SF News Mayoral Candidate Leland Yee Wants to Make Muni Free Gee, this is rich: Leland Yee, arguably the goofiest candidate running for San Francisco mayor, wants to make Muni free for all public school kids. Yee's Clintonesque-titled new plan, “It Takes a Community,
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Mayoral Candidate Car Wash Jeff Adachi, John Avalos, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting, and Leland Yee will all sport their finest bikinis (or not) during this Saturday's fundraiser car wash for McKinley
SF News Another Candidate Throws Hat In the Mayor's Race Ring, Bringing Total to 16 The already stupidly crowded to become Mayor of San Francisco just got more crowded, as the Ex reports on the candidacy of Emil Lawrence, a San Francisco cab driver who paid the $5,
SF News Supreme Court Denies California's Violent Video Game Ban [Updated: Yee Responds] California's proposed law to ban the sale of violent video games to minors was shot down when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional on a 7-2 vote this morning. Justice Scalia blew up
SF News Which S.F. Mayoral Hopeful Didn't Vote in 24 Elections? Venture capitalist Joanna Rees, that's who. According to an excellent article in the Examiner published today, one that "broke down the voting history of the mayoral hopefuls," the Jason Lewis-approved candidate missed most
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's SF Mayoral Open Government Forum Arriving late to the Pier 38 offices of Automattic yesterday evening for a mayoral candidate forum on Open Government, we caught the tail end of opening remarks from a panel comprised of the
SF News Leland Yee Camp Responds to Tell Us Which Team He's On After we questioned Leland Yee's voting record yesterday, the Yee for Mayor campaign reached out to us to provide some additional perspective on the story. Obviously, the BeyondChron story we linked to yesterday
SF News Leland Yee Not Entirely Sure Whose Team He's On State Senator and shark fin soup slurper Leland Yee recently won an endorsement from the Sierra Club in his campaign for the top job in City Hall. It was a curious endorsement, given
SF News State Senate Redistricting Could Leave Portions of San Francisco Senator-less As the California Redistricting Commission prepares to release their first draft of the latest district lines for state senate seats, the Examiner is wringing their hands over what could become of our two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sen. Leland Yee Opposes Shark Fin Ban Bill Shark fin soup is delicious deplorable. Up to 70 million sharks are killed annually for their luxurious fins. Alice Waters knows this all too well. Today, California Assembly Members Paul Fong and Jared
SF News Leland Yee Receives Racist, Faxed Death Threat Sen. Leland Yee received some sort of death threat today - a faxed death threat, no less - after performance artist Rush Limbaugh's humor-free tirade about the Chinese language. "The threats to the
SF News Leland Yee to Announce His Candidacy for Mayor Via SF Weekly's blog this a.m. we see that former supervisor and assemblyman Leland Yee may be looking to become S.F.'s first Asian mayor -- that is unless David Chiu
SF News Leland Yee's Racist, Homophobic Messages from Sarah Palin Zealots Though touched upon in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, we thought we'd share it with you in a separate post since it's a peek inside the heart of the former VP candidate cum
SF News Schwarzenegger to Restore Domestic Violence Program Funding Legislation introduced by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mate, which will spare domestic violence programs from budget cuts, is expected to be signed by Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday. SF Appeal/BCN
misc Photo du Jour 485 Tara Shabazz, Moby, and Leland Yee at Thursday's rally for funding for domestic violence shelters on the steps of SF City Hall.
SF News Sen. Leland Yee and Moby, Together At Last In what could be the most bizarre yet amusing pairing this city has seen since bacon met ice cream, Senator Leland Yee and violently-vegan musician Moby will join forces today on the steps
SF News Doubling Fines Along 19th Avenue Might Somehow Solve Everything State Senator Leland Yee introduced a bill in the State Legislature this morning that, if passed, would see traffic fines double for violations occurring along the deadly strip of San Francisco road known
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Calculated Attack Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy. Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay,
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Year Of The Rat Oh, so now that Ed Jew's gone from the politics scene, now the truth comes out! Leland Yee reveals to Matier and Ross that he was the person who originally called the authorities
misc Tom Lantos Stepping Down Lantos, who turns 80 this year, is a Holocaust survivor, chairs the House Committee on Foreign Relations (that's gotta be an interesting gig), recently attacked Yahoo for releasing user names to China, and
SF News Murderous Intersection Tamed with a Turn Signal The traffic on 19th is so fast and so thick that it's like an interstate highway; and in fact, the state considers it exactly that, and claims ownership of the road. Leland Yee's
SF News Follow The Money ... to ... uh ... Someplace. Alas, there's nothing too damning that we could find on our local pols. Leland Yee got a lot of money from firefighters and voted in their interests 97% of the time. But was
Arts & Entertainment Don't Borrow Trouble SFist Jim is going to kill us, since he sent us these pictures on the promise that we'd write something up about the panel that Sen. Leland Yee (above) and Assessor Phil Ting
Arts & Entertainment 2007 Chinese New Year Parade: Year of the Boar. Here's some extended coverage of the last night's successful Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco. We've captioned the photos of a few of the more interteresting entrants. If you've never been, you
