S.F. plans special election tied to Newsom recall, to allow voters to pick city attorney sooner
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City Attorney of San Francisco Dennis Herrera stands for a portrait outside Starr King Elementary School on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 in San Francisco, California.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors plans to call for a special election tied to the likely recall vote of Governor Gavin Newsom later this year so that voters can pick the next city attorney as soon as possible.
The supervisors unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday affirming their intent to call for the special election. Some supervisors wanted to call for the election after a recent political shakeup may soon leave the influential City Attorney post open - although they may not have time to get the city’s top lawyer on the ballot. The election could also include ballot measures, as well as a vote on the Assessor-Recorder after Mayor London Breed appointed Joaquín Torre
Free Muni pilot program passes SF Board of Supervisors
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People wear masks as they wait in a bus shelter for a San Francisco Muni bus.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in favor of a three-month “free Muni” pilot program today, the first step toward a summer of ditching your Clipper Card.
While this might sound like we’re just over a month away from hopping on the bus for free, the legislation could still be vetoed by Mayor London Breed, and even if that doesn’t happen, it would also need to be approved by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency s board.
discussion panel with us on a friday night, susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today who notably is currently at work on a biography of nancy pelosi. lonnie chan, research fellow at the hoover institution, former presidential campaign adviser to both the rubio and romney efforts. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon, and former chief counsel to the house intel committee. good evening and welcome to you all. susan, what do you make of this pelosi method, this pelosi strategy that s been called impeach and hold, which every day it s under way keeps the president from that acquittal he so badly wants. it was a little bit of surprise on wednesday night right after the impeachment vote when speaker pelosi raised the possibility that she might do this.
but it does keep for democrats maybe their only big piece of leverage when it comes to the senate majority leader, to try to force him to make a deal on what the rules are going to be for the senate trial. i think that democrats in general and pelosi in particular were alarmed when mitch mcconnell said that he did not see his role as that of an impartial juror but one who would see that the president was acquitted. this lent uncertainty to the process that s ahead. we know that the president wants this trial to happen, he wants to get acquitted, he thinks that s important. actually i think that speaker pelosi also would like to have this off the plate, that if he s going to get this acquittal which we think he will, probably, from the republican-controlled senate, she would like that to happen so democrats can go back to talking about things like health care. it s not really a delay for another two weeks because congress is out of town, nothing is going to happen until january 6th in a
somehow. it s a lot to take on. and here with our lead-off discussion panel with us on a friday night, susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today who notably is currently at work on a biography of nancy pelosi. lonnie chan, research fellow at the hoover institution, former presidential campaign adviser to both the rubio and romney efforts. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon, and former chief counsel to the house intel committee. good evening and welcome to you all. susan, what do you make of this pelosi method, this pelosi strategy that s been called impeach and hold, which every day it s under way keeps the president from that acquittal he so badly wants. it was a little bit of surprise on wednesday night right after the impeachment vote when speaker pelosi raised the possibility that she might do this. but it does keep for democrats