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Supes Challenge Health Department's No-Bid, Anti-Union Contract Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Board President Aaron Peskin is challenging a $5.2 million no-bid contract that the San Francisco Department of Health (DPH) is seeking to hand to a non-union, non-organizable entity that it created to manage its supportive housing sites. DPH's action undermines Mayor Newsom's repeated highlighting of the importance of competitive bidding, and contradicts the spirit of the mayor's 2004 order requiring department heads to identify "all possible opportunities" to bid ou...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:24am PDT
Failure of McGoldrick Recall to Qualify Should Give Proponents Pause Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : On June 22nd, business interests who want to recall Supervisor Jake McGoldrick failed to gather enough signatures to put it on the November ballot - falling about 1,000 signatures short. But proponents of this effort, which include the local Republican Party, told the San Francisco Examiner that they will now try for the February 2008 ballot....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:22am PDT
Public Protests Agonizing Health Care Budget Cuts Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : At 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19th, I arrived halfway through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Bielenson hearings, state-mandated at any time cuts are proposed for programs serving indigent people....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:21am PDT
Elizabeth Edwards Stands Out at Pride Breakfast Monday, June 25, 2007 : There was much ado about Elizabeth Edwards' appearance at yesterday's Gay Pride Breakfast sponsored by the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. It was the first time that a major presidential candidate or their spouse had appeared at the annual breakfast to kick off the City's Pride parade, a milestone in the local LGBT communitys influence....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:25am PDT
The San Francisco Chronicle’s "Despicable, Odious Politics" Monday, June 25, 2007 : The Chronicle's June 22 Letters to the Editors Page was titled, "Chris Daly's despicable, odious politics." The headline did not refer to the Supervisor's behavior or conduct, but rather to his politics, i.e. his political views. The headline arose from a letter by Hadley Roff, the longtime San Francisco official, who used the terms "despicable" and "odious" to describe Daly's "outburst" and "descent into rumor mongering." But Roff applied these words to Daly's conduct...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:24am PDT
Asian Americans Look Beyond Ed Jew Scandal Friday, June 22, 2007 : The continuing scandal embroiling the only Asian American on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has the city’s Asian-American politicians and activists worrying whether the shadow over one will affect them all. Eugenia Chien monitors Chinese-language media for New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 6:48am PDT
Exposing the Chronicle’s True Agenda in Daly-Bashing Friday, June 22, 2007 : The San Francisco Chronicle has launched an all-out propaganda war against District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly. Is it because Daly effectively works for causes the Chronicle opposes? Is it the Supervisor’s intemperate behavior, or his past assertions that he does not trust what he reads in the Chronicle? These factors are part of the equation, but the real reason is deeper: the Chronicle views Daly as the perfect foil for its campaigns to end district elections, discredit...
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 6:32am PDT
Protest Ed Jew today from 2PM-5PM in The Sunset! Protest Ed Jew today from 2PM-5PM in The Sunset!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 12:44pm PDT
Ammiano on Target in Rejecting 25% Police Pay Hike Thursday, June 21, 2007 :While the San Francisco Chronicle frames Board-Mayor disputes as personal battles between Daly and Newsom (a theme amplified in the paper's hysterical headline story today on a nonexistent City Hall "uproar" over Daly's comments about the Mayor at Tuesday's Board meeting), sound policy dictated the Board’s 7-4 rejection of 25% salary hikes for police officers....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:35am PDT
Harris Wisely Drops Charges in Phony DBI Corruption Case Wednesday, June 20, 2007 :San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced late yesterday that her office would not retry its case against former Planning and Department of Building Inspection employee, Augustine Fallay. After the FBI raided DBI’s office and arrested Fallay, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that Fallay was at the center of an agency-wide corruption case....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 7:14am PDT
Public Health Cuts Offer New Twist in Budget Fight Wednesday, June 20, 2007 :“Chris Daly is angry,” said Supervisor Tom Ammiano to me as I walked into the Board chambers to cover the hearing on the Mayor’s cuts to the Health Department. Frankly, the District 6 Supervisor has a lot to be angry about. He made some fatal mistakes that got him kicked off the Budget Committee, but the fact remains that Newsom has reaped the benefit of the budget process so far – although the Board and the Mayor are supposed to be co-equal branches of government....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 7:13am PDT
Mayor Newsom's "Community Justice Center Plan" The Mayor of San Francisco is attempting to sell to his constituents his solution to escalating crime ( Quality of Life ) in San Francisco's Central City, are you buying?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 2:17am PDT
Clear Channel Campaign for Migden in Full Gear Tuesday, June 19, 2007 :Back in March, I reported that Michael Colbruno – State Senator Carole Migden’s former chief of staff – is now V.P. of Government Affairs for Clear Channel Outdoor, the massive billboard company. Whenever Colbruno wants to help his old boss, he makes sure the City gets plastered with campaign billboards for election season....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:03am PDT
Can Matt Gonzalez Reunify San Francisco’s Left? Tuesday, June 19, 2007 :At San Francisco’s June 2 Progressive Convention, there were only smiles and applause as over a dozen elected officials claimed unity behind a progressive agenda. But it soon became clear that the supervisors attending the Convention were not on the same page. Supervisor Chris Daly, who called for the Convention, soon announced a budget plan that he saw as a progressive alternative to Mayor Newsom’s....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:02am PDT
Budgets Should Not Be Made By Press Rallies Thursday, June 14, 2007: In the latest City budget showdown, weve had dueling press conferences planned at the same time, allegations that the Mayor used city resources for campaign purposes, accusations about whos cutting what, and grandstanding about whos fighting for housing. Chris Daly has every right to be upset that Mayor Newsom wont fund the affordable housing package after a veto-proof majority of the Supervisors passed it....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 8:44am PDT
Ed Jew should resign BEFORE July 10 ...
Mayor Newsom wins big,
if resignation (or removal)
is AFTER July 10.
........
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 9:42am PDT
Ed Jews Replacement Should Not Run in November Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :Yesterday, District Attorney Kamala Harris filed charges against Supervisor Ed Jew on four counts of perjury, one count of filing a false document, and four counts of violating the Elections Code surrounding the allegation that he doesnt live in San Francisco but ran for municipal office. Late last night, Jew turned himself into the authorities not at 850 Bryant, but in Burlingame ....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 7:26am PDT
Just Say No to the SF Recall Efforts Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :When did recalls of Supervisors become all the rage in San Francisco? First, so-called "average" citizens, who just happen to have the same consultant as the mayors re-election campaign, want to replace District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick. Now a movements afoot in District 3 to oust its Supervisor: Board President Aaron Peskin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 7:25am PDT
Statewide Organizing Needed to Pass Ellis Act Reform Tuesday, June 12, 2007 :Last week, housing advocates couldnt muster the 21 votes needed to pass SB 464, which would curb speculator evictions under the Ellis Act by limiting its scope to landlords who owned the property for at least 5 years. Not even reducing it to three years was enough to overcome opposition from the real estate industry....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 8:42am PDT
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