{"id":946,"date":"2008-12-05T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/05\/law-of-unintended-consequences-gifts-mirkarimi-board-prez-swing-vote\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T06:15:11","slug":"law-of-unintended-consequences-gifts-mirkarimi-board-prez-swing-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/946\/law-of-unintended-consequences-gifts-mirkarimi-board-prez-swing-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Law of Unintended Consequences <br>Gifts Mirkarimi Board Prez Swing Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/new_deal_080331\/html\/mw2w9471_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The law of unintended consequences has handed Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi (left) the swing vote in the battle for the San Francisco board presidency. Photos 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>December 5, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Despite a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/01\/battle-for-the-boards-helm\/\">expos\u00e9<\/a> painting Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi as the least likely progressive supervisor to garner the six votes needed to be Board President, he is now in a position to decide which supervisor, left or right, will ascend to the board presidency.<\/p>\n<p>On the left, freshmember Supervisors-elect John Avalos and David Chiu are likely to get first round nominations.  On the right, Supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Bevan Dufty are likely nominees. Though Dufty maintains he is not interested in the board presidency, a nomination puts him in play and a single vote from the left for Dufty or Maxwell hands the presidency to the right.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> The five votes from the right will come from Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Carmen Chu, Michela Alioto-Pier, Dufty and Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>The five votes from the left will come from Supervisors Chris Daly, Eric Mar, David Chiu, John Avalos and David Campos.<\/p>\n<p>No one believes Mirkarimi would do the unthinkable and hand the board presidency to the right, so the next question becomes &#8211; which of the progressive nominees will Mirkarimi vote for? And because Daly is perceived to be behind the machinations against Mirkarimi, all indicators now point to Mirkarimi dishing out some payback against Daly and voting for Chiu over Avalos.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/11\/09\/BAFS140BQA.DTL\">instigating<\/a> former Mayor Willie Brown is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=rofl\">ROFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/vessel_071218\/mw2w7977_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Willie Brown.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luke Thomas December 5, 2008 Despite a recent expos\u00e9 painting Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi as the least likely progressive supervisor to garner the six votes needed to be Board President, he is now in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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