{"id":1196,"date":"2009-04-27T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/27\/politics-as-usual-defeats-daly-in-race-for-region-4-director\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T02:52:53","slug":"politics-as-usual-defeats-daly-in-race-for-region-4-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1196\/politics-as-usual-defeats-daly-in-race-for-region-4-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics As Usual Defeats Daly in Race for Region 4 Director"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPolitics as usual: Incumbent August Longo wins applause
\nfrom supporters following his victory over challenger Supervisor Chris Daly
\nin the race for California Democratic Party Region 4 Director.
\nPhotos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

April 27, 2009<\/p>\n

In a battle won by the forces of protectionism and retribution, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly tasted for the first time Saturday the bitterness of political defeat.<\/p>\n

“I walked into the Democratic establishment buzz saw,” Daly told FCJ following his defeat to incumbent August Longo in what became a referendum on Daly in the race for Region 4 Director of the California Democratic Party. “Mark Leno didn’t just deliver the candidate’s speech on behalf of the incumbent, he joined with Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Jackie Speier, and Assemblymembers Fiona Ma and Jerry Hill in ordering discipline in their voting blocks against me.”<\/p>\n

“Kamala Harris teamed with Newsom operatives on the phones,” Daly added.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, it was a race Daly could not win despite Longo’s reported criminal history<\/a> and bearing the reputation of being a placeholder vote for California Democratic Party Chair John Burton on the Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC); an important electoral body wrested from Party moderate control last year by Daly.<\/p>\n

“The reality is, August Longo started months ago,” DCCC Chair Aaron Peskin said. “Chris Daly started ten days ago,” adding that Longo lined up his delegate endorsement commitments in January.<\/p>\n

But, in reality, Daly’s late entrance to the race does not begin to tell half the story that helps to explain why Daly received 28 votes to Longo’s 77.<\/p>\n

“[Daly’s] just pissed too many of the wrong people off,” said one observer who requested not to be sourced, “and political payback is always a bitch in this game.”<\/p>\n

That payback came in the form of retribution from an infuriated Larry Mazzola Jr., whose appointment to the Golden Gate Bridge Highway Transportation District (GGTD) commission was rejected<\/a> by a 6-5 vote by the Board of Supervisors on the grounds Mazzola is unqualified and lacks the necessary experience to represent the City and County of San Francisco on important bridge and transportation projects.<\/p>\n

Unwilling to accept his defeat gracefully, Mazzola rounded up the building trades troops to protest<\/a> last week’s annual San Francisco Democratic Party “Unity” Luncheon, a protest that focused attention on labeling Daly and Peskin “union busters,” despite Daly’s record of supporting working families and labor causes.<\/p>\n


\nLocal 38’s Larry Mazzola Jr. leads a protest against “union busters”
\noutside the San Francisco Drake Hotel.<\/p>\n

Mazzola’s venom for Daly didn’t end there; it spilled out onto the California Democratic Party convention floor in Sacramento, with Mazzola orchestrating a leafleting campaign against Daly.<\/p>\n

“Don’t vote for Daly,” the Local 38 leaflet began. “Labor loses seat held for 50 years because of Chris Daly’s personal vendetta… against a labor union which opposed his election two years ago.”<\/p>\n

True, Daly did oppose Mazzola’s appointment to the GGTD and that opposition was, in part, politically motivated<\/a>, no more or less so than any other political appointment. But along with Supervisor David Campos, Daly asked labor to forward for consideration a qualified labor applicant, a compromise offer the house of labor stubbornly refused.<\/p>\n

Other delegates said Daly is the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons, a political firebrand who would use the position of Regional Director to advance his Progressive brand of politics, a would be threat to the establishment status quo.<\/p>\n

“This is not a political position,” said DCCC member Hene Kelly when asked why she supported Longo.<\/p>\n

“This is an administrative job,” opined California Senator Mark Leno during a three-minute speech made on behalf of Longo, at Longo’s request. “It’s a job that requires that when the Party makes a decision – whether one likes it or not – it must be executed. That’s the job of the Regional Director, and August has done it very, very well.”<\/p>\n


\nSenator Mark Leno shakes Larry Mazzola Jr’s hand
\nwith Hene Kelly (right).<\/p>\n


\nMark Leno speaks on behalf of August Longo (left).<\/p>\n

“I think the main difference between Chris and I is that Chris has a political agenda that he thinks he wants to bring to the job,” Longo said following his re-election, “and I don’t think that’s what the Regional Director does.”<\/p>\n

Listing his political priorities during his alloted three-minute speech before delegates, Daly said that during his three terms as District 6 Supervisor he has implemented an “aggressive, unapologetically Democratic agenda of affordable housing, public health care, immigrant rights, environmental stewardship, and, yes, big wins for working San Franciscans,” including mandatory paid sick days “for almost all San Francisco employers.”<\/p>\n


\nSupervisor Chris Daly<\/p>\n

Daly stressed his political activism “working on the some of San Francisco’s and this country’s toughest social issues” to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in society.<\/p>\n

“Then, like millions of others last year, with a movement within the Party for change, I was re-energized,” he said. “Change isn’t easy, but the fact that change is sometimes difficult doesn’t make it any less important, or any less necessary.”<\/p>\n

Undeterred by his defeat, Daly told FCJ today: “Demonstrated on the Convention floor<\/a> Sunday morning, change within the CDP will have to be taken, it won’t be delivered.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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