There aren’t many places in the United States more liberal than San Francisco. The city by the bay’s mayor, Gavin Newsom, has reacted to the immigration law in Arizona like any illogical liberal would: by creating a moratorium on official travel to Arizona. What’s next? Fining citizens for traveling to Georgia? We all know traveling to Georgia is a racist act, if not just downright foolish. The San Francisco Chronicle has more:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today a moratorium on official city travel to Arizona after the state enacted a controversial new immigration law that directs local police to arrest those suspected of being in the country illegally.
The ban on city employee travel to Arizona takes effect immediately, although there are some exceptions, including for law enforcement officials investigating a crime, officials said. It’s unclear how many planned trips by city workers will be curtailed [emphasis added].
Before I delve into the ridiculousness of the moratorium I have to applaud The Chronicle for its horrendous journalism. Their summary of the law in Arizona is a complete distortion. The law in Arizona doesn’t direct local police to arrest those suspected of being illegal immigrants. What hope is there for liberals in San Francisco to understand anything if the newspapers can’t cover this issue correctly?
As far as the city of San Francisco is concerned it’s amazing to see a liberal city embrace totalitarianism. So heads up, San Francisco; that’s totalitarianism. I know, I know, it’s a dry totalitarianism, but it’s still totalitarianism.
I got up bright and early Tuesday morning to participate in the Sarasota city elections. I braved a long line to vote… I jest, there was no one at the voting precinct when I voted. Many citizens of the city were likely just trying to get to work on time. This is the season where the morning traffic is nearly impossible to navigate. It seems as if every retired snowbird east of the Mississippi is cramming the roads to spend their child’s inheritence at the local breakfast place. I digress… the results are in and the city of Sarasota is still backwards. For whatever reason the city refuses to join the rest of civilization by electing a mayor. Word is that the remaining city commissioners will start holding tribal councils. They might as well go to the beach gather around the fire and throw sticks into the air. That would be an improvement over the status quo. The measure lost 4,406 to 6,799. Clearly turnout was an issue.
In other news there’s going to be a runoff for city council between pedestrian utopianist Suzaane Atwell, closet Democrat Terry Turner, and Paul Caragiulo whose platform is anyone’s guess. There are two spots up for grabs. A runoff election will be held on April 14 and I’ll be sitting at home for that one. Atwell and Turner are just more of the same. Turner can’t figure out what party he belongs to and Atwell believes in some kind of fantasy pedestrian world. Just think, at least one of these people will have a chance to be our rotating mayor.
Overall a sad night for Sarasota. A city that is run poorly, with citizens too apathetic to do anything about it, a newspaper in favor of the status quo, and with leaders who are completely inept. Sound familiar?
The debate on having an elected Mayor in Sarasota is heating up. It seems like the racism card is only conceivable argument against the amendment. Some community leaders are worried that the Newtown area will not be adequately represented. Fight for the statue quo is puzzling since the current arrangement doesn’t seem to be helping that community. The fight to stop Wal-Mart from coming into Northern Sarasota is a landmark example of stupid city planners. Instead of having a few hundred low paying jobs the planners fought successfully to make sure that Wal-Mart couldn’t afford to open a store in that area. That’s real great. So now there’s an empty lot collecting trash and no new jobs. This is progress!
Much of the debate has focused on how a strong mayor would affect the predominantly black Newtown neighborhood. Residents there say that because the change would also add two at-large City Commission seats, it would weaken their representation in city matters. To show their opposition, many Newtown residents are putting out door hangers urging neighbors to vote against the proposal.
“They are going to dilute our voice,” said Ed James, chairman of the Coalition of African American Leadership. “Every time you introduce another player, we get the ball a lot less.”
Someone should tell James it would be easier to pay for a ball at the local Wal-Mart if city leaders would have just gotten out of the way. Just read this website. It would be great if ignorance like this could be squashed but it’s everywhere. If the best argument against having an elected Mayor is this nonsense then I’m all for it.
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