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Gonzalez goes on leave amid court query
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Matt Gonzalez, second-in-command at the Public Defender's Office, has gone on unpaid leave amid questions about whether he may be improperly representing a private firm in a civil suit against The City, a claim he denied Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed
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Matt Gonzalez is representing firm suing S.F.
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Gonzalez, who earns $188,259 a year from the city, is using a month of paid vacation and furlough days to help a former law partner argue Cobra Solutions Inc.'s lawsuit against the city. The company claims it was improperly barred from winning city
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The need to reconsider 'reform'
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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More Opinion San Francisco's 2011 mayoral election was a cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of reform...Fortunately, the Board of Supervisors is working on alternatives to present to voters this year. Supervisors Mark Farrell and Sean
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S.F. Mayor Ed Lee gains 4 years of breathing room
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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When Ed Lee took over as San Francisco's interim mayor last January, he was a man in a hurry, looking to cram a full term's worth of projects, programs and reforms into what he and the other local leaders believed would be only 12 months at the city'
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Mayor Ed Lee's Occupy SF handling well played
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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They keep saying at City Hall that the Occupy Wall Street camp at Justin Herman Plaza will be cleared out "soon."...The conditions are turning more toward a homeless camp than a political statement. There are 150 tents, 50 more than allowed, and even
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Where Will Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Charlie Gonzalez Land After Retirement Next Year?
Washington :: DC :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Is the lure of the private sector too much for Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (D-Texas)? Over the weekend, Gonzalez, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a seven-term congressman, announced that he would not seek re-election at the end of his
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Guardian editorial: Mayor Ed Lee's challenges
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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And now that he's won a four-year term, he's must address a wide range of city problems that in the past haven't responded well to consensus and compromise. He's going to have to do it in the wake of an election in which the centrist candidates all
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The low-turnout election
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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A factor that hasn't been discussed much in the analysis of the election results is the very low turnout for a contested mayor's race. The turnout without the provisionals and final absentees was about 30 percent; by my figures, when the 35,000
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Adachi video attacks public financing
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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An eight-minute video narrated by Matt Gonzalez in support of Jeff Adachi devotes a considerable amount of time to attacking public campaign financing -- something Gonzalez always supported as a supervisor. The video claims that the $4 million that "
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SFUSD’s Buried Fact: $531 Million
Boma :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | almost 2 years ago
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Board of Education Vice President Norman Yee So much for transparency, SF Unified School District board Vice President Norman Yee and Chief Facility Officer David Goldin distributed on August 11 a Proposition A November bond ballot fact sheet whose
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