Subject: Jim Sutton

• Terms of Endearment: Alioto-Pier Says She May File Suit if City Doesn't Reverse Stance That She's Termed Out in 2010

  Is that Alioto-Pier's 'happy' smile or her 'I'm gonna sue you' smile?Earlier this month, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier sat down for a cup of coffee with City Attorney Dennis Herrera. She was hoping to get him to reconsider a ruling from his office stating Alioto-Pier will be termed out of office next year - and, if he declines to do so, their next meeting may not be over hot coffee but hot lawsuits. "I am not ruling out a lawsuit - absolutely not," she said. To put the City Attorney's Februar

  March 2, 2009

• Avoiding Judgment

  Backer of prostitution measure in a legal jam.

  October 22, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  November 8-14, 2006

  November 8, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  November 1, 2006

• Stealth Dollars

  Questionable political donations are flowing into the city's most controversial political race

  October 25, 2006

• Tilting at Political Windmills

  Some people, like attorney Paul Melbostad, just don't know when to quit. Bully for him.

  January 4, 2006

• Follow the Money

  July 14, 2004

• Dead Mud Walking

  A ballot measure that would create a Municipal Utility District has so many legal flaws, it's all but DOA. In fact, passing the measure might delay the advent of public power here for years.

  October 10, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Details, Details; Problem Is, It's Hard to Read in the Dark; PG&E Strikes Back

  April 18, 2001

• S.F. Democrats Play Game of Telephone Over Non-Existent JROTC Recall Effort

  Tonight's Democratic County Central Committee meeting features a resolution that seems to have expired in relevance not long after it was put to paper.DCCC Chairman Aaron Peskin put forth a resolution, to be voted on at tonight's session, over "threatened recall campaigns" against school board members Kim-Shree Maufus, Jane Kim, and Sandra Fewer over their opposition to the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in city schools.No sooner had the press caught wind of this resolution, how

  May 14, 2009

• San Francisco's Campaign Finance Laws Are Complex. Eluding Them? That's More Simple.

  'It's good to be the king' -- and it's always good to have powerful folks in your corner pulling some stringsSan Francisco's campaign finance rules are so beastly complex that professional treasurers with decades of experience have been known to drive sharpened pencils through their palms in fits of desperation. Yet eluding these Byzantine laws need not require the greatest level of legal or administrative sophistication. In fact, you can employ the same strategy the rich kid in your high school

  June 29, 2009

• Ethics Commission Whistleblower Lawyers Up, Charges Retaliation

  ​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

  August 20, 2009