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$100 million from the co-founder of Airbnb — which, of course, needs @DanielLurie to help them navigate regulations and make sure they get what they want. This is a behested payment; pay-for-play just like Harlan Kelly and the SFPUC joint ventures. And yet Golden Gate Park will still charge for parking.
Today, I stood with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to announce his $100 million gift to San Francisco’s parks. This is the largest single-donor gift to the city in San Francisco’s history, and will support the development of new parks, upgrades to existing spaces, expanded hours at recreation facilities, and much more.
An initial $39 million will help unlock five projects in neighborhoods across our city. SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and downtown will all see transformational projects finish sooner, bringing more welcoming public spaces to residents across San Francisco.
As Mayor, one of my top priorities is making San Francisco a city where families can put down roots and build their futures. Earlier this year, we launched our Family Opportunity Agenda—a citywide effort to bring down the cost of living and expand economic mobility for San Francisco families.
We're building more housing, protecting tenants, expanding access to affordable childcare, and keeping public transportation safe, reliable, and affordable. We're also investing in the public spaces families rely on every day.
Our parks are an essential part of what makes San Francisco such a special place to raise a family. Our recreation programs provide exceptional and affordable opportunities for San Francisco families. With this investment, we're bringing those opportunities to more neighborhoods across our city, expanding access to recreation, and making our parks even better for the families who use them.
San Francisco has created enormous opportunity for the people who have built their businesses here. And with that success comes a responsibility to give back to the city that helped make it possible. So, my ask to every leader who sees what Brian has done today is simple: help us create more opportunities for the people who call San Francisco home. Now is the time. Our city is coming back. Don’t just watch it from the sidelines. Be a part of it.
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The University of California has emerged as the new owner of the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, paying $193 million for the oceanfront resort in one of the university system’s latest real estate investments.
Think about it! You can’t afford to stay there but they can use your taxes you can’t afford to pay to buy it
How do you feel about that?
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We had the majority in the House and Senate… and we still didn’t secure elections or codify DOGE cuts.
And you wonder why we lost.
@LeaderJohnThune is a professional loser.
Time to get rid of him and start winning again.
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Uh…no.
It’s not normal.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
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🤔 @XavierBecerra’s dad is NOT an immigrant. He was born in Sacramento as a natural born U.S. citizen. Yet he keeps lying.
His “35 years of public service” have ZERO achievements that he can list but several major failures.
He’s running on a platform of literally nothing.
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Xavier Becerra said he will tax Californians for every mile they drive.
He wants to charge you more money just to drive.
Xavier Becerra will increase the gas tax, increase car registration costs, and now charge a tax for every mile you drive 🤯
On the other hand, I will bring gas prices down. I will cap car registration at $73.
I want to save you money and make life better for Californians.
Who are you voting for, California?
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“You lost track of 83,000 immigrant children.”
“Did you get those talking points from Donald Trump?”
“It’s from a report by the New York Times.”
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BREAKING: Xavier Becerra just announced he wants to impose an insane MILEAGE TAX on all California drivers if he wins! 6 cents per mile = $900 per year per driver!
Tell all your friends to get out and VOTE, or it will cost them a lot of money.
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Road maintenance.
Interesting.
CA makes about $9B annually with the nation’s highest gas tax. That money is for road maintenance.
But somehow we have the worst roads. Potholes on the streets, and more dangerously, on the freeways; roads that haven’t been repaved for decades; raised ridges in the road from old and uneven asphalt; etc.
Obviously this $9B is not being spent on road maintenance. It is being stolen.
Additionally, you have the CA state campaign to get everyone in an EV car, without considering the reduction in people paying the gas tax. Their solution: this mileage tax. Just for the EVs? Oh no, for everyone. For the gas tax payers and also the EV drivers.
All because they need that money that does NOT go to road maintenance, to stay at $9B annually.
Thieves.
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On this day in 2014, we witnessed one of the greatest postseason performances ever
Madison Bumgarner entered in relief on just two days rest and delivered five scoreless innings to secure a 3-2 Game 7 victory over the Royals
The Giants won their third World Series title in five seasons
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They told us to use less water because of drought. We listened. So they jacked up water rates (by a LOT) to make up for the water we didn’t buy!
Then they told us to buy EVs, even gave rebates. Now @XavierBecerra wants to impose EV tax AND mileage tax because EVs skip the gas tax!
Can’t make this up! We do NOT have a revenue problem. We have a spending & theft & fraud problem. Period.
If you want to pay WAY more tax, vote Becerra. If not, you know what to do. @SteveHiltonx is our ONLY hope.
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A BILLION dollars+ over budget, years behind schedule, contractor suing Karen Bass for delays, and now the LAX people mover, which has yet to move any people, is now arcing and catching on fire.
Forget the 3rd World...Karen Bass has turned LA into a 4th World country.
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I’m very sorry her father is an alleged paedophile and that she knew this while falsely accusing the Royal Family of being callous racists.
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$24 BILLION spent on homelessness — and the crisis is WORSE than ever!
California politicians keep throwing taxpayer money at failed homelessness programs while refusing to address mental health and substance abuse.
I say ENOUGH! It's time to stop funding failure and start funding RESULTS!
WATCH my floor speech!
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San Bernardino County, CA ADMITS it will keep about 218,000 registrations on the voter rolls until AFTER the 2026 election.
Why?
Its own Registrar says removal notices "inadvertently" left out the legally required language.
An "oversight."
The county had 234,053 inactive registrations.
State law has REQUIRED removing them since 2019.
So they stay on the rolls through November 3.
Read that again.