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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10 -1 today to make City Administrator Ed Lee the interim mayor, once the position is vacated by Gavin Newsom, who will be sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of California this weekend. The vote, taken by the lame-duck board, must still be ratified by the new board to become effective. Chris Daly was the only vote against Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Live blog of today's vote\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:18 p.m. Meeting adjourned. It wasn't so on like Donkey Kong tonight, but still, a decent slice of democracy, and Lee emerged as a near-consensus pick. Ed Lee is now the interim Interim Mayor. Now go talk about that \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71506865.php\">4.1 earthquake\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:18 p.m. If this were any place but SF, the fact that an earthquake occurred during the Lee vote may have been taken -- one way or the other -- as a sign from God. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:15 p.m. Roll call vote: Chiu aye. Daly no. Dufty aye. Elsbernd aye. Mar aye. Maxwell aye. Mirkarimi aye. Alioto-Pier aye. Avalos aye. Chu aye. Campos aye. Motion passes 10-1. Congratulations Ed Lee, you are now not really the interim mayor, because the office is not vacant yet. But looks like you will be...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:13 p.m. \"Despite references to Donkey Kong,\" we have orderly transition of power, says Chiu. Says he's proud of what they're about to do. But somebody just tweeted: \"Hey supervisors, nobody cares anymore. That was an earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:13 p.m. Chiu doesn't mention the earthquake, but there sure are a lot of tweets coming over the transom about it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:11 p.m. Board Pres. David Chiu's turn...Hey everyone is tweeting there's been an earthquake. Not just a political one... Some people felt it here too.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:09 p.m. \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=alioto+pier\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a> is speaking. She's being termed out, along with Daly, Dufty, and Sophie Maxwell. She's always been a yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:07 p.m. More people are clicking right now on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/07/reports-harbaugh-to-coach-49ers/\">49ers live press conference\u003c/a> announcing hiring of Jim Harbaugh than this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:02 p.m. \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=ross+mirakirimi\">Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/a>'s turn. He too is upset that Hennessey didn't make the grade on Tuesday. He too says that all signals were that Hennessey would be acceptable to Newsom. This \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/behind-scenes-power-politics-making-ed/\">inside look\u003c/a> at how the process unfolded by the Bay Citizen today says the following: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"... the contenders — Sheriff Michael Hennessey, former Mayor Art Agnos and Aaron Peskin, the chairman of the city’s Democratic Party — were deemed too liberal by Pak, Brown and Newsom, who are more moderate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:58 p.m. Here comes The Daly Show. To wit: \"Go along to get along\" isn't a good thing. He cites his words from Tuesday. \"Something is not right, not just with process,\" but in, I quote: \"The world.\" If Lee surprises Daly, then he'll apologize. But in Lee, all Daly sees is status quote. As \"candidate Obama said, we need change...what we have in front of us will not address fundamental injustices in SF.\" He's a no vote. But I wonder: Ed Lee will just be an interim mayor, no? Would even a dyed-in-the-wool progressive interim be able to galvanzie any change in business as usual?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:54 p.m. Eric Mar's up. His recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/04/the-daily-show-san-francisco-happy-meal-toy-ban/\">appearance\u003c/a> on The Daily Show comes to mind. Didn't look too good there, coming off better now. He's a yes vote. Rose Pak said \"it's a done deal,\" and boy it sure looks that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:52 p.m. Avalos speaking, sound like a yes. Looks like it's going to be a landslide. 10-1? A vote against Lee would be something \"setting us way back.\" Like Campos, he has questions about process. Doesn't like Newsom's delaying his Lt Guv swearing-in in order to influence the process for interim mayor. But he's going to vote yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:51 p.m. \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/njudah\">N Judah Chronicles\u003c/a> is tweeting the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:45 p.m. Campos talks about significance to Chinese-American community. Knows what it's like when a community that's been excluded feels one of their own will take charge. Says the supes should keep this in mind. Hopes Ed Lee will provide \"due process\" rights for all citizens. Talking about SF as \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/san-francisco-sanctuary-c_n_566954.html\">sanctuary city\u003c/a>. Wants to make sure Lee's on board with that. He's going to vote for Lee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:40 p.m. David Campos now speaking. Talking about nomination for Hennessey, which failed. Says Hennessey didn't deserve treatment he received, accepted nomination only after hearing from peopel allied with Newsom and Newsom himself. Says he's been open to Lee serving in role of interim mayor. Campos says he's spoken to Le twice now. Doesn't like the process that's taken shape. At end of day, he's \"very disappointed\" in process and way votes have shifted, the real question is \"Can Ed Lee do this job?