Ed Lee

Local Bike Gets an Ed Lee Makeover, Mustache and All

At first glance, you might have thought this mustachioed bike was a new addition to the Lyft family -- a taxi transport for our two-wheeled friends. But alas, this bike parked in the Financial District yesterday afternoon is neither a member of the Lyft family, nor does it belong to Mayor Ed Lee. ... More >>

Female City Workers Hope to Get Mayor Ed Lee's Attention ... With Mustaches

Turns out Mayor Ed Lee isn't exactly a ladies' man after all. The mustachioed mayor is getting flack from women workers who claim he's stiffing them on pay. The women are upset over the Mayor's proposal to cut wages to 16 city jobs that are primarily held by females; they want to know how a libera ... More >>

Beer-Loving Man in Basement Tells Mayor Ed Lee to "Grow a Pair" (Video)

We knew it wouldn't be long before Mayor Ed Lee and his milk mustache would chime in on the debate about whether bars should keep on serving alcohol until 4 a.m. And we also knew that he wouldn't necessarily embrace the notion of all-night drinking the same way a drunk embraces a bottle of whiskey. ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee Joins National Campaign Asking Congress for Better Gun Control

Mayors Against Illegal Guns -- a bipartisan gun violence advocacy organization -- has released a new video message from mayors across the country, including San San Francisco's own Mayor Ed Lee.The new campaign, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, urge ... More >>

Anchor Brewery Announcement Leads to Delightful Day-Drinking

Had Anchor Brewery's proposed waterfront extravaganza been extant in the days of Otis Redding, sitting on the dock of the bay could have been a less melancholy experience. Yesterday's big development announcement was made during a dreary gray morning. But, even on a clean, crisp Northern California ... More >>

Possibly Drunk Dude in PacMan Shirt Gives a Mayor Ed Lee a Lesson on Hard Liquor (Video)

The news of Mayor Ed Lee's request for bars to curb hard liquor sales on Super Bowl Sunday made it all the way to the freezing state of Minnesota, where at least one possibly drunk dude attempted to debunk the mayor's theory that hard liquor plus football will wreak havoc on San Francisco. For star ... More >>

49ers Fans Were Too Disappointed to Trash San Francisco Last Night

If ever there was a silver lining to be had from our sad Super Bowl loss, it's that nobody was excited enough to smash up businesses and beat up other football fans. Disappointed fans instead wallowed their sorrows in a bottle of alcohol (sorry Mayor Lee) before stumbling home to pass out and forg ... More >>

How to Avoid Being a Drunken Hot Mess on Super Bowl Sunday

No matter how many liquor bottles Mayor Ed Lee empties in the toilet this week, there's not a chance in hell he's going to get all of San Francisco to stay sober on Super Bowl Sunday. So being the realistic cynics they are, San Francisco cops are preparing for the worst, and that'd be drunk driver ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee Is Trying to Ruin One of the Best Parts of Super Bowl Sunday: Getting Hammered

Fun and happy (aka drunk) people across San Francisco are learning firsthand what a wet blanket Mayor Ed Lee is -- all the time. Liquor lovers shot back at the mayor's buzzkill suggestion that venues not serve hard alcohol to football fans on Super Bowl Sunday. His idea is meant to prevent the sa ... More >>

Chick-fil-A Creeps Closer to S.F. With New Walnut Creek Restaurant

Dozens of people camped out overnight to celebrate the opening of Walnut Creek's new Chick-fil-A, reports SF Weekly's news blog The Snitch. Apparently, the first 100 people to claim a wristband and keep their place in line overnight received coupons for 52 free meals. The fast food chain inspired pr ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee, Election Champ?

As we noted yesterday, it's difficult to pin banners reading "WINNER" and "LOSER" on vestiges of city power following Tuesday's election because they're often the same people. Today, Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius came up with an interesting take on things. Who's the big winner? Mayor Ed Lee. Every ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee Blocks Plan to Let Shuttered Pot Clubs Operate on City Property

The boom and bust cycles that have created jobs and driven up rent and home prices in San Francisco apply to things other than technology. A year ago, there were nearly 30 medical marijuana dispensaries in town; they were paying permit fees and taxes. Now, a year after the federal Justice Depar ... More >>

Supervisor Christina Olague Explains Her Vote to Save Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi

The cheers from no-longer-suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's supporters were still echoing in City Hall when the fallout started hitting Supervisor Christina Olague.Less than 12 hours after casting the crucial vote to give Mirkarimi his job back, she sat inside her City Hall office and read the foll ... More >>

San Francisco Tries to Put an End to Bullying

Now that city officials have successfully gotten more kids to actually go to school, all they have to do it get students to quit bullying their classmates.To be sure, Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr, along with many others, are throwing an anti-bullying bonanza starting tomorrow to brainstor ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee Fries Chick-fil-A on Twitter (Update)

Update (2:21 p.m.): On a side note, the media are buzzing with reports that Donald A. Perry, the public relations flack for Chick-fil-A, died this morning from an apparent heart attack. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has finally admitted he wants nothing to do with the bible-thumbing Chick-fil-A -- and ... More >>

Mayor Lee Won't Face Perjury Investigation, D.A. Says

It looks like the perjury charge against Mayor Ed Lee will soon fade into insignificance. District Attorney George Gascón this week maintained his position that that there isn't enough evidence to pursue an investigation. Meanwhile, the Ethics Commission has ruled that it will not issue subpoenas f ... More >>

Mirkarimi Trial: Defense Attorney Accuses Mayor Lee of Perjury

Activists Gang Up on Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall

Today, protesters came at Mayor Ed Lee from all sides -- literally. On the Van Ness side of City Hall, a mix of Bay Area residents, politicos, and average Joes, gathered to oppose the mayor's controversial Stop & Frisk idea. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Hall, residents rallied against Lee ... More >>

The Examiner Finally Gives Us a Reason to Read Mayor Ed Lee's Column

Reading Mayor Ed Lee's column is like reading the side of a cereal box -- a really bland cereal. But today's headline from the Examiner's favorite op-ed columnist, Mayor Ed Lee, was surprisingly entertaining, to say the least.  Really, we don't fault the Ex copy editors (what few of them there ... More >>

Facebook Group Formed to Stop Mayor Ed Lee's Stop & Frisk Plan

It didn't take long for San Franciscans to organize against Mayor Ed Lee's loose plan to let cops stop and frisk whomever they please as a way to reduce the city's never-ending gun violence.This Facebook page was created yesterday, which asks the mayor to put an end to his New York-style plan before ... More >>

Sunday Streets to Take Over the Mission This Weekend

Sunday Streets, a reoccurring event where stretches of pavement are usurped by happy cyclists, unicyclists, walkers, runners, and people just milling around, returns to the Mission this Sunday. A 2.2-mile route hooks in the Mission on Valencia from Duboce to 24th Street and down 24th to Hampshire. T ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing Interrupted After Someone Calls in a Threat

While Mayor Ed Lee was giving his testimony at the Ross Mirkarimi hearing this afternoon, police abruptly ordered the meeting to adjourn after City Hall received a threat from a distraught source. Susan Fahey, spokeswoman to the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, told SF Weekly that the threat came ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

America's Cup: Economic Projections Are Beyond Optimistic

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>