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November 1, 2012
David Lee's Soft Money Is Dominating the District 1 Race
The soft money being spent in District 1 is on track to shatter the previous record for the amount of independent cash spent in a supervisor race since 2002. But where is all this money coming from? The truth is, it's really hard to tell. While almost every supervisoral candidate has benefited from ... More >>
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October 3, 2012
Eric Mar Pushed Domestic Violence Resolution -- on Eve of Ross Mirkarimi Vote
Next week, the political circus is coming to town. The Board of Supervisors will vote on the fate of Sheriff-in-Limbo Ross Mirkarimi, who grabbed his wife's arm in a domestic violence incident. You might think it would be odd, then, to introduce a resolution relating to Domestic Violence Awareness M ... More >>
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September 4, 2012
Eric Mar Divorce Probably Won't Turn Voters Off
In politics, the picture-perfect family is almost always a necessary asset to running a successful campaign. Unless of course, you're in San Francisco, where voters are much more forgiving of marital dramas and other bad craziness. Supervisor Eric Mar's campaign manager fired off a press release at ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2012
Local Bird Refuses to Quit Smoking
So you think you've seen it all in San Francisco, but you really haven't seen anything until you've witnessed a local bird smoke a cigarette. As you can see here, that nicotine patch isn't helping this local blue scrub jay kick his tobacco habit. A Bernal Heights neighbor snapped this photo shortly ... More >>
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August 27, 2012
Mysterious Pole Gardener Sprouts Up in the Richmond District
The last time we told you about a decorated pole in the Richmond District, we were referring to the mobile strippers who definitely injected new life into the neighborhood. But we're guessing (who knows?) Supervisor Eric Mar will be a little less offended by the latest crop of vibrant bushes spotted ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2012
Supervisor Eric Mar, Happy Meal Crusader, Adds Smokers to the List of Things He Dislikes
Supervisor Eric Mar, the unhappy french fry guy, has taken on some rather dubious causes: Banning Happy Meals and stripper mobiles. But since 86ing cheap meat and strippers isn't going to totally protect your children from this terrible place called Earth, Mar has decided to go ahead and ban smoking ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
Supervisor Eric Mar Shows Some Personality on Twitter
Anytime we hear "Supervisor Eric Mar," we immediately think of strippers eating Happy Meals in the Richmond. Sorry, Eric, we can't help it! And knowing how the prudish Mar is so easily offended by half-naked women and french fries, bloggers were shocked, shocked to find the uninspiring po ... More >>
News
May 16, 2012
Progressively Modest: Eric Mar Stays out of the Headlines
Anytime we hear "Supervisor Eric Mar," we immediately think of strippers eating Happy Meals in the Richmond. Sorry, Eric, we can't help it! And knowing how the prudish Mar is so easily offended by half-naked women and french fries, bloggers were shocked, shocked to find the uninspiring po ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
David Lee Files to Run Against Eric Mar in District 1
Eric Mar, the supervisor who has kept The Richmond safe from Happy Meals, stripper vans, and a bizarre combination of both is checking his rearview mirror today. David Lee, a longtime Mar critic, S.F. State lecturer, and executive director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee (CAVEC) of ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Supervisor Eric Mar's Worst Nightmare: A Stripper Truck Parked at McDonald's
If Supervisor Eric Mar has accomplished anything while in office, it's successfully making himself the butt of every Happy Meal joke out there. And just when you thought there were no more Mar/plastic toy jokes to be had, the District 1 supervisor makes headlines after chasing away a local stripper ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2012
Supervisor Eric Mar Chases Away Local Stripper Truck
Yesterday, we told readers about how Richmond District residents and Supervisor Eric Mar were completely turned off by the lewd mobile stripper truck parked in their neighborhood. It appears the feeling is mutual. RichmondSF blog tells us that Larry Flynt's Hustler Club mobile truck is equally turne ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Rose Pak's Vulgar Display of Power
The video of power broker Rose Pak's triumphalist tongue-lashings of the city's elected officials as they rolled beneath her feet at the Chinese New Year's parade is enjoying its 15 minutes of Internet fame.Online commentators relish heaping scorn upon San Francisco when our attempts at progressive ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco
He's got good lawyers, that oneOn Thursday, Dec. 1, the city's de facto ban of the Happy Meal commences. San Francisco has accomplished what the Hamburglar could not. Or has it? In order to include a toy with a meal, restaurants must now comply with city-generated nutritional standards. Those are ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
San Francisco to Protect Birds from Flying into Buildings
Unless you're part of a small cadre of environmental activists, the danger posed to birds by high-rise buildings is probably not an issue in the forefront of your mind. Unless, of course, you are a member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, which just saw fit to pass a new set of development ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
Happy Meal 2.0: McDonald's to Cut Back on Fries
Healthier Happy Meal makes S.F. ... happySan Francisco became the nation's laughingstock -- and Public Enemy No. 1 for children -- when it rolled out the controversial Happy Meal ban. You might recall the epic Daily Show episode where Aasif Mandvi gave the man behind the ban, Supervisor Eric Mar, ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
San Francycle: Did David Chiu Drive on Bike to Work Day?
