When Mayor Daniel Lurie this month introduced Beya Alcaraz, a former pet store owner, as the new supervisor for District 4, he touted her as a fellow political outsider. The appointee, he said, had neighborhood knowledge, business acumen, and a go-getter attitude that would serve the district well.
But this being the politically cantankerous neighborhood of the Sunset — still reeling from its recall of Supervisor Joel Engardio over the conversion of the Great Highway to the Sunset Dunes park — things didn’t go according to plan.
Alcaraz’s record as a small business owner quickly unraveled, due to reports of squalid conditions and allegations of financial misconduct at her former store. Her resignation after just over one week as supervisor was an embarrassing blunder for Lurie.
In this episode of “Pacific Standard Time,” politics reporter Gabriel Greschler and columnist Adam Lashinsky break down the events of Alcaraz’s eight-day term and explain what it means for the Sunset, Lurie, and San Francisco.
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