San Francisco does not have a functional government. We are run by a mayor who has my respect, but is met with violent vitriol by a sizable minority. He will win in a landslide and the issues will continue.
This would not really matter, except that the activist population is represented on the Board of Supervisors. There are two groups on the Boards, the Democrats (conservatives) and the Democrats who call themselves Progressives (liberals). The Progressives have a 6-5 majority on the Board, and the President of the Board, Aaron Peskin, is a Progressive (and my Supervisor).
One of the "Democrats", Ed Jew, representing the Sunset, is currently on trial for 11 counts of voter fraud, amongst other things. He allegedly took a bribe from a business in the Sunset after being elected in a district where he allegedly does not live. He registered to vote and voted in a district where he allegedly does not live. He refuses to step down.
One of the "Progressives", Chris Daly, representing the Tenderloin and the northern Mission, is currently being censured by the board for personal attacks on Newsom. He has claimed that Newsom has a cocaine problem in the middle of a board meeting. Then, one of the other supervisors, (I forgot his name), came up and told Daly to punch him in the face, cuz "you know you want to".
Newsom has enough of his own problems, like sleeping with his campaign manager's wife, paying her off and then paying him off, and going into rehab for an alcohol problem. But he's going to win by a landslide, because no one will oppose him.
I'm gonna vote for him forever because he legalized gay marriage and likely destroyed any highly political hopes for the future!
Vote Newsom in 2007!
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