SFist: Newsom's Attendance No Longer Required at Board of Supervisor Meetings?

Sweet Melissa

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:39:30 -0800

Daly and Mirkarimi are arguing it against the motion right now at the Board.

redseca2

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:29:43 -0800

How about an initiative to change the City Charter so that the mayor must wait 8 years after they were last elected before they can run for Govenor?

daithi

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:10:18 -0800

Hey at Least our Mayor gets it for free and does not have to pay for it.....

bernsteinbears

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:06:44 -0800

At this point what difference does it make. Gavin Newsome has proven that he is uninterested in local concerns. He was skiing with Twinkie during the oil spill. Then he proposed to Twinkie during the whole Tiger mauling mess. He's an embarrassment. I'd rather him not attend the meetings at this point. Are children even allowed inside the Board meetings? If not, it's a moot point.

bob_sf

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:41:42 -0800

This was NOT passed twice. Of course, feel free to get all worked up by the idea that it did.

Greg

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:04:11 -0800

once again the failure of progressives in 2007 rears its head. Daly put the stronger measure on the ballot and neither he nor anyone did a thing to try and get it passed. so now all we're left with is a toothless resolution that has no power. the progressives love to bandy that thing about but hey, the chicken suit thing was a year ago, and since then, progressives got pwned. and now all they can do is run for DCCC? Yeah, great. Push out the activists and locals so the politicos can have more fun. Yay team.

jimH

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:14:54 -0800

The watered-down version passed the first time. An attempt at a stronger version failed. It is "city policy to urge the Mayor" to attend. You could write the rule in various ways. Regardless, the mayor isn't required to attend. There's always next year to try to require the mayor to attend. Any attempt at the governor's office will succeed or fail in 2010, Robin.

RobInSF

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:32 -0800

Let's do the math. We voted on this twice. It passed twice. Gavin thumbs his nose at people of San Francisco once again. He's got things to do, like plan a failed gubernatorial race in 2012. I've got his campaign slogan already picked out. Newsom: Fuck You, I'm Busy.