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Fat Cats and Big Fish: New Rules Won't Starve Those at the Top of the Political Food Chain

Power Play: San Francisco's Plan for Clean, Local Energy Lacks One Detail: Everything.

Body Politic: Scott Wiener Strips Down City Bureaucracy

Vernon Davis, Ron Conway, Mayor Lee Team Up for London Breed

Supervisor London Breed today sent out a most eye-catching invitation to a soiree in her honor. The Feb. 25 event is hosted by, among others, 49ers tight end Vernon Davis, Mayor Ed Lee, Lee's preferred financier Ron Conway, and held at the house of downtown Democratic pillar Wade Randlett. That is a ... More >>

Christina Olague Lands New Gig with Nonprofit

After a brief, tumultuous, and largely unpleasant term on the Board of Supervisors representing the Haight, Christina Olague is back in the Mission. The former supe and planning commissioner just finished her first week at the nonprofit Arriba Juntos, where she's a program assistant. Her responsibil ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Can Relax, Effort to Recall Sheriff Isn't Gaining Momentum

The effort to recall Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi isn't happening -- at least not anytime soon. The Democratic County Central Committee had been considering moving ahead with a recall, but this week, it decided to scrap those plans, especially since it's been hard to find a financial backer to shell out t ... 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 >>

Eric Mar Wins, Volunteers Outdo Record Spending in District 1 Election

The odds were against Eric Mar. The Richmond District supervisor was seen as the most vulnerable of all San Francisco progressives up for election Tuesday -- and that was before the city's moneyed interests tried to drown him with buckets of cash.In addition to Mar's reputation as an erratic legisla ... More >>

Election 2012: Winners and Losers

There ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk -- Tom WaitsThe striking thing about assessing San Francisco's big winners and losers emerging from last night's election is that they're often the same people. In District 5, tech investor turned political money man Ron Conway's candidate, Lond ... More >>

Election 2012 -- Mo' Money, Mo' Problems?

Politicians of all stripes are wont to say that you can't solve a problem by throwing money at it. This year, however -- nationwide and particularly here in San Francisco -- the key to victory seems to be hurling about large sums of money.As SF Weekly wrote yesterday, proponents of the $195 million ... More >>

Prop. B: Parks Bond Opponents Outspent By 100-to-1 Ratio

Over the weekend, foes of Proposition B, the latest city parks bond measure, sent out a missive claiming they were being outspent by a 100-to-1 ratio. Well, that seems crazy, so we checked -- and it is, indeed, inaccurate. They're being oustpent by a 100.3 to 1 ratio. ($798,957 to $7,969). Much like ... More >>

Coit Tower Partier Joins Fund-Raising Party

On the cusp of voters' decision on how to spend the funds generated by aging landmark Coit Tower, the city announced it has unearthed $1.7 million with which to maintain its rough-around-the-edges moneymaker. Fair enough -- tourists shocked at the filth and degradation of city amenities could do wit ... 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 >>

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 >>

Jeff Adachi for mayor!

Former Newsom Campaign Manager Leads Charge For Saturday Voting

Why Tuesday? volunteers decorate a car in the Castro​Alex Tourk, head of Ground Floor Public Affairs and former campaign manager for Mayor Gavin Newsom, is spearheading the effort to qualify a ballot initiative that would extend voting hours to Saturdays in San Francisco. It's a move he and other ... More >>

Hold Fast: Did Twitter Pull Us Through the Recession?

And by Twitter of course, we mean what is known as the realtime web (yes that's now one word). On the heels of the Techcrunch Realtime Crunchup we attended in S.F. last week and approaching the Parisian Le Web next week, a savvy observer might notice that automatically tacking the word realtime on ... More >>

If They Could See Us Now

Our fashion editor's dispatch from the Vividence coming out ball