"Mayor" Newsom on Muni Crime - Too Little, Too Late

Apparently someone at the Newsom for Governor campaign decided that it was time for a press conference to talk big about crime on Muni, especially after the reports of children being stabbed and so on. The Examiner reports that we've got some Big Talk from the "Mayor," and as always these reports fail to take into account recent history.

After all, it was Newsom who looted Muni's budget time and again for other departments (and for his own office) to suit his own political needs. As a result, maintenance has been taking a hit and whoops! Suddenly you have a lot of inoperable cameras that ensure there's no way for the police to catch the bad people.

If the Mayor and his MTA board had perhaps paid more attention to Muni during the entire time he was in office, maybe things could be a little better. That would assume, of course that the "Mayor" wanted to do his job, instead of goofing off at work and running for higher office. Let's hope that in the future, people in SF will look past "name ID" and maybe take a little more time picking out a chief executive.

There's only one declared candidate so far, and while I'm still waiting to hear more, it is unusual to see a candidate actually stake their reputation on making Muni better. I mean, talk about taking a risk! Hopefully this might lead to a whole bunch of people running who will all try to outdo each other in making our city better.

Ok perhaps that's wishful thinking. But hey, a guy can dream can't he?