Sam Pederson

San Francisco parent and community member.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

Recalling one of my favorite @BillSimmons jokes of all time, Senegal tomorrow is going to start three guys with the last name Sarr.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@stoolpresidente Tony’s Napoletana (not Slice House)
Che Fico
Flour + Water
Square Pie Guys
DamnFine
(Not exhaustive, not in order, all amazing)

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

Something major is going on at Great Highway/ “Sunset Dunes” right now. Sideshow sounds, sirens, at least one helicopter. Any idea?

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@StephenMPinto We are on our way up after a terrible stretch. Individual politicians are mollusks along for the ride.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@StephenMPinto 💯. Very well written and thought through.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

This is video I took in Aug of 2020 at the Walgreens at Gough and Fell (since closed for obvious reasons). Things are absolutely getting better in San Francisco. Thank you @BrookeJenkinsSF and @DanielLurie !

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@DanielLurie 100% agree… through the lenses that a) arts are industry create activity, in-person engagement and movement from neighborhood-to-neighborhood/local (Bay Area) tourism. And b) arts are branding for the city that is crucial to regaining our status as a world hub.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

#netflix #nfl is a joke. I’m watching ads and promos while plays are happening live. Awful experience.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

Visited the @Safeway in SF on Webster St. Clean, well-stocked, well-run, lots of normal folks doing normal things like shopping and paying for it (many POC). Employees say the problem is Tenderloin/drug tourists/enforcement policies. Shuttle bus up and down Geary for the looters. @DanielLurie we can fix this.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@DanielLurie This is a great move. Nice work!

[💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️ @SusanDReynolds]

Remember: SF Ethics is essentially a city department, reporting to Breed, 100% dependent on her for their budget. Breed slashed it nearly 50% last year in retaliation for their findings against her — she actually holds the record for most violations. The two she was angriest about? Nuru giving her car repair money after I broke the story of their romance, and asking Gov. Brown — as soon as she got mayoral letterhead — to release her murderer drug dealer brother from prison.

[Todd Davis 帅猛男 @96hoya]

Here is your reminder. This ethics case was “fast-tracked” for a reason. The city family really does not want Mark Farrell as Mayor because he has threatened to derail their gravy train.

Vote Mark Farrell number 1 for Mayor.

Leave Aaron Peskin off of your ballot.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@TheMarinaTimes Actually I think Aaron sorta hit the nail on the head on this one…

[Robert O'Reilly 🤔 @whentoletgo]

Let's talk about the nonsense that is Prop K, closing the Upper Great Highway ("UGH")

1. Prop K only closes the UGH to private cars, but doesn't eliminate the road.
2. There is no budget for a park in Prop K.
3. There is no budget for traffic diversion upgrades.
4. Tunnel Top park cost $100 million for 14 acres. UGH is LARGER & @SFGov has a deficit >$1 billion.
5. There are no cost savings. The road will remain open for emergency access & any park requires maintenance.
6. Proponents are trying to sell you a park next to one of the largest parks in the City called the Beach.
7. There is already a wide median (park?) with a walking path between UGH & the Lower Great Highway (LGH).
8. There is already a nice promenade between the UGH and the Beach. And then there is the Beach, open now.
9. 15,000+ cars use the UGH daily. Diversion to Sunset, 19th Ave & side streets will be the "Onslaught."
10. The Onslaught will be so bad at drive-time, side streets will get heavy, idling/polluting, dangerous traffic.
11. The Onslaught and UGH closure will slow access North to the Veterans Hospital.
12. The Onslaught and UGH closure will slow commute times for workers, North and South.
13. The Onslaught will worsen with 7-10,000 new housing units slated for construction in the Sunset.
14. The Onslaught will worsen with scheduled repaving/construction on 19th Ave in the next 2 years.
15. Prop K stole the 3rd way (closed on weekends only), a compromise that is working.
16. Prop K is premature: the compromise pilot still had a year to go for proper evaluation.
17. Prop K has no environmental benefit--it just moves smog inland & increases with more side-street idling.
18. Cars as an environmental problem become moot over time, with CA electric car mandates on tap.
19. Seniors and young families don't all bicycle, reducing ease-of-access to 2 miles of beach.
20. Prop K is a political, neutron bomb, splitting voters over ONE issue, when SF has critical issues to solve.
21. Prop K involved NO community process. It was launched w/o notice, marketing plans already teed-up.
22. Prop K abuses the tyranny of the majority by submitting to citywide vote a Westside concern.
23. If SF is looking to spend hundreds of millions for parks it cannot afford, why here, in the most "parked" region of the City? Why now? Why not build parks/greenspace where they are lacking and needed, like the Tenderloin, Bayview, Hunters Point, SOMA, etc?
24. Last, a dirty little secret: Prop K hardens the closure of the southern, currently closed UGH "extension," until now just a @SFBos command, not voters' choice.

Vote NO on K--and take a second look at ANY candidates for their positions on K, because the autocracy behind the proposition indicates a broader mindset of ideology over constituency representation. These are not the people you want making decisions for you. You want to be heard, you want your community to have input, you want San Francisco to work for all. And Prop K is just another ideological canary in the coal mine among a long-list of other autocratic projects in the offing.

Don't scratch your head too hard over this ridiculous ballot proposition. This is not about a prospective, undefined, unfunded, unaffordable park between two parks, in the most "parked" region of the City.

This is an anti-car proposition and about housing. This is a YIMBY long-game. Read the thread below👇

https://t.co/iBfP03g2Os

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

Remember when Rich Aurillia hit .324 with 37 bombs after seeing a year of all fastballs hitting in front of Bonds? @buddyhield might be an all star this year. @StephenCurry30 #GSW

[Lou B @LuigiCPA]

This bathroom, behind the GG Park baseball field, has been closed for years. Children playing soccer use these portables. A dead body was found in one Aug 12

But some voters think there are $’s for a great highway park?

[💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️ @SusanDReynolds]

Here is Daniel Lurie, prior to running for mayor, saying he wants “safe injection sites up and running” (which is illegal). What shocked me about this hour-long video is how much of a left-progressive Lurie actually is and how little he understands about how government works.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

@StephenMPinto This is absolutely the case. Many private conversations reveal peoples’ real feelings on candidates. The most common scenario involves our current mayor.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

I really don’t understand why @DoorDash makes me give my ID for a picture to drivers for an order with no alcohol. It’s well documented that organized rings steal identities to allow unlicensed drivers to deliver for these services.

[Sam Pederson @sampeder]

This is really good work and a great synopsis by @TSFAction and @KaniKinSF regarding morality and “scandal” in the mayor’s race. It’s been tough to see @MarkFarrellSF, who’s really in this for the city and the right reasons, get broadsided by nothing-to-see-here accusations from his competitors. Read this to understand the facts about all of it. https://t.co/7D3pvrWy6m