WITH LONDON BREED - IT IS MORE OF THE SAME - IN FACT THE WORST CORRUPTION
EVER - HAS NOW BEEN WITNESSED - AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS.
JERROLD CHINN REPORTS ON HUGE
MOBSTERISM AT CITY HALL
London
Breed will be sworn in -
the
first woman Black Mayor -
San
Francisco has ever had.
With London Breed
will being sworn in as the Mayor of San Francisco - today, July 11.
2018. That is until, her SHORT term
ends - in 14 months - serving the remaining term of her sordid,
predecessor - Mayor Edwin Mah Lee - one of the most corrupt Mayors -
ever to step foot in Room 200 - at City Hall.
London Breed will be sworn
in
by Gavin Newsom - a
former corrupt Mayor of SF.
Here is Gavin Newsom at his
best -
those pandering to him -
do the same - behind close
doors -
more when it comes to
morals, ethics, more standards
that matter - birds
of a feather flock together.
London Breeed will
be sworn in by Gavin Newsom - another crooked Mayor - scum
of the Earth.
Today's ceremony has
been put together -
by the clown above -
he is ready - on the
sidelines - to make his money -
plenty of it - as he has
all these many years -
a former Black " thug ' -
mayor of SF.
The details of today's
ceremony - have been orchestrated by none other - than Willie
L. Brown Jr - a Black " thug " Mayor - that has
his tentacles - and sticky fingers - in every single
pie. Wheeling and dealing - cheating, lying, thieving comes to
him - naturally.
San Francisco deserves
better -
it is so sad - that this
City and County of
San Francisco - has chosen
to have as its Mayor -
a very inept, corrupt,
selfish, uncouth - Mayor -
in London Breed.
Time will tell.
A recent poll of the people -
clearly points to some very serious issues facing our once great
City and County of San Francisco.
Homelessness, lack of sound
housing, severe congestion on our streets, safety - more of the same
- London Breed has been talking a good talk - but there has been NO
walk.
It is difficult to teach an old
dog - new tricks.
Chairperson of the Muwekma
Ohlone Tribe -
the First People of San Francisco -
Chairperson made it clear
where this City was
heading to - Chairing the SF
Board of Supervisors -
London Breed - she heard
what the Chairperson had to say -
loud and clear.
This land we call San Francisco
- every square inch
belongs to the Muwekma Ohlone - it was stolen - by the "strangers " - more those that talk
with a " forked tongue ".
The Muwekma Ohlone lived here
for over 13,000 years.
The event above came about when
two SF Supervisors - David Campos and Eric L. Mar -
honored the Chairperson - with a commendation.
This
land has been here for a long time - once there were many hills - as
many as 52 hills - most of them demolished to build homes.
Muwekma
Warrior
www.muwekma.org
As
far as I know the only segment of the population here in San
Francisco, the Bay
area - the OHLONE - have lived here
for over 13,000 years - YES - thirteen thousands years.
On
many of the hills - here in San Francisco - were the remains of the
OHLONE - called Shell Mounds - Sacred remains of Ohlone.
When
the hills were demolished - the Sacred Remains - were
desecrated. BLACKS who are indebted to
the Native Americans.
Blacks
- please pay attention - do not bite the hand that fed you -
that protected your ancestors - when you fled away from " slavery "
and took refuge with the Native American Tribes.
The
Shell Mounds served as acupuncture point on this Earth.
Those
of us that are keen and keep our hearts clean - know what
this means - we cannot and will not compromise - spirituality
and respect for the Elders - matters, foremost.
The politicians
know about the Muwekma Ohlone - but they prefer not to talk
about the First People - and therein lies the crux - of the problem.
For
some years we have tents - poor people living in them - the many
tents removed -
without giving
those living in them notice -
more seniors
- who are left to fend for themselves.
Hundreds dying a slow death
- other lying in the
brand new Morgue - in the
SF Bayview -
their remains waiting to be claimed.
Our Chairperson
Rosemary Cambara -
spoke
about the homelessness - and caring for all -
in the
land of the Muwekma Ohlone -
and
this matter to us all - I represent the
Muwekma
Ohlone - more on Quality of Life issues.
London Breed - did not lift
a finger -
as President of the SF
Board of Supervisors -
to help Iris Canada - she
was over 100 years old -
evicted from her home -
illegally -
treated with disdain - she
died despondent.
