It’s 7:08 a.m., 58° and going to 66°. Wasn’t it lovely yesterday – felt like fall, but warmer than our summer? The 10-day forecast is here, but basically, it looks hopeful. Some coolish weather this week, and then it moves into the 70s.
For Vegan’s out there, 7×7 offers a list of 50 dishes to eat your way through. There are plenty of possibilities in the Mission. Any surprises? Well, I have not tried the eggplant caponatina at Baretta’s.
So, we have 16 candidates for governor and it’s time to start working through the profiles. The San Francisco Chronicle ran one Monday of Beven Dufty
Here are two choice paragraphs:
A gay Jew who was raised in Harlem, Dufty is hard to define. He’s one part Castro district socialite, one part scrappy underdog fighting A-list competitors, and one part political insider, counting on the No. 2 endorsement of former mayor and power broker Willie Brown.
At the Irish candidates forum, he was Bevan Doyle Dufty. When he’s touring the Bayview, he makes sure everyone knows his godmother was jazz singer Billie Holiday. He can discuss his favorite Tequila with a 95-year-old woman as easily as he can discuss the benefits of the Central Subway with a skeptical budget hawk.
The whole piece is worth a read.
So far walking around the Mission, sitting Mayor Ed Lee and District 11 Supervisor John Avalos lead the count in signs and stickers plastered around.
Ana Perez, executive director, of the Central American Resource Center on Mission St. told us last week that she’s noticed at a few political events that Avalos has attracted a following among some of the Mission’s newest tech/hipster residents.
What does a mayor do? More on that tomorrow.