Newsom's commission games
Link (http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=5931&catid=4&volume_id=317&issue_id=345&volume_num=42&issue_num=25)
03/19/2008
"EDITORIAL Mayor Gavin Newsom didn't want Debra Walker, an artist and activist, running the Building Inspection Commission. He doesn't want Theresa Sparks, a transgender woman and community leader, running the Police Commission. And now, we've learned, he doesn't want Robert Haaland, a labor activist and one of the city's most visible transgender leaders, to serve as vice president of the Board of Appeals."