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Moderate Democrats in San Francisco are pushing back against progressive candidates according to a Friday report, fearing local left-wing politicians could undo the work done over the past four years following a surge in the city's homelessness and crime.
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco raised $10 million to pour into local elections to stop progressives from being re-elected and knocking the city "off its more centrist course," according to Politico.
The organization of political moderates in the city wants to defeat a "CEO tax" proposal that labor unions placed on the June primary ballot, according to Politico.
A teacher strike closed San Francisco schools earlier this month. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
The group worries that the proposed tax — which is intended to offset the federal funding cuts that impacted the city’s budget — would inhibit economic recovery and worsen the city’s downtown office vacancy issue.
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco is pouring the most money to preserve a moderate-leaning majority on the Board of Supervisors as progressives try to regain control.
The group also plans to sustain the moderate majority on the city’s school board after a recent teachers' strike and to engage in voter education.
San Francisco made headlines for a mass exodus from the liberal city, declining public school enrollment and skyrocketing housing prices.
The city elected Mayor Daniel Lurie in 2024, defeating incumbent Democrat London Breed — a shift away from lenient policies on crime, drugs, and homelessness that critics say contributed to the city’s decline.
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Residents in 2024 elected a new mayor, Daniel Lurie, who ousted the more progressive Democrat London Breed. (Jerry Lai/USA TODAY Sports)
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco supports "public safety, serious solutions to homelessness, high-quality public education, fiscal responsibility, and good government for our city," according to its website.
The group's director, Jay Cheng, said it "is important that someone is holding the line."
"This is a wave that is coming to us, it’s coming westward," he said.
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Neighbors for a Better San Francisco supports public safety, "serious solutions to homelessness, high-quality public education, fiscal responsibility, and good government for our city," their website states. (Getty Images)
"Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who leads City Hall’s centrist majority, said he fears a Democratic midterm election focused heavily on President Donald Trump could drown out local concerns that helped moderates gain power amid the city’s pandemic-era decline," Politico reported.
"It’s hard in a place like this for the center to hold," Mandelman said. "We have pragmatists and utopians."
Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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