Subject: David Campos

• Newsom’s Resign-O-Rama: Sixteen Reasons it Could Become a Fiasco

  September 18, 2007

• SF Dem Values: Friendship Don’t Mean Shit

  July 25, 2008

• Last Night: District 9 Supe Candidates' Debate

  October 8, 2008

• Hot Off the Presses: Breaking District Returns

  November 4, 2008

• SF Gov InAction: These Are Not the Budget Numbers You're Looking For

  The excitement stops here. I know ... I know ... that today's the day Gubernatorial Candidate Gavin Newsom releases his budget for San Francisco (a California city he occasionally resides in for campaign purposes). And I know that, when he does, we're all going to die a little. I know. But, the action's still not likely to happen this week.The budget will be a big document. People will need time to go through it. Oh, sure, someone's likely to start shouting about it any second now, b

  June 1, 2009

• Political Satire, Like Prostitution, is Being Ruined By Amateurs

  THIS is how you make fun of progressive supervisors! I have a message for the four new Supervisors: Hello. My name is Benjamin. And my job is to say much, much, funnier things about you than anybody did last night. Last night, of course, was the "Roasted Supes" party, which is a vaguely clever name, or "the People's Inauguration," which is not. It was supposed to be a roast, in which women close to the new Supervisors - former teachers, roommates, co-workers and wives - said funny th

  January 9, 2009

• David Campos, Corporate Shill?

  Hardly. But his Obama-era Harvard Law pragmatism might ring that way in San Francisco's left-wing political tradition of ideology first, facts second. In San Francisco, as elsewhere, the term "jobs" has evolved into a euphemism for "whatever big business wants." The lobbying group for San Francisco's biggest businesses is called the "Committee on Jobs," as is the state Assembly's business advocacy panel, and some have fretted that Silicon Valley's potential for losing its edge is epitomized by t

  January 20, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: San Francisco Holds Its Breath for Budget Magic While Supes Correct Basic Math Errors

  Sorry this is late, folks -- all of a sudden I came down with a mean cough that just won't quit. I blame Neo-conservatives. Monday, Jan 26 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee I have a confession to make. Today's hearing of the Public Safety Committee will be a little sad for me. Oh sure, I agree with just about everybody else that David Chiu's committee assignments have been pretty strong (doesn't anybody around here want to pick a fight?). But dammit ... this was Ross' committee. "M

  January 27, 2009

• David Campos' New Rule: If City Agencies Screw Up a Contract, Don't Approve It

  This week the Board of Supervisors approved two contracts that had been botched by the city, and only one man bothered to object. The only thing unusual about this is that one man bothered to object. That was Supervisor David Campos, who, in one 20-minute stretch, took the mantle of "good government" farther than any other progressive has dared go. "Even if there is no legal conflict, we should do a better job," Campos said at the most recent Supes' meeting. "At some point we in the Board

  January 29, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: The First Rule of Rules Committee Is That There ARE NO RULES!

  Is it any wonder that the mayor who could go on for 7.5 hours about the State of the City without ONCE mentioning a half-billion-dollar deficit has been in Switzerland when the city has to decide how to deal with it? How fitting that he married an actress. Let's review. After being elected in the middle of the city's greatest financial crisis since that time Willie Brown announced that was investing the city's reserve fund in hats, the new Board of Supes has: • Spent $500,000 on the Har

  February 2, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Supes Stand by Each Other After Little John Avalos Has His Bar Mitzvah

  This is the week the new Board of Supervisors goes from JV to Varsity. I know it felt like they'd hit the big time before, what with hundreds of people crowding the hearing rooms to yell at them about stuff they hadn't done -- but that's just the crowd getting fired up by San Francisco's airheaded cheerleader, Gavin "I'm really a Mayor!" Newsom. I know they thought that holding big hearings on potential budget cuts -- without actually doing anything about them -- was a big deal: But no, it

  February 9, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: 'Avalos' Law' Predicts Virtually No Meetings This Week

