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See, Hennessey was the fallback to avoid a Mayor Agnos, who the Newsom team had concluded had reached six votes by Sunday. And Agnos was not wearing their jersey. In fact, he wasn’t even in the stands for them. Nope, he represented a game change they couldn’t accept because it would jeopardize everything from key commission appointments like Planning to policies like community policing to public power to local hire laws to sanctuary city.
Hall joins termed out Supervisor Bevan Dufty and City Attorney Dennis Herrera as the only electeds so far to have declared candidacies for the open seat. State Senators Leland Yee and Mark Leno; District Attorney Kamala Harris; Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Michela Alioto-Pier; and former Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez; are also rumored to be considering candidacies.
Class of 2000: Supervisors Tony Hall, Sophie Maxwell, Chris Daly, Leland Yee, Jake McGoldrick, Tom Ammiano (BOS Prez), Mark Leno, Aaron Peskin, Matt Gonzalez, Gerardo Sandoval and Gavin Newsom. Class of 2008: Supervisors Michela Alioto-Pier,…
Hall, you’ll recall, was forced to drop out of the 2007 race for mayor and, subsequently, the 2008 race for District 7 supervisor when a “politically motivated†anonymous complaint filed with the San Francisco Ethics Commission triggered a yearlong investigation into alleged campaign finance violations by Hall in connection with his 2004 re-election campaign for supervisor. Hall believes the anonymous complaint was penned by Attorney Jim Sutton on behalf of Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd to eliminate Hall as a threat to Newsom and Elsbernd’s respective re-election campaigns.
Flanked by co-defense counsel David Waggoner (right) and Peter Bagatelos (left), Former District 7 Supervisor Tony Hall breaks a smile when the San Francisco Ethics Commission finds him guilty on two minor counts of campaign…
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd aide, Olivia Scanlon. File photo by Luke Thomas Case Against Hall Evaporates When Aide to Sup. Sean Elsbernd Refuses to Answer Questions About Allegedly Forged Campaign Documents By Frank Gallagher Editor’s Note:…
h. brown Photos by Luke Thomas By h. brown October 28, 2008 The star witness refused to lie under oath. The chief prosecutor called the defendant a “liar” and said that he’d “intimidated witnesses.” This…
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