Wasn't Bike to Work day fabulous this year? We certainly saw a lot more cyclists out than usual, and we hope to see them out again on the remaining 364 days until next year. Let's do a quick roundup of the best of the bikes. According to the Chron, the mayor and "almost every member of the Bo ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Japan Relief Auction Stunts We'd Like to See
We'd buy that for a dollar...As reported earlier on this page, our Board of Supervisors raised $11,000 for Japan -- and did so by doing what it would do anyway. David Chiu was going to ride his bike. Now he gets some company, and $250 goes to disaster relief. Eric Mar was going to go to the Acade ... More >>
News
March 9, 2011
List: David Chiu's Mayoral Platform
We'd buy that for a dollar...As reported earlier on this page, our Board of Supervisors raised $11,000 for Japan -- and did so by doing what it would do anyway. David Chiu was going to ride his bike. Now he gets some company, and $250 goes to disaster relief. Eric Mar was going to go to the Acade ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
San Francisco Improves Its Antismoking Score, Nanny Government Is Working
San Francisco Puts Cigarettes Out This week, we wrote about San Francisco lawmakers and their compulsive need to intrude on residents' rights to be as unhealthy and wasteful as they want. Yet this prolific banning is starting to bear some benefits -- at least on paper. Just today, the American Lu ... More >>
News
January 19, 2011
How the Happy Meal ban explains San Francisco
San Francisco Puts Cigarettes Out This week, we wrote about San Francisco lawmakers and their compulsive need to intrude on residents' rights to be as unhealthy and wasteful as they want. Yet this prolific banning is starting to bear some benefits -- at least on paper. Just today, the American Lu ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2010
Happy Meal Ban Architect Supervisor Eric Mar on 'The Daily Show'
Eric Mar is ready for his close-up!After poking fun at San Francisco's Happy Meal Ban not once but twice, The Daily Show took the next natural step: It had the creator of the ban, Supervisor Eric Mar, on the air. Our calls to the District 1 supe to see how it went haven't yet been returned. But i ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Happy Meal Ban: Middle Schoolers Write to Supes, Critique Toys
Here's what I think you should say, kidsSix dozen students at a middle school in Brentwood, a suburb 55 miles to the east, wrote to San Francisco City Hall Oct. 15 to voice views on Supervisor Eric Mar's proposed ban on Happy Meal toys, which is scheduled to be heard at today's board meeting.Unli ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Is Car-Sharing Business Coming to Garage Near You -- Even in Your Building?
