The news cycle will move on from “Tenderloin Night Shift,” but the episode reveals a truth about San Francisco that appears destined to endure: Y Combinator is a problem. The startup incubator is deeply enmeshed within a right-wing network of tech wealth and power.
Lurie is lying to San Francisco voters with all of the money and power at his disposal to get the election results he and his backers want: in each of these cases, the lies serve an agenda that entrenches and expands the political power of Big Money interests at City Hall.
Today's San Francisco doesn't just have the world's highest per-capita concentration of billionaires. It also features a sleek, hand-tooled Democratic Party machine designed to serve their interests.
