{"id":34,"date":"2008-02-22T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/22\/the-crackberry-chronicles-3\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T22:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:49:04","slug":"the-crackberry-chronicles-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/34\/the-crackberry-chronicles-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The CrackBerry Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/elaine_santore_080218\/html\/mw2w4634_std.jpg\" height=\"331\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nElaine Santore<strong><br \/>\nPhotos by Luke                  Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> By Elaine                  Santore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February 22, 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daly salutes Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative volunteers                  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Chris Daly hosted a thank-you reception at Temple                  Bar Thursday for all the volunteers who helped gather over 11,800                  signatures to qualify the Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative                  for the June ballot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The initiative will go head-to-head with Lennar Corp.&#8217;s Bayview                  Jobs, Parks, and Housing Initiative. Lennar&#8217;s petition qualified                  Wednesday. Daly&#8217;s petition is currently awaiting certification                  from the Department of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stakes are very high. You wouldn&#8217;t know it from the                  money we spent. We spent about $3,000. We were able to do almost                  the same thing Lennar did with over $1 million spent to date,&#8221;                  Daly said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4844_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisor Chris Daly addresses supporters at Temple Bar.<\/p>\n<p>One of the names on Lennar&#8217;s measure was Mayor Gavin Newsom.                  But Newsom&#8217;s signature alone would have been enough to get the                  measure on the June ballot, Daly noted.<\/p>\n<p>Daly gave special thanks to volunteers Larry Haynes who collected                  700 signatures, James Keys who collected 600 signatures and Donna                  Linden who collected 100 signatures. Daly also collected 600 signatures                  during the 10-day petition drive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4935_std.jpg\" height=\"329\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nVolunteer Larry Haynes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4848_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nJack Daly, POWER&#8217;s Brian O&#8217;Flynn, and Supervisor Chris Daly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FCJ interviews Debra Walker following BIC presidency demotion                  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department of Building Inspection comissioner and tenant advocate                  Debra Walker was ousted as president of the Building Inspection                  Commission Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After an election held during the BIC&#8217;s regularly scheduled meeting,                  Commissioner Frank Lee was elected president, and Commissioner                  Mel Murphy as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Fog City Journal editor Luke Thomas spoke to Walker Wednesday                  following the commission&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Can you explain what happened today?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;The mayor has put pressure on the commissioners                  that he has appointed to support his choices for both president                  and vice president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Was it a special meeting?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;Regular meeting. We were required to hold elections                  at this meeting every year. What happened was that there was pressure                  ahead of time from the mayor for his commissioners, and he basically                  said if they wouldn&#8217;t support Mel Murphy, who was the mayor&#8217;s                  choice, or one of the mayor&#8217;s choices, that they would be removed.                  And one of them was Mike Theriault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Is Mel Murphy on the commission?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;He&#8217;s a commissioner, he&#8217;s been on the board for                  a couple years, and he&#8217;s a contracter. He became the vice president                  because one of the mayoral appointees who was being pressured                  said he was not going to support Mel, so they put forward Frank                  Lee who actually is the assistant director of DPW as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Do have any idea why this happened?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;Two reasons. The mayor is going after the Board                  of Supervisors and is trying to eliminate any potential progressive                  leadership role models in advance of the district elections, both                  in 2008 and 2010. Also, as president, I actually tried to address                  some issues that they would prefer addressing behind closed doors                  like tall buildngs, like public peer review process, to be consistent                  with the Brown and Sunshine. The seismic retrofit funds, which                  has been raided by the mayor to provide solar panels for homeowners,                  instead of seismic upgrade monies for things like residential                  hotels and low-income apartment house rentals. That&#8217;s where the                  CAPSS, the Community Action Plan for Seismic Saftey, is headed                  and we probably need that money and more that&#8217;s available, and                  the mayor wants to put it over to greening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;What project or projects do you think you&#8217;ve been                  involved in that haven&#8217;t been pushed through fast enough that                  may have led to your demotion? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;I actually think that at this point I&#8217;m trying                  to slow down our business re-engineering that they&#8217;re trying to                  reform&#8230; our whole practice. It affects other departments. It                  certainly affects staff. They&#8217;re trying to push it through to                  try to attach to this budget, and I said, &#8216;No, I don&#8217;t want to                  do that.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;When did that happen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;Today. But it&#8217;s been happening. There&#8217;s an interest                  to have an unimpeded motion put forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Who put today&#8217;s motion forward to vote on the presidency?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;Vahid Sattary, he&#8217;s the one who nominated Frank                  Lee. Somebody nominated Mel Murphy, it might have been Vahid as                  well, that nominated Mel Murphy as vice president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Do you think the word came from the mayor through                  Sattary to put the presidency motion forward?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;Yeah, exactly. For both of us. The mayor&#8217;s office                  already called and pressured them, pressured all of them. And                  pressured Mike Theriault. Do you know Mike Theriault?