\" Yes, Campos says. He's no \"lightweight,\" as Aaron Peskin said in a press report. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:38 p.m. Rose Pak is there, apparently. Daly says if nominations were opened up again, he'd \"go ahead and nominate Rose Pak.\" That's an allusion to Pak's behind-the-scenes role, along with Willie Brown, in getting Lee to this point. He's really going after her now. Daly said same thing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/under-dome/2011/01/daly-why-not-just-make-pak-mayor\">Examiner\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:35 p.m. \"If (he) ends up being appointed successor mayor,\" for the 12 months following that term, he cannot have full-time employment from the city and county of San Francisco\" after. That's the whole issue of Lee wanting an exemption from being excluded from taking over his old job as City Administrator. Talk is they are going to change that law to accomodate Lee's candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:33 p.m. Daly cites this \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/newsoms-dual-role-raises-legal-quandary/\">Bay Citizen article\u003c/a>: \"Newsom's Dual Role Raises Legal Quandary.\" Says Bay Citizen's \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/behind-scenes-power-politics-making-ed/\">piece\u003c/a> today delving into how Lee got made as the candidate was \"best piece of journalism\" he's seen in city in a long time. (It was an excellent piece.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:30 p.m. Now Daly's embroiled in a complicated conversation about conflict-of-interest rules with an attorney whose name and position I didn't catch. Not sure who she represents. Daly says he's \"exhausted himself\" on this point. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:25 p.m. Daly asks why Dufty is not conflicted out of this vote as he is running for mayor. Cites example of Dennis Herrera, City Attorney, who recused himself from consulting on interim mayor decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:23 p.m. \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/mlnow\">Mission Local\u003c/a> is tweeting the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:22 p.m. Eric Mar says he was \"deeply troubled\" with breakdown of civlity at last meeting. Votes to re-open nominations. Dufty says no. Mar is aye. Maxwell is no. Mirkarimi aye. Alioto-Pier no. Avalos no. Campos aye. Five ayes, six nos, Daly loses that one. He will not be able to submit a new name for nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:18 p.m. They're going over what happened at Tuesday's meeting and whose in nomination tonight. Peskin, Lee, Hennessey. Peskin said he didn't want it, so Daly is asked to withdraw Peskin nomination. Daly does. Asks if he can open new nomination. Makes motion to re-open nomination given that his candidate declined. He needs a majority vote. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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She's always been a yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:07 p.m. More people are clicking right now on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/07/reports-harbaugh-to-coach-49ers/\">49ers live press conference\u003c/a> announcing hiring of Jim Harbaugh than this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4:02 p.m. \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=ross+mirakirimi\">Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/a>'s turn. He too is upset that Hennessey didn't make the grade on Tuesday. He too says that all signals were that Hennessey would be acceptable to Newsom. This \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/behind-scenes-power-politics-making-ed/\">inside look\u003c/a> at how the process unfolded by the Bay Citizen today says the following: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"... the contenders — Sheriff Michael Hennessey, former Mayor Art Agnos and Aaron Peskin, the chairman of the city’s Democratic Party — were deemed too liberal by Pak, Brown and Newsom, who are more moderate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:58 p.m. Here comes The Daly Show. To wit: \"Go along to get along\" isn't a good thing. He cites his words from Tuesday. \"Something is not right, not just with process,\" but in, I quote: \"The world.\" If Lee surprises Daly, then he'll apologize. But in Lee, all Daly sees is status quote. As \"candidate Obama said, we need change...what we have in front of us will not address fundamental injustices in SF.\" He's a no vote. But I wonder: Ed Lee will just be an interim mayor, no? Would even a dyed-in-the-wool progressive interim be able to galvanzie any change in business as usual?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:54 p.m. Eric Mar's up. His recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/04/the-daily-show-san-francisco-happy-meal-toy-ban/\">appearance\u003c/a> on The Daily Show comes to mind. Didn't look too good there, coming off better now. He's a yes vote. Rose Pak said \"it's a done deal,\" and boy it sure looks that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:52 p.m. Avalos speaking, sound like a yes. Looks like it's going to be a landslide. 