Now he can set up a car-sharing network right in your apartment. Or can he?Come January, a new statewide law will allow you to adjust your insurance to use your car as a shared vehicle. Meanwhile, legislation coming up at tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting will more easily allow you -- or yo ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
'Happy Meal' Legislation Will Be Back for Seconds
After the introduction of perhaps the first "multigrain amendment" yet brokered in City Hall, Supervisor Eric Mar's controversial proposal to forbid restaurants from including toys with Happy Meal-like menu items was yesterday continued, and will be debated again next week. In addition to the gro ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Happy Meal Ban on San Francisco's Plate Today
Will we hear from them during public comment? How about the Fry Guys?Supervisor Eric Mar's proposal to take the toys away from Happy Meal-like menu items that don't meet city-imposed nutrition standards ignited an Internet firestorm. Today we'll see if it can do the same in the flesh. The "Health ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Burning Man Ends, and S.F. Supervisor Eric Mar Returns Home
Eric Mar isn't the first S.F. supe to go to Burning Man. But he was the first to go to Mars. The smoke is rising from Burning Man, and its participants are straggling back into town. Hardware store workers, lawyers, and architects are heading back to so-called "real life." And, if you live in the ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Happy Meals May Be Banned By San Francisco
You guys -- out of this city! The moment your humble narrator heard that legislation was introduced at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting aiming at regulating how nutritious a meal must be for a restaurant to be permitted to hand out a toy, I thought "This must be Eric Mar's doing." Yup.&nb ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Eric Mar Unleashes on the Happy Meal. But What About Public School Lunches?
Public Enemy No. 1? San Francisco has been abuzz about Supervisor Eric Mar's proposed legislation that would take the toy out of the Happy Meal. Some say it would improve the health of children. Others say it's like, totally socialist. Our online news editor, Joe Eskenazi, found it a little distu ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2010
Supes Approve Lennar Hunters Point Project
If you had 1:35 a.m. in your Lennar Hunters Point Naval Shipyard pool as the hour the Board of Supervisors would vote on the massive project -- you're the big winner. The board approved the gargantuan redevelopment plan by an 8-3 vote this morning following at least 10 hours of meetings and oft-i ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Eric Mar Pushes Non-Binding Resolution to Save Louis' Restaurant. Naturally.
Feds threatening to board up your 73-year-old restaurant? We got a non-binding resolution for that! We've written a bit about the plight of Louis' Restaurant, the 73-year-old city institution perched over the remains of Sutro Baths. The restaurant has lasted this long despite the arbitrary decisi ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2010
Supe's Tweet: Hey, I Just Almost Got Killed!
Image | Audrey FukumanSupervisor Mar! Both ways! Look both ways! For some legislators, Twitter is a useful means for letting people know that you've passed a bill. This weekend for Supervisor Eric Mar, however, it was a means for letting folks know that he'd almost passed into the great beyon ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2010
D'oh! Labor-Backed Pension 'Reform' Would Cost City Millions More Than Earlier Estimate.
On Wednesday, we reported how a pension reform bill intending to save the city money was affixed with a union-crafted amendment that would actually cost San Francisco more than $13 million annually.The notion of pension reform actually costing the city more in both the short- and long-term is bad ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2010
Controller: Labor-Backed Pension 'Reform' Would Cost City $13.2M Per Year
Look! "Reform"! We've reported a bit on Supervisor Sean Elsbernd's attempts to save the city a modest bundle via pension reform, and the SEIU's attempts to amend the plan via Supervisor Eric Mar. While Mar claimed his amendments wouldn't cost the city any additional money, Elsbernd disagreed -- a ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Controller Confirms Amendment to Pension 'Reform' Plan Would *Cost* City Millions
San Francisco finds innovative new ways to lose money...We've written a bit about Supervisor Sean Elsbernd's proposed Charter Amendment, which would save the city a modest bundle by altering San Francisco's pension system. We couldn't help but notice, however, that an amendment Supervisor Eric ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2010
SF Gov InAction: Mayor and Supervisors Still Not the Get Along Gang
Oh bleary eyed passengers on San Francisco's ship of fools: I have to say I'm getting quite the kick out of my vacation. Last week I went a whole six days without thinking of Sean Elsbernd! Honestly, life is too short to think about Sean Elsbernd. I don't know how he does it. Instead ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2010
Committee Assignments are Here! Which Supes Got Screwed?
