Category: Government 2.0
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At 5 p.m. today, Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to name Michela Alioto to his District 2 seat on the Board of Supervisors.
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Put your money on three department heads who will miss any bloodletting in Mayor-elect Gavin Newsom’s transition: Michael Burns, the Muni chief respected by the pro-Newsom advocacy group Rescue Muni; Trent Rhorer, the Human Services director who helped write Newsom’s Care Not Cash; and Mitch Katz, the Public Health director who’s got plenty of friends…
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Political consultant Jim Rivaldo says District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is handling her transition in a very business-like fashion, avoiding the pressure for big political firings. Her inauguration is Jan. 8, 2 p.m. at the Herbst Theater.
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Rev. Al Sharpton is denouncing Howard Dean over whether the Democratic candidates should unite behind the enventual presidential nominee. The remarks come in response to an AP article where Dean said some of his followers may not go with the party choice if he doesn’t make the cut. “I would never ask anyone to blindly…
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Jim Ross, campaign manager for Mayor-elect Gavin Newsom and 2002’s winning Care Not Cash ballot initiative, says he may stay out of San Francisco politics this year. For the next month or so, he’s looking to do statewide work for a Democratic presidential candidate, then more statewide work for November. The credentials are there.
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Monday’s edition of The Body Politic takes a look the City Charter and the argument for why Supervisor Tom Ammiano may get a free pass on term limits, even after three straight terms. The BP also introduces you to Jimmer’s Spuds McKenzie look-alike DCCC campaign manager and suggests the former offices of Melvin “King of…
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Pat Murphy’s San Francisco Sentinel has named this site’s author “Sentinel Person of the Year.” Thanks, Pat!
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A couple of e-mails came in over the weekend about the Examiner story on Proposition I, the March ballot battle over polluting diesel buses. Readers want to know whether biodiesel alternatives have been explored for the old buses – particularly since some can’t even be upgraded with pollution filters. The biggest controversy with Prop. I,…
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Plenty of politics in San Francisco magazine’s “2004 Feel-Great Guide,” but do we have to have another nameless Gavin Newsom spokesman dissing the local press for failing to gush?
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