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Ed Lee

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Sixty Ways to Celebrate Mayor Ed Lee's 60th Birthday

    Tomorrow is Mayor Ed Lee's 60th birthday. And, in lieu of a politician's traditional birthday celebration -- a cake, served discreetly in an envelope left beneath the table -- Lee's staff has come up with a novel concept. They have created a website listing 60 things you and I can do to help Lee hel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Guardian-Examiner Headlines We'd Like to Read

    We're thinking the same thing most readers are about this potential union between the historically conservative Examiner and the left-leaning Bay Guardian ... what the hell?We can only imagine what kind of headlines we might get out of this seemingly incompatible marriage. What happens when you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Mayor's Office Says Medical Marijuana Is a "Nuisance" Akin to Liquor Stores, Strip Clubs

    It took some doing, but Mayor Ed Lee at last gave medical marijuana the lip service it had been seeking for months with a statement where Lee dubbed state-legal medical cannabis "legitimate," and expressed "concern" over more city-licensed dispensaries risking federal closure from the United States ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Mayor Ed Lee Finally Breaks Silence on Medical Marijuana

    "If you get Ed Lee on record about medical marijuana," more than one well-connected San Francisco politico has told us, "you deserve a medal."Our best efforts were all deflected, including a situation when we physically blocked Mayor Lee's path to his hybrid Mayoralmobile and still did not win a com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Mayor Ed Lee Suspends Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Files Misconduct Charges

    ​Mayor Ed Lee officially charged Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi with misconduct today, stating the elected official's conduct "is fundamentally incompatible with holding the Office of Sheriff."Lee  took a kitchen sink approach with the charges, rattling off several ways in which Mirkarimi's actions a ... More >>

  • News

    March 7, 2012

    America's Cup: Economic Projections Are Beyond Optimistic

    ​Mayor Ed Lee officially charged Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi with misconduct today, stating the elected official's conduct "is fundamentally incompatible with holding the Office of Sheriff."Lee  took a kitchen sink approach with the charges, rattling off several ways in which Mirkarimi's actions a ... More >>

  • News

    February 15, 2012

    Willie's World Redux: The Former Mayor Tells It Like It Is

    ​Mayor Ed Lee officially charged Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi with misconduct today, stating the elected official's conduct "is fundamentally incompatible with holding the Office of Sheriff."Lee  took a kitchen sink approach with the charges, rattling off several ways in which Mirkarimi's actions a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Pension Bomb Explodes -- City Deficit to Soar

    ​Last night, SF Weekly broke the news that the city's pension obligation could balloon based on the outcome of a retirement board meeting this morning. Well, it has. The city's contribution to its pension plan might jump by $60 million in the next year alone, adding to San Francisco's already gapi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee, Police Say Feds Didn't Order Them to Evict Occupy SF

    Officials maintain the decision to evict Occupiers was from City Hall, not Washington. ​Both Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco police deny that they received marching orders from any federal agency to evict Occupy SF protesters and arrest resisters at Justin Herman Plaza on December 7. SF Weekly requ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Ed Lee Calls Candlestick Blackout "National Embarrassment." Ain't That a Bit Harsh?

    ESPN television broadcastIf John Madden were calling this clip, no doubt he'd say "Boom!" ​When Mayor Ed Lee told gathered throngs of media that the multiple power failures during Monday Night Football were a "national embarrassment," he used strong -- and curious -- language. San Francisco's infr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee Vetoes Supes' Bill Closing Sharp Park Golf Course

    ​Sharp Park Golf Course will remain open for now -- despite legislation closing the course and handing the land on which it is built over to the federal government that passed the Board of Supervisors last week -- thanks to a veto from Mayor Ed Lee.The veto was expected in light of the Lee's past ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee Defends His Friendship with Willie Brown, Rose Pak

    So what if he is a puppet, get over it!​The mayor's race might be over, but the deep tensions that often defined the candidates are still very much there. On KQED this morning, Forum host Michael Krasny reminded Mayor Ed Lee that his political rivals, namely state Sen. Leland Yee, are still beatin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Ranked-Choice Voting Hasn't Helped Progressives

    Is ranked-choice a rank choice? ​It's not a surprise that progressive and moderate supervisors are readying to cross swords on whether to continue San Francisco's ongoing dalliance with ranked-choice voting. What is a bit surprising is who's on which side. Moderates are out to dismantle a system t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    List: Now That Ed Lee Is Really Mayor, What Will He Do?

