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Leland Yee

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Gov. Jerry Brown Has a Chance to Usher in Major Prison Reforms in California

    With a couple strokes of his pen, Gov. Jerry Brown can significantly alter the way California's prison system works. Yesterday, the state Senate passed a bill that would give parole opportunities to juvenile offenders sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. This week, that body will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2012

    Sharp Park: State Senator Unwittingly Signs Resolution to Keep Golf Course Open

    Local environmentalists are accusing golfers of forging a state senator's name on a resolution that supports preserving Sharp Park Golf Course as a golfing haven. The San Francisco Public Golf Alliance (SFPGA), asked for -- and got -- a state resolution in favor of making the much-debated Sharp Par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2012

    Sen. Leland Yee Is Getting Threats Over His "Un-American" Gun-Control Bill

    State Sen. Leland Yee has riled up conservatives again, and not exactly the kind of right-wingers you want to make mad. CBS reports that Yee's office has been fielding threats from gun enthusiasts who have launched a vicious campaign against the San Francisco Democrat's proposed gun-control bill. Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Leland Yee, Champion of Shark Fin Soup, to Tout More Politically Correct Broth

    ​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on grisly fishing methods. That turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Leland Yee, Champion of Shark Fin Soup, to Tout More Politically Correct Broth

    Leland Yee likes all types of soup​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on ... More >>

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    Guardian pick Leland Yee Also Wins Approval from PG&E

    Leland Yee likes all types of soup​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    List: What Have We Learned About Leland Yee?

    Leland Yee likes all types of soup​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Leland Yee likes all types of soup​State Sen. Leland Yee, the enigmatic San Francisco politician known for his past brushes with the law and diverse array of stances on major policy issues, positioned himself last year as an opponent of a ban on shark fin soup, the Asian delicacy that depends on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Q&A: Rose Pak Talks about Senator Leland Yee and the Central Subway

    Caroline ChenLeland Yee leaves a bad taste in Pak's mouth.​Rose Pak, notorious Chinatown activist and the supposed mastermind behind the Run Ed Run campaign, is one of the best-known characters in San Francisco. This week, SF Weekly sat down to dish with Pak about politics, her projects and passi ... More >>

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    Good Scout, Bad Boy: Examining the Virtues of Leland Yee

    Caroline ChenLeland Yee leaves a bad taste in Pak's mouth.​Rose Pak, notorious Chinatown activist and the supposed mastermind behind the Run Ed Run campaign, is one of the best-known characters in San Francisco. This week, SF Weekly sat down to dish with Pak about politics, her projects and passi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Leland Yee Flipflops When Talking About Mayor Ed Lee

    Serious competition is creeping up behind Yee​We recently gave readers a little insight as to why State Sen. Leland Yee is ahead in the polls -- because he's mastered the art of telling everyone what they want to hear. This political chameleon gave us a brand new example of his doublespeak over wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Leland Yee: Why He's Ahead in the Polls

    People love to hate Leland and that always makes for a good front runner in a race​Last week, we detailed a story about how State Sen. Leland Yee is pro-medical marijuana -- until he's not. As SF Weekly reported, Yee attended a medical marijuana meeting, telling pot smokers that he supports them a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Leland Yee Promises to Fight for Medical Marijuana, Except When He's Opposing It

    Leland Yee REALLY wants to be mayor, even if it means supporting and not supporting medical marijuana​State Sen. Leland Yee will stand up for medical cannabis. Even against his own interests and against the cannabis-opposed Chinese community of San Francisco, the mayoral candidate is your man, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Pay Nat Ford His Money and Get Him Out of Here

    Coming to take you away. Take you today. ​When it comes to Nat Ford, always we grumble. We grumbled about how much money he was paid to work. Now we're grumbling about how much he'll be paid to stop working and get the hell out of town. The lead rabble-rouser decrying Ford's $384,000 walkin' money ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Leland Yee: Drivers Could Park Three Days for Free at the Cost of Nat Ford's Severance Package

    Wants three days of free parking ​Last week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera took what seems to be the first real potshot at a fellow mayoral candidate when he publicly said that he has better things to do than fight with Rush Limbaugh and ban shark fin soup. Anyone who has even barely scanned the he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Why Leland Yee Won the Sierra Club Endorsement

