Key players weigh in-do moderate policy victories in SF signal a shift in voter priorities?

Famously liberal San Francisco appeared to lurch to the right Tuesday, or at least move closer to the center, as frustrated voters approved two key propositions: one that increases police surveillance powers and curbs citizen oversight, and a second that will require some welfare recipients to be screened for drug use.
This isn’t exactly new for San Francisco. Moderate mayors have been sparring with progressive boards for decades. Gavin Newsom most notably enraged progressives with his Care Not Cash program in 2002, which not only shifted the city toward a more services-oriented approach to homelessness but also gave him a platform to rise from a city supervisor to mayor and eventually California's governor.
But in some ways, the city’s political discourse at this moment feels different.
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