I personally know these
JOKERS - political pimps and whores - and leading the charge today
- are two political whores Malia Cohen and London Breed.
Both of them are watched
carefully by Law Enforcement.
Sad to say the SF
City Attorney, the SF District Attorney, the SF Controller
- have been lenient
- to these political whores - who think they can play with " fire
' - but not for long.
Seniors form over - one third of
San Francisco's population - which is about 830,000.
We should not have one
single Senior sleeping
on our streets -we have thousands.
We should not have families -
sleeping on the streets of San Francisco - we have thousands.
Our homeless population numbers
- about 12,000 persons.
Why should the Mayor, the City
Administrator, others make more than $300,000 - some as
much as $375,000 with benefits - all tax payers money - and fail
to represent the tax payers - more the citizens of San
Francisco?
We
have a $11 Billion budget - right now - the mostly - Black sell outs
- are out there - waiting in line - for the dole.
Francisco
Da Costa
I
represent the Muwekma Ohlone -
the
First People of San Francisco.
San
Franciscans must form - focused groups - where those that care
for our families - father, mother, children - supportive members -
take control of our lives.
Right
now we have those that follow some strange life styles -
invading our neighborhoods supported by London Breed and Malia Cohen
for sure - this nonsense must STOP.
There
is no way we can work together - when these crooked
politicians more political whores - their heart in the wrong places
- think - they can take us for a wild ride.
Democracy
is for all the people - with each citizen respected.
It
is all about respect.
You
fuck with us - and we will reciprocate
- you may not like it - but fuck it - we have taken your shit for
the longest time.
We cannot work - with
crooks and those that think their shit don' stink. Let us keep it
real.
Three devils and a kingmaker: Why London Breed is no longer mayor
London Breed suffered for her connections with Ron
Conway. Photo: Pax Ahimsa Gethen
by Susan Dyer Reynolds
In the October 2015 Marina Times, I wrote a column about
tech-investing billionaire Ron Conway’s influence over Mayor Ed Lee
(“Project Political Runway: In Mayor Lee’s regime, if you’re not in with
Ron Conway, you’re out”). I noted that in 2012 Conway and his cronies
spent nearly $180,000 to help elect District 5 supervisor London Breed,
and $104,000 against her opponent. The morning the issue hit the
newsstands I received an e-mail from Breed in which she distanced
herself not only from Conway, but from the mayor himself. Breed said she
won on her own merits as an African American woman raised by her
grandmother in San Francisco public housing, and she didn’t need their
money or their support. The problem is, she didn’t turn down their money
or their support in 2012, so no matter how many times she says it
doesn’t influence her decision-making, there’s a whole bunch of people
who don’t believe her.
That was certainly the case on Tuesday, Jan. 23, when the Board of
Supervisors chose District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell to serve the rest
of Lee’s term over interim Mayor Breed, who, as board president,
immediately ascended to the position when Lee died of a heart attack
Dec. 12. Of course Breed’s supporters immediately started shouting
charges of racism, even accusing the board of reviving Jim Crow right
there in chambers. But Breed’s ouster had nothing to do with her race
and everything to do with a potent cocktail of Conway, too many jobs, an
unfair advantage, and the new kingmaker of City Hall.
THREE DEVILS ON HIS SHOULDERS
Before then-mayor Gavin Newsom left for Sacramento to become
California’s lieutenant governor in 2010, he joined forces with Conway
and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to conjure up a deal giving
them a voice in city politics for years to come. Numerous stories abound
of back-table dinners where the power brokers sat like three devils on
the meek shoulders of Ed Lee, then the city’s chief administrator,
cajoling him to serve the rest of Newsom’s term as a “caretaker mayor.”
The plan worked. Once in office, Lee realized he liked the gig and —
though he vowed he wouldn’t — ran for a full term. I remember wandering
around the Civic Center farmer’s market with Lee as he campaigned. He
introduced me to some of the vendors, who obviously knew him and liked
him. It was here with the people that Lee seemed most comfortable, but
when I began asking questions about his plans for the city’s future, Lee
stiffened up. His answers were robotic, seemingly coached. When I looked
at the weak field of competitors, however, it became clear the Marina
Times would endorse Lee — the only newspaper to do so, and a
decision I often regretted.
