SF Politics

Mayor Breed Admits Relationship With Nuru, As Well As a $5600 'Gift' From Him

One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.

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Breed Wants Ballot Measure to Streamline Housing in Wake of SB-50 Defeat

The mayor introduces a ballot measure effort to eliminate red tape for affordable housing developments, but the definition of “affordable” is a bit mind-boggling.

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Mayor London Breed Endorses Bloomberg Because She Thinks He Can Beat Trump

In a move that is sure to thrill almost no one in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has thrown her endorsement weight — such as it is — behind former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg in the upcoming Democratic presidential primary.

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Mayor Breed Announces Plan For 30 New Childcare Centers Across SF

Saying that "access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable," Breed announced a plan Thursday to open 30 new childcare centers across the city.

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Aging and Disabled Activists Gather at Mayor's Office to Protest for Housing Subsidies

A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.

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Scaled-Down Mental Health SF Plan Finalized, Set for Supervisors’ Approval

The formerly universal mental health plan will still treat as many as 4,000 people in need, and the mayor and supervisors’ compromise version looks likely to cruise through City Hall by next week.

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Three ‘Pit Stop’ Porta-Potties to Remain Open 24 Hours As Program Gets Renewed

The potty will keep going all night long at three Pit Stops citywide, but Sup. Matt Haney yearns for all of them to be open through the wee hours.

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Mayor Breed’s Brother Can Seek Reprieve In Manslaughter Charge, Judge Rules

The mayor’s brother Napoleon Brown won the chance at a re-sentencing in his manslaughter conviction from 14 years ago, thanks to a ruling that just came from a San Francisco Superior Court judge.

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Fringe Mayoral Candidate Attacks London Breed With Pretty Obviously Racist Billboard

Ellen Lee Zhou’s bonkers billboard depicts the mayor in outrageously offensive fashion, and the spelling errors are the least problematic thing about this campaign ad.

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Suzy Loftus Sworn In As Interim San Francisco DA, Despite Backlash

After an ungodly amount of political hoopla and controversy, Suzy Loftus was officially sworn in as interim District Attorney of San Francisco by Mayor Breed yesterday, inside the book-boarded office she’ll occupy for the next few weeks – or, potentially, much longer.

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New Poll Finds Mayor Breed's Approval Rating 'Favorable,' But San Franciscans Question Her Job Performance

As the November elections loom, one poll conducted by Public Policy Polling (PPP), headquartered in North Carolina, and another by Oakland’s EMC Research show that San Franciscans like Mayor Breed, but they still don't think she's gotten the city on the right track.

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Supervisors and Mayor at Odds Over Dueling Mental Health Plans

After Supervisors Haney and Ronen introduced their sweeping Mental Health SF initiative, Mayor Breed counters with her own Urgent Care SF plan, which is ironically the less urgent of the two.

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SF Offered to Buy PG&E’s Local Power Lines for $2.5 Billion, Beleaguered Utility Turned It Down

As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.

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DA Gascón Suddenly Resigns, Mayor Breed Shivs His Successor And Installs Suzy Loftus

The District Attorney’s office looks like an episode of “Succession” — literally — as Gascón suddenly quits a month before the election, and Breed power-plays candidate Suzy Loftus into the job.

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Supes Haney And Ronen Unveil Sweeping Mental Health Bill, Mayor Is Quick To Oppose It

Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.

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Mayor Breed Discusses Her $5 Million 'Rapid Re-Housing' And Eviction Prevention Budget

Perhaps in an attempt to get ahead of the story, discussed over the weekend, about the pushback she's getting from the Board of Supervisors for her affordable housing-expediting City Charter amendment, Mayor London

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Local Unions Likely To Oppose Mayor's $600 Million Affordable Housing Bond

What's set to be the largest housing bond in San Francisco history could be tanked on the November ballot by vocal opposition from local labor leaders who are concerned about a union-related provision relating to such housing bonds.

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Watch Mayor London Breed Riding In The LowRider Council Car Show

Mayor London Breed hopped in a lowrider at the Cinco de Mayo LowRider Council Car Show on Saturday in the Mission.

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Mayor Breed Backs Ballot Measure To Build Affordable and Teacher Housing On Public-Owned Land

Mayor London Breed just announced the third local proposition she's backing for the November ballot, and it would free up some 500 parcels in San Francisco that are publicly owned for the development of affordable housing.

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Homeless Advocates, NIMBY Neighbors Launch Dueling GoFundMe Campaigns Over Embarcadero Shelter

Neighbors in the Rincon Hill / East Cut environs are going toe-to-toe with the Mayor and Coalition on Homelessness over a proposed new Homeless Navigation Center near the intersection of Embarcadero and Bryant, underneath the Bay Bridge.

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Task Force Says San Francisco Needs Safe Injection Facilities

The final report from the Safe Injection Services Task Force recommends that San Francisco should set up multiple safe injection sites to help address a longstanding public health issue. The SF Examiner writes

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Counter Protests Planned At City Hall And In Castro This Weekend Whether Alt-Right Rally Goes On Or Not

This Friday, city leaders will rally concerned citizens and host an afternoon event on the steps of City Hall to condemn hate and the presumed racist overtones of a planned rally in Crissy

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City Mulls Buying Troubled Haight McDonald's, Flipping It For Affordable Housing

A McFlurry of crime and sketchiness has always surrounded the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's location, even before a daytime shooting there last Thursday afternoon. The unhealthy scene has long been a one-stop shop

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Day Around The Bay: London Breed Photobombs Chris Rock

Inner Sunset 🌅 #newneighborhood #goldengatepark #viewsfordays #9thAve #beautifulSF A post shared by Matt (@mattowa) on Jun 13, 2017 at 8:29pm PDT After Monday's big Warriors win, Sup. London Breed photobombed Chris Rock while

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How Does Your Supervisor Kill Time On The Internet? An Analysis

Anyone who’s endured any portion of a weekly San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting knows that these are godawfully long and dull affairs during which no sentient human could ever avoid the