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	SAN FRANCISCO / Tony Hall finally decides -- files to run for mayor / He says the city's problems have been ignored by ...
		Hall filed candidacy papers with the San Francisco Department of Elections on Thursday declaring his intention to run for the city's top job, ending months of political posturing about whether he would enter the race and establishing himself as the best known candidate to date to challenge Mayor Gavin Newsom.
		Hall called Newsom's Care Not Cash homeless welfare initiative a colossal failure and said that if he is elected, he wants less city money spent on the homeless and would revisit some of the homeless policies he supported as a supervisor.
		Hall was fired, he says, in retaliation for having blown the whistle on a sweetheart deal involving Newsom and the former Navy base's main developer, Darius Anderson, a big Democratic fundraiser and Newsom supporter.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/25/BAGK6Q1HJO1.DTL&type=printable (688 words)

	San Francisco Tomorrow, an urban environment group
		San Francisco Tomorrow endorsed Jake McGoldrick for Supervisor in 2000, and we are happy to renew our support.
		Tom Ammiano has successfully led the fight for the good of San Francisco for 30 years, as a school teacher, school board member, and Supervisor.
		San Francisco Tomorrow endorsed Gerardo Sandoval in 2000 and again this year as the best representative for District 11 and the goals of SFT.
	www.sanfranciscotomorrow.org /ballot_endorse_nov_04.html (1494 words)

	abc7news.com I-Team: Tony Hall Quits Mayor's Race
		Hall tells me he is pulling out of the race: “The support just isn’t there.” Hall says many of the big donors who would be his supporters are afraid of coming out against Newsom, with such a huge lead in the polls.
		Tony will have a finite period to either return his dontations, minus expenses, on a pro-rated basis or contri-bute the money to charity or to the City.
		Tony Hall had a lingering reputation problem as supervisor, lack of TRUST was his REAL problem.
	iteamblog.abc7news.com /2007/08/tony-hall-quits.html (385 words)

	Tony Hall column 7/02
		Juvenile Halls supervisor, I try to use this monthly column to discuss issues of importance to the residents on the west side of the City.
		San Francisco's Juvenile Hall is one of the oldest in California.
		Tony Hall is a San Francisco supervisor representing District 7.
	www.sunsetbeacon.com /archives/richmondreview/2002editions/July02/hallcol.html (588 words)

	San Francisco okays sex changes for city workers
		San Francisco, famed as a liberal bastion, broke new ground on Monday as officials voted to make it the first city in the country to finance sex changes for municipal employees.
		Supervisor Tony Hall said the measure was a form of "reverse discrimination" that would allow transgender persons to achieve their goals but would leave other city employees unhappy with their physical bodies without the benefit of taxpayer-funded elective surgery.
		San Francisco, known for its liberal social attitudes, passed a city law in 1995 prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in city contracting.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2001-05/01/content_53919.htm (483 words)

	San Francisco Faith \| September 2001 \| Fighting the Power, by Joe Marti
		Supervisor Tony Hall has long been the cantor at his home parish of Saint Brendan's and for a time pursued a professional singing career in a big band.
		His San Francisco roots brought him here in 1964 and he has been here ever since, working for the past thirty years in seven different departments for the city as he and his wife continue to raise their seven children.
		Hall won't admit to seeking higher office -- he says that all is interested in now is doing a good job for the next four years.
	www.sffaith.com /ed/articles/2001/0901jm.htm (1131 words)

	NACo \| National Association of Counties
		Tony Hall, it can safely be assumed, is the only county supervisor in the nation with "Elvis Presley’s chauffeur" on his resume.
		Hall’s father drove a delivery truck for one of the movie studios and that helped him land a job as a chauffeur for various studios.
		Hall ran for supervisor because he thought the Sunset District’s neighborhoods had been abandoned by his predecessor, who he beat by 38 votes despite his opponent’s endorsement by powerful San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
	www.naco.org /PrinterTemplate.cfm?template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8709 (1053 words)

