From SF Weekly's news blog, the Snitch:
Fiona Ma taketh away, and Fiona Ma giveth.
The San Francisco Assemblywoman yesterday decided to nix her controversial "Anti-Raves Act of 2011." Area rave promoters may soon get something else, however: Fiona Ma.
Ma told SF Weekly she plans on attending a rave sometime in the near future to see for herself what all the trouble is.
Quoting 911 first-responders she's talked to, she described a rave scene
as "people walking around like zombies, sleeping all over, lying all
over the floor, vomiting in the corners, vomiting in the bathrooms ...
people lying in their own urine."
So, just another Friday night in the
Mission, then.
Ma said she had not "pulled the plug" on her bill, but was just tweaking it after input from "stakeholders." When asked why raves -- and only raves -- should be targeted for elimination, she noted that medical and law enforcement professionals she's spoken with have noted that only raves seem to carry with them the specific drug-related maladies and that the "kids coming in [to the emergency room] are getting younger and younger."
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