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Peggy has been speaking with career politicians who don’t like change and Trump represents change.
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Here’s Peggy’s description of the average American: “ill-educated, broken-up, low-attention-span” and compares the average American voter to those poor souls on Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking” interview-on-the-street of atypical Americans in which he asks them embarrassingly easy questions to which they don’t know the answers. And the cognoscenti continues to look down their noses…
Anyway, Peggy and the politicians like predictability, and Trump is anything but that. She feels unease. In the past, she’s decried the unelected who propped up the Biden hand puppet and the far-too-Left-wokeness that permeated this country…but there’s a real hesitancy towards doing anything about it, despite the precipice upon which we’re teetering.
She (and the politicians) clearly don’t like Trump’s use of executive orders…and yet…Trump’s use of EOs was just a little higher than average, and far less than, say, FDR who did 15x as many as Trump with 3,721. Wilson did 1,800, then Coolidge who did 1,200 and Teddy who did 1,081. Hoover did 968, Truman 907. Reagan did 381, Clinton did 364, LBJ 325, Carter 320, GHWB only did 166. Obama did 276, Biden did 162.
Her best lines come as instructions to Democrats; e.g., admit what your party has done wrong, be humble not defensive, endorse Trump policies you honestly support, etc. but the best was “Most of all, make something work. You run nearly every great city in the nation. Make one work — clean it up, control crime, smash corruption, educate the kids.” Of course, they can’t and they won’t. They don’t know how. Their policies caused the mess in the first place.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
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Cities with Democratic leadership
New York City, NY – Mayor Eric Adams
Los Angeles, CA – Mayor Karen Bass
Chicago, IL – Mayor Brandon Johnson
Houston, TX – Mayor Sheila Jackson Lee
Phoenix, AZ – Mayor Kate Gallego
Philadelphia, PA – Mayor Cherelle Parker
San Diego, CA – Mayor Todd Gloria
Dallas, TX – Mayor Eric Johnson
San Jose, CA – Mayor Matt Mahan
Austin, TX – Mayor Kirk Watson
Jacksonville, FL – Mayor Donna Deegan
Fort Worth, TX – Mayor Mattie Parker
Columbus, OH – Mayor Andrew Ginther
Charlotte, NC – Mayor Vi Lyles
San Francisco, CA – Mayor London Breed
Indianapolis, IN – Mayor Joe Hogsett
Seattle, WA – Mayor Bruce Harrell
Denver, CO – Mayor Mike Johnston
Washington, D.C. – Mayor Muriel Bowser
Boston, MA – Mayor Michelle Wu
El Paso, TX – Mayor Renard Johnson
Nashville, TN – Mayor Freddie O’Connell
Detroit, MI – Mayor Mike Duggan
Oklahoma City, OK – Mayor David Holt
Portland, OR – Mayor Ted Wheeler
Las Vegas, NV – Mayor Carolyn Goodman
Louisville, KY – Mayor Craig Greenberg
Baltimore, MD – Mayor Brandon Scott
Milwaukee, WI – Mayor Cavalier Johnson
Albuquerque, NM – Mayor Tim Keller
Tucson, AZ – Mayor Regina Romero
Sacramento, CA – Mayor Darrell Steinberg
Kansas City, MO – Mayor Quinton Lucas
Atlanta, GA – Mayor Andre Dickens
Raleigh, NC – Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin
Long Beach, CA – Mayor Rex Richardson
Oakland, CA – Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins
Minneapolis, MN – Mayor Jacob Frey
Tulsa, OK – Mayor G.T. Bynum
Tampa, FL – Mayor Jane CastorI like the challenge to Democrats- pick one city and fix it.
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The new mayor Lurie in San Francisco is apparently going to attempt to fix the hash that London Breed (and generations of Democratic leadership) made of the city of San Francisco.
He’s saying the right things. We’ll see if he can actually deliver:
- He says overspending of $1 billion will end.
- Reduce bureaucratic bloat; e.g., SF has nine homeless outreach teams, five departments that touch homelessness and more than 100 contractors who provide homeless services.
- He has named four “czars” to advise him on:
- health, homelessness and family services (McKinsey consultant). Kunal Modi, has 10 departments and about $6 bils. in budget.
- infrastructure, climate and mobility (CEO of SPUR civic think tank). Alicia John-Baptiste has seven budgets with$4.5 bils. in budget, including MTA, utilities, GGPark, the port and office of innovation.
- public safety (former SFPD captain) Paul Yep, has eight budgets, about $1.5 billion
- economic development and housing (ex-Twitter CFO). 15 budgets, including airport, about $3 billion in budget.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
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[quote quote=9701]The new mayor Lurie in San Francisco is apparently going to attempt to fix the hash that London Breed (and generations of Democratic leadership) made of the city of San Francisco. He’s saying the right things. We’ll see if he can actually deliver:
- Reduce bureaucratic bloat; e.g., SF has nine homeless outreach teams, five departments that touch homelessness and more than 100 contractors who provide homeless services.[/quote]
This is similar to what I found in Portland/Multnomah County. It is impossible to get more than a close estimate of money spent on homelessness. One contractor is paid $26M annually to remove tents, tarps and hazardous waste while the county hands out over 24, 000 tarps and 6500 tents.
In terms of financial expenditures, a study by ECONorthwest found that more than $500 million was spent on homeless interventions in the Portland metropolitan area in 2023. Best estimate, this is roughly $84,000 annually per homeless person.
Drain the swamp.
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