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16-September-2008 16:15:12 - Aaron Peskin The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. March 2008 Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. Aaron Peskin Aaron Peskin President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Incumbent Assumed office 2005 Preceded by Matt Gonzalez Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 3 Incumbent Assumed office 2001 Preceded by district created Born 1964 age 43-44 Los Angeles, California Nationality United States Political party Democratic Spouse Nancy Shanahan Residence San Francisco, California Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz Occupation Politician Profession Environmental activist Website Supervisor Aaron Peskin Aaron Peskin born 1964 is the current president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was first elected to the Board in 2000, and was re-elected in 2004. In January 2005, his colleagues elected him President of the Board. Contents 1 Personal life 2 Political career 3 Legislative Record 4 Controversies 5 References 6 External links Personal life Peskin was born and raised in Berkeley. His mother, Tsipora, an immigrant from Israel, taught at UC Berkeley; his father, Harvey, was a professor of psychology at San Francisco State University. Peskin is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz. He is married to land use attorney Nancy Shanahan.1 Before entering politics, Peskin was an environmental activist and water rights negotiator for a non-profit organization which brokered passage and use rights for tribal lands. He first came to public notice as president of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers, where he led the effort to save the Colombo building it was going to be made a Chinatown branch of City College and prevent a Rite-Aid drug store from moving into the Pagoda Theater.2 He is a member of the South End Rowing Club and an avid outdoorsman, having hiked the John Muir Trail in 2006 and 2007.3 Peskin can be seen most mornings in his Speedo swimming in the San Francisco Bay 4. He reassured San Franciscans after the Cosco Buscan oil spill that the water was safe by stripping down to his Speedo and going for a dip in front of a KTVU TV crew 5 Political career Peskin was first elected in December 2000, along with other progressive neighborhood activists who had cut their teeth on Tom Ammiano's mayoral campaign. When he was sworn into office, Peskin described District 3 it comprises Chinatown, North Beach, Nob Hill, and most of Russian Hill6 as the living room of San Francisco. Peskin received less than 10 percent of the vote in Chinatown in the election.7 As Supervisor, Peskin is known mostly for siding with a self-described progressive majority on development issues, often being at odds with the policies of mayors Gavin Newsom and Willie Brown. He authored an amnesty on unwarranted in-law apartment construction as a strategy to counter rising housing costs and to promote fiscal conservatism in city spending. In 2004, Peskin was unanimously elected President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Peskin was re-elected by his colleagues for a second two-year term as President in 2005. Peskin also serves as a member of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, an agency responsible for regulating development in, on and immediately surrounding the San Francisco Bay. Peskin has sponsored legislation to curb the Ellis Act, a state law that allows property owners to evict tenants by going out of the rental business. This law has led to many tenancy-in-common conversions of apartment buildings in San Francisco by tenants who desire to own property, and real estate promoters seeking to make ownership opportunties available and thereby earning fees and profits, especially in Peskin's neighborhood of North Beach.8 Peskin angered his progressive allies by supporting legislation to bring Home Depot to San Francisco. Peskin has also come under criticism for his actions involving North Beach nightclubs and festivals. Due in part to actions by Peskin, the 52-year-old North Beach Jazz Festival was canceled in 2006. In that year, the Board of Supervisors voted to prohibit alcohol sales at the fair because of political pressure from Aaron Peskin, who has close ties to the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association, which wanted a ban on alcohol sales. Festival organizers said that without the sales the festival couldn't turn a profit, so they canceled it. He's using these people the Telegraph Hill Dwellers as his foot soldiers to get even with me for not supporting him, said Marsha Garland, executive director of the North Beach Chamber of Commerce, an organizer of the festival who endorsed an opponent of Peskin's during his 2004 re-election bid.9 Peskin, working with the Telegraph Hill Dwellers, temporarily shut down the Savoy Tivoli, a North Beach landmark, when he had city officials rescind the Planning Commission order that had allowed the bar to operate without a restaurant.10 Along with Supervisor Chris Daly, Peskin was instrumental in canceling the San Francisco Grand Prix, a world-class bicycle race held in the years 2001 to 2005, because the race's backers owed