cars of most politicians, please do not flat out wish death on our chosen leaders, readers.
...or if you do, at least be funny about it.
It'll be so nice when Gavin's gone
It'll be nice when some adults take over at City Hall. This pissy little shitheadedness does nothing but empower criminals and filth.
Time to take my shopping and dining business elsewhere.
What TL shopping?!? Crack and handjobs?!?
Pantsgolem took the words right out of my mouth. As I was reading over the voters' guide, I was confused on this measure, since I had already heard quite a bit about various city officials getting it going. At various community meetings I went to, it was presented as a done deal (and I guess those city leaders thought it was, too). So I was confused as to why it was up for a vote. At first it sounded like it was adding an additional amount of $1 million.
So the whole thing just sounds like a pissing match gone horribly wrong. Thanks, Gav & Chris.
(Oh, and by the way: once Daly gets termed out as a supervisor, he's not going anywhere. If anything he'll have more power. Enough people voted to put this yahoo on the central Democratic committee. Who is voting for this a$$hole?!)
geez Gavin, can't you hurry up already and push all those penniless minorities out of the 'Loin so that the yuppies and trust-fund hipsters can gain street cred by gentrifying a 'sketchy' neighborhood without having to deal with the natives? why can't we just spent all of our tax dollars persecuting poor people in crappy neighborhoods for chickenshit offenses?
Sick little liar. A majority of SFers rejected the prop because of the fact that the money had already been approved and it was redundant. Newsom knew that this wasn't enough and that gutter troll Daly would try to gut it. Daly is a lying creep and makes Newsom look good in comparison. i sincerely doubt that the people of San Francisco really want to see the city turned into a excretory petri dish, and that the average expression of love in this city must involve needles, "sex work" and all other manifestations of the gutter sickness of Chris Daly's constituents.