An influential neighborhood group serving one of San Francisco's
most crime-ridden districts has thrown its weight behind San Mateo
Police Chief Susan Manheimer as successor to San Francisco Police Chief
Heather Fong, who announced her retirement last month.
In a statement released Saturday, the Community Leadership Alliance
(CLA), a group active in the Tenderloin that has strong ties to the
mayor's office, said picking Manheimer "is an opportunity for our
police commission-mayor to make hist
Pose with the mayor and he'll support your run for higher office. It's the law. Anyone who ever languished through a Rhetoric 1A course in college knows the joys of syllogisms: We won't delve into the ins and outs, but we do recall a few examples of spectacularly bad logic, along the lines of: A. My father is bald; B. Ben Franklin was bald; C. Therefore, my father was Ben Franklin. This manner of thinking was jarringly brought to mind when I read an article on the San Francisco Bay Guardian's po