One of San Francisco’s most notorious political firebrands could shake up City Hall this year if he tries to return to the Board of Supervisors, and he might not be alone.
Chris Daly — along with ex-supervisors Aaron Peskin and Tony Hall — is rumored to be considering another run.
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Mayor Ed Lee’s upcoming appointment for District 5 supervisor is full of political intrigue.
Whoever he places into the seat to represent the most left-leaning district in San Francisco will impact the Board of Supervisors potentially for nine years.
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi — who represents the Haight, Fillmore and Western Addition neighborhoods — was elected sheriff in November and will take that office Jan. 8. Lee’s appointment will take over then.
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After years of perpetual and often-childish bickering at City Hall, interim Mayor Ed Lee has presided over an era of calm that some call progress. Voters knew little about this polite and well-regarded bureaucrat when he was selected to baby-sit the final year of Gavin Newsom’s term. At the time, all most people cared about was that San Francisco’s first Chinese-American mayor wasn’t a politician and had no re-election ambitions. Peace had come to The City.
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Mayor Ed Lee has spent a lot of time, perhaps too much, answering the question, will he run for mayor? Ever since being appointed interim mayor by the Board of Supervisors, the question was asked of him. And while Lee has denied he would run, he suddenly has changed his response to the question by not rejecting a run, but saying he is considering one. So now it increasingly sounds like he will run.
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The nine-member panel determining the future of San Francisco’s political districts has been rounded out with the latest appointees to the Redistricting Task Force announced by Mayor Ed Lee on Friday.
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A new website and Facebook page urges people to send in their horror stories about being slapped with parking tickets in The City, with four lucky winners having their tickets paid for by a group called San Francisco Small Business Owners for Fairness.
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The folks behind the “Run Ed Run” campaign aren’t stopping at adorable posters. They’re now opening a campaign office.The Run Ed Run campaign, which aims to convince interim Mayor Ed Lee to make his post permanent by running for mayor this fall, are opening a campaign headquarters at 1565 Mission St., at South Van Ness Avenue.
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Interim Mayor Ed Lee has repeatedly said he won’t run for a full term in November, but that hasn’t stopped several groups with different political allegiances from creating independent campaigns to keep him in office.
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When it was created as an international showcase, Treasure Island was supposed to be a site of big dreams.
But so many grand ideas have been floated and faded since it opened for the 1939 World’s Fair, the manmade island in the middle of the Bay has been anything but a treasure.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal to exempt payroll taxes for Twitter and other businesses who move to certain locations in The City's Mid-Market or Tenderloin neighborhoods.The proposal would exempt payroll taxes for new employees for six years for companies that move to the area on or near Market Street between Fifth Street and Van Ness Avenue.
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