How Mayor Ed Lee remade San Francisco in Big Tech’s image
Yesterday was the rare San Francisco day when you couldn't find anyone with a gripe against the city’s top politician, Mayor Ed Lee. Lee's tenure ended, abruptly, at 1:11 in the morning of December 12th when he was pronounced dead at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital after suffering a heart attack at a supermarket while shopping with his wife. The affable 65-year-old was midway through his third mayoral term after being initially installed by the Board of Supervisors as a “caretaker” mayor based upon his explicit pledge that he would not run again. But run Ed did. Multiple times.
In 2009, not quite two years before Lee took office, political consultant Jim Ross announced that, for the first time, "jobs" was the number one...