With political junkies gearing up for next year's mayoral election, city movers and shakers have been talking about a scenario that'd give the aforementioned fiends an overdose.
Imagine if you will, that Gavin Newsom wins the Lieutenant Governor's seat. The Board of Supervisors selects his replacement. Then, under a city law mandating an appointed mayor stand election within 120 days, voters go to the polls shortly thereafter. And
then we go again for the regularly scheduled November mayoral election.
Could San Francisco actually have
two mayoral elections next year? Here's what Department of Elections chief John Arntz had to say:
