I almost feel bad for Beya Alcaraz. She stepped into a political shitstorm that anyone with any sense could have predicted, and now it’s going to follow her for the rest of her life: She will be the person who served only one week as a San Francisco supervisor. Someday, this will be a political trivia question.
The real issue here is that Mayor Daniel Lurie demonstrated something that undermines his entire campaign pitch, his entire political standing: He was supposed to be a competent manager.
That’s what outsiders like to say when they run for high office: I come from the private sector, and we are better managers than people in the much-maligned “government.”
Well, no.
I give credit to Gabe Greschler at the Standard and Joe Eskenazi at MissionLocal for doing the most basic things jo

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