With all the controversy surrounding Mayor Ed Lee’s decision to enter the mayor’s race, you’d expect he’d be fielding the toughest questions from voters.But during a campaign event in the Mission district on Tuesday, it was not the mayor, but his supporter, District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who faced the fire.While the mayor and supervisor talked to residents and merchants on 16th Street, a Chinese shopkeeper at Sam’s Shoe Services asked Supervisor Kim why she isn’t married.
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The influential group people charged with redrawing the lines of power within San Francisco will begin to take shape Wednesday.The San Francisco Elections Commission is on the verge of choosing its three candidates for The City’s redistricting task force, which will redraw the supervisorial district lines through San Francisco – eventually changing the political landscape of San Francisco.
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When the Moscone Center opened in 1981, Gwenn Craig attended an evening event in the South of Market conference hall, which had been built in what was then a quiet, industrial neighborhood, mostly deserted at night and on weekends.
“So much of the neighborhood was empty,” Craig said. “Everything around it was vacant. You felt like you were going to some sort of distant outpost. People felt a little nervous because it was so deserted.”
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San Francisco City Supervisor Jane Kim is participating today in Walk to Work Day, a Walk San Francisco spokeswoman said.Walk to Work Day is always the first Friday in April, spokeswoman Elizabeth Stampe said.Kim and other walkers will meet at Civic Center Plaza at 9 a.m. in honor of the occasion, Stampe said.
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All the voices of the members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors can be heard opening meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance — all but one.
Newly elected Supervisor Jane Kim stands with her colleagues, but does not speak the words. Nor does she place her right hand over her heart during the recitation. She is the only one of the 11-member board who doesn’t say the pledge.
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For 10 years, Supervisor Chris Daly’s fiery personality — which included a propensity to utter curse words — fueled much enmity in his political adversaries while it elevated him to a sort of folk hero among San Francisco’s downtrodden.
His style was viewed by critics as childish, disrespectful and intolerable. “[Daly] is the id of the progressive movement,” said David Latterman, a political consultant for more-moderate candidates.
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From the world of nonprofits to City Hall, the new representative of the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods wants to stamp out bedbugs and improve pedestrian safety for her constituents.
Supervisor-elect Jane Kim’s impressive November victory in the crowded District 6 race is the latest step in the seemingly promising political career of this former tenant-rights organizer.
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