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Former District 7 Supervisor Tony Hall at his campaign headquarters in West Portal. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

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

February 24, 2011<\/p>\n

Touting a five-point plan, former District 7 Supervisor Tony Hall formerly announced today he is running for Mayor of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am running for mayor to return local government to the people,\u201d Hall, an independent with no party affiliation, said during an open house event that drew as many as 70 supporters to his campaign headquarters in West Portal. \u201cMy platform has five points on it and I have solutions for each one of those five points.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall\u2019s five-point platform includes job creation, budgetary responsibility, administrative accountability, public safety and sanitation – as well as providing San Franciscans \u201cwith a local government that is honest, open, transparent, and respectful in serving your needs first.\u201d<\/p>\n

To help spur local job creation, Hall said if elected he would eliminate fees on small businesses, implement tax incentives to promote local hiring and reduce bureaucratic delays in obtaining permits \u201cfor all new start up businesses and projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will audit the entire spectrum of municipal services being provided today with the goal of eliminating waste, duplicity, inefficiency, and indifference,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It will be the first time Instant Runoff Voting will be used in a San Francisco race for mayor. As demonstrated in last year\u2019s Oakland race for mayor, candidates who form and promote ranked choice coalitions increase their probability of defeating a popular frontrunner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think ranked choice voting hurts my chances at all,\u201d Hall said. \u201cThe more people that get in the race, the better off I am,\u201d adding, \u201cWe have a strategy for that. Obviously if the vote is split in certain areas, it helps me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what his message is to voters with regard to his independent candidacy and the Willie Brown machine that has reigned over Room 200 since Brown was first elected to the mayoralty in 1995 and continued through the Gavin Newsom administration to the current administration of Interim Mayor Ed Lee, Hall said, \u201cMy message is, it\u2019s still there. It\u2019s running this city. You know it as well as I know it. I\u2019m not a status quo candidate. I am the only candidate in this race that is not. The rest of them are a part of what you\u2019re talking about, or have been part of it. I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall was referring to the mayoral candidatures of former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Senator Leland Yee, Assessor Phil Ting and former Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier. Board of Supervisors President David Chiu is also considering a run for mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy message for the machine is, \u2018Hey, you\u2019ve banged me down. You\u2019ve fought me before and I\u2019ll fight you and I\u2019ll stand up and fight again,\u201d Hall, a former pugilist, singer and father of seven, defiantly added.<\/p>\n

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Tony Hall with Sister Mary Ignatius.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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