Posted on 09/22/2022 8:16:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
San Diego saw a record-high of 1,609 homeless people in the downtown area alone earlier this month, and Bill Walton has had enough. The NBA legend has sent a number of emails to Mayor Todd Gloria about the crisis and how he has failed. Now, Walton is making his complaints public.
According to The Voice of San Diego, Walton emailed Mayor Gloria as early as Aug. 28 about his failures while explaining that he had recently been assaulted by the homeless while riding his bike.
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I was in San Diego about 12 or 15 years ago for a corporate event. We were staying at a high end historic hotel, the US Grant, in the Gaslamp District, a tony restaurant and hotel area.
Even back then, all the pocket parks were filled with urban outdoorsmen on most of the benches. I was amazed the city would allow this, night and day, in this area that was supposedly the best the city had to offer.
This slide has been developing over a long time, it stems from a long period of inaction on the problems these addicts and mentally ill cause.
Who wants to be ol’ billy has been voting straight communist democrat party his entire life?
Because they are homeless by choice
They choose dope
Dense hippie
“In the 1850’s the Yankees from NY and Boston would visit California and place a blanket that was infected with viruses in Indian communities. 40% Indians died that way.”
Uh no. That never happened. Thanks for keeping the lie going./s
I was in SD two weeks ago. Homelessness is OUT OF CONTROL...but that’s what they are voting for. It hasn’t hit a breaking point for them yet.
You have been pushing this for fifty years Bill and will vote for it next election so sit down and shut up.
BGates has a house in San Diego
If I had big bucks I would live there. Lived there 10 years in the late 1980s and they were very good times. Really expensive though now and the traffic is as bad as LA or SF now. Got a more lot bang for my buck out of state.
A few years back, my wife went to San Diego for a conference, and I went along with her. My impression was, the air temperature was very nice (this was in early June) but everything was...shades of tan and brown. The area was looking more like a desert than a anything else.
Also, I found the highways filthy. Trash all up and down the roads, it was quite unsightly. But I enjoyed the trip.
When we went home, we took a red-eye and when we got in, it was around 5 AM. By the time we got our bags and our Limo met us to take us home (We live in New England) the sun was up.
As we drove West out of the city, the vegetation was lush and green on the trees, there was that beautiful mist rising off the ground that was illuminated magically by crepuscular rays of the dawning sun coming through the leaves...and up ahead in the road, a deer stood facing us.
It was stunningly beautiful after the drab brown and tan of San Diego. New England states may have their problems with Leftism, but the contrast to Southern California that morning was striking, it looked like a verdant paradise in comparison that morning!
“I went to the place where every white face
Is an invitation to robbery
And sitting here in my safe European home
Don’t want to go back there again” - The Clash
The days and lives of morons.
Too true. They are:
Mentally Afflicted Drug Addicted Street Dwellers
(MADASD - pronounced “mad and sad”)
I remember Bill Walton condemning the CIA for what they did in Chile overthrowing the Allende government. Pinochet was better.
Very true; the “golden hills of CA” means everything is brown desert. I’m always struck by how lush and green everything is on the East Coast when I visit!
It simply doesn’t rain in CA very much. Which makes it a great state for outdoor activities EXCEPT for our new fall “fire and smoke season” which thankfully this year so far has been limited to the Lake Tahoe forest mainly (unfortunately I was at Lake Tahoe last week where the air quality was measured to be the worst on the planet other than in Turkey!).
They used to have a home for homeless people. But we can’t stigmatize them by putting them in insane asylums, now can we? Gotta close all those evil places \sarcasm off\.
We need facilities where mentally ill/challenged folks can be safe from themselves, and we can be safe from them. Halfway-houses for those who can be productive, and asylums for those who can’t.
Not all homeless are mentally unstable. But if you aren’t, you shouldn’t be allowed to live on the streets - find a half-way house, go to jail, or leave town and camp out in the wilderness.
I feel bad for poor folks, and I contribute to local Christian charities that try to help. One here in town gives them meals, a place to stay and get sober and clean, and helps them get a job. You have to listen to a Gospel presentation before the food line opens...
He probably got mugged for his weed.
What?
He doesn’t like the world he heled create?
Typo
heled = helped
That’s too bad. Even though it was brown, it might still have been interesting or attractive in some way, but the trash turned me off.
That songwriter saw into the future, but not enough to realize much of Europe would no longer be a safe place either, due to hoards of illegal, Muslim immigrants who did not ever wish to change how they live.
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