Posted on 09/15/2023 11:57:18 AM PDT by Mariner
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the state will intervene in an ongoing federal court case that's barred San Francisco from cleaning up homeless encampments until more shelter beds are available, saying the judge has gone too far and is preventing the state from solving a critical problem.
“I hope this goes to the Supreme Court,” Newsom said. “And that’s a hell of a statement coming from a progressive Democrat.”
Newsom made his remarks during an interview with news outlet Politico in Sacramento. He previously blasted U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle but had not disclosed his administration's plan to file an amicus brief supporting the city's efforts to overturn the ruling.
Ryu granted the injunction in December after homeless advocates argued the city had been violating the law by clearing homeless encampments without offering shelter and improperly throwing out peoples' belongings such as cellphones and medication.
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None of the Conservative municipalities in the 9 western states ((Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington) had the balls to challenge Martin v. Boise, the Ninth Circuit ruling that nearly completely destroyed western cities.
But the City of San Francisco and the State of California will.
The entire city is in violation of numerous health codes and should be condemned as unfit for human habitation, but Newsom thinks it’s just peachy.
Because a lot of local interests have figured out its costing them big. Nowhere more so than in SF.
It took a while.
Too little, too late, IMHO.
That won’t save California...What they have done to the state over the past 40 years is irreversible.
San Francisco is still a popular tourist destination. The sight of trashy homeless encampments and human waste in the streets negatively impacts tourism.
Newsom may be a lunatic leftist, but he still wants to keep the cash rolling in.
Even crime-ridden Washington, DC, keeps the tourist areas clean and safe.
Even Gov. Gavin admits ‘something needs to be done about the homeless’. But the momentum may have swung too far in one direction for this sprawling and toxic problem to be under control any time soon. First, cut off or drastically reduce the benefits available to the homeless who don’t seek a job, or those who walk around assaulting innocent people or for those who don’t know how to reside indoors without making the property uninhabitable for normal people.
There is a gros error in language usage
The folks in question are not homeless. The folks in question live in tents on government land. Rather than living in houses, they have chosen to live in tents as squatters.
They are therefore Tent Dwellers
Governor Abbott, it’s time to put the pedal down hard ... all the way to the floor, aiming a steady stream of buses northwest and northeast, shipping illegal aliens off to SF and NYC. When you hear Democrat/Communists (i.e., self-identified “progressives”) and the people who vote for them screaming about being overrun by illegal aliens, it’s time to ramp things up to emphasize in no uncertain terms that it’s Democrat/Communist Party policies supported by the people who vote for them that are causing all this misery ... that are destroying their cities.
This is true.
I hope Dipstick shows up in Federal Court and is JAILED FOR CONTEMPT after spouting his nonsense.
Judge Donna Ryu lives in the tony community of Albany. Just north of Berkeley.
Send the homeless there since she likes them so much.
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The irony here, is that homelessness and other social problems, have gotten much worse because of liberal policies.
Being liberal on homelessness, enabled homelessness to become such a huge problem in cities such as San Francisco.
So it’s ironic that a liberal such as Newsom, is battling against a court ruling issued by a liberal judge, isn’t it?
Its not unusual for someone to realize, when the chickens come home to roost, that they have gone much too far.
The question then is what can be done about it.
Tourism wont save SF.
The big problem is the 250,000-300,000 daily commuters (workers and suburban shoppers, nighlife seekers, etc.) arent coming downtown anymore. That makes all downtown property (a Trillon worth?), worthless.
Don't forget EPA laws covering "pollution" of the bays, streams, oceans, rivers, etc of the human waste. Notice no group has filed either with the EPA or a court a complaint. When was the last time the Greens did not run to file a complaint?
Homelessness is a huge racket. The majority of the funds that go to help the homeless is pocketed by “activists” and “counselors” who exacerbate the situation even more.
San Francisco is such a sad story of decline.
When I was a kid, my grandparents managed apartment buildings in San Francisco. It was a fun and beautiful city back then. I would go on school field trips to the museums and visit the Japanese tea gardens. The Golden Gate bridge was so beautiful, and it was always exciting to go through the tunnels before the bridge, that had rainbows painted over the arches on the Marin side (if I remember that correctly). San Francisco was almost magical back then.
Seeing what has happened to the once beautiful city of San Francisco is painful. It’s like watching a loved one sink into the pits of drug addiction.
In fact, the entire state of California has sunk into the pits. This is why I live in Texas now. Texas today is what California could be if it could get rid of the leftist rot that is destroying it.
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