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'San Francisco Values' Under Attack
CBS 5 SAN FRANCISCO ^ | 04 NOVEMBER 2006 | CBS 5

Posted on 11/04/2006 1:30:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

(CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO -- Voted America's favorite city to visit, San Francisco is no longer a tourist postcard, but a poster child for everything Republicans say is wrong with America.

Republicans across the nation are bashing "San Francisco values" in their campaigns against Democratic candidates.

With Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi poised to become Speaker of the House, the city has become an outright punching bag for politicians as a host of political ads running in other parts of the country are targeting her in the closing days of this campaign.

"Liberals from all over the country are giving Brad Ellsworth hundreds of thousands of dollars to cast just one vote for speaker of the house. Speaker Pelosi will then give Chairman John Conyers orders to reward millions of illegal aliens," says one television ad for Indiana Republican incumbent Congressman John Hostettler.

A radio ad featuring the voice of a Clint Eastwood impersonator also attacks Hostettler's opponent.

"Why are liberals smearing Congressman Hostettler? Because they want you to vote for Brad Ellsworth, so he can cast his first vote for speaker of the house for San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi. Speaker Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda," the ad says. "Led by Barney Frank, reprimand by the house after paying for sex with a man who ran a brothel out of Congressman Frank's home."

Another ad is running in Illinois against Democrat incumbent Congresswoman Melissa Bean.

"Perhaps she doesn't want you to know that she follows Nancy Pelosi 83 percent of the time," the ad says. "That may be popular in Pelosi's San Francisco's congressional district but not in Illinois. Melissa Bean, just a Nancy Pelosi wannabe."

Everywhere, what's being called "San Francisco values" are in the bullseye.

But what does that mean?

"They're talking about deviant behavior. They're talking about a gay agenda. They're talking about liberalism, flag burning, and anti-establishment," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. "That's what they're trying to connote."

And city natives are starting to resent the ads.

"I think I've lived longer in San Francisco than any other living political figure. I'm 73 years old. I've lived all my life here," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "I think I represent, to a great extent, San Francisco values."

But picking on San Francisco isn't new. It's right out of a conservative playbook that may have run its course.

Political consultant Chris Lehane says other states are starting to want "San Francisco values" for themselves.

"The government under the Bush administration, particularly under the religious conservatives, have really imposed themselves into people's bedrooms and into people's personal lives," Lehane said. "Out here in San Francisco, people hold individual rights and liberties in very, very high regard."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: citybythegay; earthquake2006; moralabsolutes; sanfranciscogay
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I live in SF, and I agree with the ads about "SF values".

Three weeks ago a dude came up to me and point-blank asked if he could give me a BJ.

The man was not crazy or inebriated, or under the influence of some drug.

41 posted on 11/04/2006 2:20:25 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The classic "San Francisco values" example for me is Habitat for Humanity. If you believe the RATs (okay, that's a stretch) you would think that HFH is exactly the type of thing Rats would support, helping the downtrodden that the evil Republicans have ignored, blah, blah, blah. But here it is straight from the Habitat website: "Habitat for Humanity San Francisco (HHSF) has been building houses in the city since 1996 and has built 22 homes to date." Let's compare that with another city where they are not so enlightened and caring, Atlanta, where they have built 850 homes since 1984 (according to their website). Let me get this straight (oops, poor choice of words) you waited 12 years to build your first HFH home and since then have managed an incredible 2.2 per year. Atlanta has built almost 40 per year in the 22 years they've been in existence.
42 posted on 11/04/2006 2:27:13 PM PST by JayNorth
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To: Doc Savage
Attention! Attention You have committed a non sequitur!!!

Sequitur : Definition: a logical conclusion from the premises; a logical consequence

In case anyone needs the meaning of the word like I did.

43 posted on 11/04/2006 2:28:51 PM PST by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sounds like a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah to me.


44 posted on 11/04/2006 2:32:01 PM PST by Garvin (Democrats, Where's the Plan?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Out here in San Francisco, people hold individual rights and liberties in very, very high regard."

Like having gay sex in public parks, bums defecating and urinating in the streets....
45 posted on 11/04/2006 2:33:41 PM PST by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: gaijin

South Hayward is nice...Family lives there.


46 posted on 11/04/2006 2:34:43 PM PST by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Regarding Newsom..."That's what they're trying to connote."...
Fact: They do not want military recruiters near their public schools.
Fact: They are/have attempted to push through educational programs, regarding alternative lifestyles, in the primary grades in their public school system.