  For all its good points (and I dare you to name three) the new Board of Supes is not dynamic. Their meetings are regularly canceled, and their agendas are limping along. It's a sign of the times and failure both: Despite the calls for bold new leadership, the Supes have spent most of the last few weeks realizing they have nothing to lead. There's no discretionary money left. They can't agree amongst themselves on a veto-proof plan for either cuts or new revenues, and without that they have

  March 9, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Another Battle in the War on Fun, Children, and Food Made with Real Organic Cruelty

  Monday, March 23, 10:30 a.m. - City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee It's hard to figure out what Sophie Maxwell and Gavin Newsom have in common. Sophie, after all, is a black woman who doesn't like technology but will answer her land line to talk to friends and critics alike, while Gavin is a white man who thinks that everything he texts should be secret because, hey, he did it on his iPhone, and you don't come between a man and his iPhone. That's personal -- way more pers

  March 23, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: What Kind of MONSTER Wouldn't Get a Candle Permit? Plus: Save the Budget Analyst!

  Monday, April 6 11 a.m. - Public Safety Committee Who watches the watchers? Why, the Public Safety Committee does. Every other week. Its recent agendas haven't actually involved DOING much -- there's not much legislation coming out of these meetings -- but they've been crammed with hearings looking into things. They've examined police procedures, crime trends, and best practices - to the extent that the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice has any. Today's agenda continues the committe

  April 6, 2009

• Bidness as Usual

  Firm that won $26 million contract donated to campaigns tied to supervisors and the mayor.

  March 18, 2009

• Roasting the four new S.F. supervisors at Temple

  January 14, 2009

• The Bizarro Endorsement

  Liberal candidate may get a boost from the police organization that condemns him

  April 18, 2007

• Cops Who SPY

  September 27, 2006

• Activists Say SFPD is Trashing City ID Cards

  Pretty fancy 'garbage'Neighborhood activists complained to supervisors today that San Francisco police officers are showing "disrespect" for people holding the municipal identification cards the city began distributing in January -- including one alleged incident where an officer in the Tenderloin told a man his city-issued ID was "garbage." At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors' Public Safety Committee, immigrant-rights activists from the Tenderloin and Mission districts said people in the

  May 4, 2009

• Still Crazy After All These Years: Bay Guardian's Warblings Drown Rational Discussion of Solar Project

  The price is wrongA grumpy minority on the Board of Supervisors tries in vain to put the brakes on a renewable power project that makes bad business sense. This may sound familiar to observers of politics in San Francisco, where left-wing Democrats on the board tend to outflank their more moderate colleagues when it comes to pie-in-the-sky energy initiatives. Not so fast: You haven't seen this movie before. Today some of the board's most staunchly liberal members -- Ross Mirkarimi, David Camp

  May 5, 2009

• MTA Budget Showdown Leads To ... Wait For It ... A COMPROMISE!

  Jim HerdThat sound you heard earlier today was every City Hall journalist in San Francisco slapping his palm on the table when the Board of Supervisors vote over the controversial Muni budget was continued. And continued again. And more time went by. And now ... after several hours of behind-the-scenes intrigue, a compromise budget has been announced. Chris Roberts at SF Appeal has been live-blogging this thing -- a Godsend for those of us chained to our desks -- and SF Weekly's Peter Jamison is

  May 12, 2009

• The Ass Appears on Stage. Its Name: Public Power.

  If only it were collectivized...The big news out of yesterday's five-hour Board of Supervisors meeting was the adoption of a last-minute compromise on the Municipal Transportation Agency budget despite plenty of complaints from a cadre of left-leaning supes concerned about fare increases and other issues. But that wasn't the only bitching and moaning that went on at City Hall yesterday afternoon. In fact, some of the same supervisors angry over the MTA budget were downright apoplectic -- again -

  May 13, 2009

• During budget talks, the mayor is on the job - technically

  May 20, 2009

• Alleged Latino Mortgage Fraudster Accused of Preying on Own Community Headed to Court

