Alioto-Pier Violates Her Own Code of Conduct

Although Alioto-Pier’s Code says that “individual supervisors shall refrain from…verbal attacks upon the motives, ethics or morals of elected officials, staff, or the public,” she introduced a measure at the Board falsely accusing the Tenderloin Housing Clinic of spending “government grant money and contract payments meant to serve the poor on lobbying expenses.” Alioto-Pier failed to properly investigate the truth of her allegations before using the Board’s processes to publicly attack the “motives and ethics” of a city contractor. The Supervisor should be grateful that the Board voted down her Code, as she is guilty of violating it.

There is nothing worse in an elected official than hypocrisy, and San Francisco Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier has that quality in spades. For example, the self-proclaimed environmentalist was the only Supervisor to back the failed Prop H, which would have expanded parking for those wonderfully fuel-efficient Hummers.

I’d love to know what Al Gore, Alioto-Pier’s former boss and political benefactor, thinks of her support for Hummers and parking garages.

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