	San Francisco Bay Guardian News
		Tony Hall to the Treasure Island Development Authority and the move to recall Sup.
		The San Francisco Chronicle used the Hall appointment (which was a disaster – see above editorial) to announce in an Aug. 4 editorial that Newsom "should be trying to build support for a measure to end district elections – removing the partisanship inherent in having 11 tiny political fiefdoms....
		When supervisors are elected at large, it's almost impossible to win a seat without raising at least $250,000.
	www.sfbg.com /38/46/news_ed_downtown.html (472 words)

	San Bruno B.A.R.T.
		San Francisco has just slapped the builder of the new (but still not opened) county jail with a $125 million fraud suit -- claiming, among other things, that the company was operating at times without a valid contractor's license.
		Hall insisted that the account (which held rent deposits on the island) was no secret and that City Hall officials had cleared it, including Jesse Blout, Newsom's economic development director and a member of the Treasure Island board.
		Hall says the campaign questions are a "smoke screen'' to deflect attention from the real issue -- the Treasure Island board's recent vote to extend the exclusive development rights on the island for another three years to Newsom's buddy, Democratic wheeler-dealer Darius Anderson and his Kenwood Partners.
	www.sanbrunobart.com /Community/News/050926.shtml (1041 words)

	$50,000 in sex-change coverage added to San Francisco insurance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The city's board of supervisors approved the proposal by a 9-2 vote April 30, according to a May 1 report by CNSNews.com.
		It is expected to cost all city workers an extra $1.70 a month in higher premiums, while the city of San Francisco would pay an estimated $680,000 extra a year for its share of insurance payments.
		Supervisor Tony Hall, meanwhile, challenged the fairness of the action, noting that the benefits package offers no specialized treatment for anorexia or bulimia, for example, or for workers' children with learning disabilities, while imposing limits on prosthetic limbs and cardiac reconstructive surgery, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/homosexual-healthcare.html (257 words)

	Why are we so afraid of men in dresses? \| Articles \| Current Issue \| Bay Windows - New England's largest GLBT newspaper
		Witness the near-hysterical reactions to San Francisco's recent, long-overdue move (sponsored by San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno) to cover sex reassignment surgery for transgender employees and to California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg's rather modest bill proposing to protect those who don't fit gender stereotypes from arbitrary discrimination.
		San Francisco Supervisor Tony Hall was no doubt accurate in reporting that his office got more calls and letters on the sex change issue than any other subject, but his bizarre comparison of transgender individuals to people seeking nose jobs or liposuction was actually one of the milder rhetorical volleys.
		Strikingly, during San Francisco's sex change debate, Hall said he'd favor covering hysterectomies for female-to-male transsexuals who'd had external surgery--in other words, he'd have the city cover removing a woman's ovaries but not a man's testicles in the course of a gender transition.
	www.baywindows.com /ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=Current+Issue&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=9D52C32DE51A4AE49E29B98C515330AD (738 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > War with Iraq -- Prosecutors drop or reduce felony charges against demonstrators
		SAN FRANCISCO – District Attorney Terence Hallinan has dropped or reduced charges against all 12 demonstrators who were arrested on felony counts during last week's anti-war protests.
		San Francisco Supervisor Tony Hall also criticized Hallinan's decision and introduced a resolution Tuesday urging him to prosecute protesters who broke the law.
		Hall also introduced a resolution asking the city attorney to determine whether San Francisco can recoup its costs from the groups that organized the street-clogging protests.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030326-1144-ca-war-california-protests.html (239 words)

	Catholic Professional & Business Club San Francisco: Events
		Tony Hall was recently appointed to by Mayor Gavin Newsom to head the Treasure Island Development Authority.
		Hall has been a member of the Board of Supervisors since January 2001, as the representative of District 7, which includes the West of Twin Peaks neighborhoods of West Portal, St. Francis Woods, Lakeshore, and parts of the Ingleside.
		Hall is the father of seven children and is a volunteer track and field coach at the St. Ignatius College Preparatory school.
	www.cpbc-sf.org /events/event.asp?id=16 (163 words)

