Reaching San Francisco's Limit

Ousted: Alison Collins, Faauuga Moliga, and Gabriela Lopez

In 2020 the seven-member San Francisco Board of Education was preoccupied, not with re-opening classes safely, but with the renaming of 44 schools that bore the monickers of flawed human beings like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

The school board in early 2021 removed merit-based admission for Lowell High, the crown jewel of the public school system, in order to make Lowell like the other 14 mediocre high schools in San Francisco. Again, there was little focus on re-opening.

Liberal San Franciscans had reached their limit and "overwhelmingly" voted yesterday for the recall of three Board members:

The landslide decision means board President Gabriela López and members Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga will officially be removed from office and replaced by mayoral appointments 10 days after the election is officially accepted by the Board of Supervisors.

Supporters of the recalled commissioners blamed the usual suspects: whites, billionaires, and Republicans.

Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton slammed the recall as being driven by “closet Republicans and most certainly folks with conservative values in San Francisco, even if they weren’t registered Republicans.”

“Trump’s election and bold prejudice brought a lot of that out, even in our Democratic and liberal city,” he told The Chronicle in the days before the election. “There are a lot of people who do not want people of color making decisions in leadership, even though the voters said that is what they want.”

In the 2020 Presidential election Joe Biden won 85% of San Franciscans' votes to Donald Trump's 13%. According to Progressive politicians and educators, Donald Trump and "closeted Republicans'" exerted sufficient power in 2022 to win a San Francisco recall election.

The perspicacity of this political analysis is only matched by the competence of San Francisco's governance.