San Francisco might not be ‘liberal’ city anymore as progressive mayoral candidate is underdog, says LA Times

San Francisco is known arsenic a reliably wide city to astir of America, but a Los Angeles Times exertion believes determination are signs that the City by the Bay has swung to the center, arsenic voters are sick of rising transgression rates and ramped-up cause usage and stay shaken from COVID-era shutdowns. 

The L.A. Times published a piece connected Thursday headlined, "San Francisco has shifted to the center. Can a progressive inactive vie there?" Times assemblage engagement exertion Defne Karabatur kicked disconnected the portion by asking, "Has famously wide San Francisco moved excessively acold close to clasp an old-school progressive for mayor?"

The L.A. insubstantial noted the statesmanlike predetermination volition beryllium present soon and that "outrage implicit the progressive docket is playing retired successful an improbable place: The San Francisco mayoral race." 

"My workfellow Hannah Wiley looked into the contention this week and recovered that lone 1 of the race’s 5 candidates, San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin, is moving connected a progressive agenda. And he’s the underdog," Karabatur wrote earlier fretting, "What does it each mean? Is San Francisco nary longer a bastion of progressive politics? What adjacent is progressivism?"

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Incumbent Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin. (Getty Images)

Aaron Peskin, seen arsenic the astir progressive of the Democrats to participate the mayor’s contest, is seen arsenic an "underdog" compared to incumbent Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed, erstwhile interim Mayor Mark Farrell, Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie and S.F. Board of Supervisors subordinate Ahsha Safaí, according to the Times. 

The L.A. Times portion noted that San Francisco was "famous for being a pioneer of progressive governmental discourse," but has "tottered toward the center" successful caller years. Voters approving ballot measures to broaden constabulary surveillance powers and enforce cause screenings connected radical receiving region payment benefits are mentioned arsenic examples of the assemblage distancing themselves from the acold left. Both examples were pushed by incumbent Mayor Breed.

In addition, "San Francisco’s dilatory betterment from the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the city’s civilization and shaken voters’ spot successful the city’s leadership," according to Karabatur. 

The portion besides said that San Francisco’s "ascendent tech people has led the rightward shift."

"In caller decades, it hasn’t been antithetic for San Francisco to elite mayors who are centrist Democrats alongside a much progressive Board of Supervisors. Tech executives and affluent concern owners are pouring wealth into the campaigns of mean candidates — including the existent candidates, isolated from Peskin," Karabatur wrote. 

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San Francisco is known arsenic a wide metropolis to astir of America. (iStock)

Karabatur feels a "growing fig of voters," including almighty tech moguls, "want to spot much punitive measures against the sprawling structure encampments and the outpouring of retail and spot crimes that person diminished their knowing of a safe, functional city."

Karabatur past tried to explicate what "progressive" really means these days.

"Peskin says helium joined the contention to support San Francisco a ‘beacon’ for the artists, creatives, immigrants and LGBTQ+ leaders who person defined the metropolis for decades, and to combat for working-class radical to reposition San Francisco arsenic an affordable city," Karabatur wrote.

"He’s promised to prioritize low-income lodging and grow rent control, and says helium wants to unfastened much attraction facilities and grow structure capableness for homeless people," Karabatur continued. "But helium besides touts ‘neighborhood preservation’ and has resisted attempts to amend zoning rules for definite neighborhoods to let for denser housing."

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Homeless radical are seen arsenic the metropolis fights against with fentanyl problems successful San Francisco, California, United States connected February 26, 2024. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu)

The writer wrote that for immoderate residents, Peskin claims the "progressive" statement erstwhile it comes to housing, but others judge his "perspective reflects an impractical, adjacent conservative, attack to the city’s lodging crisis."

"Whether Peskin is simply a textbook progressive is up to mentation — including his own. He told The Times he’s consenting to defy the statement and supports a arguable November ballot measurement that would reverse a 2014 voter-approved law that turned immoderate nonviolent cause and theft felonies into misdemeanors," Karabatur wrote.

"It conscionable goes to amusement you: Few candidates acceptable nether a neat box, adjacent if they effort to assertion oregon eschew one," she added. "It’s the policies, not the label, that volition specify the adjacent fewer years of San Francisco’s governmental landscape."

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