  Edwin Parada, a Mission-based real estate and mortgage broker who allegedly stole from Spanish-speaking immigrants seeking to buy, sell, or re-finance their homes, has been charged by San Francisco's district attorney with 24 criminal counts, including grand theft and tax evasion. We wrote a cover story on Paradas' alleged misdealings last year, when police investigators estimated he may have pocketed more than $1 million. The investigation has since rounded up 27 families who claim they w

  June 5, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: The Budget Still Sucks, But Now I Want to Hug Chris Daly

  June 15, 2009

• Revenge of the Politicos? Lefty Supes Move To Yank City Ads from Chron, Ex.

  Of all the harping about the "mainstream media," perhaps the shrillest version comes from politicians occupying the left fringe of this city's politics. Their news source of choice, for example, is a local liberal news and opinion Web site, BeyondChron.org. On his own blog, Supervisor Chris Daly has praised his colleague John Avalos for denouncing the Chronicle for political bias, because it uses the term "far left" rather than "progressive." The Ex, has been the subject of e

  June 19, 2009

• Pride Rides: Leno, Mirkarimi Give Shout-Out to City Car Share, Daly Gives Us The Finger

  There's no legal argument Dennis Herrera can make to convince us this car ain't a beaut...Yesterday we began answering the eternal question: If a tree fell in the forest and no one was there to hear it -- what kind of cars would your elected representatives ride in Sunday's Pride Parade? Our personal favorite thus far is Supervisor Eric Mar (and six other guys) riding on a seven-seat bicycle. Our second favorite, though is a tie between Senator Mark Leno and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi. Both are s

  June 25, 2009

• Sf Gov InAction: Special Faux-Guest Edition!

  Do you ever get tired of doing the same thing every week? Me too. So this week I decided to imagine how SF Gov InAction would look if it were written by five of this city's most ... um ... noteworthy ... pundits. You say "parody," I say "homage." Either way: Enjoy. Monday, June 29 11 a.m. - Budget & Finance Committee (as written by TIM REDMOND, San Francisco Bay Guardian Managing Editor) I was driving back from a trip to wine country last week and noticed that there were a lot fewer

  June 29, 2009

• Willie Brown tries to force city to restore lucrative contract with engineering firm

  July 1, 2009

• Mission Protests for the Return of President Zelaya to Honduras (And Justice For Oscar Grant)

  Mission progressives descended on the 24th Street BART plaza this evening to protest for the return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras after the military coup on Sunday. Eric Quezada of Dolores Street Community Services and former District 9 supervisor candidate led the crowd of about 200 in a chant of "Se ve, se siente, el pueblo esta presente!" ("You can see it, and feel it, that the people are here!") and of course the old protest standby: "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!" ("The peop

  July 1, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: The Budget's All finished, Except for the Backstabbing

  Our story so far: The Supervisors were drinking champagne in City Hall last week after reaching a budget deal that restored an unprecedented amount money to programs that Mayor Gavin "Call me Governor" Newsom cut from San Francisco because he thought it would play well in Fresno. Par-TAY! But then Chris "Cassandra" Daly, the Supervisors' progressive Id, ruined the vibe by going to the budget committee and yelling lines from Jerry Maguire at it. In other cities, people would be surpris

  July 6, 2009

• How undocumented aliens shopping on Market Street can find an inexpensive trip home

  July 8, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: The Supes Have SUCH Good Intentions This Week That One of These Laws Just HAS to Work!

