By J.D. Morris and Roland Lee : sfchronicle – excerpt
A San Francisco commissioner who created a controversial planned tour that intended to show attendees downtown’s worst “doom and squalor” resigned from his city position on Monday.
Alex Ludlum is stepping down from the city’s Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure after emails affiliated with the so-called Downtown Doom Loop Walking Tour indicated he had organized the event, which was canceled shortly before it was supposed to occur over the weekend.
“I regret that my attempt to bring attention to the deplorable street conditions & rampant criminality in my neighborhood has been misconstrued as a mockery of suffering individuals. Satire is a poor way to address the grave issues we face as a city,” Ludlum wrote in a letter to Mayor London Breed, which he provided to the Chronicle. Breed appointed Ludlum to the commission last year…(more)
Another Breed Appointee bites the dust. Loses faith in the fate of San Francisco.