District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is now a heartbeat away from being mayor, as he was simply elected President of the SF Board of Supervisors, and in some way extinguished an anticipated problem from Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
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Try how packed the assembly was! That’s as a result of all of the supervisors introduced their households as a result of it was Inauguration Day for the brand new members. However there had been an anticipated combat between District 8 Supervisor Rafeal Mandelman and District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar for the president’s seat. Melgar informed Mission Native in November that she meant to run for the place, telling that web site she may “talk to everyone, and negotiate more than anyone.”
In some way, that didn’t work out. Mandelman was unanimously elected as the brand new Board of Supervisors President. And Melgar — for causes we might by no means know — was not nominated, and didn’t even submit her personal title.
Mandelman was nominated by fellow average and London Breed loyalist, Supervisor Matt Dorsey. Dorsey referred to as Mandelman “a principled, passionate, and occasionally ponderous, only sometimes-weepy champion for priorities that are close to his heart, and also very close to mine.” This was utterly anticipated.
What occurred subsequent was sudden. Progressive-wing firebrand Supervisor Connie Chan shocked viewers by throwing her help behind Mandelman too, and nobody else nominated anybody. So Mandelman gained unanimously and unopposed, and clearly the progressives had settled on some kind of backroom deal.
Mission Native has one idea as to what occurred. That web site reviews that Supervisors “Jackie Fielder and Shamann Walton had apparently indicated that they intended to vote for Walton as a bloc of two, indefinitely.” So perhaps Melgar realized that was two progressive votes she couldn’t get, and gave up on the entire thing.
However Fielder and Walton voted for Mandelman instantly, with out this “as a bloc of two, indefinitely” enterprise. So there’s acquired to be extra to this story.
Two years in the past almost to the day, then-Supervisor Aaron Peskin cleverly managed to win the presidency whereas claiming he had little interest in operating. Mandelman might have simply proven among the identical parliamentary chess-match maneuvering of his predecessor as president, Aaron Peskin.
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