SanDiegoCJ
10-24-2003, 07:37 AM
What a fawking bunch of idiots. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n24mayor.html
S.F. mayor cuts short trip to deal with supervisor
By Lisa Leff
ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 24, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO – An outraged Mayor Willie Brown decided to cut short a trip to Asia yesterday to contend with a political coup by a city supervisor who made two key appointments in the 14 hours he acted as mayor.
"It's like a father having to return home to deal with unruly children," Brown's spokesman, P.J. Johnston, said of the mayor's efforts to book a flight back to San Francisco before his scheduled return Monday.
As mayor-for-the-day Wednesday, Supervisor Chris Daly secretly appointed and swore in two environmentalists to the city's Public Utilities Commission, then announced the appointments on official letterhead he had drawn up for the occasion.
Less than 20 minutes later, a Brown aide told Daly, 28, that his mayoral powers had been revoked. A Brown ally, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, stepped in and immediately tried to undo Daly's appointments by naming two commission members supported by Brown, including one the mayor had endorsed to the Board of Supervisors the day before he left for China.
City attorneys said it looks as if Daly's power play will be successful unless Brown can persuade at least eight of San Francisco's 11 supervisors to reject Daly's appointees: Adam Werbach, former president of the Sierra Club, and Robin Chiang, whose architecture firm has worked on numerous public transit projects.
Johnston said the mayor was particularly angry because the mayor-for-the-day honors had been intended as an olive branch to Daly, with whom Brown has never gotten along. Before Wednesday, Daly, elected in 2000, was the only supervisor Brown had never asked to fill in for him.
"Mr. Daly showed he is still the spoiled little brat of San Francisco politics that we all knew him to be, totally abused the limited powers afforded him as acting mayor and betrayed the grudging respect that Mayor Brown had shown him by doing something that is totally unprecedented," Johnston said.
Daly's voice mail box at City Hall was full yesterday, but earlier he defended his actions, which he said he had plotted for several days.
"When you ask if this is what should have been done, you have to look at what's good for San Francisco," Daly said.
Copyright 2003 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n24mayor.html
S.F. mayor cuts short trip to deal with supervisor
By Lisa Leff
ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 24, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO – An outraged Mayor Willie Brown decided to cut short a trip to Asia yesterday to contend with a political coup by a city supervisor who made two key appointments in the 14 hours he acted as mayor.
"It's like a father having to return home to deal with unruly children," Brown's spokesman, P.J. Johnston, said of the mayor's efforts to book a flight back to San Francisco before his scheduled return Monday.
As mayor-for-the-day Wednesday, Supervisor Chris Daly secretly appointed and swore in two environmentalists to the city's Public Utilities Commission, then announced the appointments on official letterhead he had drawn up for the occasion.
Less than 20 minutes later, a Brown aide told Daly, 28, that his mayoral powers had been revoked. A Brown ally, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, stepped in and immediately tried to undo Daly's appointments by naming two commission members supported by Brown, including one the mayor had endorsed to the Board of Supervisors the day before he left for China.
City attorneys said it looks as if Daly's power play will be successful unless Brown can persuade at least eight of San Francisco's 11 supervisors to reject Daly's appointees: Adam Werbach, former president of the Sierra Club, and Robin Chiang, whose architecture firm has worked on numerous public transit projects.
Johnston said the mayor was particularly angry because the mayor-for-the-day honors had been intended as an olive branch to Daly, with whom Brown has never gotten along. Before Wednesday, Daly, elected in 2000, was the only supervisor Brown had never asked to fill in for him.
"Mr. Daly showed he is still the spoiled little brat of San Francisco politics that we all knew him to be, totally abused the limited powers afforded him as acting mayor and betrayed the grudging respect that Mayor Brown had shown him by doing something that is totally unprecedented," Johnston said.
Daly's voice mail box at City Hall was full yesterday, but earlier he defended his actions, which he said he had plotted for several days.
"When you ask if this is what should have been done, you have to look at what's good for San Francisco," Daly said.
Copyright 2003 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.