    ​Now that he's no longer a "caretaker" mayor, what is Ed Lee's agenda?         *  Promise the Board of Supervisors that he won't seek re-election      *  Have Willie Brown's coffee ready at 8 a.m. sharp      *&n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Occupy SF: Protesters Still Camped Out, No Signs of Police Raid

    adrielhampton via FlickrOccupy SF might get raided today ... by the rain ​The only thing that raided the Occupy SF camp last night were rumors of a imminent police raid. This morning, Justin Herman Plaza reportedly looks the same as any other day since the protesters started squatting there -- onl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Does David Chiu Have a Chinatown Problem?

    It's Chinatown, David. It's Chinatown. ​Also, is John Avalos really feeling it in District 11? Absorbing a beating is never enjoyable -- unless, of course, you're into that kind of thing. Presuming you aren't, getting your behind kicked is even less palatable when it takes place in your home terri ... More >>

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    The Men Least Likely: A Brief Survey of S.F.'s Worst Mayors

    It's Chinatown, David. It's Chinatown. ​Also, is John Avalos really feeling it in District 11? Absorbing a beating is never enjoyable -- unless, of course, you're into that kind of thing. Presuming you aren't, getting your behind kicked is even less palatable when it takes place in your home terri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Election Roundup: Ed Lee in the Lead, Proposition C Wins

    Will Ed Lee get it done?​It will take a few days before San Francisco knows for certain who their next mayor will be, and like we saw in Oakland a year ago, rank-choice voting means anything could happen. But as of Tuesday morning, Ed Lee was in the lead, despite a flurry of allegations of unethic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Ed Lee Elected Mayor, Ross Mirkarimi and George Gascón Win Their Seats

    Now let's see what we can make him do​Interim mayor Ed Lee became San Francisco's first Chinese American elected mayor. After 11 rounds of ranked-choice votes, Lee was declared the winner, garnering 61 percent of the vote. Supervisor John Avalos came in second with 39 percent of the vote, and City ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Adachi Campaign Alleges Lee Door Hangers Violate Campaign Finance Law

    Ed Lee​Interim Mayor Ed Lee is facing new allegations of wrongdoing on the eve of the election, capping a slew of ethical complaints that has dogged his campaign this fall.Public Defender and mayoral contender Jeff Adachi says he filed a complaint with the San Francisco Ethics Commission this morn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee Gets it Done -- For the 1 Percent

    The final 24 hours prior to Election Day are shaping up to be nothing short of brutal for some candidates. With accusations of illegal campaigning and a burglarized headquarters, you have to wonder just how low these campaigns are willing to go?Turns out, pretty low. Mayor Ed Lee's campaign, which h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Ed Lee Supporters' Latest Scandal Too Late For 50,000 Absentee Voters

    FreeFoto.comRight now, the mailbox is Ed Lee's strong ally​It's never good when a campaign facing money-laundering charges has to stop and ask "which one?" Today's front-page Chronicle story -- slipping quickly off the SFGate page in favor of flash mobs, men who ride turtles, and web-only real est ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    The Real Ed Lee -- A Vicious Parody -- Distributed By Leland Yee Campaign

    Once the bizarre and inexplicable has been parodied -- then what? ​Earlier this month, San Franciscans walking down the stairs of their homes were surprised to stumble over The Ed Lee Story, a groveling campaign bio penned in the style of a Dick-and-Jane reader as produced by the Commissariat of E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    MC Hammer Lines Up for Ed Lee in Ridiculous Music Video Featuring Ashkon, Will.i.am, Brian Wilson, and Willie Brown

    Because only Ed Lee will restore Hammer's supply of apple butter. Or something.​ Well, "Too legit to quit" was a perfect out-of-the-box slogan for mayoral candidate Ed Lee, and apparently Bay Area rapper MC Hammer was happy to lend it to him. Hammer himself appears in this ridiculously cheesy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    MC Hammer, Brian Wilson, Other Non-San Francisco Voters Shill for Ed Lee

    By now you may already be recovering from watching the Ed Lee music video featuring MC Hammer, Brian Wilson, Ashkon, Willie Brown and others. The video was funded in large part by Hammer's good pal and right-wing piñata du jour Ron Conway, as well as Sean Parker (who you may recall having paranoid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Mayoral Candidates Demand Investigation of Ed Lee Supporters Accused of Fraud

