Iconic Store May Close Doors In San Francisco After 166 Years, Blames ‘Litany Of Destructive’ Policies | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Virginia Kruta.

    An iconic Bay Area landmark may soon be preparing to close its doors in San Francisco, the owner said - and he blamed rampant crime, drug use, and a "litany of destructive" policies that were making the current situation unsustainable.

    John Chachas, who owns the luxury department store Gump's, laid out his concerns in a letter addressed to Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Mayor London Breed (D-S.F.), and the Board of Supervisors, who represent the city and county of San Francisco. That letter was published as a full-page advertisement in The San Francisco Chronicle.

    "Gump's has been a San Francisco icon for more than 165 years. Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last because of the profound erosion of this city's conditions," Chachas wrote, acknowledging that some of the difficulties could still be stemming from COVID-related lockdowns and the fact that many who worked in nearby offices had been encouraged and even ordered to remain at home.

    "Equally devastating have been a litany of destructive San Francisco strategies, including allowing the homeless to occupy our sidewalks, to openly distribute and use illegal drugs, to harass the public and to defile the city's streets," Chachas continued, referring to such policies as the effective enactment of a "tyranny of the minority."

    "Such abject disregard for civilized conduct makes San Francisco unlivable for its residents, unsafe for our employees, and unwelcoming to visitors from around the world," Chachas said, adding, "San Francisco deserves better."

    But Chachas did more than simply complain about what he believed had gone wrong in the city - he also offered suggestions that he said could help restore the city "to its rightful place as one of America's shining beacons of urban society."

    He called on elected officials to start by removing homeless camps and cleaning the streets, and said they should allow law enforcement to enforce the local and state laws that were already in place, adding, "We will continue to support the compassionate efforts of helping those in need. But we believe failed public policies must be abandoned and a renewed focus must be brought to restore the city we all love."

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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