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...Feinstein faces a recall vote...
When San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein last summer got the board of supervisors to pass an ordinance to outlaw most handguns in the city, she was predictably the target of potshots from the right. The local political left, of course, was generally pleased with the antigun crusade of the moderate mayor. But not all factions on the left: more determinedly upset than any of the conservative gun groups was the White Panther Party, a ragtag tribe of about a dozen communards encamped in an electric-blue town house in-yes-the Haight-Ashbury district. The Panthers were formed...
...present Panthers did not waste time with '60s-style protests and sloganeering: last month they blind-sided the city by turning in petitions signed by 35,000 people that called for the ouster of Mayor Feinstein. That was more than enough signatures to force only the second mayoral recall election in San Francisco since...
...election is unofficially scheduled for April 26. Feinstein and her aides fear that even if she survives the recall vote, she could suffer politically in the regular quadrennial election coming up in November. Two-thirds of the voters are Democrats, as is Feinstein, who took office in 1978 after the handgun murder of Mayor George Moscone; the next year she won the popular election. Admits a Feinstein adviser of the April vote: "We can't afford to win this one by only...
...inspired. To qualify for the benefits, couples unrelated by blood or marriage pay a $23 filing fee, then swear that they "share the common necessaries of life." If the relationship breaks up, a person must inform the city and wait six months before claiming a new partner. Mayor Dianne Feinstein has not yet signed the legislation, but since it passed by an 8-to-3 vote, her veto would probably be overriden...