10-1? A vote against Lee would be something \"setting us way back.\" Like Campos, he has questions about process. Doesn't like Newsom's delaying his Lt Guv swearing-in in order to influence the process for interim mayor. But he's going to vote yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:51 p.m. \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/njudah\">N Judah Chronicles\u003c/a> is tweeting the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:45 p.m. Campos talks about significance to Chinese-American community. Knows what it's like when a community that's been excluded feels one of their own will take charge. Says the supes should keep this in mind. Hopes Ed Lee will provide \"due process\" rights for all citizens. Talking about SF as \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/san-francisco-sanctuary-c_n_566954.html\">sanctuary city\u003c/a>. Wants to make sure Lee's on board with that. He's going to vote for Lee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:40 p.m. David Campos now speaking. Talking about nomination for Hennessey, which failed. Says Hennessey didn't deserve treatment he received, accepted nomination only after hearing from peopel allied with Newsom and Newsom himself. Says he's been open to Lee serving in role of interim mayor. Campos says he's spoken to Le twice now. Doesn't like the process that's taken shape. At end of day, he's \"very disappointed\" in process and way votes have shifted, the real question is \"Can Ed Lee do this job?\" Yes, Campos says. He's no \"lightweight,\" as Aaron Peskin said in a press report. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:38 p.m. Rose Pak is there, apparently. Daly says if nominations were opened up again, he'd \"go ahead and nominate Rose Pak.\" That's an allusion to Pak's behind-the-scenes role, along with Willie Brown, in getting Lee to this point. He's really going after her now. Daly said same thing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/under-dome/2011/01/daly-why-not-just-make-pak-mayor\">Examiner\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:35 p.m. \"If (he) ends up being appointed successor mayor,\" for the 12 months following that term, he cannot have full-time employment from the city and county of San Francisco\" after. That's the whole issue of Lee wanting an exemption from being excluded from taking over his old job as City Administrator. Talk is they are going to change that law to accomodate Lee's candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:33 p.m. Daly cites this \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/newsoms-dual-role-raises-legal-quandary/\">Bay Citizen article\u003c/a>: \"Newsom's Dual Role Raises Legal Quandary.\" Says Bay Citizen's \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/behind-scenes-power-politics-making-ed/\">piece\u003c/a> today delving into how Lee got made as the candidate was \"best piece of journalism\" he's seen in city in a long time. (It was an excellent piece.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3:30 p.m. Now Daly's embroiled in a complicated conversation about conflict-of-interest rules with an attorney whose name and position I didn't catch. Not sure who she represents. 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"content": "\u003cp>The recessed San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting is back on this afternoon, and it should be a dilly -- the Super Bowl of public access cable TV in terms of interest and -- one has to say -- hype. (You can \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>watch it live here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at 3 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only item on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/agendas/2011/BAG010711.pdf\">agenda\u003c/a>? Picking an interim mayor to follow Gavin Newsom, who will finally move on to Sacramento to take the reins of lieutenant government, but only after he puts his stamp firmly on the choice of his successor in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Shafer puts today's vote in perspective in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201101071104\">conversation\u003c/a> with Joshua Johnson, pointing out that today's vote is, as Newsom spokesman Tony Winnicker told Shafer today, \"essentially symbolic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, some on the current Board don't see it that way. Listen to this \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/01/JohnAvalos.mp3\">interview\u003c/a> of Supervisor John Avalos, a member of the board's progressive bloc, by KQED's Rachel Dornhelm on Monday.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/01/JohnAvalos.mp3\">\u003cem>Rachel Dornhelm interviews John Avalos\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/01/JohnAvalos.mp3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever we do tomorrow,\" Avalos freely acknowledges, \"is not going to be as important as what we do on Saturday the eighth or after Saturday the eighth,\" (when Newsom officially leaves office). \"(The interim choice) would not really be appointed until there's a vacancy in the mayor's office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So at this point \" Dornhelm later suggests, \"it would be more of an advisory kind of pick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be an appointment that would have to be ratified at a later date, and with a new board it could be a different appointment,\" Avalos responds, declining