{"id":3016,"date":"2011-08-19T00:56:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T08:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2017-08-17T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:10:47","slug":"mayor-lee-snubs-african-american-community-for-pub-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3016\/mayor-lee-snubs-african-american-community-for-pub-crawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lee Snubs African-American Community <br>for Pub Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/mayoral_debate_alliance_jobs_20110816\/mw2w7617_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. File 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><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This article has been updated with a response from Ed Lee campaign spokesperson Tony Winnicker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>August 19, 2011<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco interim Mayor Ed Lee snubbed the African-American community in the Fillmore last eve, opting instead to go on a \u201cpub crawl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we sat up here, we got a Tweet,\u201d announced former Supervisor and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier to an audience of 200 during a mayoral debate co-sponsored by the San Francisco African-American Democratic Club (AADC) and the Fillmore Neighborhood Association. \u201c[San Francisco Chronicle columnist] Chuck Nevius just tweeted that he\u2019s on a pub crawl with Ed Lee and Ed Lee says, \u2018It\u2019s more fun than debates.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cAs we sit here in the middle of the African-American community talking about issues of extreme importance, looking you in the eye knowing that you are up against the world, running for mayor and being the mayor of San Francisco is not always going to be a party,\u201d a visibly infuriated Alioto-Pier added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/mayoral_debate_sfaadc_20110818\/mw2w7799_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Supervisor and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a follow-up interview with FCJ, Alioto-Pier called Lee\u2019s snub, \u201cCompletely disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee campaign spokesperson Tony Winnicker defended Lee&#8217;s non-appearance. &#8220;The mayor talked directly and in-depth to dozens of real, undecided voters &#8211; not political insiders &#8211; about the issues they care about. They&#8217;re also fun,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=3016&amp;action=edit\">Winnicker told Bay City News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, whose campaign for mayor has been beset by <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111210041510\/http:\/\/www.baycitizen.org:80\/politics\/story\/federal-prosecutors-looking-run-ed-run\/\">scrutiny from Federal prosecutors<\/a> over complaints of alleged election campaign violations, was formerly invited to participate in the debate but did not respond, said Fillmore Neighborhood Association board member Erris Egerly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never got a response,\u201d Egerly said, adding that Lee owes the community an explanation after promising in April during a budget town hall meeting he would not exploit his Board-appointed position of \u201ccaretaker\u201d mayor to seek a full-term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe strictly stated he didn\u2019t want to run for mayor,\u201d Egerly said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate but related development, fellow mayoral candidate and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3010\/civility-lee-turns-uncivil-during-mayoral-debate\/\">revealed, Wednesday, during a mayoral debate<\/a>, sponsored by the Alliance for Jobs and Sustainable Growth, that Lee confided to Chiu he buckled under pressure from powerbrokers Rose Pak and former Mayor Willie Brown to break his promise to the Board of Supervisors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2985\/lee-files-for-mayor-candidates-respond-protester-calls-for-lee-to-%E2%80%9Cstep-down%E2%80%9D\/\">and seek a full-term<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To add to Mr. Lee&#8217;s woes and political baggage, City Attorney and fellow mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera on Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2996\/herrera-slams-lee-for-nuru-appointment\/\">slammed Lee for his appointment of Mohammed Nuru<\/a> to head the Department of Public Works, saying the appointment smacks of \u201ccronyism, politics and poor judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herrera and Chiu were also invited to participate in last eve&#8217;s mayoral debate, but did not attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee, whose campaign for mayor has been beset with scrutiny from Federal prosecutors  over complaints of alleged campaign ethics violations, was formerly invited to participate in the debate but did not respond, said AADC President Erris Egerly.<\/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-3016","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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