{"id":2198,"date":"2010-07-23T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:53:30","slug":"herrera-evaluating-alioto-pier-appeal-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2198\/herrera-evaluating-alioto-pier-appeal-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrera Evaluating Alioto-Pier Appeal Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2199\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2199\" title=\"_w2w7938_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/w2w7938_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/w2w7938_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/w2w7938_std-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, with her husband Tom Pier by her side, filed papers with SF Department of Elections this morning indicating her intent to run for re-election. 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>July 23, 2010<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has not ruled out an appeal against yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/cityinsider\/detail?&amp;entry_id=68466\">court ruling<\/a> by Judge Peter Busch, a ruling that clears a path for District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier to run for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera is &#8220;evaluating the ruling and is considering his options,&#8221; said City Attorney spokesperson Matt Dorsey.  A decision to appeal or not is expected to be made within the &#8220;next several days,&#8221; Dorsey added.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Judge Busch indicated his ruling was a close call that could have gone either way, resolving an ambiguity in the law, he said, in favor of Alioto-Pier, the office holder.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alioto-Pier, accompanied by her husband Tom Pier, filed papers with the Department of Elections this morning indicating her intent to run for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alioto-Pier, Judge Busch&#8217;s ruling &#8220;ultimately came down to the clear letter of the law, and that&#8217;s what he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this particular case, there is no ambiguity,&#8221; Alioto-Pier added. &#8220;This was clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether Alioto-Pier, who was appointed to the Board by Mayor Gavin Newsom in January 2004, has served two full terms, the maximum allowed.\u00a0 Citing the City Charter, Herrera maintains Alioto-Pier&#8217;s first term, from January 2004 to January 2006, counts as one full-term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any person appointed to the office of Supervisor to complete in excess of two years of a four-year term shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, to have served one full term,&#8221; section 2.101 of the City Charter states in part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot interpret a (voter enacted) law in a manner that renders it meaningless,&#8221; Dorsey told FCJ, a basis on which an appeal may be filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herrera is &#8220;evaluating the ruling and is considering his options,&#8221; said City Attorney spokesperson Matt Dorsey. A decision to appeal or not is expected to be made within the &#8220;next several days,&#8221; Dorsey added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Herrera Evaluating Alioto-Pier Appeal Options - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2198\/herrera-evaluating-alioto-pier-appeal-options\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Herrera Evaluating Alioto-Pier Appeal Options - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Herrera is &quot;evaluating the ruling and is considering his options,&quot; said City Attorney spokesperson Matt Dorsey. 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