    They probably would have voted for Ed Lee anyway ... ​Mayor Ed Lee's campaign has been linked to yet another alleged election scandal. Over the weekend, seven mayoral candidates asked the state and federal government to investigate whether Lee supporters were illegally marking ballots for Cantones ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Ed Lee Ballot Scandal Spawns Difficult Legal Questions

    The only law definitively broken by the pro-Ed Lee volunteers caught on film filling out and collecting ballots in Chinatown was the law of common decency. The introduction of a stencil-like device that allows people to expediently vote only for Lee and his chosen items introduces a literal aspect t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Why, Ed, Why?

    OccupySF protesters heckled Mayor Ed Lee on Tuesday at City Hall while he was carefully trying to appease both protesters and cops. And last night, demonstrators disrupted a Police Commission hearing, enough so that the commissioners reportedly got up and walked out. Needless to say, protesters are ... More >>

  • News

    October 19, 2011

    The Madness of That Ed Lee Biography

    OccupySF protesters heckled Mayor Ed Lee on Tuesday at City Hall while he was carefully trying to appease both protesters and cops. And last night, demonstrators disrupted a Police Commission hearing, enough so that the commissioners reportedly got up and walked out. Needless to say, protesters are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Mayor Ed Lee Tries to Appease Occupy SF Protesters, Cops

    Ellen Huet​After five people were arrested Sunday at Justin Herman Plaza, Occupy SF protesters gathered at City Hall Tuesday afternoon to tell Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors to just leave them alone. Tuesday's affair was nothing quite like what Rome experienced over the weekend, rather ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Republican S.F. Chair: I Never Wanted to Sic Government on SF Weekly

    No, no, you guys at SF Weekly are fine...​Last week, we told you about how the head of San Francisco's Republican Party threatened to sic big government on our newspaper. Harmeet Dhillon, the boss of the local GOP, now tells SF Weekly that was never her intention. She didn't want to abridge our Fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Chinese Voters Set to Play Major Role in Mayor's Race

    Ed Lee​Traditionally unenthusiastic at election time, Chinese-American voters are more interested than other San Francisco residents in the 2011 mayoral race and will likely have a significant influence on its results, according to a poll released today.The poll, conducted by the Bay Citizen and U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Meet the Brains (and Checkbooks) Behind That Bizarre Ed Lee Hagiography

    ​The Kentucky Derby of political-action committees backing Ed Lee's run for mayor has a new horse in the race: The SF Neighbor Alliance for Ed Lee for Mayor 2011. Founded in mid-September, the committee has somehow already spent more than $100,000 - almost 20 percent of the amount spent by the act ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    DA Launches Criminal Investigation into Mayor Ed Lee's Donors

    On the bright side, that's fewer thank you notes to write now ​District Attorney George Gascón refused to investigate previous accusations of questionable ethics tied to Mayor Ed Lee's campaign. But  just 24 hours after early voting started, the DA announced he would investigate allegations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    The Very Conservative Examiner Endorses Mayor Ed Lee

    ​We've stated in the past that Republicans love Mayor Ed Lee. And to say the least that didn't sit well with the Lee campaign (or Tony Hall for that matter), despite the fact he had been endorsed by the Log Cabin Republicans, and given an extra special vote of confidence by the San Francisco Repub ... More >>

  • News

    October 5, 2011

    Almost Nobody You Know Will Vote For the Next Mayor of San Francisco

    ​We've stated in the past that Republicans love Mayor Ed Lee. And to say the least that didn't sit well with the Lee campaign (or Tony Hall for that matter), despite the fact he had been endorsed by the Log Cabin Republicans, and given an extra special vote of confidence by the San Francisco Repub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Attacks on Ed Lee Purportedly Coordinated -- But Will They Work?

    thepartyanimal-blog.orgYou can take a whack at Ed Lee, but there's no guarantee it'll work out for you​By now, everyone who cares to know about such things has heard that Dennis Herrera accused Mayor Ed Lee of being bankrolled by Republicans, and Lee's people spoon-fed the media a rebuttal that He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    With Anti-Lee Attack Ad, Dennis Herrera Ditches Logic of Ranked Choice Voting

