Ed Lee RIP

[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by citylove101

I am actually in San Francisco today, and was down near Civic Center, seeing the line of folks waiting to see the mayor lying in state at City Hall. I asked and was told by a cop that the wait was an hour long. It was impressive for sure. He must have been widely respected, if not loved, especially by the city's Chinese and Chinese-Americans. Seems like from what I heard on the news that he was largely a government technocrat and not an ideologue.

Also seems as if his body is barely cold and already the s**t is starting about his replacement. I guess that is to be expected. Looks like it will be a red hot political year for San Francisco.

His approval rating at the end was actually very bad for funny reason IMO. The economy is basically too good that it has priced out a lot of people. Most people would want their local economy to be strong, but the issue has now become it's too strong that the service jobs etc can't allow people to afford a normal lifestyle in the city. The American Chinese community was proud of him though, but of course, he was the first Chinese American mayor of San Francisco.

[SFBayBoomer]

Originally Posted by gizmo980

I'm actually surprised it wasn't "bigger" news! I didn't know until later in the day, when it came up on my phone in a news feed. And in our local paper (in the south bay), it wasn't even the headline the next day - just a small article at the bottom of page 1. Weird.

Either way, my condolences to his family. Very sad.

We saw the story about Mayor Lee's sudden death on the national news, likely the NBC evening news with Lester Holt since that is the one I record on Tivo, though we sometimes watch others, in addition.

Below is the link to a video on NBC Bay Area (nbcbayarea.com) where you can watch people honoring Mayor Lee at San Francisco's beautiful City Hall:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as...464443683.html

[evening sun]

May he rest in Peace.