Willie Brown: give life to City Hall

San Francisco needs a mayor with guts ... and a personality.

For the past four years, Mayor Frank Jordan has been out of touch with the city he leads, and he's bored us all to tears in the process.

We watched Jordan as he scapegoated the homeless, ignored the city's housing projects and slums and coddled the rich. He has moved himself farther and farther from the realities many city residents face, as these realities -- crime, poverty, higher rent and less resources -- have become more harsh.

Today, the people of San Francisco have the opportunity to send Jordan, in all his mediocrity, away from City Hall.

In his years as speaker of the state assembly, Willie Brown was always there for San Francisco. From his position in Sacramento, he wheeled and dealed, fought adversity and never forgot about his hometown. Now he's back.

If Brown gets the vote today, it will be the most pro-San Francisco vote since the days of Mayor Dianne Feinstein, when the Mayor cared about everyone who lived in San Francisco.

Agnos destroyed San Francisco. Jordan and his police state were not the solution.

Brown can walk into any neighborhood in San Francisco and speak to the people. Jordan can not.

Brown can talk reason to the Board of Supervisors to get what's best for the city done. Jordan could not.

Brown will bring character back to San Francisco's City Hall. Jordan -- well, you know.

City politics is not about making decisions that hurt those who call San Francisco home, even though they may not have one. It's about being fair to everyone, having a personality and making San Francisco a better place to live in and visit.

Brown sees the homeless issue as a human issue, not a policing issue.

He sees all of San Francisco's many diverse neighborhoods, not just the few that vote for him.

He promises to protect small business in San Francisco from being overrun by large conglomerates. His record in Sacramento shows that he can.

Brown has savvy and clout. He can make a call to Sacramento, or to Washington, on behalf of San Francisco and people will listen. Major funding and programs don't come from thin air, they come from pulling strings in high places. Brown can do that.

The city needs a mayor with the strength to talk to people, not react to them. Brown is that candidate.

[ Golden Gater Online November 7, 1995 ]

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