Nancy Tung
- Office: DCCC, Assembly District 17
- Election Date: March 5, 2024
- Candidate: Nancy Tung
- 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.
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:
If you want to explain any positions above, please feel free:
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:
As to recreational marijuana permits, I agree with the moratorium in place because of the unique features (lack of access to banking, saturation of market, high relative rates of theft/robbery) as opposed to other similar industries.
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 ran against Chesa Boudin in 2019. At the time and every moment thereafter until he was recalled, I wholeheartedly believed that he was unqualified to be the District Attorney, that he was ideologically opposed to the core responsibility of the office, and that he would put forward policies that would endanger San Franciscans. As a member of the DCCC, I voted to endorse the recall.
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 ideology of 22 of 24 of the elected members of the DCCC is gravely inconsistent with the viewpoints of the vast majority of voters in SF, as shown by recent elections. The Party needs to be better in tune with San Francisco Democrats – more focused on making our City work in a pragmatic and cooperative way, rather than performative politics and ideological tribalism.
What are the top three issues facing San Francisco, and what would you like to see change?
- More solutions to public safety, including aggressively attacking open air drug markets in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, giving the police department the tools to be more efficient, and integrating community solutions and activations to take back public spaces from criminals.
- Making sure public education is about raising student excellence across the school districts instead of it being a stomping ground for extreme ideologies over student performance.
- Cutting bureaucracy and red tape so that small businesses can thrive and we can revitalize/reimagine downtown San Francisco.
Tell us one thing you think needs to change in SF that the average voter wouldn't know about.
The makeup of the DCCC!
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