Relieving public urination in San Francisco
By Arthur Bruzzone
The Washington Examiner
December 7, 2008
Relief is in sight to meet the smelly challenge of public urination. Thanks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of those dreaded earmarks may fund the program after all.
Keep in mind, ‘‘homelessness is not a crime,’ as homeless advocates remind us. True, but public urination, defecation, and bully-like panhandling IS.
In one of the most bizarre local ballot measures in recent times, voters were asked to approve funding of a community court, that was already funded.
So the same voters who’ve complained about state of our streets (or, homes, for the homeless), rejected it -- The confusing, or in many cases, the drugged mind of the San Francisco voter at work..
Prop. L on the November 2008 would have provided the first-year funding for a Tenderloin community court to prosecute quality-of-life crimes such as public urination and aggressive panhandling. It wasn't expected to be very controversial, but lost after garnering just 41 percent of the vote.
Now we have information that an earmark for $1,034,000 was submitted Madame Speaker Pelosi within a Commerce, Justice, and Science bill, the section on the Department of Justice.
So the final verdict on Prop L: The community court was proposed by Mayor Newsom, approved by the Board of Supervisors, rejected by the voters, rejected by a Board sub-committee last week, probably to be approved again by the full Board, and earmarked by Congress.
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