    A snapshot of Leland Yee's environmental record​Somebody has it out for State Sen. Leland Yee -- someone aside from Rush Limbaugh. When the news hit that the highly esteemed Sierra Club tossed its support behind Yee for mayor, the Twitter activity started buzzing; City Hall insiders -- and even re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Shark Fin Soup Ban Is More Popular Than You Think

    Either we eat him or he eats us​California voters might enjoy shark fin soup -- that gelatinous Chinese delicacy -- but not enough to keep the practice of shark finning alive, according to a new poll. A new poll commissioned by the Monterrey Bay Aquarium shows that 76 percent of all state voters a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Leland Yee Gets Another Threatening Fax

    Attracts all kinds of attention​SF Weekly readers might recall the death threat that was faxed to State Sen. Leland Yee earlier this year after he called on conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking Asians on his how. It wasn't the first time Yee, who is running for San Fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Wannabe Mayors Descend on S.F. This Weekend

    Seeking the Latino vote.​While everyone else is kicking back this weekend, the many, many aspiring mayors of San Francisco will spend their free time aggressively campaigning. On the exhausting list are a slew of events aimed to court voters of all types -- parents, mission hipsters, and dog lover ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Press Backs Leland Yee on Bill Improving Access to Court Records

    The paper trail used to be easier to follow​Open government advocates and press organizations have thrown their support behind State Sen. Leland Yee's proposed legislation mandating prompt access to documents filed in California's trial courts.The bill, SB 326, addresses a bizarrely counter-intuit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Is Banning Shark's Fin Racist?

    ​Today, the San Francisco Chronicle surveyed the battle emerging over a recently introduced state assembly bill proposing to ban the sale and import of shark's fin throughout California. The pro and con camps are defining it as a fight over cultural heritage versus environmental conservation.Accor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Leland Yee Opposes Proposed Ban on Shark Fin Soup

    Have some soup, Leland.​A South Bay assemblyman has thrown the political equivalent of chum into the Bay Area by proposing a ban on shark fin soup. Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Cupertino) says that the demand for shark fin soup is driving illegal shark-finning ships, where workers throw the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Building Unions Give Leland Yee Boost in Mayoral Race

    Building a voting base​State Senator Leland Yee got an early and powerful leg up in the San Francisco mayoral race last night when one of the city's largest coalition of unions voted "overwhelmingly" to endorse him in the 2012 mayoral race.It was the first major endorsement in the race -- and with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Dennis Herrera, Leland Yee, Two PR Machines Running for Mayor

    Has he ever said 'No comment?'​On a near-daily basis, media outlets including SF Weekly receive a plethora of press releases from elected officials who are also gunning for higher office. The two who are most prolific with press releases are San Francisco's City Attorney Dennis Herrera and State S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    David Chiu's Yellow Pages Jihad Is Smart -- and Smart Politics

    This is your apartment foyer...​Supervisor David Chiu's pending legislation to require residents to opt-in before receiving a yellow pages isn't just smart -- it's savvy. Anyone who's ever taken a trip to the city's recycling plant knows that phone books are so heavy, they confound machines design ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Leland Yee Fans Support Boycott of Rush Limbaugh

    Yummy pizza, yucky politics​Just yesterday State Sen. Leland Yee received racists death threats from someone who presumably supports Rush Limbaugh and probably believes Sarah Palin is a liberal. In the last 24 hours since the death threats were faxed to Yee's offices in Sacramento and San Francisc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Rush Limbaugh Supporter Sends Leland Yee Death Threats

    Wanted an apology, but got death threats instead.​State Sen. Leland Yee received death threats after the San Francisco Democrat asked conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking the Chinese language in his radio show last week.Yee's staffers said the messages came via fax th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    19th Avenue is a Safer Walk for Pedestrians

    Slowing Down The Number Of Deaths​The number of pedestrians killed by drivers blowing through the deadly stretch of 19th Avenue have hit a new record: zero -- and Sen. Leland Yee is taking credit for it.Yee, who is running for San Francisco mayor in 2012, duly noted that the highly-traveled roadwa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Leland Yee To Announce Mayoral Run

    Jim HerdLeland Yee, seen here with a werewolf campaigning against Prop. B, aspires to Room 200​Folks at political consultant Jim Stearns' office are playing coy, but let's be realistic: Sen. Leland Yee isn't "making an announcement" at the Department of Elections today to lecture the media on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Leland Yee's Mayoral Announcement Covered By Media Dogpile

