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Under Chair Nancy Tung, the local party has been an incompetent disgrace. Wikimedia Images photo<\/p>\nThe evidence has been leaking out, drip by drip, for a couple of weeks now, and it\u2019s time to say aloud what so many are saying privately:<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Democratic Party has become a statewide embarrassment.<\/p>\n
Under Chair Nancy Tung, the local party has been an incompetent disgrace. Wikimedia Images photo<\/p>\n
Since the billionaires funded a takeover,<\/a> the local Democratic County Central Committee has been moving more and more to the right.<\/a> But now it\u2019s more than political positions. The party is looking worse and less competent every day.<\/p>\n Consider:<\/p>\n \u2014The DCCC made a huge deal of fighting sexual misconduct\u2014and just endorsed a candidate for supervisor who was credibly accused of assault<\/a>. Joe Eskenazi at Mission Local, who is carefully not aligned with any political group or movement, calls the DCCC\u2019s local actions \u201ca farce<\/a>.\u201d He notes:<\/p>\n the process the party undertook was indefensible \u2014\u00a0and not just useless, but worse than useless.<\/p>\n \u2014The DCCC changed its own rules to break with the state party and come out against the billionaire tax, Prop. 40. Typically the local party cedes to the state party positions on statewide issues; the state party is Yes on 40. But in this case, the members wanted to side with the very rich. Taxing the rich has always been popular in San Francisco; almost every measure to raise taxes on the wealthy has won at the ballot. I suspect Prop. 40 will do well in this city, too. The local party is way out of touch.<\/p>\n \u2014The DCCC voted to oppose Prop. I, a measure that would direct more than $100 million a year in existing tax money to affordable housing. The voters approved taxing high-end real-estate transactions in 2020 to fund social housing; former Mayor London Breed refused to spend that money on housing, and now Mayor Daniel Lurie wants it to go to the cops.<\/a> That tax money would not exist if the voters hadn\u2019t believed it was designated for affordable housing.<\/p>\n All Prop. I does is make the tax permanent, and mandate that it go where the voters intended. \u00a0SF YIMBY has also come out against Prop. I, saying that the city shouldn\u2019t tax housing to build housing\u2014but that\u2019s a silly excuse: Prop. I taxes the sale of real estate worth more than $10 million. A handful of mansions sometimes sell for that much, but the vast majority of the money comes from the sale of commercial real estate, like office buildings. It could apply to giant housing developers that are buying up massive pieces of expensive land\u2014but the seller, not the buyer pays the tax. It could also impact speculators who get housing entitled with no intention of building it, then sell that entitlement to someone else; this is who the Democratic Party is supporting?<\/p>\n \u2014The DCCC has, so far, killed a resolution calling on the city to end its contracts with spy-camera company Flock<\/a> until the outfit can prove the data is collects is secure and not shared with the feds. Flock is increasingly unpopular,<\/a> and most San Franciscans don\u2019t support sharing their daily movements with the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n The resolution, by member Gordon Mar, went to the Issues Committee\u2014which is chaired by Flock public affairs flack Lily Ho, who made sure it never got to the full DCCC. Worse: Ho tried to get her colleagues to refuse to talk to a reporter about her role. From the SF Standard:<\/p>\n Ho did not respond to Power Play\u2019s inquiries \u2014 but she did try to put the kibosh on others informing this newsletter about her connection to the company.<\/p>\n