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Goodness gracious, how time flies! Today, for those of you who don't care, is Aaron Peskin's final day as Board of Supervisors President. (Also, it's Jake McGoldrick's last day too.) Sniff. Peskin was also a champion of SFist -- at least back in the day he was -- so it will be sad to see him go on to bigger and better things. You can watch his final super supe meeting here or here. But the question remains, who's next? The shenanigans over who's going to get to be the new BOS president should be entertaining.
Watch Aaron Peskin's Last Day as President of BOS Live!
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He's a tiny, tiny little dick of a man.
Agreed. I live in his district and he's a jackass.
I'm throwing my support for Ross as the new President of the BOS. Awesome dude.
Good riddance. Peskin bears a large share of the responsibility for enforcing SF's devolution from viable city to amusement park for the uberwealthy. he and his wife should be banished from reality.
I live in his district and I think he does a pretty good job.
I'm glad Peskin's gone. His leadership style was unproductive and closed minded -- definitely not what you would want for someone who leads the governing body for the whole city. I think Ross is a nice guy, but what has he or most of the other members of the BOS really done for their districts and the city? District 5 is a trash hole -- I live there. On the other hand, I know that I've heard constituents in Dufty's district tell me about how responsive he is to their inquiries. The opposite is true when I've spoken to people in Mirkarimi's or Daly's districts. Ross's plastic bag ordinance was helpful, but what else has he done to prove that he is a leader for everyone? I think SF since at least Peskin took over has lacked a leader who is willing to consider varying opinions, build consensus among a diversity of constituents, and tackle the serious issues facing this city. The last eight years have been all about confrontation over minutae, and it started at the top.
Gerardo Sandoval.
Aaron Peskin is horrible, provincial man, and no matter who takes over as President of the BOS, no one can do any worse that Peskin and his shrewish, despicable despot of a wife, Nancy Shanahan.
I say the board should focus less time on historic preservation commissions, banning plastic bags, and outlawing delicious cigarettes and focus more time on making sure the N-Judah actually runs, let alone runs on time, and that the sidewalks in this city are once and for all turd free! No play time with leftover 1970's, radical lesbian, deranged social engineering policies until the basic requirements of running a city have been satisfied! Did Peskin accomplish a well running Muni? Turd free sidewalks? NO! He worried about keeping North Beach cute, Italian, and full of beatniks like a god damned exhibit at Epcot Center! Therefore, he's a failure and should hide his hairy smirk in shame.
Frankly, I'd prefer North Beach to remain cute, Italian, and full of Beatniks, than for it to turn into a chain-store filled strip mall, as some in the neighborhood would prefer. Better for North Beach to resemble Epcot than for it to resemble BFE, Oklahoma.
You describe two extremes in a situation that doesn't require them. It's an admirable goal to want to preserve a neighborhood's character; however, one can do so while allowing some room for growth and evolution. Times have changed and along with that change has come shifts in the demographics of the neighborhood that simply cannot support some quaint, sanitized, 1950's ideal of what North Beach should be like. Enforcing unrealistic zoning that excludes chain stores of any kind and limits new restaurants and bars is going to leave North Beach full of boarded up shops or even worse, tacky tschoke stores selling the kind of tourist crap one finds on Fisherman's Wharf (e.g., dream catchers, homemade fudge, soap balls, "old fart" baseball caps, etc.) There has to be a compromise and an acknowledgment of contemporary reality - chain stores dominate our retail economy. Peskin and his wife (and a lot of other fools in this town) want to freeze SF in amber like it's France or something. Their position on planning is unrealistic and bad for the city.
Aaron
Peskin
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Mayor.
I mean it. I'm this close from starting a website and rounding up signatures.
I'm thinking "DRAFT PESKIN" with a green and white color scheme.
Peskin was , is a carpetbagger, crappy city leadership and passing policy which ultimately hurts the city and he will be long gone... Bravo voters Bravo
Peskin is the male version of Carole Migden. Or maybe the female version. It's so confusing.
Au revoir ... too bad the experienced guys are leaving when we're in a heap of shit budget wise. Then again, these dudes didn't exactly help add fiscal discipline either ....
I walked past him while he was coming out of the SUnrise Deli on Irving a few months back. I couldn't get over what a small fry he was, and that he would even deign to come out to our boring middle-class enclave.
I've lived in both Dufty and Peskin's district. I can't say that either was or was not responsible for the overall "quality of life" of either district. Dufty benefits from representing an area that is fairly uniformly affluent (as opposed to Peskin's which includes areas like Middle Polk, Chinatown, Lower Nob Hill) - which generally means cleaner, safer streets that have more to do with the income of the nabe than anything else.
That said, I appreciate that Peskin understands that sitting around with his thumb up his butt rubberstamping everything the Mayor wants (a la Aliota-Pier or Chu) is not his job. And like any good Big City politico, he understands that you needs to twist a few arms and throw some sharp elbows to get anything done.