The Maxwell- McGoldrick Election Day Power GrabRandy Shawbyline‚ Nov. 13‚ 2006As progressive activists worked feverishly on November 7 to get out the vote, San Francisco Supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Jake McGoldrick had other priorities. In a shocking and unprecedented misuse of the legislative process, these Supervisors engineered a secret November 7 morning Land Use hearing for the sole purpose of killing Angelo Sangiacomo’s $700 million project at Trinity Plaza. The duo had also secretly placed the legislation on the full Board’s calendar at 2:00pm, arranging matters so that either a yes or no vote would send the project back to the Planning Department. San Francisco brags about its sunshine and open government laws, but the Board of Supervisors now must decide whether it will allow two of its eleven members to sabotage democracy. |