the city money. Critics of Peskin alleged that the race was cancelled because it inconvenienced his North Beach constituents.11 Legislative Record In 2007, Peskin authored a charter amendment to increase MUNI funding and implement agency reforms. The measure, Prop A, received over 55 percent of the vote Prop. A was a response to a pro-parking measure, Prop H, funded by GAP, Inc. founder and republican billionaire Don Fisher. Fisher spent lavishly in support of Prop. H, a measure that would have undone numerous transit-first measures in downtown San Francisco. Controversies In 2004, Peskin and his wife Nancy Shanahan may have been the benefit of a sweetheart deal in which they received a valuable property on Telegraph Hill at a discount price. In 2002, at a loss of $700,000 from the previous $1.5 million purchase price, the property in question was sold for $800,000 to a trust controlled by Harvey and Tsipora Peskin, Peskin's parents, who then, in 2004, conveyed nearly 70 percent of the ownership of the property to Peskin and his wife. The Peskins then converted the two-unit building to a single unit without first obtaining city approval.1213 In 2008, the San Francisco City Attorney and the Department of Human Resources launched an investigation into allegations that Peskin threatened the jobs of city employees. According to a letter obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, Peskin made a series of harassing drunken telephone calls to officials at the Port of San Francisco and said he would eliminate their jobs and cut funding to the agency because staff members disagreed with him. San Francisco city law prohibits members of the board of supervisors from interfering in the business of city departments and qualifies such activity as official misconduct. Numerous complaints have been lodged against Peskin with the City Attorney. The investigation is ongoing.14 On February 1, 2008 Mayor Newsom told The San Francisco Chronicle that people around city hall had been complaining about Peskin's behavior for years.15 In 2003, Peskin instigated an eminent domain seizure of private property at 701 Lombard Street, a triangle of land across a street from Washington Square Park. He did so at the behest of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Club, of which his wife was an officer. Some saw this an abuse of government power. 16 The leading journalist political commentators in San Francisco have acknowledged Peskin's reputation as the Napoleon of North Beach. 17 References ^ Wall, Alexandra J. December 22, 2000 'Doing mitzvahs' propels supe Peskin. j. ^ Shaw, Randy January 10' 2005 What Drives Aaron Peskin? BeyondChron. ^ Sabatini, Joshua Jan 9, 2007 Re-elected board chief, Peskin sets ambitious agenda. San Francisco Examiner. ^ Peskin 'bears' all. ^ San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin Dives Into The Bay To Show It's Safe. ^ District 3 Information ^ Banerjee, Neela Oct. 26 - Oct. 31, 2001 CAVEC Poll Shows Strains of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. AsianWeek. ^ Vega, Cecilia M. April 5, 2006. Supervisor wants limit on Ellis Act evictions. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved on 2006-03-19. ^ Bowman, Becky May 31, 2006 Alcohol banned at North Beach festivals. San Francisco Chronicle. ^ Matier, Phil and Andres Ross February 6, 2002 Stompin' at the Savoy no longer. San Francisco Chronicle. ^ Smith, Matt November 23, 2005 Pedal Power: Two politicians put their interests before a world-class event and a world of possibilities. SF Weekly. ^ Left, Eileen January 2007 Serious allegations against Peskin allegedly alleged.SF Bulldog. ^ Brown, H. January 20, 2007 Bulldog Week in Review. SF Bulldog. ^ President of S.F. supes accused of harassing calls, threat San Francisco Chronicle ^ Newsom: Abusive calls from Peskin are nothing new ^ Amanda Witherell Tuesday May 2, 2006 Last Call SF Bay Guardian ^ Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross Sunday, November 4, 2007http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/04/BA90T4NOF.DTLfeed=rss.news S.F. election slap-down: Peskin vs. Fisher over parking saying: Peskin - a.k.a. the 'Napoleon of North Beach' The word Peskin is yiddish for weasel. External links Aaron Peskin's government website Doing mitzvahs propels supe Peskin, by Alexandra J. Wall. Jewish News Weekly. December 22, 2000. Political offices Preceded by Election not district-specific Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 3 2001 - present Incumbent v d e San Francisco Board of Supervisors Jake McGoldrick Michela Alioto-Pier Aaron Peskin Carmen Chu Ross Mirkarimi Chris Daly Sean Elsbernd Bevan Dufty Tom Ammiano Sophie Maxwell Gerardo Sandoval Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Aaron_Peskin Categories: 1964 births | California local politicians | American activists | American environmentalists | Living people | San Francisco Board of Supervisors | Jewish American politicians | People from the San Francisco Bay Area | People from Berkeley, CaliforniaHidden categories: NPOV disputes from March 2008 | All NPOV disputes Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page This page was last modified on 28 July 2008, at 21
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