Results tagged “prope”

Much to our surprise, the motion that almost allowed our fair Mayor Gavin Newsom to eschew his monthly cameos Board of Supervisor meeting was tabled. That is to say, it was killed. Dead. According to Sweet Melissa recounts today's nail-biting Board of Supes meeting thusly:

Hey, remember that Question Time thingy? You know, that non-binding measure that voters passed which called for Gavin to appear in front of the Board of Supes and answer questions thrown his way while the rest of us get to kick back and watch the fun? Well, if you remember, Gavin kind of refused to do it and instead staged fake Question Time, "Town Hall" meetings throughout the city and wound up killing any sort of conflict over the issue by basically boring everyone to death. Even the chickens got bored and stopped attending.

Hey, it looks like today's theme is MUNI. But who doesn't love stories about MUNI? Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by Prop E. In fact, only three lines approach the 85% mark.

Time to find out if all those "if this special election tanks, Arnold's political future tanks with it" prognostications are true. Because the Governator just got slapped by California voters like a redheaded stepchild. Every single proposition he endorsed has gone down in flames. Most troubling was Prop 73, which nearly passed with over 48% of the vote according to the latest numbers (though it went down 79-21 locally). It's times like these we wish we had John Burton's number so we could call him for a quote. He must have some doozies saved for just this occassion.