Thanks for the post, Tim. While my beard may be no more, the Chronicle's campaign of lies continues.

After their Thursday column, which you link to, I posted this...

http://www.chrisdaly.org/?p=23

Funny thing was on Friday, they printed both a correction of one of their lies in Thursday's story and then repeated the same lie in their editorial.

I appreciate you pointing to the original material -- I am proud to continue to fight for progressive principles as a part of our movement for social and economic justice.

Chris can you please go back to the east coast where you were BORN

timely post tim. i'm sure all the commuter criminals will love you for suggesting we need less police. you are just as ignorant as daly. thanks for making that so abundantly clear. why don't we just abolish the police and give the city to the homeless and all the commuter criminals.

you and daly are wonderful examples of why we must excercise this city of all the progressives if we ever hope to regain control of our streets and institute some common sense in our government.

I think it is evident, considering the amount of crime that has occurred in San Francisco that refusing to hire more police is not the answer. This blog, as well as Chris Daly's just shows how out of touch you and the rest of the progressives are with the rest of SF's population. We can't spend the majority of the budget money on affordable housing because then other issues will be left in the dark. Fortunately, most of the city's population do not share the opinion or even read this blog. Mainly, because it sucks. I think if people had to choose between putting most of the budget money towards housing and spending a reasonable amount on housing and public safety, I think they would choose the latter. I can't until you blame the increase of crime as one of Newsom's reelection ploys. I really wouldn't put it past you.

Chris Daly is a pseudo-progressive who lives in a condo in the very neighborhood in which he once crusaded against gentrification (which also makes him a complte hypocrite). He's done absolutely nothing for the people of District 6, and could care less about their concerns. His temper tantrums and constant use of expletives during Board meetings are an embarrassment to his collegues and the residents of this city. We should remove him from office before he finally goes completely over the edge and does a Dan White.
So glad to see that given his removal from the finance committee and the various defeats he's suffered at the hands of his fellow supes, his political career is esentially over.

Chris Daly is an admitted socialist. what he doesn't realize is it is driving illegal immigration. the lower our eligibility standards, the more we spend down towards the bottom, instead of bringing the bottom up. if that makes any sense to you.

if people keep coming here illegally and we keep spending down to the bottom we have a
quiet communist revolution on our hands

one day we give them all our benefits and they have so much power we arent allowed to close our loopholes.

it is already happening now. it is very dangerous.

so by supporting socialism you are allowing communists to take advantage of our generousity

if he were a true socialist then he is suggesting raising taxes to a degree unheard of.
each dollar in eligibility that is higher allows untold millions across the country for us to pay out money to. it is a long climb up to even serving the lower middle classes right now and spending keeps going to the bottom

so socialism means you raise taxes and spend up
towards a higher eligibility income level. it is a transverse concept but that is the truth

say for instance you said you could make (fake figure) 2000 bucks a month a qualify for benefits. you get 1000 bucks a month in benefits
you have 1000 people that qualify for those services because they make less than a thousand

that sum would be 1000 times 1000 bucks in that benefit payout

the figure doubles when you raise the eligibility level
you can now make 4000 bucks and qualify for 1500 dollars in benefits (over the years the benefits increase sometimes with and sometimes without inflationary fairness)
now you have the original 1000 who qualified plus whoops a large class of people who make under 4000. you have just qualified 1 million people for benefits

that would be 110,000,00 times 1,500 in payout

see what i mean, to allow the eligibility to go out sweeps in a certain wage level maintained by x amount of people.

you'd never make it up to the serve the lower middle class at this point.

because edward kennedy wants to lower the qualification level for family reunification laws
so that more people on welfare can qualify to invite people,and be exempted from sponsor deeming. he is not doing his math.

meanwhile child care programs are hitting middle class moms up twice. one time for taxes that go towards children of undocumented mom's child care and often times a preschool will have a special rate for lower income people. that money was originally intended to help with that. but none of the four million dollar budget goes up. it spends down.
so middle class moms get hit up twice for children of undocumented moms child care.

we should be serving low income moms. we arent we are supporting a great deal of people making it over here, having a baby and then taking it from there.
some get off calworks some dont and some time out and
their kids are suffering financial strain.

so if we keep spending down even more of those low level kids timed out will increase as well.
all the promises in the world wont change that

people like me can go out and earn 900 bucks a month and STILL get benefits. even more if i am disabled. so we end up getting money from the government and getting off by working less, or not claiming all of our income. and guess what we can live better than double the eligibility spending level.

and it is all around you.

SO Chris lives in a condo in the TL how many poor folks where kicked out of that building for you chris? I 've been here in SF two years, I live in the TL I've never seen you around and frankly am getting sick and tired of the crack-whores and hookers. Enough of seeing crap on the sidewalk from the drunk and trashed of the TL. Is itthat you like the smell of Urine on the street? Instead of spending your time trying to get the Blue Angels out try actually helping those people you claim to speak for. Better yet Put your miney where your mouth is and run for mayor. Hell I'll even vote for you.

Daly wouldn't want to be mayor because then he'd actually have to take responsibility for something. As a member of the Board of Sups, he can do all his cynical posturing without having to actually be accountable for anything that happens in the city. In his current job, he's doing exactly what he wants to do, which is nothing.