Editor:

Troubles on the west side: Working class versus elites. Google and Yahoo versus plumbers and carpenters. 

Much of the genesis for this lies with the supervisor in the Sunset. When people are sold out by their elected representatives, taxed, regulated, and then told: “Well this is how it’s going to be.” You have sown the seeds of discontent with the government. 

Now we have lawsuits, protests, neighborhood against neighborhood, newspaper articles and angry voters. This is the result of poor leadership – failure to listen to one’s constitutes. A supermajority of the west side rejected closing the Upper Great Highway. A true leader would be tasked with this standard: They “knew” or “should have known” their constitutes.

This failure of representation has led to a malcontented populace itching for change. Take away the working-class mode of transportation, take away their parking places, start to build high-rises up and down the Lower Great Highway, Taraval Street, Noriega Street and Judah Street.  Turn all the single family dwellings into multi-unit buildings.  Yes, you are planting the seeds of civil unrest, my friends.

I believe that the current supervisor in the Sunset has performed his duties with malfeasance. So, we know how this began, how will it end?  What’s the solution? I honestly don’t know.  A good start would be for him to step down or be recalled.

Marty Murphy