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> There is plenty of political competition in SF - which brings me to my next point.

I beg to differ: the political Overton window in SF is almost comically small. A Bloomberg-type figure is impossible because no big businessman could get elected dogcatcher in SF. And a Giuliani-type figure is even more out of the question. “Republican” is only a slightly more acceptable epithet than “pedophile” in SF, and in some quarters, the latter is probably viewed with less suspicion.