A committee to draft Ed Lee for mayor — an entity separate from the embattled Run, Ed, Run campaign — received $7,730 in contributions from tech moguls, a Harvard professor and an equestrian instructor.
The committee Support Drafting Ed Lee for SF Mayor 2011 ran a Facebook page and produced a television commercial that aired during Sunday talk shows.
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The campaign to get Ed Lee to run for mayor falsely reported a $5,000 check in the name of San Francisco real estate mogul Victor Makras.
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Last week, the Run, Ed, Run campaign dropped off a stack of signatures, held a rally outside City Hall, and then said they were shutting the campaign down.
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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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Dozens of volunteers, consultants and campaign staff who were involved with committees to get Mayor Ed Lee to run for mayor should be barred from joining his campaign should he run for office, according to San Francisco’s top ethics watchdog.
The committee trying to recruit Lee, Progress for All, has disbanded in the public eye but could still be the subject of queries by the Ethics Commission, which regulates local campaigns.
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The financial backers of a campaign to get Ed Lee to run for a full term as mayor in November are mostly made up of a handful of business owners who donated as much as $5,000 to launch the effort.
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If Mayor Ed Lee decides to change his mind and run for mayor, it would unleash a torrent of questions about the legality of a campaign now encouraging him to run.
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Updated 5:20 p.m. July 19, 2011. Correction: In this story about the campaign to get interim Mayor Ed Lee to run for mayor, The Examiner referred to the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. The correct name of the organization is the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The political action committee trying to get Mayor Ed Lee to run for a full term in November is under increasing pressure to clarify its purpose to voters and the Ethics Commission.
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An independent political group pushing to get interim Mayor Ed Lee to run for mayor in November is operating in a gray area of campaigning and may be setting a precedent for future races, experts say.
Already, the committee Progress For All has printed hundreds of signs, paid for banner ads on news websites (including The San Francisco Examiner’s), and set up a campaign headquarters — all for a candidate who says repeatedly he is not running for office.
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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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