# I'm running for mayor of San Francisco and I need pointers **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 13, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852 "2013-03-13T20:28:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/61 "2013-05-24T19:46:02Z")
> [@Jamie\_Gillis](#): > > As a native San Franciscan I say: I’m not a “native” San Franciscan, but I’ve been there enough times to have some idea what’s going on. > [@](#): > > Change the name of Caesar Chavez Street back to Army Street. _What_ Army? Maybe they can rename it Lucasfilm Street… Besides, they’re probably waiting for Oakland and Berkeley to change MLK Junior Way back to Grove Street. > [@](#): > > Get rid of anything named after Harvey Milk - he was insignificant despite what liberals like to believe. His election was significant, and I think that was the point. There would be things named after him even if he had died of natural causes or an accident. > [@](#): > > Open the Golden Gate Bridge walkways 24/7. It’s pointless to shut them down after dark. Why do I have the feeling they do this to make it easier to identify potential suicides? > [@](#): > > Allow all fireworks to be legal on July 4th. Define “fireworks”. You want to make cherry bombs legal? Even the kind of fireworks they sell in stores where fireworks are legal (e.g. Fairfield) are fire hazards, especially in drought years. > [@](#): > > Give the Castro back to the Italians and Irish. Relocate the gay neighborhood to Hunter’s Point. _What_ Italians? They all moved to Hayward in 1980. (Or was that just my grandmother? She lived near Union & Kearney until her husband died.) > [@](#): > > Do whatever is necessary to end San Francisco’s reputation as the world’s gayest city. We can still be “gay friendly” but do we really want to be the gay capital of the world? You make it sound like it’s a title the city actively covets. Wasn’t there a time when the city made it a point to turn people away who had HIV if they were sent here by their parents who thought that this is where they “belonged”? > [@](#): > > In addition to the Gay Freedom Day Parade, add a parade for white heterosexuals. I thought the city already has one - every October 12 or so. No comment about the Mount Davidson Cross? What’s your opinion on a freeway connecting the Golden Gate Bridge to either the Bay Bridge or 280 (to get to the airport)? You forgot one: Either get the second deck of the Golden Gate Bridge working (assuming it’s possible, with the winds), or put in a traffic divider, even if it means only having three lanes of traffic in the commute direction. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/62 "2013-05-24T20:06:39Z")
> [@Jamie\_Gillis](#): > > As a native San Franciscan I say: > > Change the name of Caesar Chavez Street back to Army Street. _Et cetera_. That sounds like an awful lot of work. Wouldn’t it be much easier for you to move somewhere else where things are the way you like them? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/63 "2013-05-24T20:15:14Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > _Et cetera_. That sounds like an awful lot of work. Wouldn’t it be much easier for you to move somewhere else where things are the way you like them? Like Orange County? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/64 "2013-05-24T20:16:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That was a whole mess of bad ideas, but this one really sticks out. How do you intend to accomplish this, exactly? The Castro is a gay neighborhood because a significant percentage of the population there - both residents and business owners - are gay. How do you “fix” that? Confiscate people’s homes? Revoke their business licenses? Pray The Gay Away! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/65 "2013-05-24T20:18:11Z")
> [@Jamie\_Gillis](#): > > In addition to the Gay Freedom Day Parade, add a parade for white heterosexuals. Are you sure you want both “white” **and** “heterosexual” in there? Think carefully before you answer. The Boolean intersection of homophobes and White Nationalists is probably a bit smaller than you think it is. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/66 "2013-05-24T23:00:05Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That was a whole mess of bad ideas, but this one really sticks out. How do you intend to accomplish this, exactly? The Castro is a gay neighborhood because a significant percentage of the population there - both residents and business owners - are gay. How do you “fix” that? Confiscate people’s homes? Revoke their business licenses? You haven’t heard of GTICT? “Gay to Irish Conversion Therapy”. Substitute pasta for potato and you can change the ‘Irish’ to ‘Italian’. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/67 "2013-05-25T02:23:18Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That was a whole mess of bad ideas, but this one really sticks out. How do you intend to accomplish this, exactly? The Castro is a gay neighborhood because a significant percentage of the population there - both residents and business owners - are gay. How do you “fix” that? Confiscate people’s homes? Revoke their business licenses? Give them foreign passports, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/68 "2013-05-25T09:34:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Like Orange County? There’s a park named after Chavez in Santa Ana. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-running-for-mayor-of-san-francisco-and-i-need-pointers/652852/69 "2013-05-29T00:29:45Z")
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