Posted on 10/20/2019 5:35:08 PM PDT by rintintin
Ellen Lee Zhou, a San Francisco social worker running for Mayor of San Francisco, paid for a billboard that is raising controversy in the SoMa district.
"I think it's interesting. I live in this area so hopefully, it doesn't cause too much controversy," said SoMa resident David Pham.
The billboard located on Dore Street shows a cartoon of a woman with her feet up, smoking, and holding a stack of money.
A man can be seen carrying a young girl with a quote under it: "Stop slavery and human trafficking in SF" and "Vote Ellen Zhou Nov 5th for Mayor."
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Luz Pena: Who is the woman wearing that red dress?
Ellen Zhou: I believe it symbolizes London Breed.
Luz Pena: You believe or was that the intention?
Ellen Zhou: I believe that was the intention.
Luz Pena: Do you think that's disrespectful?
Ellen Zhou: No, not at all. I think that's freedom of press and freedom of speech.
Zhou also ran for mayor last year and told ABC7 News she didn't mean for the billboard to be controversial, but for people to focus on her message.
"I will declare an emergency to invite a higher level of care for people to come in and clear and clean the streets, arrest the drug dealers and separate them for the services they need. Sixty percent of the homeless have addictions," said Zhou.
The candidate also wants to stop car break-ins, clean the streets, and provide housing for teachers and workers.
"To me, it symbolizes a mayor that is talking and thinking about change, but not doing about change," said Zhou about depicting Mayor London Breed this way.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...
Zhou appears to be less of a Leftist (Claims non-partisan?)
Here were some points from her website:
The taxes pledge sound fishy to me and I am going to read up, bu the rest sounds okay to me...so far.
Had never heard of her.
“Can you imagine if all the Asian people owned a gun and they could protect themselves?” she told me Wednesday, with a lilt in her voice conveying this would be her utopia.
I, of course, had to push back a bit — what about all of our recent mass shootings? Didn’t more guns in our society make those possible? Think of Gilroy, I said.
“The people who shoot at us, the mass shootings, they’ll always get [guns], because they’re bad,” she answered. “Good people like you and me, who have common sense, if we could carry we could come out and defend ourselves.”
I shouldn’t have been surprised — Zhou has campaigned at Cow Palace gun shows to reach those who she considers her natural constituency. She’s a gun owner and, she said, a member of the National Rifle Association.
Yeah...I did. What is that? Someone, anyone to the right of Pol Pot seems like they wouldn’t even bother to run there, and...this?
Well, any hope for my conservative brethren in California is a good thing. I guess it has to start somewhere. Going back to read her tax portion.
That was what I was hoping when I went back to read. That she was someone who was fed up.
I would like to think her apparent animus towards communism is based in the same way so many from that part of the world, on real world experience with communists. That is a good starting point and would put her above every single person I can imagine running for that mayorship.
Her tax position would be to lower taxes on business to lure them back in and hopefully make it someplace people can afford to live again, but...there were no specifics other than platitudes.
But you know what? I am at the point I will accept someone who is a complete amateur at politics but is willing to dive in.
I am sick to death of professional politicians. I have had quite a cynical assessment of the majority of them for some time.
Yes.
That billboard is not the kind of symbology we commonly see in this country. I knew it was off when I first saw it, it reminded me of something I might see in South America or the Caribbean, but I didn’t think it through.
Some of the stuff is a little squishy, I don't hold her SEIU involvement against her per se, because I assume nearly everyone in California who is in that field must be in the SEIU.
There are some things to like there. It's possible the entries like the NRA are pandering, but...if running in SF, why would that be an advantage?
I find this fascinating. Someone not a total Leftist is running for mayor of San Francisco.
Almost guarantees re-election for breed...
“I presume this is “Blue-on-Blue” action out there in San Francisco, and we should be cheering it on?”
Good luck to both sides!
LOL...normally I would break out the popcorn, but she does seem a little out of place in that election.
I was surprised by just about everything on her site. She has guts.
She is the most conservative candidate running. She has our vote.
Ellen is Chinese. Huge Chinese voter bloc here.
But she is not the machine candidate and has no “chance.” Sf is pure machine. We vote anyway.
Courageous lady
It’s about time. As a native-born San Franciscan I have often wondered why the Chinese and other Asian residents never seemed interested in exercising their cultural majority. Ellen was recently interviewed by Stefan Molyneux on YouTube. She understands the white collar crime that dominates the San Fran political system.
I should have known about the city’s patronage of mostly white political activists, many attorneys, who become experts in building codes and follow every change. The NGOs are devastating Asian family apartment owners who assumed that property ownership was something they could pass on to their families. The wealth in San Francisco, mostly from the social media industry, government workers and associated lawyers, allows the young Twitter or Facebook or Google employees to pay ridiculous fees after the buildings are foreclosed on by banks because the owners didn’t put in the correct ramps or install new heating or... as required by the latest change in rental regulations. Ellen has addressed the needs of junkies while paying attention to, and abiding by city, state, and federal regulations. I hope she survives the attacks from the entitled class; she wants to clean the SF swamp. I’ll watch with interest and hope, having moved across The Bay some years ago.
I saw, first hand, legal players use the court system to make a good living by gaming the landlords. Lawyers make a living from their piece of the action, which often forces the struggling landlords to sell. Then the banks and real estate agents get their fingers into the carcass. Ellen has been helping that community for years, while working multiple jobs and raising two children. While California may have a long drop in its future, Ellen is all that a Warren or Pelosi isn’t, and could fix lots of things if somehow, her voters are sufficient to overcome the virtually certain voting corruption, probably worse than Orange County’s, in the kingdom of San Francisco.
So there is a white guy responsible for slavery and human trafficking
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