Editor:

Notice that Marjan Philhour misses the point when she castigates the legit criticism that she is accepting money from real estate moguls who want to end rent control.  

She uses the word “boogeymen” when there is no “boogey” to the “men” that are actually truly in reality trying to end rent control because they are ideologically blind and have short term conceptions about what it means to have a vibrant urban economy.
 
In another excellent Mission Local post concerning the question about rent control and Prop. 33, each candidate was asked do they support rent control. Marjan’s answer was equivocal. Apparently rent control is “important” BUT … then  tossed out the corporate bromides about how Prop. 33 might about “inhibiting” development – which is complete pablum. Prop. 33 is just allowing local districts to “be able” to decide on how to implement rent control. It says absolutely nothing about property development or developer projects.

So let me get this straight: You support rent control but you don’t support letting local government deciding on how handle or implement rent control measures?

That tells you everything you need to know about Marjan. She’s trying to speak upwards while convincing those below of something else. She had an opportunity to define herself, and she chose to trot out the corporate misinformation. Mind you, these are large corporate landowning interests that purchase swaths of properties, regularly jack rents for no reason, and then pretend that they are “good stewards” for the properties they manage. She wants to pretend she is interested in representing the interests of the Richmond District, but all of the evidence is at best contradictory.
Connie Chan is at least genuine. And no one “owns” her.  

Marjan? Not so much. That’s why she still supports our current mayor who thinks you govern by press releases, talking tough into a microphone and having people sign pre-resignation letters before you appoint them to commissions where some of them oddly outsource expenditures for personal reasons and have been nabbed by FBI investigations. 

Gino Napoli