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The whys go far beyond the simple grubby, grabby sense of possessiveness BALSA has shown toward the new UCSF campus.

If the university regents and administration were to perform what is rightly and properly their job, they would plan the new UCSF campus under the constraints of public meeting and public records laws. Stringent conflict-of-interest and corruption laws would apply to their behavior.

A whole series of legal protections of the public interest would come into play. These protections have been created through the decades to shield the public from sleazy, evasive, obscurantist politicians. We shouldn't have to rely on the euphemisms of businessmen to be assured the public pocket isn't being picked.

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