62. San Francisco is now Republican; has it always been?

Doomloop Dispatch

Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot discuss the budget drawn up by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and passed by the board of supervisors this week. It’s basically a Republican budget, full of cuts to the social safety net but increased funding for police. Does this make San Francisco a Republican city? Or wasn’t it always one?

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Sources

SFBOS passes Lurie’s budget

https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/san-francisco-budget-mayor-daniel-lurie-supervisor-vote/

Mayor’s Budget Proposal Sparks Outcry Over Cuts to Police Oversight Amid Law Enforcement Spending Boost

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/mayors-budget-proposal-sparks-outcry-over-cuts-to-police-oversight-amid-law-enforcement-spending-boost/

Increases police, even though what’s needed for crime to drop is Ceasefire-like programs

https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-baltimores-extraordinary

Great Instagram video on the SF budget

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLi1u7hSaXv/?hl=en

Jackie Fielder on housing the homeless

https://www.instagram.com/p/DL0dIB6BRud/?hl=en

Lurie gets to misuse Prop C funds

https://48hills.org/2025/07/opinion-preserve-the-housing-money-and-stop-the-mayors-power-grab/

No 1,500 shelter beds and now no shelters need to be built

https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/shelter-citywide-mahmood-lurie/

Ban on longterm RV parking in SF

https://www.kqed.org/news/12048307/sf-just-voted-to-ban-long-term-rv-parking-what-happens-to-the-people-inside

Budget Cuts 5 Muni lines

https://abc7news.com/post/muni-cut-5-bus-lines-san-francisco-starting-weekend-transit-agency-warns-coming-fiscal-cliff/16784203/

Billionaire Chris Larsen's $9.4 million donation to fund new SFPD investigation center

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sfpd-real-time-investigation-center-upgrade-chris-larsen-ripple-donation/

SF gets Microsoft AI

https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-brings-ai-technology-to-san-francisco-government-cementing-city-as-global-ai-leader

Public Housing rally

https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/s-f-public-housing-tenants-rally-at-city-hall-urging-mayor-lurie-to-step-up/

California Forever Wants to Build a Manufacturing Town

https://www.kqed.org/news/12048321/california-forever-wants-to-build-a-manufacturing-town