By Benjamin Wachs
Hey, I blinked and missed it – but apparently Ross Mirkarimi’s bill requiring all public meetings that can be recorded and broadcast to be recorded and broadcast finally passed.
And by “passed” I mean, “squeaked through.” It was a 6 – 5 vote, Mirkarimi, Peskin, Daly, Ammiano, Dufty, and Gerardo Sandoval voted for it, making them heroes for a day.
No word from the Mayor’s office about whether he plans to sign or veto it: a spokeswoman at the Mayor’s Press Office said she’d get back to me, which almost never happens.
It’s sure to be an unpopular measure with many members of San Francisco’s volunteer boards, some of whom have gone out of their way to avoid public scrutiny. The mayor’s going to be in a tough position: he hates having to decide whose side he’s really on.
The answer seemed obvious as I had just left a bar, but at that moment the light changed and I was never able to continue my conversation with the man, who was whisked into the night with his drunken companions.
The dudes were riding what I later found out was called a "party bus." Every weekend the streets of SoMa, the Mission, North Beach and other drinking hot spots are jammed with the things and the Entertainment Commission has taken note.
