- Occupation: Member, Board of Supervisors
- 15 years of public service experience
- Former City Finance Analyst, Former Public Defender
- Earned Law Degree from Columbia Law School
- Earned Master's Degree in City Planning from UC Berkeley
- Helped pass landmark ethics and good government reforms
- As Chair of Budget Committee, closed largest budget deficit in San Francisco history
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Use my background as an advocate and attorney to strengthen the appeals team that defends tax appeals by large corporate property owners
- Reform the Assessor-Recorder's office by stamping out cronyism and implement zero-tolerance policies for corruption
- Implement reform ideas outlined in my white papers, available here in the "position papers" section of the site.
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- Assemblyman Leland Yee
- Supervisor Sophie Maxwell
- Sheriff Mike Hennessey
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- Turning Around the Assessor's Office
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This white paper outlines a management approach to getting the Assessor's Office on track again. The major components of my initiative include: Staff and Personnel; Information Systems; Internal Focus (Making Operational Systems Accountable); External Focus (Assessment Appeals and Discovery Program); and a Timeline for Success.
- The Commercial Tax Loophole and Property Tax Reform
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San Francisco is losing hundreds of millions a year in property taxes, primarily by losing property reassessment battles with large corporations that can afford to spend millions to win a single assessment appeal and have their property taxes lowered. This paper explains the problem and proposes a solution to the revenue crisis San Francisco is experiencing.
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