Rafael Mandelman has obtained his much-coveted position of board president; Myrna Melgar staved off an electoral slugfest by bowing out
often feels a bit like observing a live-action game of three-card monte. There’s ever so much twirling about and, until the cup is lifted, you don’t know where the votes are going to be.
Electing a board president is a bit like electing the president of your office. It’s tempting to read every move as part and parcel of an overarching political dynamic, but it can be a lot smaller than that. You may agree politically with Dave from accounting, but you also may resent what he did with the break-room microwave, or how he handled that collaborative project.
So, Mandelman is board president, having been the sole nominee. But expect Melgar to oversee the County Transportation Authority and its billions of dollars in transit monies. Expect Melgar to also accept the mixed blessing of helming the land-use committee. In an unsubtle, choreographed move, Mandelman had Dorsey and Chan escort him to the presidential dais.The election of a board president is a strange and terrible thing. The supervisors are sworn in, and everyone laughs and cries. And then the sausage is made — in public, in full view — and everybody keeps their feelings to themselves.
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