to characterize the vote as \"advisory,\" \"symbolic,\" or any other pejorative that might diminish the urgency of even holding a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Avalos feels it's important for the outgoing board to make its feelings known on who the temporary mayor should be, fellow progressive supervisor Chris Daly apparently thinks it's a matter of the utmost significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, when supervisors appeared \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/video-chris-daly-loses-it-at-supes-meeting/\">poised\u003c/a> to vote for City Administrator Ed Lee, Daly threw an epic \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/01/ChrisDaly.mp3\">fit\u003c/a>, labeling the choice \"the biggest political fumble in the history of progressive politics in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is awfully hyperbolic, considering the impermanent nature of the vote and the interim mayor's carefully preordained political status -- in order to mollify \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Bevan-Dufty-Throws-Hat-Goatee-Into-SF-Mayors-Race-61123902.html\">mayoral hopefuls\u003c/a> on the board -- as a mere caretaker with no ambitions of parlaying his provisional status into a run for election in November, 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statutorily unsanctioned nature of tonight's vote makes it hard to even conjure up a good term for Lee's status if he wins. \"Temporary interim mayor\"? \"Provisionally designated lame-duck choice?\" And even if Daly -- who at least managed to wrangle a recess out of the Board before it officially voted for Lee on Tuesday -- has over the last couple of days managed to peel off the two votes necessary to quash Lee's tentative ascension, is there really any chance that Lee will not eventually be confirmed by the new Board, which will include four new members?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen today ran an excellent \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/behind-scenes-power-politics-making-ed/\">behind-the-scenes look\u003c/a> at just how Lee, who had not been mentioned in any of the pre-vote speculation, emerged as the candidate to beat. Long story short: Former mayor Willie Brown and influential Chinese-American political activist Rose Pak, in league with the Newsom administration, engineered the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">nomination\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems unlikely to me that this politically potent team would have floated Lee without making sure that they at least had the votes on the incoming Board. In fact, Pak is so confident that Lee will be the next mayor, she told KQED's Tara Siler yesterday that Lee's nomination was a \"done deal, no ifs ands or buts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pak was attending a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/06/chinese-chamber-of-commerce-says-ed-lee-will-issue-statement-today/\">press conference\u003c/a> set up by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, set up to show support for Lee from the Chinese-American community. Pak defended Lee's progressive credentials and criticized his detractors on the Board:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/01/RosePak.mp3\">\u003cem>Rose Pak defends Ed Lee against the criticism of progressive supervisors\u003c/em>\u003c/a>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/01/RosePak.mp3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this article from the \u003ca href=\"http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/01/ed-lee-progressive-or-willie.php\">SF Appeal\u003c/a> yesterday takes some issue with that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ed Lee has close ties to Pak, who has close ties to Willie Brown and Newsom...And if Ed Lee retains Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kava, as he is almost certain to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It means Willie Brown and Rose Pak run City Hall for another year,\" said one local politician. \"Just like they have for the last 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That's something Daly would agree with. \"Why not cut out the middleman and just make Rose Pak the next mayor?\" Daly is quoted as saying in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/under-dome/2011/01/daly-why-not-just-make-pak-mayor\">Examiner\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe. 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The Mayor, various supervisors and members of the public have approached me about serving in this position. I love this city, and will agree to serve as Mayor, if that is the will of the Board of Supervisors. And I agree to do this on behalf of the people of San Francisco that I have served for over 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our collective challenge clear (sic). We must balance the City's budget without jeopardizing the social services our people depend on. Fundamentally, it is our responsibility to address the budget shortfall and set a path for reviving the local economy. If appointed, I pledge to spend my energies to balance the budget, create jobs, and make our City more financially secure. And, I will do my best to accomplish these goals without disrupting basic city services.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In addition to publicizing Lee's willingness to become mayor, about 10 people spoke in support of Lee, now traveling in the Far East. 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