Oberndorf
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The cost of living out here has become unbelievable.
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it's almost as expensive to live out here as it is to live in San Francisco proper.
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Similar is true of the area,
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back in the city, around their clubhouse, The Tenderloin is the poorest part of S.F., a city
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that's been the center of national discussion about housing prices, crime and homelessness,
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and a state that's been a hot point regarding taxing the rich.
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Which brings us back to Dan's list.
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So then what's the name of this big SF. advocacy group?
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It's called Neighbors for A Better San Francisco,
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it at one point, I believe still was the biggest big spender in local SF politics.
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This group is spending on city council races, mayor races, you know, trying to sway ballot
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measures, ballot initiatives.
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Nick Podell.
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Yep. William Oberndorf. Yep. Stephen Merrill.
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Bingo.
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This thing's basically just an offshoot of the Bohemian Grove. Yeah.
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This is Atwater, he's a founder and former chairman of, Prime Finance.
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And you know, he was one of the big backers of this Neighbors group.
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They most recently focused their spending, fighting a ballot measure
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that would have marginally increased property taxes on the most wealthy to fund affordable housing.
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And top donor,
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William Oberndorf
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Who used his charitable foundation
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to donate $2,000 to Make-A-Wish Foundation and $200,000 to Neighbors.
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And Neighbors like Heritage or any of these ghoulish national organizations
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is just one part of a network of linked organizations
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sharing a small pool of donors and board members across the city.
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But let's zoom back out nationally.
What's Stopping Chesa Boudin? - theintercept.com
4 days agoThe San Francisco Police Officers Association has not officially endorsed the recall campaign, but the union began targeting Boudin before he was elected. When he ran in 2019, SFPOA spent at least...
...lAW ENFORCEMENT ISN’T the only group that’s been fighting Boudin since before he was elected. Just three days after Boudin took office in January 2020, someone purchased the domain name “RecallChesa.org” and launched a website at that address later that year that directed people to sign a Change.org petition calling on him to resign. The petition was circulated by political blogger and former Republican San Francisco mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg, who also launched the first effort to recall Boudin last March but failed to gather the required number of signatures to get the measure on the ballot. Greenberg is now a paid spokesperson for the recall campaign.
Speaking to The Guardian, Greenberg said the recall campaign tries “not to get involved with actual policy or analysis. But we need to hold criminals accountable, regardless of their age, whatever is the appropriate accountability method.”
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A Tech Investor Is Raising Funds to Investigate San Francisco Prosecutor’s Decarceral Approach
Shortly after Boudin was sworn in, angel investor Jason Calacanis launched a GoFundMe that raised $60,000 with the stated goal to investigate Boudin’s office and “hold him accountable.” Calacanis announced in September that he would use the cash to fund a Substack column by writer Susan Dyer Reynolds, titled “Gotham,” which has published two dozen posts since it started last August. Most of them employ tough-on-crime talking points to attack Boudin, including one post that blamed Boudin’s office for not bringing new charges against a man whom the FBI charged with kidnap and rape of a minor — after Boudin’s predecessor had released him on the same charges. Another is titled: “Yes, sir, it’s time for you to go.”
The single largest donor to the recall is a group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which is funded by major Republican donorWilliam Oberndorf and has spent at least $4.8 million on the recall since last year, according to filings with the San Francisco Ethics Commission. It funds several other organizations behind the recall effort, including San Franciscans for Public Safety, which had spent at least $6.5 million by the end of May. Former local Democratic Party Chair Mary Jung is the group’s treasurer and a principal officer, as well as a former lobbyist for the local chapter of the California Association of Realtors, another top contributor to the recall effort. Since 2016, Oberndorf has given at least $5.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The campaign against the recall, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and two local chapters of SEIU have altogether spent just over $3.2 million so far to oppose the effort. Groups fighting the recall say it’s an example of successful fearmongering by police and a select circle of wealthy outsiders. “Less than two years after massive nationwide protests over George Floyd’s murder sparked a long overdue reckoning with racism in the American legal system, police unions and their wealthy allies are exploiting our fears and the social disruption caused by the pandemic in an effort to reinstate failed policies that devastated the Black community,” read an ACLU of Northern California statement from March.....
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https://theintercept.com/2021/01/26/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-prosecutor/
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