Constant Readers,
One oft-overloooked item on the Board of Supervisors' agenda each week is a section called: Petitions and Communications. I clicked on this item for the first time about a year ago and gleefully watched at 150 pages of letters, emails and reports spilled out in a .pdf file. Each week, I check that little gold mine of items that have been submitted to the Board the prior week.
The file is certainly boring sometimes - cut and pasted emails, Fish and Gaming Dept notices, and graffiti abatement reports but (as with most things related to government) if you keep watching, something good is bound to come up.
This week's file contained some gems that I'd like to share with you:
First up is an email from Bayview /Hunter's Point activist Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, in which she comments on several parts of the City Attorney's anatomy (she's a doctor, so I guess it's ok):
Congratulations to City Attorney Dennis Herrera for having the guts,
balls and moral compass to stand up the the big polluters! The Mirant
plant is the most polluting point source in San Francisco. It affects,
not only children suffering from asthma in Bayview Huners Point, but
the air quality of the entire Bay Are! Blow for freedom!
It's not all fawning fan mail, though, that's for sure. Our Supes get blamed for things they have done wrong, but also for things they haven't - like a budget they haven't seen yet and MTA fee increases they are trying to stop. Nevertheless, people are pissed...
To the Bd of Supervisors:
Congratulations!! You have just earned the title of 1st class leeches for your actions of cutting more services and increasing transportation fees. You actions are deplorable. It is obvious you do not have the population of San Francisco in mind, or that is the way most citizens feel.
- A disgusted voter, taxpayer and citizen
It's not just the Board that catches hell in these letters - people are angry at Mistermayor, too. People with pens and paper and that are not afraid to use them. Like this citizen...
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I live in Mr. Elsbernd's district #7. I expect Mayor Newsom to be doing his job as the Mayor of our City.
This absentee style of Mayoring is not in the best interest of our City.
Please request Mr. Newsom's resignation as Mayor if he continues to be absent.
I was amused at first by this letter's farfetched request, but then I realized that a resolution officially breaking up with the Mayor on suspicion of cheating could possibly get six votes. And a lot of headlines. All thanks to Alan Moody.
These letters are a gold mine, I tell you.
And I'll keep digging for nuggets of fun to share with my CRs.
--Melissa
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