Richie Greenberg, a San Francisco resident, founder of the movement to recall Chesa Boudin and vocal critic of the Plan for San Francisco Reparations, served a Cease & Desist demand on the offices of the Board of Supervisors.
The Cease-and-Desist demand reads: “The appropriation of $50 million of taxpayer money by the City and County of San Francisco to establish an office of reparations for a program that is unconstitutional and will be unable to legally meet its objectives, is clearly a waste of public funds. Thus, I demand that the Board of Supervisors cease and desist from implementing any allocation of public funds for determining recipient eligibility under the Plan.”
In a statement to 560 KSFO, Greenberg says, “San Francisco’s City Hall officials have been using taxpayers as punching bags to fund every whim of theirs, lawful or unlawful. Their Reparations Plan is egregiously unconstitutional and going against the Civil Rights Act and myriad state and federal laws, I simply could not remain quiet any longer. My financial future is at stake, as is that of my city. I’ve been in close contact with legal experts and now my demanding city officials cease further wasting of taxpayers’ money is the first step in reining in their unchecked abuse of power. City Hall officials should be ashamed of themselves for purposefully ignoring the law when considering this reparations plan, putting their ideology over legality.”
San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton introduced legislation that would appropriate $50 million from the city’s general fund to set up an office of reparations and begin implementing actions. Mayor London Breed has said she opposes that $50 million funding request.