'We can't kiss tech's ass all the time': Mayor London Breed's support for robotaxi companies is coming back to bite her in election season
A hot time in the old town tonight: A Waymo on Feb. 10 meandered into a Chinatown Lunar New Year celebration and was assailed by vandals. Photo by Alex Cisnerosindicate that few San Franciscans have happy thoughts — one must admit that she has a difficult job. It’s tough enough to lead the real San Francisco, let alone the largely imaginary version that exists as
New Coke was better received than this. The mayor’s re-election bid is, itself, increasingly, resembling a burning car. is a key term here because, for a San Francisco mayoral candidate, there is probably no greater endorsement to receive than that of the firefighters union. Everybody loves firefighters; they poll better than a cold beer on a hot summer day. And it’s not just a paper endorsement: They put a lot of money and on-the-ground effort into electing their candidates of choice.
Union president Floyd Rollins sums it up succinctly: “That’s her opinion. We’ve been stalwart in our position.” The mayoral endorsement forum for the firefighters Local No. 798 will come sometime after the filing deadline on June 11. It would figure to be a rather combustible affair this year. This prompted an ebullient response from San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa. “Tech companies want to win, win, win, win, win. Winning is getting into the market as fast as they can. If that means there are accidents? Hey, they’ll deal with the consequences later,” he told Mission Local. “We say no.”
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.Ah yes, yet again “Big Tech” is being used as a red herring and/or scapegoat for this city’s impenetrable taste for complacency and haphazard distractedness.
Waymo is owned by Google/Alphabet and their robotaxis run on Google’s AI. Recently Google’s AI portrayed Asian and Black people as World War II German soldiers, women as Popes, said misgendering Caitlin Jenner was probably worse than nuclear war and didn’t know if Hitler was worse than Elon Musk. I recently wondered what had become of Luke Thomas, an admirable journalist who became a naturalized citizen after 9/11. He made some very prescient comments in an interview years ago about the direction San Francisco politics was headed: increasingly conservative.
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