Stories about the crime issues plaguing Democrat-run cities across America have become so commonplace that, at this point, they are a lot like dog bites man reports. But they deserve documentation if for no other reason than to hold so-called city leaders accountable for allowing the situation to deteriorate to the point that people are getting assaulted and murdered because of it.
The latest example, unsurprisingly, comes from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s hometown of San Francisco, where the situation near the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building has gotten so dire that Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services Dept. has advised some workers to keep working from home until further notice due to safety concerns:
From the story (archived link)::
The imposing, 18-story tower on the corner of Seventh and Mission streets houses various federal agencies, including HHS, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the office of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. The area is also home to one of the city’s most brazen open-air drug markets, where dozens of dealers and users congregate on a daily basis.HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl R. Campbell issued the stay-home recommendation in an Aug. 4 memo to regional leaders.“In light of the conditions at the (Federal Building) we recommend employees … maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future,” Campbell wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Chronicle.
As the Chronicle also noted, the day that memo was issued was the same day the Biden administration called on federal workers to return to their offices in September:
President Biden is calling on Cabinet officials to urge more of their workers to return to the office this fall, part of a broader effort to return to normalcy more than three years after the coronavirus pandemic upended work patterns.“As we look towards the fall, and with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, your agencies will be implementing increases in the amount of in-person work for your team,” White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients wrote to Cabinet officials on Friday. “This is a priority of the President — and I am looking to each of you to aggressively execute this shift in September and October.”
Additionally, the Chronicle reported that “while Pelosi’s five-person staff was not advised to work remotely, she raised concerns about the building’s tenant safety last week in a meeting with the U.S. attorney for the northern district of California, according to officials with her office.”
A look at videos taken by local media outlets as well as citizen journalists tells the story of just how bad it has gotten in that area:
Businesses and residents, as one might expect, are absolutely fed up, with one iconic business threatening to join others in shutting down if things don’t change:
SF Mayor London Breed, meanwhile, continues with the gaslighting by pretending downtown San Francisco is in “recovery” mode:
As many of us have observed before, people who keep electing woke Democrats like Newsom (who has been promising to eradicate homelessness since 1998 when he was an SF Supervisor) and expecting a different result in these situations are in fact part of the problem. Just sayin’.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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