{"id":1748629,"date":"2022-11-22T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748629"},"modified":"2022-11-22T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:18:33","slug":"san-francisco-considers-axing-elections-director-for-being-a-white-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-considers-axing-elections-director-for-being-a-white-man\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Considers Axing Elections Director for Being a White Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-considers-axing-elections-director-for-being-a-white-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748629&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The San Francisco Elections Commission is considering terminating its contract with its elections director John Arntz\u2014one of the city&#8217;s most highly esteemed civil servants\u2014citing concerns about &#8220;racial equity.&#8221; Arntz, who is white, will need to reapply next year if he wants to keep his job.<\/p>\n<p>The commission voted 4-2 last week to &#8220;open a competitive search&#8221; for Arntz&#8217;s position, which he has held for two decades, rather than to renew his contract automatically, Cynthia Dai, a member of the commission, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. That decision, Dai said, was &#8220;driven in large part by the city&#8217;s plan for racial equity,&#8221; which requires all departments and commissions to address internal racial disparities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to achieve diversity targets if senior roles never open up,&#8221; said Dai, who voted in favor of the search process. &#8220;This has nothing to do with his performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vote by the commission, whose members are appointed rather than elected, sparked pushback from elected officials, who credit Arntz with cleaning up a broken system. Before Arntz took the helm, San Francisco&#8217;s chief attorney David Chiu (D.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2022\/11\/elections-director-john-arntzs-contract-not-renewed-by-elections-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>Mission Local<\/em><\/a>, a San Francisco-based newspaper, the city &#8220;had five directors in as many years, ballot boxes floating in the bay, and an intense lack of confidence in city elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco mayor London Breed (D.) went so far as to imply that the commission was putting free and fair elections at risk. &#8220;John Arntz has served San Francisco with integrity [and] professionalism and has stayed completely independent,&#8221; Breed told <em>Mission Local<\/em>. &#8220;He&#8217;s remained impartial and has avoided getting caught up in the web of city politics, which is what we are seeing now as a result of this unnecessary vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Peskin (D.), a member of the city&#8217;s board of supervisors, called the commission&#8217;s decision &#8220;malfeasance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The divide between elected officials and the elections commission is a variation on a familiar theme: From <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/no-whites-allowed-pfizer-fellowship-flagrantly-violates-the-law-lawyers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discriminatory hiring programs in corporate America<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/food-and-drug-administration-drives-racial-rationing-of-covid-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race-based rationing<\/a> of COVID drugs, progressive identity politics have advanced faster through unelected bureaucracies than through democratic channels, where the public typically vetoes overt racialism.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s true even in liberal bastions like California, where voters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/11\/why-california-rejected-affirmative-action-again\/617049\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelmingly rejected affirmative action.<\/a>\u00a0And in February, more than 70 percent of San Francisco voters supported the recall of school board members who dismantled merit-based admissions to Lowell High School, the city&#8217;s most academically rigorous public school, in an effort to diversify its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Elections Commission is considering terminating its contract with its elections director John Arntz\u2014one of the city&#8217;s most highly esteemed civil servants\u2014citing concerns about &#8220;racial equity.&#8221; Arntz, who is white, will need to reapply next year if he wants to keep his job.<br \/>\nThe post San Francisco Considers Axing Elections Director for Being a White Man appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":1748632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}