Political change comes in the area of ​​San Francisco Bay

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California is one of the strongest countries in the country, and its strongest region is the nine-round area of ​​San Francisco Bay.

There is in San Francisco itself eight times more registered Democrats than there are Republicans And while the democratic boundaries in other Bay area are not so bad, the 4 -to -1 or even 5 -to -1 ratio are standard.

Last year’s presidential election was observed such huge majorities in the region for Vice President Kamala Harris – A Bay Area’s Product Product – Over Donald Trump.

Accordingly, 100% of the congress and legislative sites in the Bay area are occupied by Democrats, and the party is fully dominated by the district councils of the supervisory authorities, city councils and management councils of the school districts and other units of the local government.

John BurtonA longtime congressman and state legislator, recently died at the age of 92, embodies the history of democratic hegemony at the Gulf region.

The political organization he, his late brother, Phil Burtonand a former speaker of the meeting and mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown Founded in the 1950s, while 91-year-old Brown remains a very powerful player in regional, state and even national policy.

However, Democrats do not always dominate politics in the Bay area. Until the 1960s, the region had many Republican employees and several remained in the 1980s, especially in the suburbs.

The bay area will not change its guerrilla stripes soon and probably never. However, an interesting phenomenon develops in the region – the rise of democratic political figures that embark on the middle, a lot of the grief of those on the left wing of the party.

Two Democratic Mayors, San Francisco Daniel Luri and on San Jose Matt MahanPersonalize the drift and the atmospheric change in the Board of Directors of Supervisory Authorities in San Francisco, a long bastion of progressive policy, is another indication.

Luri, chosen last year, comes from personal wealth and philanthropic commitment and diverts ideological conflicts, while promoting fiscal responsibility and reform of the notorious regulatory processes of his city.

His latest efforts is what he calls Permitsf, a package of “six regulations with changes in common sense for those who live, build homes or run a business in San Francisco.”

“Today, we get rid of the nonsense and focus on common sense, with a new set of reforms that will make it easier for San Franciscans to live, grow and invest in this city,” Luri said as he revealed the package.

Progressives in the Governing Board of the city can resist Luri’s actions, but as A recent analysis of San Francisco on voting records He points out, “For the first time since 2019, the invading supervisory authorities of the city are superior by a more central group, which not only has more places, but also consistently voted together.”

Mahan, meanwhile, who had a career in philanthropy and high technology, before running for mayor in 2022, is also a Democrat Non-Doctor. He broke with the party by supporting a proposal 36, a measure of vote in 2024 to break up on crime, and recently published an article sharply criticize Newsom To ignore the bad business climate of the country.

Mahan said that “the governor and every selected employee and leader also have to deal with the truth. And the truth is that California has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, with 5.5%and almost half of the homeless people.

When a political party becomes dominant, it is often fragmented in factions defined by geography, culture, personality or ideology. What is happening in the bay area is an example of this model.

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