Somehow, your crack SFist political team missed this story from the Examiner last week. In this instance, the use of the word "somehow" means 1) we can't navigate the Examiner website anymore and 2) the distro box in our neighborhood is filled with pee. Better late than never, though!

So Chris Daly, feeling his oats, has proposed a charter amendment requiring Gavin Newsom to submit to a monthly "question and answer" session before the Board of Supes. Only supervisors would get to ask questions. Daly says he got the idea from England, where Parliament regularly has "question time" with the Prime Minister. Either ominously or thrillingly (you guess where we are on this one), the article states, "The Prime Minister's Questions, as it is called, can often become quite heated, which makes for for the Brits." (emphasis added). If the amendment is adopted, we'll vote on it in November. (N.B.: Chris, you know we love you (unless we hate you). But you MUST STOP putting things on the ballot. No more propositions! Please!)

We're totally having this vision now of Gavin Newsom, dressed to the nines in suit and power-blue tie for the q and a, and when Daly asks his first question, Gavin ostentatiously taking out a Magic 8-Ball and shaking it up.

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