Supervisor David Campos, whom I thought was an intelligent promising public servant, embarrassed the entire City of San Francisco by getting ugly. His
comments re Mayor Newsom's budget being OK if you are a "Strait White Male" is a scary scary comment that deserves an immediate apology. San
Francisco is a diverse city that is made up of all races, all denominations, including "strait white males"... David Campos- please apologize or
resign...what a shame!
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Campos gets ugly and attacks the "Strait White Males" in Public Safety!!!
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Campos gets ugly and attacks the "Strait White Males" in Public Safety!!! |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 52 (06/11/09 6:43 AM) |
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LEBHAN |
Who knew? | ||
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 623 (06/11/09 8:46 AM) |
Hugh: Campos only needs to apologize if Gary P Delagnes and John Hanley are bi-racial, closeted homosexuals.
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 3 (06/11/09 11:30 AM) |
For whatever it's worth, the Chronicle misquoted what I said. What I actually said, and which is now reflected on the Chronicle's on-line version, is:
"This is is a perfect budget if you are a wealthy straight white male from Pacific Heights." |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 210 (06/11/09 12:15 PM) |
For whatever it's worth, the Chronicle misquoted what I said. What I actually said, and which is now reflected on the Chronicle's on-line version, is:What the hell is the difference... Why is it okay to polorize one group of residents in the city vs. another Mr. Campos. The residents didn't mismanage the Budget. The Budget was gonna be bad no matter how it was drawn up. Everyone is gonna get hit. Except for maybe Wealthy people in Pacific Heights. Perhaps if the Board of Supervisors past and present hadn't sold the City to Unions and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex the economic downturn wouldn't have been as devastating. As it stands now... Tough choices have to be made. I have no Love for Newsom. But if you are serious about protecting and looking out for those of us who aren't wealthy, straight, white, male or from Pacific Heights, then you have to get off your Idealogue High Horse and work with Him to get something done. |
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Posts: 1868 (06/11/09 12:20 PM) |
How cute...we have a cavalier racist for a Supervisor.
Campos must be censured or recalled. He is one more example of the nacissistic half-wits that district elections have inflicted on the city. Someone needs to do an Ed Jew on him. |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 897 (06/11/09 1:53 PM) |
The high-school student council is in session.
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Chrysippus |
Marginal Neighborhoods Need Police Protection Most | ||
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 4291 (06/11/09 3:00 PM) |
"This is is a perfect budget if you are a wealthy straight white male from Pacific
Heights."
- David Campos I take it that this comment was directed at the mayor's refusal to cut funding for police and fire fighters. If so, the comment is completely off target. Marginal, poor, and at-risk neighborhoods are the ones that stand most in need of police protection. Crime is the greatest in these neighborhoods. Their residents generally lack the resources to move to safer neighborhoods. Cuts to police services harm such neighborhoods the most. The need for effective public safety is especially acute in neighborhoods that are plagued by gangs. These are rarely wealthy neighborhoods. It's a sad to think that any public official would be unaware of these facts. It's saddest of all to hear such ignorance come from the chair of the Public Safety Committee. We all deserve better from you, David Campos. 
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 5348 (06/11/09 3:22 PM) Administrator |
Personally I wish people would stop confusing Global Metaculture with Whiteness.
Global Metaculture demands civil rights, including the freedom from certain things, like crime and blight. Global Metaculture is Brown, not White. As for Newsom's police budget, sure, there's some white cronyism involved. Same for the fire budget. But there must be some way to criticize it without coming off as a promoter of criminality, a reverse racist or class warrior. Has anyone read this? http://www.amazon.com/Brown-Discovery-America-Richard-Rodriguez/dp/0670030430
The Wall Commentary on Public and Private Life in San Francisco
http://www.sfwall.net
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 152 (06/11/09 6:14 PM) |
David Campos wrote:link to article I suppose the comment is OK because it comes from a Queer Formerly-Illegal-Alien Hispanic Lawyer from Bernal Heights. Good to know that hateful identity politics is alive, well and practiced by this elected official. I better rush on down to City Hall to get my share of this "wealthy straight white male from Pacific Heights" budget. Oops, maybe not since I'm unemployed and live in the Bayview. Well, three outta five ain't bad. Oh, brother.... 
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 3957 (06/11/09 6:14 PM) Ward Healer |
."a wealthy straight white male from Pacific Heights" Actually David, you are cartalogically challenged. According to Leah, the Mayor & family have picked up new digs cross town in Upper Terrace -- they no longer reside in PacHgtrs. So, maybe you'll have to start lombasting those "Haight'n white males" instead, eh? That said, if you'll look elsewhere on this site, you'll see that there are plenty of places that could be cut with no real service impact. The thing is, (and the Examiner isn't always wrong) -- it doesn't stop with the SFFD (or SFPD). This town is RIFE with overcompensated, bloated City govmint including employees. But then, you don't strike me as someone who would challenge the unions. (even if they were wrong). I still don't see value-for-money of the roughly $8000-per-resident that SF govmint spends each year. -P |
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Gary P Delagnes and John Hanley are not bi-racial, closeted homosexuals? | ||
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 946 (06/11/09 11:15 PM) |
How do we know they are not?
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 571 (06/12/09 7:11 AM) |
Mr. Campos, If you want to show you are an adult, or even just prove that you are a competant freshman supe, maybe you can be the one to lead the board, and
the mayor, out of this ridiculous high school melodrama and get to the job of representing the taxpayers and residents of SF. It is your job to do so and to
work with the mayor, as much of a schmuck that he is. GROW UP.