  Monday, Aug 17 11 a.m. - Public Safety Committee A lot's happened to the Public Safety Committee since the last time I wrote about it -- and there's one thing I just don't understand. Ross Mirkarimi used to be the chair of the Public Safety Committee, and he was exceptional at pulling the many tangled threads of San Francisco's attempts to keep its citizens safe from crime (the better to lecture us about not smoking) into an organized weave. City crime mattered to him both as a humanitarian

  August 17, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Your 'Labor Day' Guide to What the F*#@k Happened in the Last Eight Months

  With a federal holiday appears on the calendar, city hall's motto becomes: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but how much time off you can take from your country". In this particular case, The supervisors like to celebrate Labor Day by pretending to have labored, while their staff likes to celebrate Labor Day by pretending to rest. (The one exception to this rule is Michela Alioto-Pier and her staff, who celebrate Labor Day by going into labor). The result for both is a three week "v

  August 24, 2009

• Proposed Rule Change Would Allow New Chief to Purge Top SFPD Brass

  Chief George Gascon​New San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon has not announced plans to liquidate top SFPD brass and fill positions with his own people, as he did during his first year as chief of the police department in Mesa, Arizona.Notwithstanding, a proposed amendment introduced by Supervisor David Campos last week would change the city's administrative code to allow him to do just that. The proposed rule change would let the chief make appointments to his command staff from lower ran

  August 25, 2009

• Is Mexico Big Enough for Gavin Newsom and David Campos?

  ¿Dónde estan Gavin Newsom y David Campos?​This was as good a time as any for Gavin Newsom to get out of town (and he's out of town a lot, so he should know). While Newsom is off on a PG&E-funded jaunt down Mexico way, the mayor's paid apologists are left here to explain away recent polls that show him getting thumped by Jerry Brown in the governor's race in every part of the city but the Marina ( the chicks at Jones Roadhouse prefer Gavin!). Newsom's crew is also left to quell the furor

  August 26, 2009

• A Novel Solution: Bastard Politicians of Every Stripe Should Leak Confidential Memos to SF Weekly -- Which Has No Political Axes to Grind

  ​It's odd to read a newspaper editorial arguing that there are some things in city government  that the people and the fourth estate ought not to know. And yet, despite many caveats claiming otherwise, that appears to be what this editorial from the Bay Guardian is asserting.In short, the Guardian bemoans that Mayor Gavin Newsom has supposedly greased the skids of evil Republicans' lawsuit machines by leaking a confidential city attorney's memo regarding Supervisor David Campos' proposed

  August 27, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  ¿Dónde está el jefe?​ Normally, a story about Gavin Newsom going to Mexico and "leaking" would be pretty vile. And, depending on your feelings about the mayor, both of these developments could be interpreted as very problematic ... but not in that way.In any event, it's Friday -- you made it. But were you paying attention? We'll see about that. 1. The Amalgamated Transit Union Local No. 1555 finally ratified a BART contract on Tuesday. After the vote was in, ATU President Jesse Hunt placed

  August 28, 2009

• SF GOP Opposes Sanctuary Legislation in Letter-Writing Offensive

  Supervisor David Campos​If an angry Republican writes a letter in San Francisco, and no elected official cares enough to read it, did it ever really exist?San Francisco's local curiosity of a G.O.P. is currently seeking pen-pals in city government with a barrage of letters to Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors decrying Supervisor David Campos' legislation on the treatment of illegal immigrants suspected of crimes. The letters come less than a week after the S.F. G.O.P. passed a re

  September 10, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Pot Farming Illegal Immigrants Threaten to Bring DJs to City Hall Meetings!

    Monday, Oct. 5   10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee   On the whole, people are in favor of "Public Safety," so most of the time the Public Safety Committee is pretty uncontroversial. The chairman arches his eyebrows and asks the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice "Why aren't you making us safer?" and nobody ever thinks "Hey, that's a really unfair question, you oppressive bastard!" Not today. Today, a full two-thirds of the agenda (okay, two items out of three) are l

  October 5, 2009

• Did Police Union Block New Chief From Hiring Outside Brass?