The night Lee was elected, he left a voicemail thanking me for writing
the article. “I can’t tell you how many people mentioned it to me,” he
said. “I know it really helped, and I just wanted to thank you.” As his
tenure wore on, it became blatantly obvious that, while Lee was a kind
and decent man, he wasn’t a very good mayor. Lee was a puppet for the
three devils on his shoulders, giving tax breaks to tech start-ups
backed by Conway, pushing to build on the waterfront as Newsom wanted,
and working to elect candidates from Brown’s stable — including Breed,
who got her start in politics working as an intern for Brown’s Office of
Housing and Neighborhood Services.
TOO MANY JOBS AND AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
As far as I’m concerned, Breed was fooling herself to think she could
preside over the board, be the mayor, run for mayor, and represent
troubled District 5, where I have lived for 30 years. If you’ve been to
the Haight lately, which is still overrun with violent, drugged-out
street thugs, or to McDonald’s in the Western Addition, where a visit to
the drive-through can get you caught in the crossfire of a drive-by
shooting, you know why I say it’s troubled. Breed can’t take care of her
own district, never mind the entire city.
Then there’s the question of whether she’s even qualified to be mayor.
Her supporters constantly point out she’s a San Francisco native. Why
they think that makes her more qualified than her competitors I don’t
really understand — I’m a Silicon Valley native but that doesn’t qualify
me to run Apple. Keep in mind new interim Mayor Mark Farrell is also a
San Francisco native. For Breed’s supporters to play the race card
because Farrell is white is ridiculous. Not one of the board members who
voted for him over Breed is racist. Farrell was the safest choice
because he didn’t file to run in the June mayoral election, thus making
him what the progressives had wanted in Ed Lee — a caretaker mayor. It
also levels the playing field so Breed doesn’t have an unfair advantage
going into June as the incumbent.
CONWAY AND THE KINGMAKER
According to the San Francisco Examiner, Conway gauchely
started stumping for Breed at Lee’s private funeral service standing
just feet from his casket. Things got even more vulgar (if that’s
possible) when rumors circulated about Conway padding the floors of City
Hall pressuring supervisors to back Breed. Those rumors got a dash of
reality when, at the end of the meeting to select the interim mayor,
District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen gave a lengthy, impassioned speech.
“There are white, rich men, billionaires, in this city who have steered
the policies of the past two mayoral administrations, if not
more,” Ronen said through her tears. And then she dropped the bomb:
“I hate to say it, I wish it weren’t so, but those white men are so
enthusiastically supporting your candidacy, London Breed. And what you
haven’t heard because you’re not in this inside world we all inhabit in
City Hall is that they’ve been threatening people. They’re all saying if
you don’t support London Breed that people’s careers will be ruined. …
It is happening right now in this Board of Supervisors chamber. It
happened the morning Ed Lee passed away. That’s how gross these people
are. Because they are gross.”
The push to unseat Breed started almost as soon as she stepped into
Lee’s shoes and intensified when she officially declared her candidacy
for the June 2018 election. Some of Breed’s colleagues raised concerns
about her filling multiple roles, which they saw as undermining the
separation of powers in city government. In early January, District 3
Supervisor Aaron Peskin began asking for a special meeting of the board
to discuss a possible vote.
“I am one member of this body who has said that while the charter
allows the president of the board to also serve as the mayor, I don’t
think we should have a mixing of the two branches of government for a
prolonged period of time,” Peskin said. While all of his reasoning makes
perfect sense, Peskin also took issue with Conway. “The more Ron Conway
openly became the kingmaker for London, the more people like me who have
come to respect her and work with her very well became more and more
reticent,” he told Mission Local while waiting for Farrell to
be sworn in.
He won’t admit it or take the credit, but it’s not a secret Peskin
engineered the entire deal with Oz-like precision from behind the
curtains of City Hall. All I have to say is move over Mr. Conway,
there’s a new kingmaker in town, and his name is Aaron Peskin.
A potentially damning
new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court
names multiple city and state officials, including Mayor Lee and
Supervisor LondonBreed as being caught in ...
We can't continue to
normalize corruption in San Francisco. And we can't call out
Trump for his corruption and ignore what's happening in our
own back yard. LondonBreed broke the law," Ronen
said, referring to city ethics laws. "She should resign."
LondonBreed.
From the Ex: In Breed's case, according to the filing, Derf
Butler, a politically connected businessman who the documents say
worked with Jackson for Yee, told an FBI source that he "pays
Supervisor Breed with untraceable debit cards for clothing
and trips in exchange for advantages on contracts in San Francisco."
