Politicians SAY a lot of things; some they mean, some they don’t.
So you should always look at what they do and how they spend the money they take from citizens. And, as importantly, whose pockets that money ends up in. The latter is even more important than the former.
There’s a great article in a publication I had never heard of called Pirate Wires on just this topic: how the Mayor of San Francisco spends taxpayer dollars and with whom she spends it. It gives you great insight into how decisions are actually made by today’s mayors, and will neither surprise you nor make you feel optimistic.
2/ Really good article. I think I disagree w/the idea that this has much to do w/”providing direct cash transfers to their target voter base,” just b/c the raw number of people receiving money is so small and it seems funneled in a way that delinks it from Breed etc.?
— Jesse Singal…
