Word: franciscos
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...much money in not-for-profits, you get a lot of responsibility much more quickly.” And the notion that Harvard students forsake public service for high-salary investment banking positions is a myth, according to Daniella T. Gilbert ’09. She interned at San Francisco-based Bay Area Youth Fund for Education, a group committed to assisting high school students graduate and become the first in their families to go to college, this summer. “Sure, there are people who will take the corporate path,” she said...
Behind these attacks was the fear that Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, would bring what Republicans call “San Francisco values” to her new job. Such values, they claim, do not reflect the values of the rest of the country...
Just ask Bill O’Reilly. Last month, O’Reilly called Pelosi a “committed secular progressive,” whatever that means, and asked, “Should Americans vote for San Francisco values or for perceived failure overseas?” Current Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, in National Review Online last week, asked, “Do we really want Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco values leading the culture war?” Hastert’s predecessor, Newt Gingrich, echoed him, asking in a Republican National Committee...
Neither Hastert nor Gingrich elaborated on what constituted “San Francisco values,” but we all know what they were thinking. The city of San Francisco became one of the first cities in America to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004. If there is one issue Republicans are most anxious about besides terrorism, it’s gay marriage...
...curious phrase “San Francisco values” has become a political epithet. But what exactly does it mean? Are there actually values specific to San Fancisco...