Moderate Democrats in San Francisco are pushing back against progressive candidates according to a Friday report, fearing local left-wing politicians could undo the work done over the past four years following a surge in the city's homelessness and crime.Neighbors for a Better San Francisco raised $10 million to pour into local elections to stop progressives from being re-elected and knocking the city "off its more centrist course," according to Politico. The organization of political moderates in the city wants to defeat a "CEO tax" proposal that labor unions placed on the June primary ballot, according to Politico.PROGRESSIVES NOTCH ANOTHER WIN OVER DEMOCRATIC MODERATES AS SANDERS-AOC ALLY NEARS CONGRESSThe group worries that the proposed tax — which is intended to offset the federal funding cuts that impacted the city’s budget — would inhibit economic recovery and worsen the city’s downtown office vacancy issue.Neighbors for a Better San Francisco is pouring the most money to preserve a moderate-leaning majority on the Board of Supervisors as progressives try to regain control.The group also plans to sustain the moderate majority on the city’s school board after a recent teachers' strike and to engage in voter education.San Francisco made headlines for a mass exodus from the liberal city, declining public school enrollment and skyrocketing housing prices. The city elected Mayor Daniel Lurie in 2024, defeating incumbent Democrat London Breed — a shift away from lenient policies on crime, drugs, and homelessness that critics say contributed to the city’s decline.VICTORIOUS VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS MORPH FROM PRETEND MODERATES INTO LIBERAL EXTREMISTS OVERNIGHTNeighbors for a Better San Francisco supports "public safety, serious solutions to homelessness, high-quality public education, fiscal responsibility, and good government for our city," according to its website.The group's director, Jay Cheng, said it "is important that someone is holding the line.""This is a wave that is coming to us, it’s coming westward," he said.CALIFORNIA PROGRESSIVES THINK NEWSOM COURTING CONSERVATIVES ON HIS PODCAST IS A 'TOUGH SWALLOW'"Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who leads City Hall’s centrist majority, said he fears a Democratic midterm election focused heavily on President Donald Trump could drown out local concerns that helped moderates gain power amid the city’s pandemic-era decline," Politico reported."It’s hard in a place like this for the center to hold," Mandelman said. "We have pragmatists and utopians."