For that matter, as long as you're looking to the wall for opinions, you won't have to cut any services if you cut some of the ridiculous pay and benefit and featherbedding schemes that the unions have cooked up for their members. That's right, if you want the poor, queer people of color from the flats to get the services they so desparately need, you'll have to convince the unions (most of whom don't live here) to take a pay cut and start earning their salaries. It is your chance to show who you really represent. |
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Posts: 1868 (06/12/09 7:54 AM) |
on Wednesday, the budget committee voted to strip $82 million out of the police, fire and sheriff's departments to reverse the mayor's cuts to the health and social services programs. |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 623 (06/12/09 8:07 AM) |
Rebel, are you saying that Gary P Delagnes and John Hanley are not, not bi-racial, closeted homosexuals?
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 571 (06/12/09 8:10 AM) |
That's exactly the problem - they cut the services we're paying for, not the cost of the service provider. I don't think we need to pay firemen
and cops $300k/year in salary (with OT), but I do think we need all the cops and most of the firemen we have. Campos and the others will end their political
careers when there's a spike in crime (of course with mainly minority victims) due to a lack of cops or an earthquake without sufficient number of first
responders and the blame gets laid at the feet of those who would prefer to continue giving away the store to homeless etc.
We need to cut their pay (Like San Jose, Like Oakland, Like CA) and the overtime abuse and featherbedding. And/Or take them off of full employer paid HMO health care and put them on a high deductible plan with an HSA, like the city has pushed most private industry into, and cut the city's health insurance premiums by more than half. And/Or require them to chip in half of the pension contribution. And/Or go to 401k instead of pensions All of this would solve the budget WITHOUT CUTTING SERVICES, SAFETY, AND JOBS. Now of course that won't happen, the taxes won't pass in November, and there will be over 1000 jobs cut at city hall just in time for Christmas, so I'd like our public servants to stop dicking around with unpaid holidays and make serious, bold reforms, EVEN WHEN IT MEANS PISSING OFF THE UNIONS. Remeber, Mr. Campos, you work for us, the people of SF who elected you and pay your salary. You do not work for or represent SEIU.
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 7 (06/12/09 8:49 AM) |
For the record - I'm a straight white male. And I'm not wealthy.
Based on my recent experience of dealing with people who currently make up the political landscape of San Francisco, we could very easily be the most discriminated group out there. That is middle class straight white males. As a matter of fact, we probably are.... Quite often, I have been told that I'm overqualified and very competent for the position but will be next to impossible to get because I'm a middle class straight white male. As the majority of us know, the level of incompetency at City Hall and the non-profits is at an all time high. Along with that is the discrimination against Straight White Males who are not "wealthy." The beauty of this "misquoted" comment is that there is hope for the SWM's to get some love out there..... Need my resume Mr. Campos? |
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LEBHAN |
WISDOM MUST BE RECOGNIZED AND THEN HONORED | ||
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 623 (06/12/09 9:13 AM) |
FROM ATOP SOME MOUNTAIN UNCLE MILTIE WRITES:
"That's exactly the problem - they cut the services we're paying for, not the cost of the service provider." "That's exactly the problem - they cut the services we're paying for, not the cost of the service provider." "That's exactly the problem - they cut the services we're paying for, not the cost of the service provider." "That's exactly the problem - they cut the services we're paying for, not the cost of the service provider." |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 571 (06/12/09 12:45 PM) |
Thanks Lebhan, for the shout out with echo. Do you think Mr. Campos can hear me
hear me hear me hear me? |
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Chrysippus |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 4291 (06/12/09 2:36 PM) |
David Campos will not hear, or care about, any of the points made here.
Why should he? The present system of district elections rewards tunnel-vision. The things that really matter to the supes are the power players in each of their districts. Forget about the rest. For David Campos, the power players in his district are mostly organizations in the nonprofit political complex. By comparison, ordinary voters concerned about crime and grime in their daily lives have no clout with him. And so we find this remarkable spectacle with the person who is chair of the Public Safety Committee - He denounces law enforcement as a gimmick devised by rich, straight, white males. He makes a priority of restoring the discredited practice of providing sanctuary to young illegal immigrants suspected of felonies. He leads an attack on the U.S. Attorney by suspending the board's own rules, precluding the right of the accused to speak in his own behalf and of the public to offer commentary, and then turns around and calls the mess "a better process." He denounces as "despicable" those who call attention to his behavior. If absurdity at City Hall did not have dire consequences, this would all be funny. 
David Campos, Chair of the Public Safety Committee |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 1687 (06/12/09 9:58 PM) |
Does Campos play fiddle too? (refer to Wikipedia article on Nero)
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Chrysippus |
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Ward Heeler
Posts: 4291 (06/12/09 10:19 PM) |
What has David Campos ever done to fight crime?
You'll get some idea from the upcoming agenda of the Public Safety Committee, which he heads, and which meets on Monday (link below). The first item is a review of how the police deal with first-amendment rights at demonstrations. That's right, folks. Campos is worried that the cops are coming down too heavily on political demonstrators in SF. This is his big anti-crime priority for now. The second (and final) item on the agenda is a review of crime statistics. This same item was on the committee's agenda 27 times in 2007-2008, when Ross Mirkarimi chaired the committee. What has this ongoing exercise in jaw flapping ever done to fight crime in SF? Not much that I can see. Here's the link: http://www.sfgov.org/site...upvrs_page.asp?id=106021 
David Campos Prepares to Tackle Crime in SF
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