Democrats who tout themselves as champions for homeless people oftentimes have a funny way of showing it, as we’ve seen, for instance, during Democratic National Conventions in years past.
For example, in Denver in 2008 and Charlotte in 2012, Democrat leaders in those cities and states ushered in temporary plans to restrict the homeless from areas where they could potentially be seen by visitors to their respective cities during DNCs.
More recently, we saw California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in partnership with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, admit in November to hiding the city’s homeless and cleaning up its streets ahead of an APEC Summit, where President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping met for a high stakes meeting.
“I know folks are saying, ‘Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.’ That’s true because it’s true, but it’s also true…