Board of Supervisors President David Chiu today released
his much anticipated committee assignments.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
January 21, 2009
Following much anticipation, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu today made public his committee assignments.
In looking at the assignments, from the perspective of the right-leaning moderate bloc, particularly at the Budget, Land Use, and Rules Committee assignments, Chiu has made clear he wants Progressives to control the levers of legislative power.
Budget & Finance Committee
John Avalos, Chair
Ross Mirkarimi, Vice Chair
Carmen Chu, Member
David Campos, Temporary Member
Bevan Dufty, Temporary Member
Land Use & Economic Development Committee
Sophie Maxwell, Chair
Eric Mar, Vice Chair
David Chiu, Member
Rules Committee
Chris Daly, Chair
Carmen Chu, Vice Chair
David Campos, Member
Government Audits & Oversight Committee
Ross Mirkarimi, Chair
Eric Mar, Vice Chair
Sophie Maxwell, Member
Public Safety Committee
David Campos, Chair
Ross Mirkarimi, Vice Chair
Michela Alioto-Pier, Member
City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee
Bevan Dufty, Chair
Chris Daly, Vice Chair
Michela Alioto-Pier, Member
School District Committee
Sean Elsbernd, Chair
Bevan Dufty, Vice Chair
John Avalos, Member
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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January 26, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Putting Gavin’s rubber stamp Carmen Chu on any committee is the continuing downward fall of this once fab City.
January 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm
No Manny, just one of his opinionated surrogates. Hi Jerry…except for Sophie.
January 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.”
— Eugene McCarthy
January 22, 2009 at 8:14 am
I say that this is a very good job of assignments.
January 22, 2009 at 1:22 am
Is that you, Francisco Da Costa?
January 21, 2009 at 5:09 pm
VIXEN IN THE HEN-HOUSE.
Only one glaring error.
Maxwell “The Barbarian at the Gates” of the Bayview, occupying a seat from which she can continue colluding in Lennar’s landgrab.