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A San Francisco lawmaker has had enough of the Blue Angels ‘strafing’ his city:washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/06/06/a-san-franc.

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Nearly 900,000 people boarded the aircraft carrier in ... say they don't want a ship from a military in which openly ... mayor of San Francisco, ...

That was a single jerk in SF politics against the Blue Angels. The majority of San Franciscans are fine with Fleet Week and the Blue Angels. And that's the situation even with liberal aholes running around. As for the 2006 incident, a liberal majority on the Board of Supervisors blocked the Iowa from being ported here. The mayor was for it, as was Senator Feinstein. There are other military craft here, and yes there is a loud group of liberal aholes who are against it. Most of them are here from elsewhere in the country, mostly from the northeast USA.

When I was young, SF was a military town and solidly Republican. Then we got invaded in the mid-1960s by outsiders and it was flipped Democrat. My dad was active career military, and I often visited bases in and around SF with him. At times we would have an Army jeep parked in front of our home. The Presidio, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Treasure Island Naval Base, National Guard Armory - all in San Francisco proper. He worked across the Bay Bridge at the Alameda Naval Air Base. Now its all gone, devoid of military presence. My dad passed in the early 1970s, he would have been pissed to see what happened to this once proud military-friendly town.