Posted on 04/17/2018 8:56:07 AM PDT by C19fan
As president of S.F. Travel, the city’s visitors bureau, Joe D’Alessandro’s job is to promote San Francisco. You’d think he’d be hyping the city’s gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums.
Sure, San Francisco has great facets worthy of postcards and travel books, but it also has a worsening underbelly that D’Alessandro says he can no longer gloss over.
People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
“D’Alessandro? Name sounds familiar. Where have I heard that?”
Nasty’s maiden?
“D’Alessandro? Name sounds familiar. Where have I heard that?”
Nasty’s maiden?
“tourists [who bring in 9 billion of commerce to SF annually] and business people don’t matter more than homeless people, those addicted to drugs and others in desperate need of help.”
which is EXACTLY why the tourists will eventually quit coming and the homeless, addicted and desperate will eventually take over the city: because 9 billion dollars worth of tourists are equally important to the city as the homeless, addicted and desperate ...
“you should come to a neighborhood meeting and watch progessive liberals battle mainstream liberals”
not in this lifetime ...
Yes, it’s about time us normal people started bit**ing to improve things.
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