When former Mayor London Breed decided she wanted to get rid of a district attorney who beat her hand-picked candidate, she helped create a false media narrative, that San Francisco was crime ridden and that criminals were walking free.

Her approach helped oust Chesa Boudin—but in the process, deeply damaged her own city and helped undermine her re-election.

Sup. Matt Dorsey is pulling from the same playbook as he seeks to win approval for legislation that would ban any new city money for supportive housing that isn’t “drug free.”

Dorsey is, in effect, arguing that existing supportive housing is riddled with drugs, that people are dying of overdoses, and that the only solution is to mandate abstinence and sobriety for all new supportive housing residents.

Even his language, that curren

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