  Police Chief George Gascon​When George Gascon became chief of police two months ago, everybody seemed to agree: This bad-ass cop would rid the SFPD of its dead wood, and reform what experts had taken to calling the Western United States' most hidebound law enforcement agency.On Tuesday, Gascon is scheduled to suffer his first major setback in that quest, as the Board of Supervisors votes on a measure that effectively cancels the hope that Gascon will install his own leadership team from outsid

  October 5, 2009

• No Satisfaction: Disputed Entertainment Commission Seat Still Up For Grabs

  ​And so the not-so-entertaining Entertainment Commission saga continues: Earlier this week, we reported that three applicants are vying for one of the commission's two vacant seats. The open seat is supposed to be reserved for a representative of the public health sector -- no matter how many bartenders apply. Following this morning's Board of Supervisors Rules Committee meeting, that seat remains empty. The supes opted to postpone the decision because one of the applicants, David Lupo, didn't

  October 15, 2009

• Board of Supervisors Vote To Give Undocumented Kids Their Day In Court

  I'll take credit for that....​The Board of Supervisors made a statement today against Mayor Gavin Newsom's 2008 decision to report undocumented juveniles accused of felonies to immigration authorities. Supervisor Carmen Chu cast the only vote against David Campos' resolution that would push back the reporting of  undocumented juveniles to immigration until after they are convicted of a felony, not when they are merely charged with one. Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who has also weighed

  October 20, 2009

• Right-Wing Institute Gearing Up 'To Take Down San Francisco' Over Sanctuary City Policy

  Challengers to the city's proposed new sanctuary policy are already circling​You may remember the furor over the memo Mayor Gavin Newsom leaked from the city attorney stating the city would face a "likely legal challenge" if it changed the hard-line policy towards reporting undocumented juveniles charged with felonies. The "likely law suit" is no longer a nebulous threat. The Washington, D.C.-based Immigration Reform Law Institute told SF Weekly Thursday it is actively seeking a plaintiff for

  October 22, 2009

• Terrifying Revelations About Hauntings in City Hall

  Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!​City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large group of gawkers on a "ghost walk" of the building as part of the City Guides Walking Tour series. The fount of knowledge was decked out druid-style, and armed with a binder that read "Book of the Dead

  October 27, 2009

• What Did Gavin Newsom Bring Everyone From Hawaii?

  ​On the one hand, following Mayor Gavin Newsom's abrupt withdrawal from the governor's race, he spent quality time back in a beautiful city nestled in the bosom of the Pacific. On the other hand -- it was in Hilo, Hawaii. When you take off for an impromptu jaunt several thousand miles away from City Hall and even your top aides don't know where you are -- well, gifts are in order. Here's a gift guide from the Aloha State: Acting Mayor Carmen Chu: T-shirt reading "I was controversial acting may

  November 6, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Supes Vote to Give Cats, Entertainment Commission, Claws

    I'm worried about the supes. Are they feeling all right? Are they eating enough protein? Are they celebrating legal weed a little too early?I'm concerned because there's a federal holiday -- Veteran's Day -- right in the middle of the week, and it's the only day the supervisors are taking off. Not the day after, not the day before, not most of the week. Just the one holiday. Does that sound like them? No. No it does not. It sounds like something a governing body in a responsible ci

  November 9, 2009

• Breaking: Supes Override Newsom's Veto on Sanctuary Policy

  Lauren SmileySupervisor David Campos meets the press after initial passage of his ordinance in October​As anticipated, the Board of Supervisors this afternoon beat back Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of Supervisor David Campos' sanctuary policy legislation. With a vote of 8-3 (Carmen Chu, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Sean Elsbernd dissenting), the supes adopted a new policy in which law enforcement would not be required to inform immigration authorities of a juvenile's status until after he or she is c

  November 10, 2009

• Mayor's Office: Supes' Veto Override on Immigrant Policy 'Cannot Take Effect'

  San Francisco's Board of Supervisors today mustered enough votes to override Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of a law softening the city's treatment of juvenile undocumented immigrants who are arrested. But the mayor's office was quick to dismiss the widely expected vote as a symbolic gesture that would have no effect on city policy.A crowd gathers around Supervisor David Campos after today's veto override​"This veto override cannot really take effect," Newsom spokesman Nathan Ballard said immediate

  November 10, 2009

• Sanctuary Sellout

  November 18, 2009