Frank Lembi's Skyline: Dirty Money Donor

Numerous elections happen each year with dozens and dozens of campaigns. People spend endless amounts of time trying to get money to fund their campaign along with them spending money themselves. Most campaigns and elections are funded honestly with the public and authorities knowing where and who the donations are coming to for that good cause, but some campaign funding’s go unlawfully. Some campaigns seem to get anonymous money donations otherwise known as “dirty money donors” trying to further their campaign in alliance with another. From this year’s most recent November election in San Francisco, a lot of people seem to have been involved in this “dirty money” donating. These specific donors seem to have their own ways on influencing San …show more content…
Skyline like the other realtors management companies, owns and manages buildings. Skyline does what tenant activists call “pretext evictions” meaning that they give tenants eviction notices that are under the smallest pretext. All tenants who fight these types of eviction win but most tenants just move out when they get this eviction notice not knowing. Due to this, the landlords are able to get the tenants out of their building so that they can move in people who will pay higher rent. It is also seen that skyline realty has major violations against them for the lead paint law. When skyline does construction they leave high paint exposure linked to stunted development of children and circulatory and nerve disorders in adults. Lastly, tenants who have hired attorneys against skyline realty have stated that when skyline realty takes over properties the manager seeks to intimidate tenants vacate or pay higher rent. Skyline looks for any potential violation of a lease like if a family has a child and the child is not on the lease they claim it is a violation of the lease. They say that either the tenants pay market rent or they have to move out. Skyline has even lately been trying to invest in the tenderloin and soma districts looking for run down buildings that they can flip into something “nice” to upcharge rent in the lower class areas. The housing project ( 2007, April). Overall we see that Skyline realty is big on evicting old tenants for new tenants who are willing to pay “market value” so that they can gain more money. Skyline realty is all for no rent control so that they can continuously raise rent on tenants. Skyline realty is trying to influence San Francisco politics by advocating anti rent control and trying to influence for big business owners, realtors and others along this