Good afternoon! Here’s the latest:
Two of the city’s richest pressure groups are merging, after failing to elect their mayoral candidate. Jay Cheng, the head of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, will lead the combined group under the Neighbors name; his wife Kanishka Cheng, the CEO of TogetherSF, is out. Joe Rivano Barros reports on what’s next for billionaire-backed moderates.
Mayor Daniel Lurie named his first new department head: Battalion Chief Dean Crispen will become chief of the SFFD. Crispen, a San Francisco native, was praised by colleagues as “a fireman’s fireman.”
Danny Sauter, the new D3 supervisor who’s replacing Aaron Peskin, represents a dozen very distinct neighborhoods. See which residents urgently want his helpโand which just want him to leave them alone.
For a dose of uncensored political trash-talking, check out the raunchy roast for departing D9 supe Hillary Ronen. And just for fun, take a look at our video of the stalled Waymos that disrupted Mayor Lurie’s post-inauguration party. Sail on, O Ship of State.
More soon,
Sara
Latest News
Two of S.F.โs richest pressure groups, TogetherSF and Neighbors, will merge
“We focused on the wrong thing.”
Lurieโs first appointment: New fire chief Dean Crispenย
โHe comes from the field. He is not a bureaucrat.”
Friends and colleagues roast Hillary Ronen
โLack of dick. That’s why you didn’t become President of the Board of Supervisors.”
Some D3 residents want Danny Sauter to solve their problemsโ others to be left alone
โYou donโt pick a flower if you like it.”
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by Michael Santiago
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