By Joe Eskenazi : misisonlocal – excerpt
Follow the dark money.
President of DBI’s commission admits he has private builders edit, redraft official DBI materials
Because this is San Francisco, this story starts with a party.
It was May 2015, and Mayor Ed Lee had just turned 63. The city’s Residential Builders Association, the politically significant group of largely Irish immigrant builders, threw him a fantastic soiree. A cavalcade of elected officials, politicos, movers and shakers descended upon a spacious and elegant Forest Hill home for cake, Irish dancing, drinks and an all-around good time.
Because this is San Francisco, it warrants mentioning that the permitting situation for the spacious and elegant home hosting this party is a bizarre amalgamation of confusing irregularities; the permit enabling the construction of the downstairs living space where revelers at the mayoral shindig sat on couches and mingled had never been signed off and was never inspected by Department of Building Inspection personnel – not even to this day…(more)
The backslapping crowd is at it again. No one finds themselves as deserving of praise as the “ City Family” departments and agencies. No one dose better job of cleaning cash than the appointees our elected officials choose to hire and promote.