"Both of those ideas were torpedoed when I read this article about Daniel Lurie's's 31 hand-picked avatars meant to reshape San Francisco's charter (and we all know that his picks never result in any blunders). I looked at this 31-faced cavalcade of (mostly) capitalists and thought it only slightly less oligarch-ish than his onboarding team from last year. Sure, this one doesn't have Sam Altman, but this one's so nakedly appealing to business interests that it doesn't need Altman."
"As it relates to this column, what jumps out at me is not what's there, but what isn't: Not a single person on that board has a connection to or seeming interest in SF's fertile art scene. The only thing that comes close are the four Philanthropy chairs, but that's only because they all work on things that are arts-adjacent."
A 31-member board assembled to reshape San Francisco's charter is composed predominantly of businesspeople and philanthropic figures with no known background in the arts. The group aligns with corporate and oligarchic interests and provides little direct representation of the city's performing-arts ecosystem. Four philanthropy chairs provide only arts-adjacent ties: one at the Crankstart Foundation linked to Michael Moritz, one leading the SF Foundation, one an heir to the Gap, and one affiliated with an organization that generates project names like "Democracy Communications Fund" and "Patriots & Pragmatists." The absence of arts-experienced voices raises concerns about cultural priorities in charter reform.
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