Bay Area
businessman DerfButler has pleaded guilty to
conspiring to defraud the federal government as part of a
bid-rigging scheme tied to a renovation project at Lawrence
Berkeley National ...
DerfButler,
53, of Vallejo, President of Butler Enterprise Group,
LLC in SanFrancisco, is charged with:
Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, that is, the United
States Department of Energy, in violation of Title 18, United
States Code, Section 371; and; Making a False Statement, in
violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001(a ...
DerfButler
was born on 05/01/1959 and is 60 years old. SanFrancisco,
CA, is where DerfButler lives today. Derf
A Butler and Derl Buther are some of the alias or
nicknames that Derf has used.
Reporting from San
Francisco City Hall
Three San Francisco supervisors are calling for an independent
investigation into an alleged public corruption scandal involving
Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
Supervisors Matt Haney, Gordon Mar and Dean Preston said during a
Thursday morning press conference that they are working on a Request
for Proposal to hire an independent investigator. They will task the
investigator to look into the extent of corruption at the Department
of Public Works and the San Francisco Airport Commission.
On Monday, Nuru and Nick Bovis, owner of the well-known Lefty O’Douls
restaurant, were accused
of a number of bribery and fraud schemes by U.S. Attorney of Northern
California David Anderson. Each men face one count of wire fraud,
which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Additionally, Nuru faces an additional count for lying to the FBI for
speaking about the investigation to other parties. Nuru could face a
maximum of 25 years in prison if found guilty of all charges.
One alleged scheme was an attempt to bribe an airport commissioner,
who has now been identified as Linda Crayton, to approve a restaurant
lease for Bovis at the airport. Citing serious health issues, Crayton
on Wednesday provided Mayor London Breed with a resignation
letter.
Haney said Thursday about the corruption charges:
“His [Nuru’s] approach was fostered and protected by city leaders
who turned a blind eye. It is imperative that City Hall sends a
message that we have zero tolerance for blatant corruption.”
Haney said that anyone connected to illegal activity in this
situation should resign.
Jerold
Chinn/SFBay Supervisor Matt Haney, at a press
conference in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, January 30, 2020,
called for an independent investigator to look into the Department
of Public Works.
The supervisor added:
“The culture of pay-to-play politics at City Hall must end. San
Franciscans deserve transparent, accountable, effective government.
We have a long way to go to achieve this goal.”
Breed spoke Wednesday about further investigation into contracts
involving Nuru.
She said:
“The plan is of course to continue to work with the City Attorney’s
Office and Controller’s Office to really look into a number of
contracts within the department to determine whether or not there
were issues with those contracts.”
The mayor said she was surprised and very disappointed by the
allegations against director.
Emphasizing the need for independent investigation, Supervisor Dean
Preston said:
“We absolutely cannot rely on the executive branch of government in
the City and County of San Francisco to investigate itself. That
does not work as shown by the long standing corruption that is being
revealed as the days unfold.”
A development project in District 5 at 555 Fulton St. has also drawn
attention in the 75-page complaint against Nuru.
The complaint alleges Nuru was given free lodging, travel and wine
worth $2,070 by an unnamed Chinese billionaire developer in an attempt
to expedite the permitting process for the mixed-use property.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports
that Zhang Li, CEO and co-chairman of R&F Properties, is the
developer of concern in the complaint. The identification is credited
to unnamed source with direct knowledge of the situation. SFBay has
not yet confirmed this information.
Aaron
Levy-Wolins/SFBay San Francisco Public Works Director
Mohammed Nuru has been charged with public corruption and lying to
the FBI in a 75-page criminal complaint.
Preston, who represents District 5, said it is important to learn
more about the specific project development.
Supervisor Gordon Mar said while allegations against Nuru are
appalling, they are not shocking.
Mar, who represents the Sunset District, reminded the public of
former local politicians who represented District 4 and served prison
time for corruption-related charges. Mar specifically named former
state Sen. Leland Yee and former Supervisor Ed Jew.
“Corruption is not only a violation of the public trust and is not
only criminal, but it also breeds incompetence. It hurts moral and
makes government less effective.”
Mar said the discussion of corruption must go beyond recent criminal
complaints and focus more broadly on holding those with power
accountable to the people they serve.
According to Haney, the RFP scope of the work is still being
developed with Mar and city staff. The supervisor believes the
proposal could be ready within a matter of weeks.
San Francisco Oligarchs, Elitists And Gatekeepers That Should Be
Under FBI And Public Surveillance:
