Not that the Castro Supervisor has taken to attending Board meetings in the nude or anything, but at the start of yesterday's meeting District 7 Supervisor (and current Power Rankings Points Leader) Sean Elsbernd gently reminded Supervisor Wiener to keep things clean by leaving a napkin in his chair. The subtle nod to Wiener's public nudity legislation introduced last week prompted Wiener to joke that Elsbernd must be taking "a special interest in my public sanitary habits." Later, Wiener offerred to provide a customized towel for Supervisor Elsbernd, should he ever want to come down to Jane Warner plaza at Castro and Market and just "hang out". more ›

"You're going to have to stamp my passport for coming all the way out here." - Former Mayor Willie Brown to District 7 Supe Sean Elsbernd, quoted by Catherine Bigelow during Sean's annual CrabFest fundraiser at the Irish Cultural Center on 45th Ave and Sloat. We're already excited to get Willie's Version of the story when he writes it up next week, but in the meantime here's SFist pal Beth Spotswood's less namedrop-y take on the event. more ›

During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, one that featured a brand new cast of characters, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd took over the seat and desk in City Hall's legislative chambert, which formerly occupied the body and spirit of former Supervisor Chris Daly. Before sliding in the seat, Elsbernd played to the cameras. City Insider notes: "The son of a Catholic school principal, Elsbernd pulled out a small bottle of holy water from the French grotto of Massabielle in the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. A few drips on the seat, a few more on the desk, and he was done." more ›

The Board of Supervisors voted 9 to 1 yesterday to approve the $157,500 loan to the LGBT Center to address their aforementioned mortgage renegotiation issue. Supervisor Sean Elsbernd was the sole dissenting vote, but Carmen Chu also expressed her concerns during the meeting. "I think the message that we need to say today is, we want this organization to succeed, but we also want to make sure that this organization is self-sufficient," Chu said. more ›

San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved municipal ID cards to SF inhabitants yesterday. These (hopefully adorable) new cards can be used by anyone here, it seems -- U.S. resident or not. Tommy Ammiano introduced the legislation, which, according to the Chronicle, "would require companies holding city contracts to accept the municipal card as a legitimate form of identification." (So does that mean they can be used to get into bars? Sweet.) more ›

As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today. more ›

Oh, Michela Alioto-Pier! Our favorite absentee supervisor finally straggled on in to an actual committee meeting, only to find out that the code of conduct she's proposing for the supervisors has loopholes big enough for a Mack truck to drive though. more ›

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Nothing too new to report on the Ed Jew got arrested front this morning, but the Chron did survey all the other Board of Supervisor members for their reactions. Let's go in order! more ›

In the taunting words of non-progressive Pat Murphy: do it, Lumpy! We stopped by the Progressive Convention where basically, on a schedule running about 90 minutes behind, everyone who's anyone in local politics stopped by and, after some exciting build-up in the form of a campaign speech by Ross Mirkarimi..... -- no one ended up deciding to run against Gavin Newsom. As Calitics puts it: Exasperating. more ›

Even when Tapioca Ed's out of the country, the news keeps popping up! Here's today's latest Bobagate news. more ›

Well, it's about time! As the progressives run around in a circle waving their hands around in terror for another week or two until June 2, the more right-leaning folks have decisively made their move! Former supervisor and sometimes lounge singer Tony Hall has filed his paperwork to run for mayor. more ›

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 65. more ›

First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. more ›

Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very first Question Time before the Board of Supes! What is democracy coming to? more ›

For years the San Francisco school district has tried to get a healthy foods initiatives into the local schools. They finally did. But now it's looking like all that is going to waste as clever little vendors have been setting up shop right next to the schools and selling junk food there. Guess what the kids are preferring. more ›

It's another installment of.... Who's! Attacking! Newsom! Now! Where we compile all the negative things people are saying about the San Francisco mayor and report it in bullet form! We'll run a Who's Defending Newsom Now post next, as soon as we find someone defending Newsom, besides Peter Ragone. So here's the list! more ›

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Dick and George may have thought they were getting off scott-free a few weeks ago when Sean Elsbrend decide to move Chris Daly's impeachment measure to the rules committee, but they were wrong. Oh so wrong. Because yesterday, your San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted by a 7-3 measure to impeach Bush AND Cheney. For those keeping score at home, that would mean your new President would be Dennis Hastert. Said Daly during the vote, "I think the case (for impeachment) is clear, and I think it's appropriate for us to weigh in." Look for the Board of Supes to also weigh in on the UAE port deal, social security reform, and "American Idol." more ›