But that's a loser committee!The day the board president hands out committee assignments to the city supervisors always feels just a bit like junior high school. Who's the new boy? Who got all his electives? Who's stuck taking woodshop in seventh period? Who'll sit at the cool kids' table? Who'll ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2010
Supes Lambaste Academy of Art at Hearing -- Whether They'll Deliver More than a Tongue-Lashing Remains to Be Seen
Elisa Stephens had an admission to make today. "We have made a few mistakes," she said at a public hearing regarding the controversial housing practices of her family's for-profit Academy of Art University. And that, claim the Academy's many critics, is one hell of an understatement. For d ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2009
Supervisors Try to Save Jobs of Those Who Got Them Their Jobs
For the past two weeks, the progressives on the Board of Supervisors have been falling all over themselves to protect the jobs of health department workers who belong to SEIU Local 1021. Why are lefty board members going to such lengths to protect these jobs in the midst of a financial meltdo ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009
SF Gov InAction: City Brings Hammer Down on Anti-Prostitution Program, Then Forms a Glee Club to Sing Social Services to Sleep
I've had a really busy few weeks, and I haven't been able to catch up on any of the new fall shows yet. So I tried to cram a lot of television in this weekend while writing SF Gov InAction. Just so you know. Monday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee Somebody has to sa ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2009
Pride Rides: The Mayor's Convoy, The Public Defender's Truck, The Assessor's Last-Minute Call -- and a Big Surprise From Eric Mar
Janine KahnAn artist's rendition of Jeff Adachi's dump truckAnswers are trickling in from our elected officials on how they plan on cruising at this weekend's Pride Parade. Starting at the top, Mayor Gavin Newsom takes the same approach with vehicles as he does with spokesmen -- if one is good, then ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
The Blue Placard Blues: Bill Would Seriously Fine Disabled Placard Scofflaws, But Doesn't Note It's Still Just Too Easy to Get One
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's bill to crack the financial whip when it comes to billing disabled parking placard outlaws is moving through the State Senate -- and local leaders are singing its praises. And why not? Seriously, who could object to a plan to ding those who falsely pass themselves off as dis ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Union President: Supervisors' Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers is 'Spitting in the Face of Every Cop in San Francisco'
The Ingleside police station, where Sgt. John V. Young was killed in 1971The president of San Francisco's police union railed against supervisors Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell today for their sponsorship of a resolution asking that charges be dropped against the seven men charged with killing a city p ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2009
SF Gov InAction: Supes To Spend Week Memorializing Extra, Extra Hard
Most Government offices in America took Monday off to honor those who fell in our nation's defense. For the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, however, Memorial Day is really about honoring what all the other holidays, from Veterans Day to Christmas, are really about honoring: the San Francisco ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2009
S.F. Inquiry Regarding Disability Placards May Miss the (Disabled) Elephant In the Room: It's Just Too Damn Easy To Get a Disability Placard
Who wants some?Supervisor Eric Mar was on the side of the angels yesterday when he convened a hearing looking into the Municipal Transportation Authority's enforcement of potential disability placard fraud; if Mar can help bring the legal hammer down on able-bodied folks who fraudulently represent t ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2009
SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom Will Be Told That David Chiu Is Rejecting MUNI's Budget Sometime In Early 2011
From a numerical standpoint, the Supes are finally getting their act together. At the beginning of the year, we were lucky if they made it through four meetings a week. Now they're hitting six or seven almost every time. That's the good news. The bad news is that the number of meetings appare ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2009
An Odd Tradition: Thousands of Dollars Flood to Winning S.F. Supes After Polls Close -- From Their Enemies
Joe EskenaziSupervisor John Avalos admits that taking post-election donations from former political enemies looks bad -- but having a massive campaign debt is badYou'd think making a donation to a San Francisco supervisorial candidate would be a bit like a horse race: You make your "bets," you cheer ... More >>
News
February 11, 2009
Eric Mar's students say he's easy like Sunday morning
Joe EskenaziSupervisor John Avalos admits that taking post-election donations from former political enemies looks bad -- but having a massive campaign debt is badYou'd think making a donation to a San Francisco supervisorial candidate would be a bit like a horse race: You make your "bets," you cheer ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 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 airheade ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2008
SF Gov InAction: Anti-smoking legislation, African Americans leaving SF, and whistleblower protection. Plus: It's cover-your-ass Thursday at City Hall!
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 airheade ... More >>
News
October 27, 2004
The Ackerman Election
The school board races focus on a superintendent's future and progressive versus downtown political infighting. Kids aren't much mentioned.
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