Joe Lynn -- a former commissioner and staffer with the Ethics Commission and a self-admitted good government kvetch who was a fixture at the commission's meetings -- is now able to do something many people dream about, but few experience. He can read his own obituaries. Lynn told SF Weekly he's leaving California Pacific Medical Center on Thursday, roughly 50 days after he checked in. After undergoing treatment for acute leukemia, Lynn, at one point, was so close to death's door that a group o
​Some of you may remember a June 29 article we ran here about how the city's Ethics Commission sure seemed to be going out of its way to not cite and fine Supervisor Carmen Chu -- a moderate represented by lawyer and mayoral svengali Jim Sutton. Meanwhile, progressive Supes Gerardo Sandoval and Chris Daly had been cited and fined for virtually identical campaign finance transgressions. When Ethics Commission staffer Oliver Luby sent his bosses a note noting the Sandoval and Daly precedents he