Lotta money to be made in Turdistan.
Mohammed Nuru, the public works director and self-titled @MrCleanSF, was in charge of keeping city streets clean and oversaw a $500 million budget. He was indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2020.
Nuru was charged with one count of alleged public corruption and is innocent until proven guilty. “The complaint describes a web of corruption involving bribery, kickbacks, and side deals by one of San Francisco’s highest-ranking city employees,” said U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson. “The public is entitled to honest work from public officials, free from manipulation for the official’s own personal benefit and profit.”
So the city's out a bunch of money and the streets are still covered in crap. Maybe the citizens will someday connect the dots between leftist government, corruption and societal breakdown - but don't bet on it.
Since no pols have been indicted I figure his actual crime is no kickbacks for his political betters.
ReplyDeleteReally seriously smart people, who write in really seriously smart publications read and discussed by other really seriously smart people, make much of "flattening" society and the world. Their goal is to make reality like the internet, the same everywhere.
ReplyDeleteYou may judge how well that works by viewing nearly every major US city now. It doesn't matter what unique character they may once have possessed, today they all present the same picture of crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime, a neutered police force, loss of jobs (and consequently revenues), and hapless corrupt politicians.
Forget North Beach or the Marina District or Haight-Ashbury or the Wharf. San Francisco now is indistinguishable from every other dysfunctional American city.
A crooked, politically-connected official in San Francisco. Imagine that.
ReplyDeleteSad. Compare and contrast: the San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, and the same city today.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Paco.
ReplyDeleteIt can be sad watching old movies and see the decline.
Bloody communists.
San Francisco and Sydney Australia have a lot of similarities and have been called sister cities, also 'gay capitals' because both were taken over by homosexual activists in the 1970s, for some reason (why there and not elsewhere, say Melbourne or Adelaide?)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, old communist Jack Mundey did have way too much influence in Sydney during that decade in Sydney too, Mike. One of Mundey's associate communists actually began Sydney's 'gay mardi gras'. 'Ratbags' as my dad would say.