{"id":12926,"date":"2010-12-10T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-11T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:08:55","slug":"what-happens-when-sfs-city-leaders-move-to-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/10\/what-happens-when-sfs-city-leaders-move-to-sacramento\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When SF&#8217;s City Leaders Move to Sacramento?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17665491?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" align=right width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>By now, you may have heard that much of San Francisco&#8217;s political leadership is moving on up in about a month or so. &nbsp;But just how San Francisco moves on from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris &nbsp;(note: I worked on her campaign, but I have no inside details on this) is still up in the air. &nbsp;The Wall Street Journal has <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703350104575653150624924346.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_SanFranciscoBayArea68_2\">something of a primer on the issues<\/a>. It&#8217;s a decent enough start, portraying the various scenarios. &nbsp;For a more entertaining take, watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfnecessaryconversation.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/episode-15-special-mayoral-selection.html\">Necessary Conversation<\/a> video on your right. But as somebody who is pretty involved in local politics, these are the decision points, as it were, that I see:<\/p>\n<p>1) When will Gavin Newsom switch gigs?<\/p>\n<p>Officially, Abel Maldonado&#8217;s term ends on January 3, like all other statewide officers. And that is the date that Gavin Newsom is supposed to be sworn in as LG. &nbsp;However, he is trying to push back that date a few days in order to get his replacement selected by the new Board of Supervisors that is sworn in on Jan 7. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, if he is able to push back his inauguration date, the other thing that would bring him is the ability to appoint the interim DA. &nbsp;He&#8217;s hinted that he would respect the opinion of Kamala Harris on that pick, but would, if he makes that call, be the one with the final decision on DA.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it isn&#8217;t totally clear whether he will push the date back, but, legally it looks like he might be able to do it. &nbsp;That has to give it a pretty good chance of happening, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a 60% shot now.<\/p>\n<p>2) Does anybody have 6 votes?<\/p>\n<p>That is the big question, and right now, it seems that there are only a few people that could legitimately claim to have those votes. And one of them, Asm. Tom Ammiano, has said that he doesn&#8217;t want the job. &nbsp;Sup. Chris Daly seems intent on twisting Ammiano&#8217;s arm into taking the gig. &nbsp;State Sen. Mark Leno would probably have the votes as well, but as he was just appointed Senate Budget Chair, I&#8217;m not sure that he would want the gig either. &nbsp;Sen. Leland Yee really, really wants the job, but doesn&#8217;t have the 6 votes. &nbsp;City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Assessor Phil Ting are also running for mayor, but don&#8217;t appear to have the 6 votes necessary<\/p>\n<p>Now, if nobody is able to get to 6 votes, the Board President automatically becomes acting mayor. Right now that is Sup. David Chiu. &nbsp;Chiu is also the favorite to retain that position on the new board, and would thus get the mayor&#8217;s new gig. &nbsp;Now, that wouldn&#8217;t make him &#8220;interim&#8221; mayor, but just acting. The big difference is that the acting mayor can be replaced by the board, whereas the interim mayor cannot. Chiu is also rumored to be considering a full run at the Mayor&#8217;s office if he is named to be interim Mayor. &nbsp;And, running as something of an incumbent, he would at least be in a much stronger position than he is for that right now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and just to make things more complicated, there have also been rumors that Chiu is interested in the DA position as well.<\/p>\n<p>3) A care taker?<\/p>\n<p>If the progressive bloc can&#8217;t get something together to choose an interim mayor, Sheriff Mike Henessey and SFPUC General Manager Ed Harrington are rumored &#8220;caretaker&#8221; Mayors. &nbsp;The election is just 11 months away, so a caretaker mayor would allow the voters to actually choose the next Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>There are really too many variables to consider, but hopefully this flood of information will somewhat valuable as we watch to see the dominoes fall in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17665491?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" align=right width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>By now, you may have heard that much of San Francisco&#8217;s political leadership is moving on up in about a month or so. &nbsp;But just how San Francisco moves on from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris &nbsp;(note: I worked on her campaign, but I have no inside details on this) is still up in the air. &nbsp;The Wall Street Journal has <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703350104575653150624924346.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_SanFranciscoBayArea68_2\">something of a primer on the issues<\/a>. It&#8217;s a decent enough start, portraying the various scenarios. &nbsp;For a more entertaining take, watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfnecessaryconversation.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/episode-15-special-mayoral-selection.html\">Necessary Conversation<\/a> video on your right. But as somebody who is pretty involved in local politics, these are the decision points, as it were, that I see:<\/p>\n<p>1) When will Gavin Newsom switch gigs?<\/p>\n<p>Officially, Abel Maldonado&#8217;s term ends on January 3, like all other statewide officers. And that is the date that Gavin Newsom is supposed to be sworn in as LG. &nbsp;However, he is trying to push back that date a few days in order to get his replacement selected by the new Board of Supervisors that is sworn in on Jan 7. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, if he is able to push back his inauguration date, the other thing that would bring him is the ability to appoint the interim DA. &nbsp;He&#8217;s hinted that he would respect the opinion of Kamala Harris on that pick, but would, if he makes that call, be the one with the final decision on DA.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it isn&#8217;t totally clear whether he will push the date back, but, legally it looks like he might be able to do it. &nbsp;That has to give it a pretty good chance of happening, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a 60% shot now.<\/p>\n<p>2) Does anybody have 6 votes?<\/p>\n<p>That is the big question, and right now, it seems that there are only a few people that could legitimately claim to have those votes. And one of them, Asm. Tom Ammiano, has said that he doesn&#8217;t want the job. &nbsp;Sup. Chris Daly seems intent on twisting Ammiano&#8217;s arm into taking the gig. &nbsp;State Sen. Mark Leno would probably have the votes as well, but as he was just appointed Senate Budget Chair, I&#8217;m not sure that he would want the gig either. &nbsp;Sen. Leland Yee really, really wants the job, but doesn&#8217;t have the 6 votes. &nbsp;City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Assessor Phil Ting are also running for mayor, but don&#8217;t appear to have the 6 votes necessary<\/p>\n<p>Now, if nobody is able to get to 6 votes, the Board President automatically becomes acting mayor. Right now that is Sup. David Chiu. &nbsp;Chiu is also the favorite to retain that position on the new board, and would thus get the mayor&#8217;s new gig. &nbsp;Now, that wouldn&#8217;t make him &#8220;interim&#8221; mayor, but just acting. The big difference is that the acting mayor can be replaced by the board, whereas the interim mayor cannot. Chiu is also rumored to be considering a full run at the Mayor&#8217;s office if he is named to be interim Mayor. &nbsp;And, running as something of an incumbent, he would at least be in a much stronger position than he is for that right now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and just to make things more complicated, there have also been rumors that Chiu is interested in the DA position as well.<\/p>\n<p>3) A care taker?<\/p>\n<p>If the progressive bloc can&#8217;t get something together to choose an interim mayor, Sheriff Mike Henessey and SFPUC General Manager Ed Harrington are rumored &#8220;caretaker&#8221; Mayors. &nbsp;The election is just 11 months away, so a caretaker mayor would allow the voters to actually choose the next Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>There are really too many variables to consider, but hopefully this flood of information will somewhat valuable as we watch to see the dominoes fall in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[487,3573],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","tag-487","tag-3573"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}