Endorsement: Prop B is the charter reform no one asked for and S.F. doesn’t really need |
San Francisco City Hall faces no shortage of problems. Proposition B isn’t addressing any of them, the editorial board says.
Back in 1990, San Franciscans voted to impose term limits on their supervisors by passing Proposition N. The measure dictated that supervisors could serve a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms in office. Prop N imposed no lifetime cap — so a supervisor could sit out for an election cycle, then come back for two more terms, and then rinse and repeat.
This system remains in effect. That is, of course, unless voters pass Proposition B in the June primary.
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The measure would limit the mayor and supervisors to two lifetime terms. After eight years in each respective position, there’s no coming back.
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Since term limits were enacted in 1990, only one person would have been prevented from taking office by Prop B’s limits: former District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin.
San Francisco has no shortage of problems. Political cults of personality turning our elected offices into permanent thrones clearly isn’t one of them.
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So, a natural question surrounds Prop B: Why now?
The Chronicle editorial board has begun rolling out its endorsements for California’s June........