Posted on 11/23/2010 7:58:32 AM PST by SmithL
The solid left majority on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has an opportunity to do what city voters haven't done for more than two decades: put a progressive in the mayor's office.
Not since the election of Art Agnos in 1987 has a progressive served as mayor, and his tenure ended four years later when he lost his re-election bid to Frank Jordan, the more conservative former police chief. The only progressive mayor before Agnos, George Moscone, was assassinated in 1978, three years into his first term.
Now, with Mayor Gavin Newsom, a San Francisco-style moderate, set to leave office in early January to become lieutenant governor, the Board of Supervisors can appoint his replacement to finish his last year.
"This is a golden opportunity for the progressives," said David Lee, a political science lecturer at San Francisco State University who heads the Chinese American Voters Education Committee. "Mayor is the holy grail of city politics. ... This is their moment."
At the same time, he said, the progressives must make sure the appointment isn't perceived as a raw power grab and end up alienating voters heading into next November's mayor's race.
A big part of the supervisors' calculation selecting an interim mayor is whether the person will run for election next fall or whether he or she will serve as a caretaker who will leave office after a year. It will take at least six votes on the 11-member board to appoint an interim mayor, and supervisors cannot vote for themselves. If no one is selected, the board president - a post now held by David Chiu - will fill in as acting mayor while continuing to serve as supervisor.
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Newsom a “Moderate”???? Newsom a “conservative”?????? Give me a break. I also heard that the radical feminist SF District Attorney won the State Attorney General race. With her as AG, Moonbeam as Gov. and Newsom as Lt.Gov. CA is going to have one hell of a ride over the next 4 years. They also reelected all incumbent Dems. who were seeking reelection to the State Legislator to include one dead guy. I also heard the CA RNC Chairman wants to succeeed Steele at the National RNC. With his track record in CA, that’s all the GOP needs. If there are any conservatives left in that state, it is time to leave.
Newsom a “Moderate”???? Newsom a “conservative”?????? Give me a break. I also heard that the radical feminist SF District Attorney won the State Attorney General race. With her as AG, Moonbeam as Gov. and Newsom as Lt.Gov. CA is going to have one hell of a ride over the next 4 years. They also reelected all incumbent Dems. who were seeking reelection to the State Legislature to include one dead guy. I also heard the CA RNC Chairman wants to succeeed Steele at the National RNC. With his track record in CA, that’s all the GOP needs. If there are any conservatives left in that state, it is time to leave.
San Francisco, the city that gave us The Church of Satan, Jim Jones’ People’s Temple, The Manson Family, and Scientology.
Land of fruits and nuts.
I saw a “progressive” yesterday call Obama “center-right” politically.
During one of Newsom’s campaigns for mayor, one of his opponents called him a Republican, because he couldn’t think of anything worse to say about him.
If “SF” was a stock..I’d short the hell out of it..
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