Regarding Feinstein..."I think I represent, to a great extent, San Francico values."
Fact: Feinstein is up for re-election. Perhaps the public should take a look at her voting record.

Regarding Lehane..."Political consultant Chris Lehane says other states are starting to want "San Francisco values" for themselves."
Fact: Lehane is paid a salary to spin. Reads like a blanket statement without any supporting facts.

Lehane.. "The government under the Bush administration.." When all else fails for the Dims..Blame it on Bush.


47 posted on 11/04/2006 2:37:51 PM PST by Goldie Lurks (professional moonbat catcher)
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To: muawiyah
"If there's ever been a place more deserving of a return to Mexico."

I'm never going to return to Mexico even though I spent eight years there. A friend just told us he had been in Northern Mexico last month, visiting a mining area when he noticed a large military base nearby. He asked what they were doing in that remote area and was told that they are there to protect the drug traffic through the area, all paid for by the drug cartels that now rule the country. The informant, a Mexican official, said that 90 % of the officers and men in the nation's military are in the pay of the cartels. How does that make you feel about going there for tourism?

48 posted on 11/04/2006 2:40:49 PM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: Disambiguator

My wife was shocked too. I wore jeans and t shirts or button ups. No cowboy hats and boots and I wasn't scowling either.


49 posted on 11/04/2006 2:42:10 PM PST by nativist
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To: JayNorth

When I drove into SF from the Oakland airport my first thought was " Oh, I guess they have this ridiculous toll road to make it hard for the "scum" from Oakland to get in".


50 posted on 11/04/2006 2:48:53 PM PST by nativist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Numerous time during the 1980s I visited San Fran on business. Wonderful city.

But not anymore.

[San Fran] city natives are starting to resent the ads.

People who live in glass houses...

No one to blame but themselves. They allowed San Fran to become the Sodom and Gomorrah of the US.

51 posted on 11/04/2006 2:50:12 PM PST by upchuck (Eventually the Islamofascists must be destroyed. The longer we wait, the bloodier it is going to be.)
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To: ASA Vet
"I've lived all my life here," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "I think I represent, to a great extent, San Francisco values."

I didn't know Dianne was a crack smoking illegal alien lesbian prostitute - living off welfare and working occasionally as a hired protester or whore in order to buy some new cardboard to line her sleeping quarters under the bridge.

Sure Dianne -- you DO represent the assholes of San Fransicko - but you don't walk in their shoes -- you simply focus on keeping them shoeless and dependent upon Government for their every need.

Semper Fi

52 posted on 11/04/2006 2:57:09 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"... deviant behavior ... gay agenda ... liberalism, flag burning, and anti-establishment," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Yep, that sounds like San Francisco.

53 posted on 11/04/2006 3:00:04 PM PST by JoeGar
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I know I am gonna get slammed for saying this, but two years of House rule under the leadership of "Old Bug Eyes" might lead to a great GOP victory in 2008.


54 posted on 11/04/2006 3:01:49 PM PST by BW2221
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Voted America's favorite city to visit, San Francisco ...

Voted America's favorite city -- by deviants.

55 posted on 11/04/2006 3:03:51 PM PST by JoeGar
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Rice-a-roni is no longer the San Francisco treat,now it's Astroglide.


56 posted on 11/04/2006 3:06:56 PM PST by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I thank God every day I was raised in a Southern Baptist home smack dab in the middle of the midwest. My neighbor is my best friend. I live in a very small community and attend the wonderful SB church I was raised in. The good things in life are in fact free. I told my wife today at lunch that I married into money just like Jon Cary and she looked at me like I was crazy. I told her I hit the jack pot when I married her.
57 posted on 11/04/2006 3:11:55 PM PST by southwilby
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The number one destination for those wishing to contract a lethal venereal disease. Queers obsessed with fecal material -- who could ask for more if you are into pervert pandering.


58 posted on 11/04/2006 3:16:04 PM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: upchuck

Hard to believe that the city has a football team that has won 5 Super Bowls.


59 posted on 11/04/2006 3:20:43 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: GOP_Raider
Wasn't the '64 GOP Convention held there?

Yes, I was there for that, and, along with Hitchcock's Vertigo it forms the basis for my attitude towards SF. I came back for some work in 2000, the city was still beautiful, but the people!!!!!

60 posted on 11/04/2006 3:23:05 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (These days you are either nervous and uncomfortable or you are braindead!)
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