	San Francisco Faith \| October 2004 \| First Gays, and Now Hookers... , by Christopher Zehnder
		Former Supervisor Hall (he now runs the city's Treasure Island Authority) told me in September that he opposed the ordinance "because there is no way the health department could monitor the activities of those establishments." Massage businesses, both the valid and the shady, "should continue to be regulated by the police department," said Hall.
		According to a 2003 legislative analysis of the ordinance prepared for the board of supervisors, the new law recognizes two classes of massage practitioners: general practitioners (with 100 hours of training) and advanced practitioners (with 200 hours of training).
		Tony Hall was skeptical that the health department would work with police on "issues of common concern." "You know what that's like, with modern bureaucracy," he said.
	www.sffaith.com /ed/articles/2004/0410cz.htm (1459 words)

	sfbg.com
		San Francisco's new board president faces the biggest trial of his life.
		Tony Hall made a strong pitch for Gonzalez that started off as an antimachine speech then degenerated into a rant that some activists complained was sexist, or at the very least, insensitive.
		Hall repeatedly referred to Gonzalez as the "best man for the job" despite the fact that one of his opponents was a woman.
	www.sfbg.com /37/16/cover_matt.html (2385 words)

	san francisco association of REALTORS® - Legislative Alert
		Supervisor Alioto-Pier is the third generation of the Alioto family to hold public office in San Francisco, starting with her grandfather, Joseph L. Alioto, a two-term mayor who was first elected in 1967.
		Supervisor Alioto-Pier is considered a moderate, like the new mayor, and was chosen, in part, because of Mayor Newsom’s belief that she can hold onto her seat in the November election.
		During her short tenure as a supervisor, she has voted in favor of the interests of real property owners on all significant legislative proposals considered by the Board of Supervisors.
	www.sfrealtors.com /news/alert_22.html (510 words)

	cbs5.com - SF City Hall 'Abuzz' After Mayor's Affair Apology
		Supervisor Chris Daly, a vocal critic of the Newsom administration, and former Supervisor Tony Hall, a possible candidate in the 2007 mayoral election, reacted on the political implications of the mayor's affair.
		Hall said Newsom's affair is an example of what the former supervisor calls a pattern of dishonesty and had harsh criticism for the mayor.
		Hall was a member of the Board of Supervisors when Newsom tapped him to lead the agency in August 2004.
	cbs5.com /local/local_story_032183125.html (999 words)

	Spot-On: Chris Nolan: San Francisco Dispatch: Second City
		San Francisco's cool summer fog is giving way to the warm autumn days that residents quietly think of as their extended summer, and November's elections are already holding out the promise of the lefty silliness that has come to characterize the city's politics.
		San Francisco politics, in short, is moving to the right.
		Some estimate that San Francisco spends as much as $174 million per year on all aspects of its homeless problem (in a city with a roughly $5 billion annual budget); others say that, in truth, the city doesn't know how much it spends or how many people it helps.
	www.spot-on.com /archives/san_francisco_dispatch_second.html (1716 words)

	S.F. Will Pay for Sex Changes -
		SAN FRANCISCO -- The city's Board of Supervisors has approved a measure that will make San Francisco the only city in the nation to pay for employees' sex-change operations.
		San Francisco will apparently be the only governmental body in the nation to make the benefits available.
		He had argued that gender reconstruction was elective surgery and the city shouldn't pay for transgender benefits without extending the coverage to those suffering from obesity and anorexia.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,43462,00.html (385 words)

	Politics from Left to Right: Chris Nolan: San Francisco Politics Archives
		Amy Lee, the San Francisco Building Department worker who found her ability, her professional credentials and her pregnancy on trial, accused by the jerks at the Residential Building Inspectors of being unable to do her job because of her pregnancy, got the job.
		San Francisco district elections are as much name-recognition contests as anything else so this dummy has a shot, now that he’s famous, at doing well in the November election.
		San Francisco’s property mavens, from the developers down to the apartment brokers are a conniving bunch as any one who got here at the beginning of the Interet stock bubble would be happy to testify.
	www.chrisnolan.com /archives/san_francisco_politics.html (8206 words)

