“ARE YOU in a great place for listening to?” one girl asks one other as they shuffle right into a sitting room at a retirement residence close to Japantown in San Francisco. They fold their walkers and await Mark Farrell, a Democratic candidate for mayor within the metropolis’s November elections. Mr Farrell launches right into a typical stump speech—he grew up in San Francisco, is elevating children right here—however the dialog rapidly turns darker. What’s going to he do about crime, homelessness and medicines, the grey-haired viewers desires to know. Mr Farrell has a solution attribute of liberal San Francisco’s altering politics. “We’re gonna convey them off the streets,” he says. “Hopefully it’s shelter, possibly it’s hospital, possibly it’s county jail.”
