Mayoral candidate Leland Yee has been critical of the effort by a small group to convince interim Mayor Ed Lee to run in November, but the state senator himself was the target of a similar draft campaign in 1999.
Speaking recently at a mayoral forum at the Castro Theater, Yee slammed the Run, Ed, Run campaign and the Ethics Commission as a “toothless tiger” for failing to discipline the campaign.
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Amid all the accusations, emotions, shouting and general consternation that has greeted Mayor Ed Lee’s decision to continue on as mayor, some things are worth noting.
We now have a real mayoral race in San Francisco, something that didn’t exist until this week as the nine main hopefuls for the job waited in the wings for someone to breathe life into the campaign. With Lee’s official announcement Monday, that gust blew in like a hurricane.
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Mayoral candidate and former Supervisor Tony Hall on Friday paid the $6,000 fine levied against him, closing the door on an ethics investigation that spanned several years — a move that should qualify his campaign for public financing.
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When Mayor Gavin Newsom announced plans to auction off the taxi permits needed to drive a cab – known as medallions – it generated heaps of controversy. So much so that the plan stalled. But it has returned and the Municipal Transportation Agency’s board of directors will vote Friday on the proposal.
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