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Title: Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients: 'The Pendulum Is S
Post by: rangerrebew on March 01, 2024, 09:45:10 am
 
Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients: 'The Pendulum Is Swinging'
Story by Jack Davis • 19h


Walking to cast their ballots next week along needle-strewn streets, past the gauntlet of addicts, petty thieves and empty storefronts that are the landmarks of 21st-century San Francisco, voters of the city by the Bay are expected to send a powerful message that they have had enough.
 
“The pendulum is swinging,” Malcolm Weitz, 41, said. “It’s coming hard-core back to the center.”

On Tuesday, San Francisco voters will decide the fate of two propositions.

Proposition F would require anyone getting public cash benefits to undergo drug screening. Proposition E loosens the rules on police surveillance and police chases, according to the Wall Street Journal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/career/fed-up-san-francisco-voters-set-to-implement-drug-testing-for-welfare-recipients-the-pendulum-is-swinging/ar-BB1j7ak6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=517d14ef2f41441597a505d950a19920&ei=22
Title: Re: Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients: 'The Pendulum
Post by: rangerrebew on March 01, 2024, 09:47:29 am
Unfortunately, those tests cost money, something neither San Frasicko nor Mejifornia seem to have a lot of. **nononono*
Title: Re: Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients: 'The Pendulum
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 01, 2024, 05:50:24 pm
More accurately, https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-welfare-recipients-to-undergo-drug-screening-under-prop-f/article_0f5b94f6-d756-11ee-b2a0-879bfcf79c91.html :

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San Francisco residents will vote on a ballot measure next week introduced by Mayor London Breed that could require people with substance-use disorders to participate in treatment to qualify for The City’s General Assistance program.
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The Human Services Agency currently runs the General Assistance, also known as the County Adult Assistance Program (CAAP), and would be responsible for the changes implemented by Prop F.

Sounds to me like Prop F would only apply to a SF City/County program.
Title: Re: Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients: 'The Pendulum
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 02, 2024, 02:02:55 am
More accurately, https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-welfare-recipients-to-undergo-drug-screening-under-prop-f/article_0f5b94f6-d756-11ee-b2a0-879bfcf79c91.html :

Sounds to me like Prop F would only apply to a SF City/County program.
That may be, but imagine the possibility of more money to shunt wherever.

It's useless if looting grocery stores isn't shut down, though.
Title: Re: Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients: 'The Pendulum
Post by: sneakypete on March 02, 2024, 03:00:16 am
@rangerrebew

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Fed Up San Francisco Voters Set to Implement Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients:

That whole damn  sentence MUST be full of typos.

I want to see a second and third source before I believe it.