Planning Commissioner Christina Olague will be sworn in as District 5 Supervisor at 10:00 am today at City Hall, according to multiple sources. Photo by Luke Thomas.
By Luke Thomas
January 9, 2012, 9:30 am
San Francisco Planning Commissioner Christina Olague will be sworn in by Mayor Ed Lee as the next District 5 Supervisor at 10:00 am this morning, according to multiple sources.
Olague, who co-chaired the controversial “Run, Ed, Run” campaign, will serve out the remainder of Sheriff-elect and former Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s term on the Board of Supervisors.
Olague was appointed to the Planning Commission by former Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez.
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, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Noticed they cleaned up poor Olague’s swearing in video…
January 9, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Olague is one of the Gang of Four, led by Ross Mirkarimi, who abandoned the Green Party when it became fashionable to be a Democrat again after party lefties took over the DCCC and Obama was elected president.
http://district5diary.blogspot.com/2010/01/progressive-rats-abandoning-green-party.html