Ten Best Bored of Supervisors Quotes

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October 6, 10:56 AM

by Melissa Griffin, S.F. City Hall Examiner

 

One of the many things I love about Beth is her straightforward honesty. "I think I'm having a bad hair day." "Yep, you are." "Does this dress make me look..." "Yes." "I spent Saturday watching a Land Use Committee hearing. Is that weird?" "Duh." Same goes for my writing about the Board of Supervisors. "I love the quote of the meeting. I always read that and just skim the rest."

Alrighty, then.

This week, each of the "Examiners" who write for the website is supposed to put out some sort of "Best of" list. So, here you go: the 10 Best Quotes from the Board of Supervisors (so far this year).  Maybe even Beth will read it.

10. "It's not fat, it's not sinews, it's right to the bone."

-- March 25, Supervisor McGoldrick describing the painful budget cuts that will have to be made this year. A sinew is a tendon. eeew.

9. "We can't be all kissy face and huggy bear about this commission."

--April 1, Supervisor Ammiano commenting on the Blue Ribbon Panel to save St. Luke's Hospital. I'll bet more people would come to Panel meetings if Huggy Bear were actually involved.

8. "Hopefully we'll bring it down from 7 years because at 7 years you get the 7-year itch problem."

-- April 8, Supervisor McGoldrick extolling the new "paradigm" created by the City negotiations with developers and the University of California over the 55 Laguna and Market-Octavia plans - which apparently took 7 years. Yeah, hopefully. Under seven years would be good...

7. "You all listened last week to Free Tibet. I want to know when Bayview-Hunter's Point will be free."

-- April 8, Community Activist (and one of my favorite commenters) Espinola Jackson during Public Comment discussing the state of the environment in the Bayview.

6. "Game on."

-May 20, Supervisor Dufty when announcing his three-part plan to ensure funding for the Community Justice Center. He's so cute when he's mad. (Update: the Board eventually did vote to fund the CJC.) 

5. “We want the world to be saved for the next gazillion years.”

"[Do we want to help]…multigazillionaires or poor people?”

“[Companies opposed to McGoldrick's ordinance are] gonna make a gazillion dollars out of this stuff."

-- June 3, Supervisor McGoldrick making the case for his ordinance preventing the expenditure of Sustainable Energy Account funds to private companies and residences. It didn’t pass. A bajillion Supervisors voted against it.

4. “…No Committee for Old Men...”

-- June 10, Supervisor McGoldrick describing the experience of Chairing the Budget and Finance Committee in this trying year. 

3. "So, my hands are clean and others are dirty, but you're getting the work done and I'm just a naysayer. Fine. So be it."

-- July 8, Supervisor Daly asserting that the inability to pay City workers to perform certain functions like guarding SF General Hospital is due to set-asides from the general fund reserve for Mayoral initiatives like the Community Justice Center which were passed in the Budget and Finance Committee - over Daly's "no" vote.

2. “How judicious would that be?”

-- July 16, Supervisor Elsbernd referring to Supervisor Sandoval’s “no” vote on proposals allowing increased fees for the Recreation and Parks Commission which, if not passed, would result in a $530k loss from the Rec and Park budget. (They passed anyway, FYI.) Sandoval is running for Superior Court Judge in November. Subtle. Brilliant. Loveit, loveit, loveit.

1. "All this talk about smoking; I'm wondering, does anybody have a light?"

-- July 29, Supervisor Ammiano right before the Board's vote on the pharmacy tobacco ban. Actually, a cigarette after the vote might have been more appropriate...

--Melissa

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