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The demographics of San Francisco are changing with a rapidity befitting melting polar ice. That said, we remain a compassionate bunch. The notion of authorities forcing the mentally ill into confinement and onto medication is not an easy sell here.
The alternative, sadly, is often to neglect the very neediest people of all.
You poll it.
The following queries have been e-mailed to San Francisco residents, with the carrot to answer questions about Lee, Laura's Law, and Supervisor Mark Farrell coming in the form of a possible $200 gift card.
Read on:
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Our calls to EMC have not yet been returned -- and it's doubtful the marketers would reveal who's underwriting this poll anyway. Staffers in Farrell's office say they had no idea questions about him -- and homelessness, his pet issue -- were being e-mailed to voters.
Finding out who paid for this may become evident enough, however, when the arguments listed above are recited as talking points in the forthcoming campaign.
