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?
Doesn't mean the board didn't manage to thoroughly amuse itself, though -- to laughter, Board prez Aaron Peskin jocularly asked Sup. Sean Elsbernd if he'd like to stand in for Newsom for the questioning, since Elsbernd got appointed Acting Mayor while the Gavsta (new awesome SFBG-coined term) and Jennifer Siebel cuddle in the Swiss apres-ski this week. Pass the cocoa and schnapps!
Elsbernd took it in good humor, protesting, “I’m not sure how hard I should laugh right now. If we took this logically, I could stand up here and have a conversation with myself.” While McGoldrick egged Peskin on, Daly then jumped to Elsbernd's defense, saying that usually, acting mayors don't get to exercise all the regular mayor's powers (while noting dryly, "Though there are some notable exceptions.") This has put the SFWall in the unusual place of supporting Chris "Satan" Daly -- whoa! Are those pigs flying outside your window?
This led to a nice nostalgic chucklefest about the times they used to let everyone be the acting mayor on a rotating basis instead of just letting the mayor pick people he likes, and Tom Ammiano said he was totally willing to be Queen For A Day again. Meanwhile, Ed Jew asked if they could move on in the very-thick list of items on the agenda, and Michela Alioto-Pier looked significantly over at the press box as she chastised the funnin' group of elected representatives for making the Board look silly over a non-mandatory measure.
Anyways, the board moved on, and so are we. Meanwhile, Newsom's announced that his second Fake Question Time townhall will be on Saturday Feb. 10 in the Bayview, on the topic of combating poverty crime, at the Whitney Young Child Development Center. You can get there on the new T-Third MUNI line, it looks like, but you may have to do a little walking from either the Kirkwood or Palou stops.