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;Mike Theriault is a building trades guy. He ran                  for DCCC with the support of the Milk Club and many other groups.                  He was pressured and refused to vote for the mayor&#8217;s people. He                  wanted to support me, and the mayor took him off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Do you think this has anything to do with the battle                  between Newsom and Aaron Peskin? Didn&#8217;t Peskin appoint you to                  the DBI commission?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;This is all about the battle, too, between the                  mayor and Peskin. But that&#8217;s all about district elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;What do you mean? Please explain how this impacts                  district elections.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;The mayor&#8217;s office has been dealing with things                  very aggressively &#8211; conflicting, not wanting to work with anyone                  anymore, but more oppositional. And I think that is to draw distinctions                  between the mayor&#8217;s candidates and the board&#8217;s candidates. They&#8217;ve                  been consistently tarring and feathering the Board of Supervisors                  actions. The board just recently disapproved some of their appointees.                  The last thing they want to have is a strong progressive woman                  preparing for District 6 elections in 2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;Do you think it&#8217;s about that?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s all of that. It works into all of                  their schemes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>FCJ: &#8220;What do you think is the number one reason for                  your ousting as president&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walker: &#8220;They want to build whatever they want, whenever                  they want it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4913_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nDebra Walker (with Andy Blue and Grace Eolen Daly)<br \/>\nin better spirits at Temple Bar Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following FCJ&#8217;s interview with Walker, Thomas asked Board President                  Aaron Peskin what he thought about Walker&#8217;s demotion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it has more to do with their desire to control                  the commission,&#8221; Peskin said, referring to the mayor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Caption Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4873_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nElaine Santore, David Owen, and Andy Blue try to have a private                  conversation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4875_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230; but cannot escape the glare of the paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4878_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4923_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nFinally Thomas gets a Daly family portrait: Chris, Sarah, Jack,                  and Grace Eolen Daly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4936_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nTerrie Frye, Karren Babbitt, Francisco DeCosta (thanks for the                  lovely sandwiches),<br \/>\nElaine Santore, Rick Hautpman and Susan Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4906_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;No moving the ball, Jack!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4930_std.jpg\" height=\"334\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nSenator Barack Obama: &#8220;Hey Luke, Chris and Grace, thank you                  for your support.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Andy Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/affordable_housing_party_080221\/html\/mw2w4932_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>McCain faux-scandal hits the news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain got a rude                  awakening Thursday when the New York Times ran a 3,000-word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/21mccain.html\">article<\/a>                  about a rumored affair with a female lobbyist eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers,                  visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client&#8217;s corporate                  jet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I stopped reading there. Any story that opens with a reference                  to a corporate jet is bad news. I refuse to fall into this trap,                  New York Times!<\/p>\n<p>But I did read the last sentence, a statement from the McCain                  campaign:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Americans are sick and tired of this kind of gutter                  politics, and there is nothing in this story to suggest that John                  McCain has ever violated the principles that have guided his career.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shame on you, NYT, for making me feel sorry for John McCain for                  .02 seconds. Are you trying to ruin my life? Time for me to watch                  some Fox News so I can get my mojo back.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure time: I&#8217;m a actually a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccainblogette.com\/index.shtml\">McCainBlogette<\/a>,                  written by McCain&#8217;s 23-year-old daughter Meghan because she posts                  fun pictures and videos from the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/embed><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And the adventure continues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only a matter of time before Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s 9-year-old                  daughter, Malia, starts a blog. Malia is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150919054740\/http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20091040,00.html\">sassy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamelss Plug<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out Fog City Journal publisher and editor-in-chief Luke                  Thomas on Arthur Bruzzone&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfunscripted.com\/\">SF\/Unscripted<\/a>                  tonight at 8 p.m. and Saturday night at 8:30 p.m on cable channel                  11. Bruzzone talks to Thomas about his new role as editor, how                  Thomas&#8217; photography adds a unique perspective to San Francisco                  politics, and other topics including shifts in San Francisco demographics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elaine Santore Photos by Luke Thomas By Elaine Santore February 22, 2008 Daly salutes Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative volunteers Supervisor Chris Daly hosted a thank-you reception at Temple Bar Thursday for all the volunteers who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,17],"tags":[93,98,58,96,95,32,94,4,97,41,92],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-49ers","tag-barack-obama","tag-bayview-affordable-housing-initiative","tag-bic","tag-brian-oflynn","tag-chris-daly","tag-debra-walker","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-john-mccain","tag-lennar","tag-redevelopment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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