{"id":1915,"date":"2010-05-03T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2018-12-21T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T03:42:48","slug":"sparks-douses-d6-withdrawal-rumor-ignites-fuse-on-new-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1915\/sparks-douses-d6-withdrawal-rumor-ignites-fuse-on-new-rumor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks Douses D6 Withdrawal Rumor, <br>Ignites Fuse on New Rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/harvey_milk_dinner_070524\/mw2w2064_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate for District 6 Supervisor Theresa Sparks. Photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 3, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Commission Executive Director Theresa Sparks today doused a recent rumor suggesting she is withdrawing her candidacy in the race to replace District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly.<\/p>\n<p>Sparks, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/theresa-sparks-a-compromised-candidate\/\">alleged<\/a> to be aligning her candidacy with moderate-conservative political factions, including <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140217170758\/http:\/\/www.plancsf.org:80\/\">Plan C<\/a>, took the opportunity in her response to FCJ to stir up the political pot among the Progressive front-runner candidacies of School Board President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/jane-kim-announces-d6-candidacy\/\">Jane Kim<\/a>, Entertainment Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/meko-kicks-off-campaign-for-d6-supe\/\">Jim Meko<\/a>, and Building Inspections Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/04\/walker-kicks-off-early-fundraising-campaign-for-d6-supervisor\/\">Debra Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would I get out when I&#8217;m in the lead and getting stronger every day? I wouldn\u2019t,\u201d Sparks wrote via email.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But, here\u2019s the kicker.  Sparks says she has inside information suggesting the \u201cprogressive machine\u201d will soon anoint just one of the Progressive candidates to the exclusion of the others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve been hearing that the progressive machine is about to pick one candidate and kick another to the curb,\u201d Sparks said.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparks, who is alleged to be aligning her candidacy with moderate-conservative political factions, including Plan C, took the opportunity in her response to FCJ to stir up the political pot among the front-runner Progressive candidacies of School Board President Jane Kim, Entertainment Commissioner Jim Meko, and Building Inspections Commissioner Debra Walker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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