AIDS activist

Is anyone awake at the Chronicle when it comes to the race for mayor? I think all the smart people at the paper are ignorant about local politics, especially when I read things like this from a review in the Datebook section about a documentary on the 1999 mayoral race. If the Chronicle can't be counted to know when the city elects a new mayor, then something is wrong down at 5th and Mission.

I'll give the paper some free advice about how to remember when the mayor's race is. Just think that San Francisco elects a new mayor one year before the country elects a new president. So that means Brown was first elected mayor in 1995, reelected in 1999 and the next mayor, Newsom perhaps, will be elected in 2003.

--Michael Petrelis
San Francisco, CA

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/06/DD20679.DTL

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With San Francisco's 2004 mayoral election not far away, and Ammiano a sure candidate, these are words to remember.