![]() ![]() This is certainly not new ground for Breed, the six-year incumbent in San Francisco’s strong-mayor system, who has blamed the Board of Supervisors, the since-ousted liberal DA, renegade city commissioners and a litany of others for preventing her from governing well or properly. Leaders shunting the people’s anger onto others is an elemental political tactic it probably harks back to electing the chieftain of Cave 76. 27, 2021.īut the meta-goal here, a goal shared on the local level by Newsom’s successor, Mayor London Breed, is to deflect blame for horrific street conditions and voters’ growing rancor onto someone else. Gavin Newsom joined city workers in a homeless encampment street sweep on 19th Street near Mission and Capp streets. ![]() “He, himself, has been subject to the pressure of mob rule and personalizing.” Gov. “Does he know better? Sure,” recalls a former Newsom associate. Separate and apart from the normalization of even center-left Democrats demonizing mainstream judges and mounting reductive pressure campaigns to intimidate them, California’s governor, specifically, ought to know what it’s like to have malevolent folks direct people to his doorstep. (Of note, an appeals panel subsequently allowed the encampment to be cleared, citing safety concerns). ![]() That’s why Newsom’s former colleagues were so taken aback at our governor’s recent musings in the Chronicle, in which he casually bandied about the notion of erecting a billboard with the phone number of a judge who had issued an injunction against Caltrans clearing a homeless encampment - and urging angry members of the public to dial up and vent their spleens. But, a close colleague recalls, the act of being doxxed and manipulated left him “seething. ![]()
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