On Tuesday/12, activists, organizers and workers from community-based groups in San Francisco will deliver 1,000 personal postcards to Mayor Daniel Lurie. They group will arrive at City Hall around 11:30. The postcards will tell the mayor the human costs of his brutal budget cuts.
Lurie might send someone out to get the cards, but it’s unlikely he or the majority on the Board of Supes will make many changes: The mayor is determined to eliminate jobs, programs, and nonprofit services.
The message he has sent, over and over, is the same message we hear from the school superintendent, the chancellor of City College, and so many local officials: We just don’t have the money.
This is not necessarily true, and there’s a simple solution that might solve the crisis…