S.F. Mayor Gets Rid of Lone “Conservative” Supervisor
The politics of stacking the deck.
S.F. Chronicle reports: “A day after being fired as the man in charge of Treasure Island, Tony Hall showed up at Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office Thursday with one demand: to be given his old job back on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.”
The former representative of District 7, which includes neighborhoods such as upscale Twin Peaks and St. Francis Wood, didn’t get very far. A receptionist told him Newsom was busy and later Newsom’s spokesman responded by calling the demand “laughable.”
Hall left his post on the Board of Supervisors last year when Newsom appointed him to be executive director of the Treasure Island Development Authority. The tactical move allowed the new mayor to then name his political ally Sean Elsbernd, a former aide to both Newsom and Hall, to the District 7 seat on the board.
How convenient.
But less than 24 hours after Hall was fired without cause by the island’s seven-member board of directors, four of whom work in Newsom’s administration and all of whom were appointed by him to the board or serve at his pleasure, Hall delivered a letter to the mayor’s office in which he minced no words.
“I hereby demand to be reinstated as the supervisor representing District 7,” he wrote.
The gloves are off…
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Or else what? Where is the “…or else”?
Everyone knows there has to be an or else.
There was movie made about this called Mad City with Travolta and Hoffman.
The movie is actually funnier when you contemplate it vis-a-vis all the similar real life scenarios that occur everyday. I happened to watch it during the height of the Sheehan production.