Garry Tan's Threats Should Not Be Forgotten

Garry Tan has introduced the threat of violence into San Francisco's political life. Too many in the media and government are downplaying this or ignoring it altogether.

It has only been about two weeks since Garry Tan, a prominent business leader and right-wing provocateur who has contributed substantial amounts of money to various to conservative causes in San Francisco, tweeted what looked an awful lot like a death threat to seven members of the Board of Supervisors. In the days that followed several of those supervi…