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East Coast transplant and D6 Supervisor Chris Daly might soon be headed for safer, more affordable pastures. Daly, it seems, has bought a home in Fairfield, the East Bay (North Bay?) city where his wife and two kids moved in May. “I continue to eat, sleep, and bathe in my home on Stevenson Street” right here in SF, Daly wrote. "I bicycle to City Hall and to district meetings from my home and intend to continue to do so until the end of my Supervisor term and probably for longer." Now, before you all scream 'hypocrisy!' and grab a pitchfork, his family's new house is located two doors down from his in-laws, so that kind of move makes sense, family-wise. Presumably, Daly also plans to remain co-editor at Fog City Journal when he finally calls Fairfield his home.
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The new SFist headline: "Oh No, Chris Daly!"
This just as to remind you of good ol' Ed, waiting to be sent to prison.
Color me shocked that a couple who started spurting out babies are suddenly stampeding toward horrific suburban mediocrity! This never happens!
I think my wife and I are glad we opted for a dog instead.
Keep on keepin' it real!
I'm kind of torn about this. On the one hand, I understand how tempting it is to want to leave the city when you have kids and get a place with a yard, fewer people shitting on your doorstep, etc.
On the other hand, it also just kind of screams "giving up on SF" and takes the force out of a lot of his arguments for the rest of his term.
Daly: "GIVE ALL THE HOBOS CELL PHONES AND ARBY'S COUPONS BLAH BLAH BLAH"
Everyone else: "Easy for you to say, you live in FAIRFIELD."
"In Fairfield" doesn't have quite the same zing as "In Struggle".
It's not "hypocrisy" but...it sure shows that his heart and soul isn't in SF. He's got to acknowledge that SF is his political playground and that the decisions he makes don't affect his wife and kids. Maybe he'll be a little less "fervent" in his daily dealings.
Well I think that just about nails it.
But less fervent, no.
yeah, I guess that was a sarcastic "maybe"
Like so many of us, he just wanted to have a local Chik-fil-A.
It's actually a lot easier to just have fat injected directly into your arteries.
Just in time for the new school year, so he doesn't have to deal with SF schools.
He definitely knows what's best for his kids.
The schools here are actually much, much better than they get credit for, and I know this firsthand.
That has a little to do with how successful you are in the lottery...
I never had any problem with that, either, although apparently a lot of people are having a big problem with it. Guess I've been lucky.
Anyone know what the precedent is for this? I mean, I'm sure he's not the first Supe to have a family living outside the City.
He didn't just move out of the City, me MOVED. Fairfield is about halfway from here to Sacto. Solano County. Middle of nowhere.
Daly was always a douche, but this is just icing on the cake. Does this mean he gives up his seat on the SF DCCC? Can't wait to see what sort of self-serving B.S. flies out of his mouth.
Oh and yes, I think we already have another Supe with residence outside the City. Her name is Michela Alioto-Pier.
He didn't just move out of the City, he MOVED.
Very true.
I mean, that's freaking Solano County, isn't it?
And I'll say this: He's making Carole Migden sins look trivial in contrast.
Sleeping most of her nights at her partner's house across the bay doesn't seem like that big of a deal in comparison, especially when the job itself was in Sacto.
I can't tell you how disgusted I am by this, but how much I expected this as well. I'm tired of all those people who move here just to be part of the SF political ideal (criticize anyone and anything that would actually make a change to the city and acknowledge it's not some socialist utopia after all), but then move away five years later.
If you're not committed to living here long term, and you're not here to actually help those of us who are, just shut up.
"people who move here just to be part of the SF political ideal."
This is all too true. Ee're Hollywood North for many a wonk.
buh bye...don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
I am very dissapointed in this; I was hoping that he would move much, much farther away.
i'm impressed that he kept this out of the news for so long. i bet paul hogarth knew on day one.
regardless, now daly and fam can live right down the street from too short.
have fun!
"Life Is...Too Short"...for Chris Daly's kids to grow up on Stevenson Street.
Can we call him a carpetbagger now? He should have to check in with someone every night to make sure he is living here more than in Fairfield until his term is up.
It goes to show what an incredible jackass Daly has been over the yeras that people hear the news that he's finally moving out of town, and we still get angry at him.
"so that kind of move makes sense, family-wise"
How exactly does having your father/husband "living" 50 miles away from your family make sense, family-wise?
I mean, sure, anyone's situation gets better the farther they are from Chris Daly, but the good-family-choice argument doesn't make sense to me.
So does this make Chris Daly the quintessential San Francisco carpetbagger? I mean, I'm sure tons of college graduates move out to SF, work in the financial sector for a few years, party their asses off and trundle on their merry way, but Daly came from the East Coast, stayed for sixteen years, took on SF "causes" in a way that pissed everyone off, and now he's scooting for the suburbs.
I think he has only been here in SF for about 10 years.
I love transplants. I really do. My parents came to SF from distant shores as did so many before them, so many do now, and so many will in the future. I have friends from all over the country who now call SF home.
But...
