{"id":1228,"date":"2009-05-15T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/15\/stay-tuned-you-are-the-weakest-link\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T20:44:15","slug":"stay-tuned-you-are-the-weakest-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1228\/stay-tuned-you-are-the-weakest-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Tuned: You Are The Weakest Link"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNo one is questioning Supervisor Eric Mar’s integrity
\nor his Progressive politics, or his concern for global climate change,
\nbut his refusal to allow for more analysis of an important solar energy contract
\nwith Recurrent Energy is raising questions about his political acumen.
\nPhotos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Hope Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

May 15, 2009<\/p>\n

“As one,” commands Maximus Decimus Meridius in an arena blood sport scene from the 2000 Oscar winning movie Gladiator.<\/p>\n

In the scene, Maximus no longer leads a well-funded and highly-trained group of soldiers dedicated to the common cause of expanding the Roman Empire. Instead, he must cobble together a motley group of unkempt and enslaved men, most of whom are unpolished fighters and terrified for their lives.<\/p>\n

Those who recognize the strategy of cooperating to survive not only escape death but become formidable opponents of the best arena fighters Rome has to offer. Even the arena crowd, bribed and bloated with free food and drink from the Roman power structure, begins to support Maximus and his “team” as the crowd is thrilled by their ability to play an impressive strategy game.<\/p>\n

Extreme comparisons aside, Supervisor Eric Mar could have used a strategy lesson from Gladiator<\/em> during Tuesday’s vote on the Recurrent Energy contract.<\/p>\n

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted 7 to 4 in favor of a deal with Recurrent to install solar panels on the Sunset Reservoir. This is San Francisco, so, of course, the deal is every bit the “c” word. Controversial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Public power activists, clean energy advocates, and the six Progressive supervisors, Mar included, disagreed<\/a> on the quality of the deal. The debate on the issues continued up to the final vote and, very early on, it was obvious a consensus on specific issues and amendments would be a mission impossible.<\/p>\n

“There’s an honest disagreement at times over what is the best way to move forward our goals for clean energy in our city,” Mar said, making clear he was aware of the deal’s merits and flaws.<\/p>\n

Mar’s position on the merits is not under critique here. The main concern is his failure to recognize the advantages of remaining “as one” in strategic solidarity and in tune with the Progressive majority on the board. He passed up an opportunity to bring an “honest disagreement” discussion to the Progressive table rather than leaving public power planning to be manufactured by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s allies on the Board.<\/p>\n

Recognizing the time to go into strategy mode requires believing others use strategy to maneuver to favor their position. Supervisors Chris Daly and Ross Mirkarimi quickly and easily set aside their recent discord and political egos to describe past experiences with tricky strategy used by supervisors loyal to former Mayor Willie Brown and Newsom. They wanted the new supervisors to learn from past mistakes rather than making the same errors over again.<\/p>\n

“I think on this contract let’s learn from the past,” urged Daly. “Let’s learn from the bad Calpine deal we were rushed into and told we had no choice and we could not negotiate better terms, we had to act right then.”<\/p>\n

“Let’s learn from the hydrogen super highway which is flashy and sounded really good and sold well in the press, but which did not make as much sense as these little plug-in hybrid electrics that we seem to have chosen with our fleet.”<\/p>\n


\nSupervisor Chris Daly<\/p>\n


\nSupervisor Ross Mirkarimi<\/p>\n

Mar chose to ignore the experience of his senior colleagues on the Board. Perhaps he believes Newsom’s allies are truly concerned that San Francisco begin clean energy projects and are not attempting to control who negotiates and benefits from those projects. Perhaps he failed to notice the attempts to use issues to muddy the waters, such as Supervisor Sean Elsbernd switching the discussion from price-per megawatt-hour of energy to the scare tactic of contaminating water supplies, all of which could have been addressed by sending the contract back to committee for a more thorough review.<\/p>\n

Daly and Mirkarimi’s pleas to recognize the strategy of mayoral allies did not fall on deaf ears. Supervisor David Campos was willing to defer to their experience, requesting time to investigate their concerns.<\/p>\n

“I understand there may be a difference of opinion, I don’t understand why you’re unwilling to give us the time we need to verify if it is the case, as you note, this is the best deal possible,” Campos said to Mar. “Give us the time to actually assess the very specific points where you have a process that, in a very short period of time, has demonstrated that in fact every time we have been told that this is the best project that we can get, that hasn’t been the case. Every time we wait and see whether or not on a specific issue we can do better, it’s been demonstrated time and time again we in fact can do better.”<\/p>\n


\nSupervisor David Campos<\/p>\n

Mar’s refusal to join strategically with his Progressive colleagues damaged the recent allied front shown by the Progressive majority voting bloc. Speaking truth to power is not always using words. Strategic solidarity allows issues to be controlled by the Progressive majority and sends the message the majority is no longer at the mercy of decisions made by their political opponents.<\/p>\n

Good people have volunteered and worked hard on fair and clean power for the City for many years. Mar, intentionally or not, has left the impression their arduous, unpaid work will go unsupported when push comes to shove. Each time volunteers feel electeds don’t have their back, especially when that support would give influence to their voice, it becomes more difficult to convince them to help the next time.<\/p>\n

The real loss of Tuesday’s vote was revealing a vulnerability in the majority Progressive voting bloc, a vulnerability the conservative bloc will try to exploit again.<\/p>\n

So, keep your eyes open and be very careful, Supervisor Mar, because right now, you are the weakest link.<\/p>\n

What Chiu Smokin’?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though I’ve said before<\/a> I’m not psychic, I can hear readers thinking, “Wait, what about President Chiu’s vote on Recurrent?” Why focus on Mar?<\/p>\n

Board President David Chiu established he played a formidable game of strategy during the Recurrent Energy contract vote. First, he voted in favor of sending the item back to committee, remaining in solidarity with the Progressive majority. Then, realizing that wasn’t in the cards, he voted in favor of the deal, acknowledging the victory of those favoring the contract.<\/p>\n

Strategically, Chiu comes out the winner here. He assisted both sides without damaging either side. Brilliant move. What are you smoking, Pres C? Can we get some of that?<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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