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“San Francisco supervisors”,

in case anyone else wonders what’s a “supervisor”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Super...

>>kmlx+(OP)
Thanks! So they are the legislature of San Francisco city/county, and there are only 11 of them, so it's quite a significant position.

>>ajb+w6
Yes, and they also are famously in silos. They each advocate for their own districts only, and so it's often a battle between districts for resources, etc. It's actually a pretty dysfunctional system from what I've seen attending local government meetings and trying to get basic simple things done in my community

>>ajb+w6
Over 95 percent of San Francisco's budget is directly controlled by the Mayor's office. The Mayor's office in San Francisco is incredibly powerful.

Supervisors mostly sit through the monthly televised Board Of Supervisors meeting, where concerned citizens and community activists along with the utterly deranged voice their concerns.

>>kmlx+(OP)
Yeah this story is missing all context - what "supervisors" are, what his beef with them was, etc.

>>etc-ho+z9
> concerned citizens and community activists along with the utterly deranged

I thought I saw a Venn diagram for XKCD ...

>>ajb+w6
Representation is surprisingly even worse in LA county. 5 supervisors for 10 million people. Californian government systems really weren’t designed for the populations they currently represent.

>>etc-ho+z9
wanted to clarify this with "95 percent of SF's _discretionary_ budget" is owned by the SF mayor.

>>kmlx+(OP)
Thank you, I've read three articles so far and none have explained this. Supervisor is such a generic term, it's difficult to research without knowing what it is.

So basically, he said fuck the council and he hopes they die a slow death. Not very nice, but also not usually a contraversial opinion? Lots of people dislike their councils.