This Daly situation is what is so aggravating sometimes about this city. For some of us, it's our home. For so many others, it's a pitstop and a playground. It's a place to conduct social experiments in your 20's and 30's and then when/if those experiments get all Frankenstein on your ass, they leave in thier 40's. Back to Bah-ston!
Chris Daly was never San Francisco, San Francisco. He was, in many ways, the embodiement of a stereotypical, FOX News version of San Francisco. Most people here, we ain't that crazy! This city is open to crazies and even embraces the crazies, but this is actually a pretty moderate, mellow town. We like bicycles, but my Pops haaaaates Critical Mass. We give food and change to homeless people, but we haaaate shit on our doorways. We hate war, but we like the Blue Angles and JROTC.
Daly was a mad scientist and SF was his patient. Then he got bored, and got boring, and now he's gonna live in a town with a Budweiser factory. How predictable, typical, and hypocritical. Good riddance.
"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Fairfield to San Francisco live there?"
Your comment is fascinating. I don't have roots strong enough to know if it's true, but it sounds right.
Though it does raise the question:
WHAT THE FUCK IS CHRIS DALY GOING TO DO IN FAIRFIELD?
Blogging for Fog City Journal can't pay that much. What are his options? He's a college drop-out whose whole professional life is the politics of San Francisco. He can't for a second think he'd get elected dogcatcher in Fairfield.
Can he?
Well, from the pace of his property acquisitions, I'd say he'll become a landlord.
let's make t-shirts saying 'i survived chris daly'
;)
Native Son's comment is one of the best I've ever read on SFist.
I wasn't born here. I'm probably not rich enough to live here forever. But since when is it necessary to live in the same city for your entire life in order to establish some sort of blogger bona fides?
I always thought Daly was a tool, a blowhard, and a bit of a hypocrite (esp. on housing, since HE got to own a loft, paid for by family money, while the rest of us were expected to get that silly dream of home ownership out of our heads). However, this latest move humanizes him slightly. Maybe he didn't like the idea of his kids having to see dudes taking craps on the way to the playground (although my kid doesn't seem to mind). Maybe he wants to mow the lawn and eat at Olive Garden and buy a 78" tv, and have a "great room" all the while enjoying free grandparents babysitting. Maybe he's tired of being the "champion" of people who probably don't even like him very much.
Of course, this doesn't answer the obvious question raised in a comment above. How is sleeping and working 50 miles away from your wife and two young children good for the family dynamic?
So maybe he's human for not wanting his kids to see dudes crap on the sidewalk. But my problem with him is that he expects the rest of us to watch dudes crap on the sidewalk, and like it.
Oh, and I know Daly has posted in the comments section on SFist before. Please tell me someone's showed him this thread with all the hatin'! Whoever does that, I will love you forever.
I wonder if he'll place one of those garden gnomes on his front lawn?
I thought he was a garden gnome?
Once he's gone can we "undo" the damage?
Think twice before you elect another progressive carpetbagger.
Chris Daly's politics aren't the problem; his personality is the problem. I feel bad for everyone who has to put up with him... the other supes, his wife, his kids... hell I even feel bad for Newsom.
As usual another F*ckin Carpet Bagger... screws the city with lame policy and then books
How long before people here stop acting like he actually gave a shizz about any of the socialist policies he forced upon SF?
So just to keep an even score with Progressive SF-land:
Hipster Christ Superstar - quitter
Madman Daly- quitter
Anyone else dreaming of a day when being progressive in SF actually somehow relates to progress?
Who the fuck keeps voting for him?
Maybe he just figured that he could afford a house, since he helped to shut down available options for middle class families by shutting down condo conversions. Perhaps he did not like the public school lottery that all families go through to be given a school that are three buses away for his kids to attend. Good riddance. Guess he is holding on to his place hoping that his landlord will cut him a check to move and living in the country.
Daly also bought an investment property - also in the burbs.
If Daly believed so strongly in the tenants right laws he was pushing in San Francisco, why is he buying a rental property elsewhere? What a complete tool.
Two corrections and some observations:
1. Fairfield is not the East "Bay"" or the North "Bay." There is no "Bay" out there. It is (or was) the country, with a large Air Force base (Travis).
2. You don't move to Fairfield for the public schools, they aren't very good.
Daly is really just taking advantage of the subprime housing crisis. Buying up two houses that were likely foreclosed on, with plans to live in one and rent the other. A good capitalist. Glad to see the last Stalinist supe has finally come around.
Daly is a cancer in San Francisco. I wish him nothing but pain and suffering in the future.
As a homeowner in San Francisco that purchased a property to renovate (read improve, spend dollars in San Francisco, raise sales tax revenue etc), I had to pay over $50,000 to remove a tenant that had not worked a day in his life. He was fully protected by the laws that the CNUT Daly had put in place.
We need to get rid of all politicians like Daly.
I moved here from the UK 10 years ago, and I have made this my home...getting married, having a child...AND, we will stay here in SF. I feel very strongly about that.
But, with every word out of that Douche Bags mouth it became tougher and tougher. I really hope his new tenant turns out to be just as bad as the one I had to get rid of.