A handful of ultra-wealthy donors have quietly fueled a campaign to swing San Francisco politics to the right -- according to Julie Pitta, the founder of The Phoenix Project.
In our conversation, she maps the forces transforming San Francisco, from tech billionaires funding ballot campaigns to the rise of YIMBY politics and a new mayor few had heard of a year ago.
How has this city, long seen as a progressive beacon, become ground zero for privatized governance?
Warning: no discussions of reopening Alcatraz included.