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Constant Readers,
When I wrote about the public hearing on the proposed new Sanctuary City law, I mentioned that there were two people who spoke against the proposed ordinance and each was mightily and continuously hissed. (Supervisor Chiu should have brought it to order, but didn't. I'm just saying: Peskin would never have let that happen.)
But it turns out that hissing was only the beginning...
Let me set the stage here: At the hearing, people kept comparing the legal mess we are about to get The City into with the sanctuary city ordinance to the legal limb we went out on for gay marriage.
So, a dude named Colin Gallagher got up and said something like: I'm gay and it's not a choice. People who come here illegally are making a choice. Don't compare my struggles with theirs. (I looked for his exact statement in the captions from the meeting and it is all jacked up and incomprehensible - prolly on account of the hissing.) He said some other stuff about how this all beyond the jurisdiction of the Supes.
While I didn't see it, Campos later said that a bunch of reporters breathlessley chased Gallagher down to get quotes. Mission Local confirmed this.
This all went down on Monday, October 5.
On Wednesday, October 7, this letter from Gallagher ran in The Examiner:
As soon as the Board of Supervisors votes to prohibit the reporting of illegal immigrant youth felons to ICE, Mayor Gavin Newsom should announce that the reporting will continue as before and that he will not condone firing or disciplining any public safety officer for complying with federal law.
Certainly any public safety officer disciplined for reporting an illegal alien to immigration authorities would have grounds for a civil suit against The City that could lead to the sanctuary ordinance being struck down. This represents an opportunity for the mayor to demonstrate that, unlike the majority of supervisors, he takes seriously the safety of all San Franciscans from violent gangs like MS-13, which exploits the well-intentioned local sanctuary policy.
At some point after that letter ran in the paper, Gallagher got a voicemail message. (Full disclosure: I haven't heard the message, though he offered to let me listen to it.) My usual complaint about politics in this city is that people are humorless. But this is just a whole 'nother level. (Granted this is just one crazy person - there are thousands of people who didn't call Gallagher.) The sanctuary ordinance will be before the full Board tomorrow where it will pass. And everyone can calm down for a minute. -Melissa ALSO: You can read the Bay Area Reporter's piece on this incident here. Yeah pick up the phone Colin Gallagher - I'm calling and leaving this message for you. It's always yuppie fags like you, yuppies like you, who are ruining this city. The city [unintelligible] justification for the people who have attitudes and ideologies like you. Who walk around in fear of gangs and stuff like that - that has nothing to do with you - OK - You understand what this is doing. The sanctuary policy is not even helping. You don't even have your facts straight with this silly f(u)cking editorial that you put in the paper. I'm gonna call you every single day hour on the hour until you pick up. It's yuppies like you with your f(u)cking ideology that's ruining the city. Chris Daly is more of a San Franciscan than anything you can possibly know. Don't say San Franciscan here when you weren't even born in this city. You don't hear people from New York saying they were New Yorkers. F(u)cking yuppie scum is what you are. Pick up the phone (a)sshole.
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