San Francisco mayoral race: Bedlam by the Bay.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 26, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

SAN FRANCISCO _ The race for mayor here in Bedlam by the Bay resembles nothing more than an absurdist morality play, starring a bumbling Irish beat cop, a humorless lesbian policy wonk and an incorrigible black political luminary.

A thousand issues abound; there are no issues. Ideology rules; personality is all. Competing visions conflict; the field is uttlerly without vision.

From Hunters Point to Nob Hill and Chinatown to Cow Hollow, candidates are leaping through the tiniest of hoops held aloft by the myriad micro-interest groups that govern San Francisco's balkanized ...

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