Aaron Peskin, outgoing San Francisco Board of Supervisors President, reflects on his political career as he prepares to leave office. Despite an unsuccessful mayoral run, he celebrates defeating a billionaire-backed measure and his team's efforts to protect participatory democracy.
It’s 8:30 a.m., and San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, having already taken his customary swim in the bay, arrives in a seemingly upbeat mood at his regular haunt, Caffe Trieste in North Beach. Peskin, whose campaign to be mayor did not succeed in November, has been term-limited out of office.
The new board will be sworn in Wednesday, and he will reenter private life after being elected five times nonconsecutively and serving as a supervisor for the better part of 20 years. But as Peskin, 60, exits the stage of electoral politics for the moment, he said he was pleased with the fact that he defeated a billionaire-backed measure that he said would harm participatory democracy, and that he bested well-funded candidate Mark Farrell in the mayoral race by coming in third to Farrell’s fourth. Three propositions Peskin sponsored also passed. “I’m running around with my head high and a big smile on my face,” Peskin said. “Why? Because I’m proud of the people of San Francisco, and I’m proud of the effort that my team and courageous San Francisco leaders made to stand up to them.” “They were going to install their own mayor with unlimited monarch-like powers by passing Prop. D,” Peskin said, referring to the unsuccessful ballot measure that had sought to increase mayoral powers while slashing The City’s sprawling citizen commission system by half. Farrell was not available for comment, a spokesman said. The year 2024 was an extraordinary culmination of the remarkably prolific and controversial legislative career of a progressive standard-bearer who has been feted by supporters as a champion of working people and renters and reviled by developers and moderate groups as an obstructionis
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