Issue Du Jour

Julie Andrews once said "Let's start at the very beginning, a very fine place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C..."

When you govern, you begin with certain basic assumptions about what government ought to do. These include keeping the population safe, providing for education, and keeping the streets clean and safe. And it should do all these things well before doing anything else. The Examiner printed an article yesterday of partiular interest. The first talked about Fred Abadi, the new director of public works - the man in charge of keeping San Francisco streets clean and pothole free. Good luck Mr. Abadi! It's not the dirty streets that are the problem. It's the Board of Supervisors. This group has put impeaching President Bush ahead of cleaning up the streets. In his article, Ken Garcia righly noted that "clean streets and uncluttered sidewalks are more important to average citizens than showy but meaningless resolutions."


What I'd like to see is Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Pelosi come down hard on the Board of Supervisors - tell them that their initiative to impeach Bush is meaningless from the Washington DC point of view and is a waste of SF taxpayer money.