A letter to a douchebag. (Really!?!)

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Dear San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom,

I recently was messing around on Facebook and saw an add for your exploratory committee. Really? The worst politician California has (and we have some other horrible ones) is considering running for Governor? Really!?! You've got to be kidding me. Dude, the only reason you're still the mayor of SF and you keep winning is because you may as well be running against yourself with who keeps challenging you. So you think because you got reelected you're doing a good job? That's got to be it, I know you can't think you're doing a good job because of what you've actually done for your city. There are many examples of people voting for you even though they hate you, because the alternative was worse and they could barely believe it. They were so excited to vote you out, and then, garbage. Ask them, and not the ones that your people tell you to ask.

Did anything AT ALL get any better on your watch? Crime? No. Roads? Not even close. The 49ers stadium that the citizens of the city voted for in 1997? You won't let them build it because they won't to do your job for you and clean up, or have the Feds clean up the RADIOACTIVE Hunter's Point ship yard. Yeah, thanks douchebag for giving us the radioactive rundown part of the city so we can clean it up for you. You are the main reason the 49ers want to move to Santa Clara (which is actually good for me because they'd be closer to where I actually live, but I'm not selfish like you, I don't want them to move just so they are closer to me, you want them to stay so they can your job for you), they can't get a new stadium built in SF with you and Barbara Boxer challenging every site they try in SF because you want them to take HP off your hands. In 1997 the citizens of SF voted to raises their tax a couple points for a couple years to raise money for a new 49ers Stadium. The people want it asshole, let 'em have it. You gotta be fucking Barbara Boxer, or are her illegitimate kid or something, every time you cry about something not going your way, she's the one to come to your rescue and make it look like you have all this federal backing.

Which brings me to my next point, SB861. You and Barbara Boxer (after you took it to the California Senate, but couldn't pull it off alone, like everything else) are trying to ban pit bulls in the state of California. The reason I say this is another failure of yours sir, is that you are only doing it because you don't research you spit out the first thing that comes up, and not because they are dangerous, but because you fail, every time, to punish the ones who are truly responsible, the owners. No? Are you sure? You were probably drunk and forgot the details, so lets refresh your memory. June 2005, Nicolas Faibish was killed by his two family pit bulls. Remember yet? I bet you're thinking, see, see, pit bulls are bad. Let me continue, the mother had raised the dogs to be aggressive (which you fail to admit can happen with any breed). One day, when one of the dogs was in heat, which makes them even more aggressive, the mother locked Nicolas in the basement with a shovel, alone, when she wanted to go to the store by herself. Jogging your memory? Not yet? Okay, the kid was killed by the dogs that THE MOTHER raised to be like that and that THE MOTHER left alone with her 6th grade son, and less than a week later you were in front of the California Senate pushing for Dangerous Breed Legislation, SB 861. Where consequently you used fear to get it passed in the state. Sounds like another politician we just had that used fear to get some bullshit legislation passed. You know what, you two have a lot in common, he got reelected because he ran against a patsy too. I'll give you one guess.

But I digress, here's the best part, I'll you remember this. Two days after the mauling you said, "We have to be realistic...you've got dogs that literally can kill. We've seen it demonstrated. If we can't change people's behavior and make them think what's in their best interest, then that's when government comes along and becomes a bit paternalistic."

Really? You mean like when your city government allowed that woman to get off with only two years in prison, not even enough time to punish her for the child neglect she exhibited, let alone, neglect that resulted in the death of her son. Is that the paternalistic government you're talking about? Or what about that you refused to press more charges on her and finally the feds had to come in and file murder charges against her two years later? No wonder you "can't change people's behavior," you're scared to try. As well, there have been other pit bull attacks that were the fault of the owner, and even Rottweiler attacks that you never mention.

You keep saying that pit bulls are inherently aggressive towards humans and that they are bred that way. Not true, in fact, the human aggression was bred out of them when they were originally created. There are countless other examples, that pit bulls are not the most vicious dogs, or inherently prone to violence, like you say all the time, but I'll leave it there, maybe you should do some research next time, and every time, before you start spouting nonsense. I will admit though, that when taught to be aggressive and mean they are the most aggressive and mean, yes. But it has to be almost beaten into them, and again, your and others like you's refusal to punish the ones doing that is THE reason it continues. Dog attacks are as much you're fault as anyone's. All that combined with the fact that you haven't done shit as mayor, and you want to run Governor? Really?

Maybe you were in Sacramento trying to prove you're right, or maybe you were in rehab when you were supposed to be doing things for the people of your city. I'm not knocking the benefits of rehab, being that I know them myself, but I wasn't in there when I was the Mayor of the city at the center of the 4th biggest market in this country with responsibilities to hundreds of thousands of people, was I?

I don't live in the city, but I have been around pit bulls my whole life and when I saw what you were doing in the Senate I began to research everything else about your politics, and look what I found out. You haven't done anything good that is real. You have people believing some of what you did was good, but you haven't really done shit. Please reconsider this governor thing. You're too fucking dumb to know what people really need and you don't do anything to help them anyway.


Sincerely,
Matthew Allen Mathias