Joe Alioto Veronese is exploring a run in the race for District 2 Supervisor.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
September 24, 2009, 9:00 pm
Former San Francisco Police Commissioner Joe Alioto-Veronese is exploring a possible run in the 2010 race for District 2 Supervisor, Fog City Journal has learned.
“I have received dozens of requests from community leaders, neighborhood merchants and public safety officials to be their candidate in District 2. As a new father and a lifetime resident of the neighborhood, it would be an honor to fight for the priorities of the district and this great City,” Veronese responded to FCJ inquiry. “I am exploring the race in conference with my wife and family, and will decide timely.”
Veronese, 36, is the grandson of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, and son of former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Angela Alioto and Adolfo Veronese. He is a practicing civil-rights attorney and owns and operates a vineyard in Sonoma County.
Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Veronese to the San Francisco Police Commission in 2004. Despite political pressure from Newsom, Veronese cast the deciding vote to elect Theresa Sparks as commission president, the first transgendered person to head a big city commission in the U.S.
In 2007 Veronese ran for California State Senate (District 3) against then incumbent Senator Carole Migden, but withdrew his candidacy three months before the Democratic Party Primary in June 2008. Veronese cited former Assemblymember Joe Nation’s candidacy as the primary reason for his withdrawal from the race.
Should he officially declare his candidacy, and all expectations are that he will, Veronese will face stiff opposition from current front-runner Janet Reilly. Other District 2 contenders include Mark Farrell, Vilma Guinto Peoro, Robert McCullough, and Allen Zigman.
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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October 5, 2009 at 6:45 am
Anyone who’s seen Newsom appointee Alioto-Veronese at work on the Police Commission knows what a bad idea this is.
September 28, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Agreed, I’m sick of the oligarchy, patriarchy, matriarchy, the whole fukin Pacific Heights mafioso, feinstein, pelosi, newsom, fisher(rip), et al. However i still have a very soft/hard spot for Angela, she does have heart, cojones and hutzpah, which is something 90%+ of our ‘local leaders’ lack. Unfortunately Missing in Action Pier has tarnished both daddy and the family name.
Forget Leno – Lennar’s latest sock-puppet.
Scuttle Newsom’s Lollipop ship
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Thank you again Tom dahlink
RUN JEFF RUN
September 26, 2009 at 11:37 pm
So here we have a case of one family and its delusions enabling the ambitions of another. Alioto elects Janet Reilly.
September 25, 2009 at 2:36 am
He can keep exploring. Just the name Alioto has been ruined by Michela. If astro turf Chiu could beat him, you know that MAP has ruined the Alioto name.
September 24, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Ummh … Does the Alioto family believe that the District 2 Supervisor seat is a family heirloom?? Haven’t we suffered enough with Joe’s cousin, Michela??
For crying out loud, we had a Revolution from England to get rid of these family monarchies. And who are the community leaders in District 2 who are apparently clamoring to have Joe Alioto-Veronese run — *and* are not members of the Alioto family??
I grew up in Chicago, and I’ve had enough of family machine politics. I moved to California, because you can be a nobody and make it here. No one cares who your parents are, and what family you came from. That’s the way it should be …