	Francisco da Costa - Articles
		The constituents of San Francisco were fully awake when Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to anoint Tony Hall for the job as Director of Treasure Island.
		It is a shame that after giving Tony Hall a salary of over $160,000 with benefits, we are now fully aware that Tony Hall may be fired.
		On Parcel A only Supervisors Chris Daly and Matt Gonzales voted against the conveyance of Parcel A. The rest sold the City out and what is more did a great disservice to the constituents of San Francisco.
	www.franciscodacosta.com /articles/bayview059.html (798 words)

	San Francisco Supervisors Reject USA Patriot Act
		SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday a resolution condemning the USA Patriot Act, making it one of the largest cities in the nation to oppose the Bush administration policy, according to supporters.
		Supervisor Jake McGoldrick introduced the resolution and was backed by eight other board members who agreed the act encourages racial profiling.
		Hall, however, said he'd rather defer to the federal experts when it comes to immigration issues and national security.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0123-09.htm (425 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- San Francisco's Candlestick Park could get name change
		SAN FRANCISCO – Looking to raise revenue for the cash-strapped city, San Francisco officials may once again allow a corporate sponsor to name fog-shrouded Candlestick Park.
		The park – on a rocky, windy outpost next to the San Francisco Bay, famed for its chilly summers when the fog envelops the peninsula – was completed in 1961 as a stadium for San Francisco's professional baseball and football teams.
		Supervisor Tony Hall, who voted against a corporate name during the Brown administration, said the financial crisis could persuade him to vote differently this time.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20040626-1246-ca-ballparknamechange.html (397 words)

	LAMPS
		The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution 10-1 designating the City a "Medical Marijuana Sanctuary".
		"San Francisco voters have spoken out clearly on this issue for over three decades - we want our City to be a safe haven for legitimate medical use of cannabis," he said.
		The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 for the resolution with Supervisor Tony Hall casting the lone vote of opposition.
	hempevolution.org /lamps/mmj_sanctuary011205.htm (157 words)

	San Bruno B.A.R.T.
		San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown suffered a rare veto override Tuesday, when city supervisors voted overwhelmingly to set aside airport money for a lawsuit against a contractor accused of cheating the airport out of tens of millions of dollars.
		In so doing, the supervisors declined to take up an alternative, last- minute Brown proposal that would have had the airport lend $7.5 million, with interest, for the suit, with the general fund on the hook for the money if Tutor-Saliba were to win.
		Supervisor Tony Hall, the lone supervisor supporting the mayor, said he thought Brown's proposal was good because airport officials would support it and it could bring money to the general fund, which has a deficit that is estimated to be about $347 million.
	www.sanbrunobart.com /Airport/News/030326.shtml (613 words)

	Board of Supervisors: Sean Elsbernd - District 7
		Born February 2, 1976, Supervisor Elsbernd representsÂ District 7, encompassing the single-family neighborhoods West of Twin Peaks, as well as the largest rental housing neighborhood west of the Mississippi â“ the Villas at Parkmerced.
		Finally, Supervisor Elsbernd has served on the Budget and Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors in each of his two complete years as a member of the Board.
		Supervisor Elsbernd is a fourth-generation San Franciscan - born, raised, and educated in District 7.
	www.sfgov.org /site/bdsupvrs_index.asp?id=26661 (344 words)

	The American Spectator
		Davis has an instinctive knowledge of San Francisco and has knocked up so many political triumphs that he could quite possibly be called the man largely responsible for turning San Francisco into the far-leaning leftist town it is today.
		Telling the San Francisco Chronicle in January that the people in the Newsom administration "don't fight," Brown is rumored to be slightly still peeved that Newsom's 2004 same-sex marriage gambit helped George W. Bush and the Republicans nationally.
		Factor in the opposition of politically well-connected property moguls and the mayor's critics on the Board of Supervisors and Gavin Newsom is in for one hell of a ride.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=11403 (673 words)

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