KPFA News: San Francisco Supes Meet Re Who Will Be Mayor, 4:00 P.M. Tuesday, City Hall

Chris Daly recently moved his family out of the City and will only be on the Board for another 6 weeks or so. Why should he have any say in who the interim Mayor is? Chris Daly should run for higher office from his new home town in the North Bay. The new SF Board of Sups that will take office in January should decide who the interim mayor is; they supposedly will still have a 'progressive' majority. It's a shame that Jane Kim and Ross Mirkarimi had to join the Democrat Party to get the support of that machine for their election campaigns. Mirkarimi would be great as a Green Mayor; as a Democrat, he signals he's not as 'progressive.' And why would Tom Ammiano (well, OK there is one real progressive Democrat in SF) want to give up his state Assembly seat to be Mayor for one year?

But thanks for posting this transcript; I tried to listen to it on the radio but the sound was horrible, unlistenable.

This writer can remember San Francisco mayors back to the last Republican mayor of San Francisco, George Christopher who sent firefighters with high pressure fire houses into City Hall to attack the protests of the anti-communist witchhunt, HUAC, having their Inquisition hearings there, and the San Francisco police to beat up and throw down the marble staircase the same protesters, breaking the ribs of many, including one 60-year-old black woman. I can certainly remember the infamous Joe Alioto, who sent the police tactical squad, against the San Francisco State labor and student strikers of 1968, and against Kaiser workers. I can remember the days before Mayor Dianne Feinstein allowed the Navy to recruit the workingclass to murder other workers to make the rich richer with its illegal, polluting and noisy Navy Blue Death flights over San Francisco and its accompanying Fleet Week in 1981. There was also the horror of 5 football gambling racket riots and gladiator parades from 1982-1995 that became even worse in 2010 with the baseball gambling racket riot and gladiator parade as the economy is much worse. In 2010, they had the stupid, littering parade, cleaned up by the taxpayers instead of the wealthy baseball franchise, at noon, so that the falling down pants crowd and their scantily clad girlfriends could roam on Market Street in the Financial District all afternoon until 5 p.m., terrifying the mostly female labor force who did not dare go out, and closing Market Street until 3:30 p.m. to all traffic, buses and trains. And most long-lasting of all, continuing to this day whenever the Democrats (and their twins, the Republicans) want to thwart progress, is the election fraud, used to promote stadium swindles, prevent pro-rent control mayors from winning office and to stop the long overdue and legally mandated public power from prevailing in San Francisco.

The election fraud of 1997-2003 perpetrated by the Democrats was also perpetrated by the Democrats in the 1970s and benefited Jerry Brown in his first run for governor. See
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
and
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/

To verify that the president of his police academy class, Ross Mirkarimi, became openly a Democrat, see the Bay Guardian, 3/10/10, at
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/03/10/mirkarimis-democrat-newsoms-candidate

As to Chris Daly, this writer was horrified at his hysterical support of the CIA's Dalai Lama and the campaign to steal oil-rich (and many other minerals) Tibet from China, which has been a part of China for 700 years and will remain so forever. Daly's support of Gavin Newsom for Lt. Governor, the protege of the infamous anti-tenant, stadium swindler Willie Brown, should put an end to any illusion about this young man. See
http://www.gavinnewsom.com/about/endorsements

Chris Daly will remain in San Francisco as a bar owner and if he remains registered here, where he owns a condomonium, he could run for office. He has been considered a possible candidate for mayor.

So far, we have the following list of candidates for mayor:
State Senator Leland Yee (soon termed out of office, a former member of the Bd of Supes)
Supervisor Bevan Dufty (Newsom's reactionary pal who is termed out of office)
Supervisor Chris Daly
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
City Attorney Dennis Herrera
and just about everybody else who wants this $233,000 a year job. On this list of named candidates, Leland Yee has the best chance to win.

The city government faces an almost certain general strike due to the San Francisco Democratic Party's support of Proposition G on the November 2010 ballot, promoted by Democrat Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, changing the way the city determines bus driver wages from the prevailing wage to collective bargaining. Both the mayor and the Board of Supervisors are part of management and will either have to come up with a decent union contract or we can all stay home from work and school for a few days, as happened for over a month in 1976. See
http://timelines.ws/cities/SF_E_1970_1977.HTML

Anyone registered either Democrat or Republican is not progressive, by definition. The hysterics over who will be the next interim mayor must be seen in light of the above long-standing grievances in the first paragraph, none of which has been addressed. It looks like it will take a general strike to address all of the grievances and much more. It is always labor that determines the future.

Indeed. I did have to ask myself, "Am I really going to try to make my way down there, before the end of the day, to talk to a bunch of freakin' DEMOCRATS?

Well, maybe, at least it gives the rest of us a chance to say a few things out loud, on SF.gov, while the Supes are supposed to be listening---if they don't decide it's time to go take a whiz, or if not leave for the day, as soon as public comment starts. One thing I'll say for Chris Daly, and often, Ross Mirkarimi, and for Eric Mar, is that no matter how tired they're getting, they do sit there and do their best to listen attentively, to whoever's taken the time out of their day to go down there.

I'm going to say that I'm opposed to any mayors who represent not only downtown, but also South Florida, meaning the Lennar Corporation, http://goo.gl/rySvZ.

You mean you tried to listen to it on KPFA on Sunday? Or, that you tried to listen to the podcast here on Indybay, on your computer? I take a lot of interest in these issues. You may notice that this, and my KPFA Weekend News about Africa, is some of the only news produced AT KPFA, rather than news ABOUT KPFA, that's appeared on the Web this week, which is, I think, much of the problem--the station's failure to adapt to Web, to create a radio-web interface.

Re the Board and the mayor, I think there are a lot of touchy issues nobody's willing to be honest about, re which Board, outgoing or incoming, supports this. I've voiced them in the comments section of Fog City Journal, http://goo.gl/yjcpf.