SF responds to Governor DeSantis

Bill Bramhall

Ron DeSantis on San Francisco in today's SF Chronicle

From Daily Kos:

San Francisco to Governor DeSantis: You've Got to Be Joking

....Compared to supposedly terrorized San Franciscans, Centers for Disease Control and police agency figures show that Jacksonville residents are 5% more likely to be victimized by violent crime, 10% more likely to die from fentanyl overdose, 28% more likely to from violent causes, 45% more likely to die as infants or in childbirth, 59% more likely to commit suicide, 2.6 times more likely to be murdered, 3.3 times more likely to die from COVID-19, and 3.8 times more likely to die by guns....

San Francisco is troubled in three highly visible areas and has been for decades. The most glaring is drug abuse. A San Franciscan is 7% more likely to die from drug abuse than a Jacksonville resident....

San Francisco may suffer the 6th worst drug overdose death rate of the nation’s 75 largest metropolitan counties, but Jacksonville is the 7th worst. Further, Jacksonville residents are more likely to die from fentanyl (10th worst rate in the country) than San Franciscans (13th worst).

....Census migration figures adjusted for the two state’s populations show a Floridian is 37% more likely to move to California than a Californian is to move to Florida. 

Florida is the fourth largest source of new out-of-state San Francisco residents, and Florida appears among the top destinations for an undetermined number of San Francisco out-migrants.

We at CJCJ [Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice]have been critical of San Francisco leadership over many years because it is one of the world’s wealthiest, famously liberal, global cities that proclaims lofty ideals it often fails to achieve. 

It is that failure, not “leftist policies,” that produces the city’s visible social ills. That said, one only has to look at a much more violent, murderous, gun-plagued, diseased city like Jacksonville to know right-wing delusions of “sanity” produce far worse.

Rob's comment:

Both San Francisco and Jacksonville are cities with serious problems. But how often can anyone catch Ron DeSantis, not much of a kidder, or any other Republican official making a joke?