As a long time Burlingame resident , i find it perplexing and terribly dishonest that the mayor and city council of Burlingame are lying to all the citizens and misrepresenting the basic facts. Burlingame ,like SF, is mostly a ,,,renter city,,,most households are renters,,,and more importantly during this ,again, election cycle, most eligible and registered voters are,,,here is that dirty word again, "renters". So why is it that almost all the current candidate literature avoids like the plaque mentioning that word/fact "renters", but rather "businesses and residents"?????
When you ask the past mayors of the last 10-20 years to do something for the renters , like free city-wide parking on the metered or unmetered streets since there is not nearly enough parking, you get a polite "thank you" but no action. Or when you ask for a standard to old apartments so that over 20 units do not have to share a single washer and dryer, you only get a polite "thank you" and no representation !! We Burlingame renters are being taken to the cleaners, by elected politicians we vote for but who refuse to say how poor and mansion-less we are or to even care about us after we-the renters,the majority, elect them !! It is high time we dump the old polite mayor and all the old council who refuse to represent us,even if we were the minority, and who are afraid to use the word "renter" in their campaign brochures. How many "businesses" are actually non-residents and non-voters,especially the apartment building owner variety, but also the Broadway/Burlingame Avenue type the mayor and council seem to only want to fraternize with ??? Why have so many past mayor and council members continued to perpetrate this gigantic fraud on us , that "residents" are homeowners and have children in the public schools,,,and "businesses" are actually resident owners and voters that deserve all the attention. Talk about a Civic Rights abuse of the highest order!! We renters are just like "niggers" to all the past Burlingame elected officials,as if the Civil Rights Movement never happened, and the landed rich of our Founding Fathers are ,even now in the 21st Century,the only ones worthy of the mayor's and council's attention and vote gather politics. This is such a shame on Burlingame and such an abuse of the American Dream. Obviously, we are NOT "all created equal". The Declaration of Independence was just a lie?
