Mountain View Art & Wine Festival event program INSIDE SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 VOLUME 24, NO. 32 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 18 Watchdog group finds neo-Nazi activity in MV SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER SAYS THE DAILY STORMER HELD MEETINGS IN MOUNTAIN VIEW By Kevin Forestieri “criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or ountain View residents publishing.” and elected officials The Daily Stormer made head- Mgave a strong rebuke lines in August when web service to white supremacist rallies in companies including GoDaddy Charlottesville, Virginia, with and CloudFlare announced they two well-attended protests con- were dumping the hate group’s demning hate groups, racism and website. The neo-Nazi site was prejudice. But with all the atten- briefly hosted on Google’s servers tion on hate group activity 2,800 on Aug. 14, but was rejected by miles away, what about extremist the company within hours. The groups here in the Bay Area? Daily Stormer has since receded A map of hate group activity to the “dark web,” available only developed by the Southern Pov- through the anonymous Tor erty Law Center shows that the network. neo-Nazi group the Daily Stormer Cached webpages of the group’s COURTESY OF 129TH RESCUE WING now-defunct message board show Guardsmen from the 129th Air Rescue Wing board a plane at Moffett Field on Monday, Aug. 28. A has a presence in just one city in that Daily Stormer members con- total of 90 team members headed to Texas to assist in search-and-rescue efforts in the aftermath of the nine-county Bay Area, and vened somewhere in Mountain Hurricane Harvey. it’s right here in Mountain View. The map itself labels the city with View on Aug. 17 and Sept. 4 last a symbol of a swastika, with the year, with one member recalling Hurricane Harvey: nearest one farther south in Santa the first of the meetings as a “great Cruz. meetup” that shows the group has local Rescue Wing heads to Texas The law center’s “hate map” “critical mass for a strong book doesn’t explain much about the club” in the Bay Area. Rescuers from the Bay Area Rescue Wing left Moffett Field Texas to help with the fed- methodology, but Mountain “Great to see repeat attendees headed to Texas Monday to with a team of about 90 mem- eral response to the hurricane, View’s label hardly means that and a couple new brothers,” said help with relief efforts in the bers on Monday afternoon and which made landfall late last the Daily Stormer has some type one user. “We’ve got representa- aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, will provide search and rescue Friday in the Houston area as a of headquarters or membership tion from the East Bay, South Bay, officials with the Silicon Valley support, spokesman Lt. Roder- Category 4 storm, fire officials stronghold in the city. A spokes- Peninsula and Santa Cruz.” Air National Guard said. ick Bersamina said. said. woman for the law center told the Subsequent posts from Octo- California Air National Two other water rescue teams Voice that the map compiles infor- ber detail that most of the Guardsmen from the 129th from the Bay Area left for See HURRICANE, page 9 mation on hate groups and their whereabouts in 2016, including See NEO-NAZI, page 11 Rental committee sets system for super-cheap housing VEGA ADJUSTMENTS WOULD ADDRESS RARE CASES OF SEVERELY UNDERPRICED HOUSING By Mark Noack program based on federal hous- The big topic of the night was It was exactly the kind of California now have to establish ing data, similar to that of other setting a so-called “Vega Adjust- cautionary tale that rent-control a system to resolve these rare ountain View’s Rental California cities with rent-control ment,” a mandatory program opponents in Mountain View situations. Housing Committee programs. Even so, the Monday, for any city with rent control in have long been warning about For Mountain View, that Mon Monday approved a Aug. 28, meeting was possibly the California. The name derives — the considerate landlords meant the committee on Monday program for landlords to adjust committee’s most complicated from a 1990 state appellate case, who kept rents low would end was tasked with defining what rents on severely underpriced session so far. Committee mem- Vega v. City of West Hollywood, up being hurt the most by the “disproportionately low” actually apartments, one of the final deci- bers as well as public speakers that revolved around an elderly government’s attempt to fiddle meant. To set this baseline, most sions needed to implement the repeatedly expressed bafflement landlord who hadn’t raised rents with the housing market. other rent-control cities looked to city’s new rent-control law. over a series of complex options for about 20 years and was later But the silver lining for land- a fair-market housing price index Committee members tried to and how each one would affect blocked from increasing them by lords is that, thanks to the keep things simple by picking a the local rental market. her city’s rent-control law. 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