It's not just that you're a bad driver, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year, it needs $34 million just to keep up, $340 million to take care of the backlog, and that it has never gotten more than $18 million. You may remember in the last election, the city tried to get a bond passed to repair the streets, but it didn't get the 2/3rds majority it needed to pass. So now Supervisor Sean Elsbernd has proposed that the city give $28 million of the budget surplus to fix the roads and sidewalks. DPW has put together a list of streets it would like to pave immediately if it gets the extra cash: Valencia between Market and Cesar Chavez, Mission between 11th and 16th, Page between Franklin and Div, Monterey and San Jose, Quintara and 28th, Lincoln between 3rd and 28th, and Portola between Junipero Serra and Twin Peaks. Man, we were driving down Folsom today and hit a pothole so deep it made our teeth rattle. Just how bad is it on Quintara and 28th? You got any favorite pockmarked streets to complain about? more ›

Dick Cheney and President Bush can draw a sigh of relief this morning as Chris Daly's resolution calling for the impeachment of the President was scuttled off to committee by Sean Elsbernd. The resolution directs the Clerk of the Board of Supes to send copies of the resolution to statewide political leaders, the Democratic National Committee, and members of the House Judiciary Committee where it will probably sit in a very large in-box on all of their respective desks along-side credit card offers, Value Pak coupons, and pleas from Hurricane Katrina victims for more money to keep them from being evicted. more ›

Boris Delepine also starred for the victorious HOGs. He played a solid first base, sometimes stretching his lanky frame to amazing lengths, and he also contributed at the plate with two singles and triple. more ›

Are you listening, Tony Hall? You may have been kicked off Treasure Island, but with that fat severance package you can afford to pick up Forbes Island, a 700 ton, 50 by 100 foot houseboat and restaurant. And if Gavin refuses to give you Sean Elsbernd's job, you can pick up and sail anywhere you like. Like up the delta to Sacramento. more ›

Like most people who lose their job, Tony Hall is now currently looking for work. Sure, the loss of his job meant a super-nice severance package ($254,500, health benefits, and thousands more in a pension), but he had to go through the indignity of being fired from a cushy little gig and had to give up the Aviator SUV that was leased to him. Besides, unemployment is SO 2001. So naturally, he did what most of us would do in that situation, he marched into his employer's office and demanded his old job back. And like most of us, he also brought along a television crew and reporters. more ›

Our preliminary exit polling in the closely-watched SFist Political Junkie Hottest Supervisor race is showing a neck-and-neck tie between Chris Daly's smoldering eyes and Fiona Ma's luscious hair -- with Michaela's flirty smile and Ross's melliflous basso tones not far behind. ....but isn't anyone going to vote for sexy board president Aaron Peskin? Love 'em for their policies? Love 'em for their sexy strut? Who cares! Clean out those cookies on your computer and stuff the ballot box for your hottie of choice!

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Okay, we're a little late to the party on this one (what? We thought your party started at 9, not 7! Our bad!) -- but our new favorite TV channel's got to be the C-SPAN of San Francisco politics, SFGTV Channel 26. Yes, we know, you can download specific meetings to watch on your computer, or check out the DVDs of particular meetings from the library -- but what we're totally loving about Channel 26 is your total lack of control about what shows up! Where else could we totally just randomly turn on the TV and see..... Gavin Newsom joking with reporters...? ....Tom Ammiano telling the Board of Supes that "I've been out for years"....? ...or Chris Daly shouting out, "ONE COUNTRY, INDIVISIBLE" over everyone else's "under God" during the Pledge of Allegiance? It's like old-school MTV, only with Sean Elsbernd (and no "wubba wubba wubba"). Day or night, the videotapes of justice whir on -- whether Chris Daly's boredly twiddling his pen, or Gerardo Sandoval's running into a meeting right after he's marked "absent" on the roll call, or SFist Jackson pleading to get us a press pass -- it's awesome. Hey, any chance SFGTV could start airing Animal Care and Control dog hearings too? more ›

It's all about bravery, people. But don't misplace your faith. more ›

Here we are, stepping blithely into Trimeth/Essefficist/SFist Tokes territory, to report that Supervisor Sean Elsbernd (no iPod) has announced that he's calling a moratorium on pot clubs in the city, because "right now, we have almost as many pot clubs in this town as we do Starbucks." Really???? Is that true? Are there really pot clubs on every single corner of an intersection like the Starbuckes downtown? Will the Starbuckses make the next logical move, which would be to buy out all the pot clubs too? Is there really that much freed-up commercial space in the city? Is this true, or is Mr. Elsbernd exaggerating to make a point? Okay, we've done some research on this. Results after the jump. more ›