San Francisco Urban Elitist Supervisor Moves Family to the Suburbs

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Supervisor Chris Daly, the sworn enemy of gentrification in the city, announced Wednesday that he has bought a house in the suburb of Fairfield and has moved his wife and two children there. The revelation brought out his critics, who highlighted the extreme irony of him falling victim to his own legislative efforts to encourage the building of low-income housing at the expense of middle-class housing.

Daly, who was 28 when he was elected to the board in 2000, has been in the vanguard of far-left politics since he arrived from Maryland in 1993. He has opposed legislation that would encourage tenancy-in-common condominium conversions, which middle-class housing advocates say would allow young families to buy a place in the city, and even called for a three-year moratorium on all condo conversions. In addition, he has shown little interest in attacking the issues of chronic drunkenness and violence in the Tenderloin, the kind of quality-of-life issues that make the city less family friendly.

And now he's announced that he is moving his family to the suburbs. (Actually, although he says he still lives in his home in San Francisco, tax assessor records indicate that Daly and his wife, Sarah Low, have purchased two homes in Fairfield, one in February and one in April.)

"Here's a guy who has not only consistently voted against working-class families in San Francisco, he's introduced legislation that has hurt them," said fellow Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who has taken her fair share of abuse for owning a second home in the Wine Country. "How invested in the city are you when you sit on the board for a few years and then decide you don't like how the city looks and move your family out?"

Great moments in Blue America! I guess "other" people's children will have to experience urban public education: not Chris Daly's. Why does Chris Daly and San Francisco Democrats hate middle class people so much?