Democrats sweating bullets

Progressives ousted in San Francisco, of all places -- what's next?

Three progressive school board members were ousted in a recall vote Tuesday, and Democrats all over the world were seen sweating bullets.

Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but if I were a tyrannical, woke Democrat right now I would a little nervous. These people like nothing more than power, and if you can’t stay in your cushy elected sinecure quoting Michel Foucault, you might have to go back to serving Caffe Mistos at Starbucks, and that would involve actual work.

It turns out the voters of San Francisco did not want the school board to spend its time trying to rename schools (yes, they did not want schools named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln), but instead the voters wanted the school board to concentrate on actual education. When the pandemic came, the first thing the board did was to adopt policies damaging the children, like closing the schools for no discernible reason.

For progressives, it would of course be so much easier if school boards did not have to deal with those sticky, pesky, noisy children. They could sit around and discuss endlessly how many phallic symbols there are in the city or complain that there are not enough transgender, handicapped people of color in the school administration.

But in a sign that there is a bit of sanity left, even in San Francisco, the three worst school board members are gone. They will be replaced by the equally woke but suddenly scared San Francisco mayor, who is realizing she might never become vice president if she allows these progressives to keep on telling the truth about what they really think.

So, we can be optimistic for a time. For the next few years, hopefully, a lot of these progressive losers will be ousted from their elected positions and go back to their parents’ basements or to the tattoo parlors where they used to “work.” Will we stop allowing them to run our schools, state legislatures and bureaucracies? We can always hope….

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San Francisco residents overwhelmingly voted to oust three of the city’s progressive school-board members on Tuesday. It was the culmination of a year-long effort to reform the board, which has been accused of prioritizing social-justice politics over reopening schools and managing the district’s troubled finances during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Returns started coming in around 9 p.m. in California, showing that more than 70 percent of voters supported recalling each of the three candidates: 79 percent voted to recall board member Alison Collins, 75 percent voted to recall board president Gabriela López, and 73 percent voted to recall board member Faauuga Moliga.

Democratic Mayor London Breed will now be tasked with appointing three new members to the seven-member board. Collins, López, and Moliga were the only members of the board who were eligible to be recalled. Their seats are up for election again in November.

“The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else,” declared Breed in a prepared statement. “San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well.”

Tuesday’s election marked the end of a year-long recall campaign launched by Siva Raj and Autumn Looijen, two single parents and Bay Area tech professionals spurred to action by their frustration with the board’s refusal to reopen the city’s schools well into the Covid-19 pandemic.