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Now I'm not trying to pile on to California, but this is just insane that a supervisor would try to get away with this. Just as goofy as the governor losing their powers to the Lt. Gov when they leave the state(that could cause problems for Arnold). Anyway...

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Temporary 'mayor' appoints 2 to board
San Francisco mayor dashes home to rescind
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 his actions 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Less than 20 minutes later, a Brown aide told Daly, 28, that his mayoral powers had been revoked.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.

But city attorneys said it looks like 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 national Sierra Club, and Robin Chiang, whose architecture firm has worked on numerous public transit projects.

According to Johnston, the mayor was particularly livid 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, who was 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.

The Public Utilities Commission oversees the city's Hetch Hetchy water and power system, which is slated to undergo a multibillion-dollar refurbishing. The commission faces difficult decisions about system expansion and whether the city should set up a public power utility.




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    Originally posted by Grimis
    Now I'm not trying to pile on to California, but this is just insane that a supervisor would try to get away with this. Just as goofy as the governor losing their powers to the Lt. Gov when they leave the state(that could cause problems for Arnold). Anyway...
Ah, however some of us would appreciate the irony of someone using political tricks AGAINST Willie Brown. Chris Daly has learned well from the master.

"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.

Translation: "We can't BELIEVE he was smart enough to pull a fast one on us and we're really smacking our foreheads at how STUPID we were."

Ah, Willie the Hat - couldn't'a happened to a nicer guy

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That item put a big ol' smile on my face this morning when I picked up the Merky News. :-) Shades of Mike Curb.

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Giving someone absolute power (relatively) is not an olive branch. It's political suicide! You flipping idiot, what WERE you thinking?

Recall the mayor!



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