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SF SOS Undermines Credibility By Attacking Business, Middle Class
According to its mission statement, SF SOS is a “non-partisan” coalition that seeks to “build an army of thousands of engaged citizens, and keep them well-informed.” The group claims to be dedicated to “the return of clean, safe neighborhoods, protecting the rights of the ignored, and moving toward a vibrant economy.” But in practice, these lofty sentiments have translated into major Republican donors spending tens of thousands of dollars on hit-pieces against Democrats. Politicians and businesses unwilling to toe the SF SOS line become targets of these attacks, and those paying for the SF SOS pieces lack the courage or integrity to reveal their names publicly. SF SOS’s campaign materials reflect a profoundly anti-business, anti-middle-class bias in conflict with the group’s stated goals, and shows how the group’s wealthy backers are badly misinforming San Franciscans.
This election season has confirmed what many have long suspected about SF SOS: the group is less concerned about improving San Francisco’s quality of life for businesses and the middle-class, and more focused on petty acts of political revenge. Unlike taxpayer and “good government” groups that pursue a consistent agenda, SF SOS is a self-defined pro-business group that takes anti-business positions, and a self-proclaimed defender of the middle-class that supports policies driving this group out of San Francisco.
In other words, those controlling SF SOS are hypocrites.
While the group talks tough about telling the truth, misinformation is its stock in trade. SF SOS was so misguided in its campaign mailers during the 2004 election season that Senator Dianne Feinstein and financier Warren Hellman both resigned from the group.
This year, SF SOS is putting all of its secret campaign donations to work in a massive attack on District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly. Thus far, they have paid for anti-Daly doorhangers and a 24-page (!) attack-piece titled, “The Case Against Chris Daly.”
I won’t bother to go through most of “The Case,” but two struck a particular chord: the claim that Daly engineered two “Developer Shake-Down Deals” that in SF SOS’s words, “evicted” middle-class families in one and left the middle-class out of “the equation” in the other.
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In other words, those controlling SF SOS are hypocrites.
While the group talks tough about telling the truth, misinformation is its stock in trade. SF SOS was so misguided in its campaign mailers during the 2004 election season that Senator Dianne Feinstein and financier Warren Hellman both resigned from the group.
This year, SF SOS is putting all of its secret campaign donations to work in a massive attack on District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly. Thus far, they have paid for anti-Daly doorhangers and a 24-page (!) attack-piece titled, “The Case Against Chris Daly.”
I won’t bother to go through most of “The Case,” but two struck a particular chord: the claim that Daly engineered two “Developer Shake-Down Deals” that in SF SOS’s words, “evicted” middle-class families in one and left the middle-class out of “the equation” in the other.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3769#more
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