By Joe Eskenazi : missionlocal – excerpt
Every so often, San Francisco hands a flawless script to the nation’s right-wing blowhards and fulminating keyboard warriors, pins a “kick me” sign to its posterior and assumes the position. We can’t help it.
And you know what? It does a damn fine job of that. We can’t help it…
The latest flawless San Francisco script came neatly delivered on Nov. 21, when news broke that the city’s Election Commission had declined to preemptively re-up long-serving elections director John Arntz and instead moved to open up a competitive process for the job that he was invited to participate in….
Commissioner Cynthia Dai also told Mission Local that this decision was not performance-based, and conceded that San Francisco has run free and fair elections (and lots of them) for 20 years. Rather, she said it was time to open up the election director position to a more diverse field; San Francisco, she continued, could not make progress on its diversity goals without opening up top positions.
And Commissioner Robin Stone praised Arntz to the heavens in a memo she wrote him, but confirmed that her decision to not preemptively renew his term and open up a competitive process for his job “reflects a continued commitment to advance institutional DEIBJ” — that is, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice.…(more)
Seriously, what do you expect from the Elections Commission that just re-aligned the city districts to shift the power in such an obvious manner that no one is going to forget it anytime soon. If you took part in the farce you will never forget the way those commissioners that are now throwing out a seasoned professional our for a novice behaved.
No one seriously believes that the country or the world looks kindly at the San Francisco we now live in. If we started to perform on some level of competence someone would throw a wrench into the works to wreck it while the powers that be stand idly by, engrossed in choosing the next color for Muni bus stops, or the next statue to remove or the next street to rename. All more important than running a functioning city.