Supervisor Chis Daly went on the defense against Mayor Gavin Newsom's quality-of-life pipedream at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting. Daly introduced legislation that would yank funding from Newsom's Community Justice Center and put it back into city's main spending account.

The Tenderloin court, scheduled to open on Polk Street early next year, would prosecute minor quality-of-life violations - stuff like public urination, panhandling, drug use.

According to the Chronicle, Daly is just doing what voters asked for on election day.

Daly said he was following the will of 57 percent of city voters who on Nov. 4 rejected a ballot measure to secure funding for the court. He also said it would help solve the city's budget problems. The city controller has estimated that the shortfall in the current year will be between $90 million and $125 million, meaning massive cuts will be have to be made by the end of June.

Newsom buddy/spokesman Nathan Ballard described the mayor as a "true believer" in the quality-of-life court.