    Jim HerdLeland! Leland! Over here! Over here!​Proving once again that you can get media coverage if you tell them where to show up and when, Sen. Leland Yee was this morning documented signing a few papers at the Department of Elections by an absolute scrum of reporters. No disrespect to Yee -- he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    First Vote, Then Drink: Election Night Parties

    ​Were you so engrossed in this year's primary campaign that you spent all of your time studying the issues, casting a painstaking vote, and then preparing yourself to live with the consequences? You're so full of it. In any event, if you didn't know where to get soused after the polls close, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Leland Yee's Sarah Palin Crusade Strikes 'San Francisco Gold'

    For Sen. Leland Yee, Sarah Palin has proven to be the perfect foil​For the record, Sen. Leland Yee has always claimed that his ongoing Sarah Palin crusade is not a politically motivated operation. If some other figure with a penchant for charging $100,000 per speech were slated to appear at Califo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Secret Service to Investigate Palin-Inspired Threats Against Leland Yee

    Threats directed against state Sen. Leland Yee after he began asking questions about how much Sarah Palin is being paid to speak at California State University Stanislaus have been turned over to the California Highway Patrol and U.S. Secret Service for investigation, a state senate security officia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    CSU-Stanislaus Administrators Accused of Shredding Sarah Palin Documents They Claimed Did Not Exist

    Sarah better run ... because Leland Yee is chasing down her finances​ Did Sen. Leland Yee just evoke Watergate in his ongoing quest to discern how much California State University-Stanislaus will pay Sarah Palin for a forthcoming speech? You betcha. When it was last month announced the former Repu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    How Much Will Sarah Palin Get for CSU Stanislaus Speech? No One's Telling.

    How many showmobiles could Sarah Palin with her CSU Stanislaus speaking engagement money? No one's telling. ​When Sarah Palin delivers her $500-per-ticket June 25 speech at Cal State Stanislaus, it promises to be a bargain: That's only about $25 per "um."For the CSU Stanislaus Foundation, however, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Speier Not Running for AG, Horde of Upwardly Mobile Pols Staying Put

    Rep. Jackie Speier, seen here with Stephen Colbert, will continue her ride in Washington, D.C. ​Rep. Jackie Speier's newly minted spokesman Nathan Ballard just informed the world that his boss will not be leaving Congress to run for state Attorney General. Congressional seats rarely open -- especi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    S.F. State Senator Plans to Close the Book on White Pages

    http://livegreentwincities.comYou can still find 'Sarah Connor' on the Internet without wasting energy and resources to print out the White Pages...​Fans of classic cinema may recall the seminal scene in The Jerk in which Navin Johnson rejoices at the delivery of the White Pages -- "Millions of pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    S.F. State Senator Blasts Pay Increases for U.C. Executives

     We recently wrote about a bevy of protesting University of California faculty members and researchers incensed that they were facing pay cuts and furlough days while top U.C. executives were earning more than the president of the United States -- or, even more unforgivably, Tim Lincecum. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    U.C. Regents Meet In Mission Bay, Prep for an Earful Wednesday

    More like 'Let There Be Fight!'The U.C. Regents began their three-day Board Meeting today at U.C. San Francisco's Mission Bay campus -- but the real action is happening tomorrow morning, when Senator Leland Yee will make an appearance at 7:30 a.m. sharp in front of UCSF's Mission Bay campus to rally ... More >>

  • News

    May 30, 2007

    Shadow Play

    See who's getting money from the hotel opposed to the new City College campus in Chinatown

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    October 16, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of October 16, 2002

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    The Nature of Politics

    Dog owners, compliant pols viciously distort a reasonable attempt to preserve our environmental legacy

  • News

    June 28, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Better Make That Second Most Hated; Well, John, We'd Love to Ask Him, But He's Moved to Greece; Off the Air; Truth and Consequences; O Yee of Little Faith; Hey, If It's So Easy, You Write It; Relax and Enjoy ... Reality?

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Unexcused Absence

    School leaders snub supervisors, refuse to show at parleys

  • News

    August 4, 1999

    Cut-and-Paste Pols

    Don't think any of the candidates for mayor measure up? Then build your own.

  • News

    July 28, 1999

    Bay View

    Don't think any of the candidates for mayor measure up? Then build your own.

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Bunco Squad

    Police brass can't account for a rogue vice operation

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Policing the Vice Squad

    Investigations launched into money collected from massage parlor workers

  • News

    March 25, 1998

    Block Party

    Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

  • News

    August 6, 1997

    Dog Bites

    Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

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