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CA State Treasurer Fiona Ma's Sexual Harassment Trial, Set to Begin Tuesday, Postponed

Ma is fighting accusations of sexual harassment from a former employee, who says she exposed herself on a work trip, but she has called the incidents "non-sexual."

Former SF Supervisor Turned State Treasurer Fiona Ma Is Headed to Trial For Sexual Harassment Charge

California State Treasurer Fiona Ma had hoped to get charges against her dismissed in a sexual harassment suit that dates back to early 2020, calling the charges "baseless" when they were filed two years ago. But a judge in Sacramento has ruled that Ma will have to stand trial.

State Treasurer Fiona Ma Being Sued For Alleged Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination

Former SF Supervisor and state Assemblymember Fiona Ma, who became California State Treasurer in January 2019, is facing a lawsuit from a former senior employee in the Treasurer's Office claiming sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

Fiona Ma Does Not Care For Carpool Lanes

State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, who represents the Richmond, Sunset, parts of southern S.F. and Daly City, is tired of seeing an empty carpool lane on her morning commute up I-80 from S.

Fiona Ma Backs Down a Bit on Anti-Rave Bill, Will Hold Some Meetings

You'll recall how State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma was looking to define what a "rave" was so that she could write a bill that would ban raves from occurring on public property? Well, now

Automated Enforcement Camera Coming to Octavia and Market

If this bill becomes a law, then you'll be seeing scary "Photo Enforced" signs popping up around this intersection in a year or so. It will look a little something like this crudely

Photo du Jour 30

A classic that still holds up today: California State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma carrying her dog in a Snugli. Aw. Image credit: SFist Rita

Norman Hsu Gets Three Years In the Slammer

Denied. Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu - who helped raised cash for Mayor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Fiona Ma, Hillary Clinton, and the victorious Barack Obama - was sentenced to three years in prison

SFGov Haunted by Ghost of Ma

Despite having left the Board of Soups back in January, Ms. Ma's official SFGov webpage lingers on, like your one friend from back home who kept hanging out at the high school after

Oh No, Ed Jew!: LOLJEW

What's the latest? Poor Tapioca Ed! His legislative aide Barbara Meskunas spoke to the media this afternoon to let them know that her boss took the day off work and was "explaining the

Mysterious Cyborg Indian Attacks Our Telephones

San Franciscans awoke last Saturday morning to discover a strange robot had taken control of the horizontal and the vertical on their answering machines: a recorded voice begging victims to support Assembly Bill

Speaking Of 'High-Speed Rails' . . .

When we complained about Frontier Airlines LAX-SFo flights going away, our helpful commenters had a short discussion on high-speed railways and what a great thing they'd be. How timely, then, that the CoCo

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4FQT: The Retouched Pictures!

Thanks for everyone's help in the 4FQT comments on fixing the light levels on our pictures from Gavin's 4th Fake Question Time townhall meeting! As readers suggested, we downloaded the Gimp (we're too

Chicken-Free At 4FQT

You could tell Mayor Gavin Newsom came in expecting the full costumed brigade this morning at Fourth Fake Question Time-- we saw Gavin flinch when SFist Elaine saw him coming into the Excelsior

Smile For the Camera, Double Parkers

The plan would have cameras placed on Muni buses that face outwards and take videos of their drives. Maybe they could post it online so everyone could see what they’re drives are

<strike>Swells</strike> Fake Question Time By The Numbers

There's no Swells society column today! Sad! So we're doing a Fake Question Time By The Numbers instead. Number of people in attendance: 200. Number of chickens: 6. Number of times Angela Alioto

Random Political Odds And Ends

We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from

Give the Gift of Front-Page News

To be fair, The Examiner is co-sponsoring the event that was being advertised; so they're not completely giving away control of the front page. (They're saying goodbye to actual news.) And fortunately, even

District 4 RCV Breakdown

Congratulations, Ed Jew! He wasn't even considered a factor when the Chron covered the race, and now he's the first person in SF RCV history to come from behind (2nd place) to win

Anyone For Tennis?

The club was recently sold by it's owners to a developer who wants to build condos in its place. Members, however, aren't thrilled that it's being demolished and are fighting it. Yesterday, Fiona

Mirkarimi's MUNI Meeting

Does anyone else remember those awesome signs they used to have behind the driver on the old MUNI buses -- "Information Gladly Given But Safety Requires Avoiding Unnecessary Conversation"? Well, get some information

Take A Walk on the Polk Side

To remedy the situation, officials are planning on adding historic street lamps (ooohhh) and planting more trees to pretty the place up. There is also a call for a moratorium on liquor stores

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Political Junkie: Dunk Tank!

The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming

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Debates Around The Districts

So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting

So You Think You Can Dance (Gavin)

Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug Chan's kickoff event, first