City Attorney Still Fighting Supe Alioto-Pier's Reelection Bid

This is what happens when you pass lots of laws without seeing how they affect existing laws. Too often, busybodies and do-gooders pass all sorts of laws to game election results or stab at people they don't like and as time goes on, these things start to cause this kind of confusion.

If we had elected officials who thought more about what it is they were doing, perhaps this wouldn't be a problem, but so long as you have a voting public who clap like seals whenever some feel good legislation is passed, don't expect much to change.

Seems like Herrera and Jeff Adachi are in a race to see who can become more annoying before an election.

I'm with Dennis Herrera on this. Term limits were enacted to prevent people from staying in office more than two 4 year terms. If Alioto-Pier wins on this she will be in office approx. 11 years. It violates both the spirit and intention of term limits. Plus: Alioto-Pier is a shitty, ineffectual, downright counterproductive supervisor. All she does is sue the city. Immediate case in point.

Agree wholeheartedly re your final three sentences.

I'm no Alioto-Pier fan either, but I think someone needs to show us what the law the voters passed in 1990 says EXACTLY. If it is open to such differing interpretations, it must not be very clear. Does it say that if you are appointed for one day more than two years that it counts as a four-year term? Why did she have to win election to the final two years of Gavin's term is she was already appointed to fill it out? I'm confused. I agree with first commenter Greg.