We've been dying to debut the new name for this column for weeks now -- weeks! Everyone does hate Chris Daly! Of COURSE SFist will be covering the District 6 race!
This week -- Everyone hates the Marina. The Daly-friendly Beyond Chron reports that Small Business Commissioner and columnist for the Daly-unfriendly SF Sentinel Jordanna Thigpen (pictured at right) is sending out feelers about possibly running against Old Daddy Thumbkin, claiming that he's not very environmental and too confrontational. C'mon, what about the time Daly snuck Sierra Clubber Adam Werbach onto the PUC? That was totally environmental! Well, okay, it was also confrontational. We'll call that one a draw.
Thigpen is an attorney, runs Mask Italia on Chestnut Street, and is active in the Marina Merchants Association. She's come out against Ammiano's San Francisco universal health care plan (favoring a federal solution), and helped save a movie theater in the Marina by working with Walgreens. Also, she placed 982th in the 2004 Run to the Far Side. (There is too much information available about people on Google.)
District 6ers, Thigpen'll be on SF/Unscripted (the show that formerly hosted beloved SFist Jackson) this week, if you're looking for your "anybody" in the "anybody but Daly" category.
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OK, maybe there *ARE* options worse than Chris Daly. Just what we need, another Gavin Newsom-rubber stamp, corporate stooge. (Favoring a "federal" solution to health care when the GOP controls all of DC is the same thing as saying you don't support universal health care.)
Dear Rita: Actually, I quite like Chris Daly, and he's my Supervisor. So please keep your snarkiness to yourself, and go hang out with Jon the Reactionary. Frankly, I'm disappointed in you.
I cant believe people are sticking up for this chump.
Daly cares for the poor in the sense that he has a vested interest in making sure poor people STAY poor - just like Randy Shaw.
He's tammany hall style politics in 2006, a fauxhemian fauxgressive fauxletariat.
In his district, everything has its price.
Aside from all those good things, he intimidates women in wheel chairs and is totally for breaking the rules when it suits him.
The sooner his petulant little A** is bounced out of city hall the better.
Just try and keep in mind this guy is deciding policy for the entire city based on less than 6000 votes.
the day SFist keeps its snarkiness to itself is the day i'll stop reading and writing for it.
mike's got a point, though; some people LOVE chris. for that reason, let us never discuss anyone running in opposition to him.
I'm a Daly-friendly reader who can't get enough of the snarkiness. Don't let the insane hyperserious web people get you down, SFists!
She's a lot cuter than Daly.
I'm posting this with, obviously, no research but shouldn't Chris Daly be term limiting himself out? I thought Supervisors were only allowed two terms.
I believe Daly is grandfathered in for one more term, because term limits went into effect in the middle of his first term. I can't find a link confirming that, so politicos, correct me if I'm wrong!
Yes, Chris was elected with the reinstatement of district elections in 2000. Every district elected a supervisor that year, but they wanted to stagger the districts so that (roughly) half are up for election each even year. The Clerk (or somebody) drew lots, and the even-numbered districts ended up with a half-term, from 2000-2002. The City Attorney ruled that the first half term did not count against term limits. So Chris is eligible for another full four-year term.
Interestingly, the Supervisor who got the most mileage out of the return to District Elections was Ammiano, who was first elected to the Board in 1994. Since the Board switched from at-large to District seats, however, the ruling was that Ammiano's six years of service city-wide did not count against his term limitations for District 9. So he will presumably end up having served 14 years, assuming no appointments to higher office are forthcoming (and, had the odd-numbered districts gotten the half-term, he could have ended up servig 16 years).
Hope that helps.
Jordanna Pigpen is a bumbling nobody who couldn't beat Chris if Chris had both hands tied behind his balls.