Willie Brown makes ‘comeback’ announcements with Nancy Pelosi as city falters

Fighting in San Francisco discredited the vice president in the revitalization campaign; Instead, he used the former flame as an “iconic leader.”

Once a thriving tourist destination, the City by the Bay’s failure to address homelessness, the drug crisis and rampant crime have turned it into a place many would rather avoid. Still, with the city’s former district attorney, Kamala Harris, now serving a heartbeat away from the presidency, local businesses to the former, often credited for her career success, for creating civic pride

An ad campaign called “It All Starts Here” forced former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) to join the district’s Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D) in a promotion that promised a bright future. Relegated to a cameo for a minute-long premiere, Brown played second fiddle to Pelosi, who narrated the ad in a more recent edition.

“San Francisco, we’ve been through a lot. The earthquake The fight for justice and equality. And the AIDS epidemic,” he was heard saying in a montage that also featured dated footage of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), “But the city by the bay always perseveres, through the strength, innovation, hope. , through unity, through culture, through joy.”

“And now, new challenges, but we will not be defined by them. We remain resolutely here,” the narration concludes before the actors, Brown and then Pelosi reiterate, “Here.”

Brown and Harris had dated between 1994 and 1995 while he was Speaker of the California State Assembly and she was working in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, with more than 30 years separating the couple. At the time, Brown was still married to his estranged wife and broke up with Harris just weeks before he was sworn in as mayor.

In accordance with report from the San Francisco Chronicle, the ad campaign backed by Google, the San Francisco Giants, Gap board member Bob Fisher, the University of California at San Francisco and others cost $4 million and included billboards that would be arranged around the city to divert human excrement and used needles.

A big SF civic pride campaign called “It All Starts Here” kicks off today, with plans for hundreds of billboards across the city and an event at Oracle Park.

How @chrislarsensf + @EscletxaBob Fisher made it possible and why nowhttps://t.co/NIKJ3GZgWy

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— Roland Li (@rolandlisf) October 19, 2023

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— Cats of America (@NewsCatsNews) October 25, 2023

The president of the cryptocurrency company Ripple, Chris Larsen, addressed the challenges that were not covered in the advertising campaign in the Chronicle with a particular look at COVID, as he said: “The whole world passed because of the pandemic. This was nothing unique to San Francisco.”

Larsen also claimed he was “apolitical” despite using Brown and Pelosi, who were tapped as “iconic city leaders.”

Ironically, Advance SF listed Walgreens as a member by asserting the city’s “role as an innovative and thriving center for business and the arts,” as local stores have had to do. close your merchandiseincluding chaining off a freezer section, to combat rampant theft.

By the end of October, San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) had requested $206 million budget cutsof which the law enforcement and public health department, no longer able to meet the needs of residents, combined to account for more than a quarter of eye cuts.

“We simply cannot wait until next year’s budget process to begin addressing our growing structural deficit, which at this point, we anticipate will be at least $500 million in fiscal year 2025-26 alone,” he said. write Breed.

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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