December 6, 2007
Susan Leal, Pink-Slipped?
Although her contract ends in 2009, former SF Mayoral candidate and current San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Susan Leal might get the ax, according to Cecilia M. Vega over at the Chronicle. Her removal could kickoff a bloodbath of staff cuts by Newsom. And although her dismissal would need approval by committee, this seems like a done deal. According to the article:
Leal received a telephone call Friday evening from Newsom's chief of staff saying her services won't be needed in his second term, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday. The call prompted Leal and the administration to begin talking about whether she will stay.
Yikes.
Once Newsom's ingénue (more or less) for spearheading efforts to cull energy in the San Francisco Bay, she also yearned for more "publicly owned sources of energy," a sentiment that went against the agendas of other members of the PUC. She heard the informal news of her probable canning while can-canning over in Paris this week at a French-sponsored water conference. She has no comment at this time.
After Newsom's famous request for open letters of resignation earlier, this seems like a start to his pruning process. The article goes on to say that Leal "has never been a true team player with the Newsom camp." So...watch your necks, Newsom naysayers.
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She will probably get about $500,000 in severance per her contract, so I don't feel too sorry for her. Anyone know who else is on their way out?
One thing I don't understand is how Newsom could announce a hiring freeze, and then fire all these people. So, what, he's not hiring to replace them? Makes no sense.
how the hell do i get a job where i can make half a million for getting fired? i'd be worth more than the google twins by now if i had done this since college.
;)
Great, so he can now put some PG&E lackey in to replace her. I can't believe this DINO got a second term.
read the article blue canary. getting along with your coworkers has long been a bigger asset than performance. see my earlier comment.
lol!
paying $500k instead of putting up with her for one more year until the end of her contract?
after she's been on the job for 4 years?
no sucka, this is not about getting along.
this is about getting along with PG&E.
and clearly, PG&E doesn't think it has time to wait for the end of leal's term, she has to leave now.
Yep. Next year will be PG&E's last chance to derail Community Choice Aggregation in the City. Getting rid of Leal would be a big first step in preserving PG&E's monopoly.
does PG&E own the mayor?
or did they do some huge donations to his reelection "campaign"?
Newsom has demonstrated over and over and over again that he is a just a blow-dried and gelled tool of the monied and corporate elites of this city. He threw a fig leaf to the gays with his photo op marriage ceremonies early in his admin to cast a sheen of progressivism over his retrograde administration and the moderate Democrats in this town have been eating it up ever since.
Why anyone expected anything out of a supervisor from the MARINA is beyond me. Its like electing Michela Alioto-Pier and being surprised when she doesn't come to work and winds up spending her days wagging fingers at fellow supes who use dirty words.
i don't know what's really going on but but i've been on teams where you have to work with people that are doing things just like they describe leal doing in that article. she's focused on bigger and better things, not her job, she's not a team player, big surprise for hiring someone that ran against you gavster!
suckafree - its pretty much an open secret that Leal is in favor of more public power and CCA while the PG&E puppets on the PUC board (and Newsom) oppose more public power and CCA. The public has been in favor of at minimum, CCA. PG&E, on other hand, doesn't want anything to interfere with its stranglehold monopoly over our local energy market.
And to give you an idea as to how much PG&E rapifies the local consumer, my company just negotiated a gas deal with a private broker for some of our commercial properties and our rates are going to be close to half what PG&E was charing. HALF.
PG&E is a monopolist - they all act the same.
ChinaNob, any way you know of for us lowly residential customers (some in *apartments*!) can get some of that half-rate provate broker action?
An agressive nationwide search is in progress for all available Lesbian Latina candidates.
Asian Bisexuals females will also be considered, as long as they mostly like women, and have previous utiity pole climbing experience.
Suckafree, I read the article on sfgate before I posted here, and I stand by my original comment. And I'm apparently in pretty good company.
ok, ok. consider me schooled and your humble student.
thanks!