By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Gerrymandering and fear-mongering on crime gives the mayor two allies.
Sup. Gordon Mar conceded defeat today, ending the last unresolved race from the November 8 election and signaling a shift in the balance of power on the Board of Supes.
Thanks to Assemblymember Matt Haney’s personal ambition and Mayor London Breed’s successful gerrymandering, two progressive districts, 4 and 6, are now in the hands of far-more conservative supes.
That means the progressives now have at best a shaky 6-5 of 7-4 majority, not enough to overturn a mayoral veto…
Engardio also supports market solutions to the housing crisis, and will join Sups. Matt Dorsey and Catherine Stefani (and, generally, Ashsa Safai) as advocates for allowing more market-rate housing development.…(more)