Jade Tu
- Office: DCCC, Assembly District 19
- Election Date: March 5, 2024
- Candidate: Jade Tu
- Due Date: December 23, 2023
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Thank you for seeking GrowSF's endorsement for the March 5, 2024 Primary Election! GrowSF believes in a growing, beautiful, vibrant, healthy, safe, and prosperous city via common sense solutions and effective government.
The GrowSF endorsement committee will review all completed questionnaires and seek consensus on which candidates best align with our vision for San Francisco.
We ask that you please complete this questionnaire by December 23, 2023 so we have enough time to adequately review and discuss your answers.
Table of Contents
Questions
Please mark the box that best aligns with your position. You may explain any position if you so desire.
Education
| Yes | No | |
|---|---|---|
| Should all students in 8th grade have access to algebra, if they want it? | x | |
| Should all students in 7th grade have access to algebra, if they want it? | x | |
| Should all high school students have access to AP courses? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that promote making algebra available to 8th graders? | x | |
| Did you support or oppose the recall of Board of Education members Collins, López, and Moliga? If you supported or opposed a subset, please specify below. | x |
Explain why you did or did not support the recall of each member:
I supported the Board of Education Recall due to the three commissioner's wilful misconduct, gross negligence and ideologically-driven decision making. As a former teacher myself this issue is close to my heart, and watching them mismanage the pandemic response and endanger the quality of the education delivered at our public schools was heartbreaking and unacceptable.
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
I believe that the continued success of our city as a global pool of talent requires us to be ambitious and forward-thinking in our education policy. As a former international teacher myself, I know that many curriculums globally teach algebra before 8th grade and provide the equivalents of AP classes for high school students, so we should not fail our children by allowing them to be left behind.
Business
| Should San Francisco… | Yes | No |
|---|---|---|
| Reduce the time to obtain all permits to open a new business to no more than 3 months? | x | |
| Reduce the cost of obtaining permits to open a new business? | x | |
| Reduce the number of activities which must obtain permits, and expand the number of by-right activities? | x | |
| Increase the number of available ABC permits? | x | |
| Increase the number of available recreational marijuana permits? | x | |
| Try to attract businesses of all sizes to the City? | x |
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
I believe the current moratorium on recreational marijuana permits is appropriate due to their oversaturation in the city, the fledgling industry's lack of access to bank loans, and the fact that they represent a high value target for robbery.
Public Safety
| Yes | No | |
|---|---|---|
| Do you think that property crime in San Francisco is too high? | x | |
| Do you support policies commonly referred to as "defund the police"? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that promote a fully-funded and fully-staffed police department? | x | |
| Should police funding be from the general fund, rather than via special taxes and set-asides? | x | |
| Did you support the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin? | x |
Please explain why you did or did not support the recall of DA Chesa Boudin:
I both supported and was a key and active volunteer for the recall campaign. Again and again, we heard stories from family members of the victims of violent crime who found no justice in the DA's office. We saw our streets becoming less and less safe, we saw violent crime become more and more flagrant. As a believer in sensible, incremental criminal justice reform — of the kind DA Brooke Jenkins is now engaged in — it appalled me to watch a figure like Boudin chip away at San Francisco voter's goodwill and willingness to engage with new ideas. With Boudin gone and Jenkins in the driver's seat, the city is safer and policies such as cashless bail for nonviolent offenders can be trialed without putting lives at risk.
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
Housing
| Yes | No | |
|---|---|---|
| Is it too difficult to build market rate housing in San Francisco? | x | |
| Is it too difficult to build subsidized housing in San Francisco? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that make it easier, faster, and/or cheaper to build market rate housing in San Francisco? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that make it easier, faster, and/or cheaper to build subsidized housing in San Francisco? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that would loosen the existing limits on height, density, and bulk for residential buildings? (ie taller, denser, and fewer/reduced setbacks) | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that would abolish the existing limits on height, density, and bulk for residential buildings? | x |
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
Drugs
| Yes | No | |
|---|---|---|
| Should San Francisco arrest and prosecute fentanyl dealers? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that formally request help from the State and Federal governments to bolster our police force (both the officers and the investigators)? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies promoting "safe consumption" sites without altering existing laws and lax enforcement around open-air usage? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies promoting "safe consumption" sites only if paired with zero-tolerance for open-air usage? (ie consuming drugs like fentanyl on the street would be illegal; and users would be taken to a recovery site until they are sober) | x |
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
Mental Health
| Yes | No | |
|---|---|---|
| Should San Francisco place people who are experiencing mental health crises on the streets into involuntary mental health holds at psychiatric facilities? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies that facilitate the construction and operation of mental health facilities, and permit those facilities to treat patients involuntarily if they are deemed to be unable to care for themselves (as determined by a panel of psychiatric professionals)? | x |
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
Public Transit
| Yes | No | |
|---|---|---|
| Should SFMTA and BART conduct fare enforcement operations and prosecute fare evaders? | x | |
| Should the Party adopt or support policies requiring SFMTA and BART to enforce fare payment? | x | |
| Recent state funding requires Muni and BART to enforce fare payments in order to receive funding; do you agree with this requirement? | x |
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
General questions
What needs to change with the Party?
The issues that I have built my platform on are education, support for small business and public safety. At all stages of life in this city, whether we are trying to gain an education, trying to build our own success, or simply trying to walk down the street, the failed politics of the current SFDCCC stand in our way. If elected, I will use my position on the DCCC to advocate for candidates willing to address these issues, who can balance radical ideas with reasonable public safety measures.
What are the top three issues facing San Francisco, and what would you like to see change?
My three central concerns as a life-long westside resident are public safety, education and support for small businesses. To make this city livable for everyone, people must feel safe in their own neighborhoods, have access to high quality public education, and be able to support the American dream of so many local business owners.
Tell us one thing you think needs to change in SF that the average voter wouldn't know about.
Most voters don't know much about the DCCC, but it is a powerful tool for influencing local elections. I'd like to bring more transparency to the process and publicize the importance of the DCCC to a wider voting public.
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