What does the bigoted Arizona law have to do with any of this?

What does Facebook buying WhatApp have anything to do with this?

Office buildings and hotels in SF need to step up to pay for Muni? Their employees and patrons already pay for their tickets. Why they should pay more than anyone else using the system?

If the city needs to increase Muni revenues, they should simply increase the fares. If the fare increases unduly affect impoverished people, then Muni should operate a fare discount program based on financial hardship.

If you feel Muni should not be financed through fares, then the city should pay for it from the general fund and increase revenue collection, either by increasing the payroll tax and/or the property tax.

Targeting specific groups is just gibberish.

Republicans were beating their breasts at turning back vicious minded Arizona Legislation that would have made it legal to deny homosexuals full rights.

Let us not forget… It was the Arizona Republican led State Legislators that put this outrageous act before their Governor. It clearly showed the ugly underbelly of right wingers in the GOP… Probably ill timed considering the 2014 elections drawing near. Probably why the GOP leaders stood up in the 11th hour against it.
Now… left wing San Francisco hoists it’s own version of political hypocrisy.
Google has gifted San Francisco $6.8 million to provide two free years of Muni bus rides for low income youth. One of the largest private contributions in our Cities history. Mayor Lee, Supervisor Wiener and others are beating their breast on Googles largesse for the poorest amongst us.
Let us not forget… It was Google who simply ‘took over’ the bus stops as their own without so much as a ‘by your leave’, setting off a firestorm against these modern day ‘Aristocrats’.
The press defended Google ‘They are keeping cars off our streets and reducing pollution’.Responding to the growing anger at the outright unfairness… from all sides, Mayor Lee and Supervisor Wiener, amongst others, hiding behind Prop 218, charged $1.00 per stop per use and Google accepted it without question. The press, compliant, including SF Weekly, said essentially “Ok… guess there is nothing to be done, it’s all legal’.
But the worm has turned, this has been Googles worst PR disaster since cooperating with the Federal Government in turning over our private emails and search patterns.
Then another shoe dropped… FaceBook bought WhatApp for $19 Billion dollars, a company with less than 50 employees. Unfairness now had a face… and Google had a change of heart.
$6.8 million from Google, we are not ungrateful, but they can collect this money from beneath the seat cushions in their employee lounge.
What about the rest of the dotcom bus Yahoo’s? (Pun intended). Time to take them to task. Fine them for illegally parking in Muni bus zones… Or they can do the right thing… contact Googles PR department for instructions.
Down to brass tacks, the hundreds of high rise office buildings and hotels in San Francisco need to also step up. Hiding in plain sight for years, their workers and even their guests ride on back of Muni, they couldn’t operate without it… But do not pay their fair share.
While were on the subject of ‘fair’, lets widen the field.