The High Life

There was a question of scarce office space downtown, Renne said.

So Renne would have yanked Rosales downtown, but couldn't for lack of space?

Renne deflected the question. "She's in private practice now," she said. "We're still friends."

And at that the former city attorney, the one-time chief of Mayor Gavin Newsom's transition team, the newly appointed board member for Laguna Honda Hospital, and the continuing member of the city Police Commission stood up to go.

Had I owned spats and a gold-tipped cane, I think I might have thrown them in the garbage right about then.