SF REDEV COMMISSIONERS IN WILLIE'S POCKET

The issue is getting so hot that the three Commissioners who have those human traits of a heart, a soul and a mind of their own (Kathryn Palamountain, Ramon Ramirez and Mark Dunlop) walked out and dissolved quorum at the last meeting on October 23rd, following an outrageous, pathetic, injust, illegal and infantile display by that embarrassment of City Hall, Benny Yee, and his henchman, the real ringleader of the for-profit push, that one-time good guy and Labor leader turned to the dark side, Leroy King. Darshan Singh seems to wish he could vote his heart but is so tightly under the control of Leroy King he is terrified to speak out against him. Dr. Michal Settles is rumored to be a good-hearted person who votes with her conscience and is not as far under the thumb of the powers that be as Yee, King and Singh, so the hopes of the needy, the youth, the seniors, the impoverished and the Filipino community of Sixth Street are all hoping for her benevolence and her supportive vote for the community and its urgent needs with a YES on TODCO's proposal for the Plaza Hotel on Sixth Street on October 30, 2001.