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Monica Lewinsky's interest level in working for SF city government just went up a notch, as the SF Board of Supes overwhelmingly voted down Chris Daly's proposal to ban office affairs between supervisors and supervisees. (No, not affairs with supervisors like Chris Daly is a supervisor, affairs with supervisors like your boss. We could probably get a proposition on the ballot barring affairs between the San Francisco Supervisors and their constituents, though -- because, come on, ew.)

With Ed Jew out of the picture for now, the SF Board of Supes wasted little time in unanimously approving a resolution tsk-tsking The Savage Nation host Michael Savage for his "[l]et them fast until they starve to death; then that solves the problem" (it sure helps us remain in control!) comment he made about students fasting in regard to an immigration reform bill last July.

This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway.

-- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7]

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network.

--The SF Board of Supes has imposed a moratorium on SoMa studio condo construction.

It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only were Chris Daly and Gavin Newsom scheduled to be in the same room but there was a Taiwanese political protest in town. (We didn't think anyone could outfight a Taiwanese politician!)

--Google stock hits $509.65/share, making it the second most valuable company in Silicon Valley behind Cisco. Apple also hits a record high.

--The US Attorney's office is going to monitor the SF elections, like we're East Timor or Florida or something.

-SF Board of Supervisors Committee approves plan for more foot patrols in troubled areas. -Daly and Newsom go at it again over anti-violence measures.

It turns out that Rev. Amos Brown-- African-American community leader, former City Supervisor, and the head of the Third Baptist Church-- is now shilling for Schwarzenegger in the upcoming gubernatorial election. What makes this so interesting is that Brown has in the past said not so nice things about Arnie, including that Arnie was part of "the national axis of evil" and was a "partner in crime" with the President.

--C.W. Nevius informs us that politicians say the darndest things on camera.

This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Scoop!

Sometimes we wonder if Gavin Newsom wakes up in the middle of the night and wonders why he had to become Mayor and didn’t just stick with Flapjack where he’d be the toast of the town in Manhattan with Kimmers. Case in point, the fracas now brewing over the hoisting of the flag over City Hall. With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the Board of Supervisors, once again delving into foreign policy, unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at half-mast to honor the war’s dead. Gavin, however, said thanks but no thanks and will keep the flag furled high. Now the BoS are all a-twitter with Ross Mirkarimi, in a tone of complete understatement, called Gav’s actions “deplorable.” He added that in a city that is predominantly anti-war, Newsom’s refusal to not lower the flag “sends contradictory signals of the priorities of the administration. " Damn, that Gavin. Gavin, who has spent most of the week putting together a proposal to land the Stem Cell Center and bring jobs and money to the city, had no comment.

SFist has been following stories of our endangered local theaters. We've watched in despair as the last few years have seen the loss of the Alexandria, Regency, and Royal. And we've been even more dismayed by San Francisco Proposition L which, in the words of the San Francisco Chronicle,seeks to "allow a small, unknown group of theater advocates to take $10 million from the city's hotel tax revenues and allegedly use it to purchase movie theaters and to promote the local film industry." We have wondered "Why can't we just hang on to what we have?"