SF News Ed Lee to Possibly Get Screwed Out of His Admin Job? Interim Mayor Ed Lee, as many of you know, only took the job on the promise that the law could be changed allowing him an exception from the rule that says that mayors
SF News Rose Pak Doesn't F@%k Around “Now you know why they say I play politics like a blood sport.” Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, in the culminating quote of a new Bay Citizen/NYT piece that provides a complete
misc What "SF Mayor Ed Lee" Has to Say About All This... It didn't take long for an @SFMayorEdLee to pop up amidst the stream of people tweeting about last night's Board meeting, after all this is still San Francisco. One wonders how this will
SF News Here's Chris Daly Looking Super Pissed As we mentioned earlier, last night's Board of Supervisors meeting got a little hectic. While the real news is that Ed Lee looks to be our man in the Mayor's office for the
SF News Little Known City Admin Ed Lee Looks to Be Our New Mayor, and Daly is Super Pissed Yesterday's eight-and-a-half-hour meeting of the Board of Supervisors regarding the vote for interim mayor -- a drama which, as we noted, riveted at least several dozen non-blogging, non-journalist San Franciscans -- culminated in
misc Gavin Newsom, still talking: "Whoever gets there will be immediately discredited as the political appointee. Everybody running against that person is going to say that. I will say that, and I'm not going anywhere." -Mayor Newsom, explaining
SF News Newsom Speaks: Will Probably Delay Swearing-In as Lt. Gov Mayor Newsom probably ruined the Holidays for some supervisors by finally speaking up about this whole Interim Mayor selection process. According to CBS5 this morning, Gavin has laid out his terms: if he
misc Scenes from the Interim Mayor Selection Hearings at City Hall So, we didn't get a new mayor out of today's Board of Supervisors meeting, but the afternoon wasn't a total waste. Before any of the supes could even motion to move the selection
SF News Supes Vote to Push Mayoral Succession Process to Next Week So what happened in City Hall this afternoon? Do we have a Mayor yet? The answer to that question is: No, thanks to a motion from Supervisor Maxwell, seconded by Bevan Dufty, which
SF News Supes to Vote on Interim Mayor Tomorrow. (Maybe!) Pizza Party to Follow Immediately. As we pointed out the other day, the Board of Supervisors is set to select Gavin's successor tomorrow. Technically speaking, the most important vote this board will ever make is to decide whether
SF News <em>Chron</em> Discusses the Fight for a Progressive Interim Mayor The Chron treads into Guardian territory today to discuss the drama surrounding the choice for interim mayor, which will be made by a liberal-majority Board of Supervisors in a simple majority vote. Do
SF News S.F. Interim Mayor Selection Put On Hold The Board of Supervisors plan to vote for an interim mayor was put on hold yesterday. The supes, it seems, want to first hear from the public. At Tuesday's meeting, according to BCN