    Is this the best type of ad to run in an RCV election?​According to the ranked choice voting playbook, candidates must offer themselves up as a perfect amalgam of milquetoast and pablum. They might not draw enough attention to be anyone's favorite, but perhaps they'll get enough second-choice vote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Republicans Love Mayor Ed Lee

    Ed Lee welcomes support ... from everyone ​In a liberal bastion like San Francisco, what Democratic candidate would want the support of the Republican Party? Turns out, plenty. Supervisors David Chiu and Ross Mirkarimi, and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier, to name a few. But as far as the ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Five Other Slow and Obsolete Technologies Mayor Ed Lee Still Uses

    We didn't have high expectations for Mayor Ed Lee to be a tech-savvy leader; after all he didn't even have a Twitter account until several weeks after he was appointed mayor. But even then, he kinda had to start tweeting with the rest of the world, considering Twitter was threatening to leave San Fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Ed Lee's Praise of PG&E Draws Fire

    Smi23leYou take the good, you take the bad...​Mayor Ed Lee's kind words for PG&E -- a company whose name conjures up horrific images of fire -- are drawing some fire of their own. Fellow mayoral candidates Dennis Herrera and John Avalos this morning issued press releases blasting Lee's "lavish ... More >>

  • News

    August 17, 2011

    List: What We Can Learn From Ed Lee's Broken Promise

    Smi23leYou take the good, you take the bad...​Mayor Ed Lee's kind words for PG&E -- a company whose name conjures up horrific images of fire -- are drawing some fire of their own. Fellow mayoral candidates Dennis Herrera and John Avalos this morning issued press releases blasting Lee's "lavish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Ed Lee Spends Sunday Waiting for Cheering Fans Who Never Showed Up

    Hang Out, Ed, Hang Out!​When Gavin Newsom was mayor, he worked hard to burnish his persona as a fabulous man of the people. He would roll up to a gritty corner in Hunters Point with a camera crew and ambush a few  passersby, hoping they'd talk with him while the cameras rolled. But after 10 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Bevan Dufty Welcomes Ed Lee to the Race -- But Why?

    One of them welcomes Ed Lee to the race, and one of them doesn't ​Mayoral candidates alike are raging over Mayor Ed Lee's abrupt entrance into the fray. But not Bevan Dufty -- at least not in public. The former supervisor, who helped Lee attain his current position as interim mayor, has bent over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Why the Ethics Commission Cleared the Run, Ed, Run Campaign of Any Wrongdoing

    S.F. Ethics Commission hard at work​Yesterday afternoon, just after Mayor Ed Lee declared his candidacy for mayor, the Ethics Commission cleared Progress for All, the campaign that worked to get Lee into the election, of any illegal wrongdoing. But right before making that decision, the commission ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Who Isn't Supervisor Jane Kim Endorsing for Mayor?

    Jane is known to eat several slices of cake at a time​Now that Mayor Ed Lee has made up his mind about running for mayor, it seems Supervisor Jane Kim is having a little trouble making decisions herself. A few hours after Lee declared his candidacy, Kim came out with a most unusual endorsement. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Watch Mayor Ed Lee Get Booed (Video)

    For those of us who needed a reprieve last night from the Mayor Ed Lee drama, and tuned out to watch a real bloodsport --  The Bachelor Pad -- here's a recap of what we missed. After signing the paperwork declaring his candidacy for mayor, Lee showed up to the Castro Theatre for his first mayor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Ed Lee to Run for S.F. Mayor

    Ed: I'll run, run, run! ​Former Supervisor Chris Daly wasted no time after hearing the news that Mayor Ed Lee was planning to do an about-face and run for mayor. He's orchestrating a quasiprotest today outside City Hall, where he and others plan to call Lee a "big liar" while the interim mayor fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Lie, Ed, Lie Twitter Account Up and Running

    Fred Noland​Even before Mayor Ed Lee could officially sign the paperwork declaring his candidacy for mayor, some pissed-off people cleverly created the "Lie, Ed, Lie" Twitter account, riffing off Lee's about-face decision to run for mayor. The account was created about five hours ago, stating "I w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Ed Lee: Why's He Running?

    Hello, Champ...​A married man caught in the arms of a mistress has to do more than utter "I changed my mind." So will Ed Lee. Lee today officially broke the pledge that he would not seek a full term -- the very thing that got him the job of mayor (and, naturally, put him in position to break his p ... More >>

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