Currently there is an abandoned sailboat near Brisbane on the Peninsula between Sierra Point and Candlestick right on the shore.
"So pick the trash up!!", you might say.
Obviously, with all the govt we have from City to County to State and the Feds with all the regional agencies like Bay Area Conservation and Development Commission and the California Coastal Commission and even the military, the United States Coast Guard. And the Clean Water Act.
In the go-go develop 60s, private ownership of the land below the Bay water was allowed and raw sewage from most cities around the Bay was without sewage plants just piped into the Bay.
All our state politicians are so busy collecting Citizen United ruling approved "campaign contributions" of political funds, or bribes. And they have been very busy as insiders getting richer and richer as our democratic Republic's senators and representatives. If they were still in elementary school they would all get "D"s for "Johnny and Judy don't do most of their homework."
So I call a few local Reps offices.
"Not in My District."
"Gee, my district but don't know who to call to remove that abandoned yacht right next to highway 101. Did you try the Coast Guard?"
All the govt employees and billions spent on them and this small but significant problem for Decades of who/which agency or commission or Dept actually removes abandoned yacht is still unclear, undecided in 2019!
Called the Coast Guard twice at SFO station and GG Bridge station, that took a report.
Nothing happened.
Called Save the Bay, report or info taken.
Nothing done.
Called the Baykeepers, like the Riverkeepers.
"We don't know either."
I'm not trying to get the Feds to total change the tax corrupt code of loopholes and rifleshots and complexities or get universal health care for the last advanced nation or end these endless enemy-making foreign wars or ban cigarette filters not cigarettes or stop global warming and or get Trump un-re-elected.
I'm just trying to get 1 yacht trash removed, then all yacht trash removed, maybe, hopefully.
Easy right?
So I called KNTV2 newsroom and ABC7 tv newsroom.
Guess one more abandoned small yacht/boat in the Bay doesn't have the "infotainment" sex appeal needed to be "news"nowadays.
Have you also seen old widows standing on the curb after a 3day no cause eviction? Oh right, we ignore old weak poor lonely disabled "street" people, shamefully, don't we.
No more Bay Guardian newspaper...
KQED has become so commercial tho "public"...
Who cares?
The new Governor, Gavin Newsom?
The Frisco Mayor, fighting for homeless shelters in All the rich,or poor, SF neighborhoods?
