They do have certain rights in common with the rest of us. But among those rights is not the right to camp on a public street. I don’t care how much homeless advocates whine and complain about homeless people being shoddily treated by cities. The unalterable fact is that homeless people do not and should not have the right to “live” wherever they want, and nothing they argue, no amount of shaming us, will change that.

So our great Alameda County Board of Supervisors, led by the intrepid Nikki Fortunato Bas, has agreed to divide $1.83 billion from Measure W, the 2020 Gouge-the-Taxpayers tax, into three “buckets,” the largest of which (85%) will go toward what they deem “the county’s long-term strategy to combating homelessness.”

Poor Pam. Ingloriously fired by an overwhelming majority of the voters, she is still hurting. Like the criminal ex-president, who spent his final days in exile trying vainly to win back the affection of the American people, Price just can’t accept reality and move on. No, she’s still fighting a battle that literally no one except her cares about.

It’s fashionable these days to sound moderate in all things, including being able to sit down with your political opponents and find consensus. I’m all in favor of that—up to a point. But when it comes to supporting or opposing our cops, I’m in no mood to compromise. If you try to cut OPD’s budget, or hamper their efforts in any way, then you’re a cop hater—and in my book, that means you support criminals and the crimes they commit.

The plain and simple fact is that the current City Council hasn’t learned a damned thing from the failures of their predecessors. Any way you cut it, they’re still tax-and-spenders, determined to tinker with their socialist schemes paid for by you, the hard-working people of Oakland.