{"id":412815,"date":"2026-07-26T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412815\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:29:48","slug":"iconoclast-the-city-sfexaminer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412815\/","title":{"rendered":"ICONOCLAST | The City | sfexaminer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clint Reilly at the San Francisco Examiner\u2019s and Nob Hill Gazette\u2019s San Franciscan of the Year Awards, held in the Julia Morgan Ballroom, in 2025.<\/p>\n

Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

Clint Reilly, an East Bay milkman\u2019s eldest son, left a Roman Catholic seminary three years short of the priesthood and poured his zeal into politics, pioneering the modern American campaign and launching a generation of California political leaders, including Senator\u00a0Dianne Feinstein\u00a0and Representative\u00a0Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

His second act was still more improbable: He became one of downtown San Francisco\u2019s only noninstitutional commercial landlords, fought twice in federal court to maintain regional media competition, gave away millions of dollars to the City\u2019s schools, parks, clinics and museums, and ended as owner and steward of some of its most storied institutions \u2014 the\u00a0San Francisco Examiner, the Nob Hill Gazette\u00a0and the Merchants Exchange building among them.<\/p>\n

Mr. Reilly died July 18 in San Francisco. He was 79.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love this photo,\u201d Mr. Reilly said of this image of him and Janet Reilly, taken at their home for a holiday card.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Courtesy the Reilly Family<\/p>\n

The seminary never entirely released him. Mr. Reilly entered at 14 and studied nine years for the priesthood before leaving in 1969, often explaining afterward that he had wanted to \u201chelp make history, not simply bless it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the departure proved less a break than a translation. In Catholicism, he observed, the priest is not the leader but a facilitator of leaders \u2014 and that, he often said, was the political consultant\u2019s calling at its best.<\/p>\n

Viewed across a half-century, his careers formed a single ministry conducted through secular instruments: campaigns, buildings, lawsuits, newspapers and scholarships, each pressed into the service of what he called the greatest act of charity \u2014 helping to create a just society.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly with Dianne Feinstein around the time of her successful campaign against a 1983 recall attempt.<\/p>\n

CLINT REILLY ORGANIZATION ARCHIVE<\/p>\n

By the time he quit politics, Clinton Reilly Campaigns had run hundreds of races and helped establish practices that became the industry\u2019s standard equipment: computer-assisted targeting that eschewed ZIP codes in favor of sorting the electorate into like-minded slivers, each reached with its own tailored message; slickly produced mail and television spots that peers came to call the California School; and a full-service campaign shop uniting polling, mail, advertising, fundraising and field organizing under one roof, modeled intentionally on a commercial ad agency.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0once described the operation as the most successful political consulting firm outside Washington, D.C.; the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0pronounced him \u201cthe gold watch of political consultants.\u201d His clients included Feinstein, Pelosi, Senator\u00a0Barbara Boxer, Mayor\u00a0Richard Riordan\u00a0of Los Angeles and much of the Democratic leadership of California.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly as a young political advisor with students at UC Berkeley in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

CLINT REILLY ORGANIZATION ARCHIVE<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t just build a company,\u201d\u00a0Eric Jaye, a San Francisco strategist who worked for him, has said. \u201cHe in many respects helped create an industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, in 1995, at 48, he walked away \u2014 and compressed a second life into a single year. He married\u00a0Janet Koewler, a public-relations executive he had met through the Riordan campaign, ending what he later called a lifetime as a bachelor; and he bought the Merchants Exchange building, a 1903 landmark at the heart of the Financial District.<\/p>\n

Around that address he assembled the estate of a civic patriarch: a real-estate portfolio, a premium events company, a restaurant, a Napa vineyard, two magazines, a newspaper \u2014 and a scholarship program he came to regard as the point of it all.<\/p>\n

None of it mellowed him, exactly. In his early consulting years, Mr. Reilly was among the most respected \u2014 and intimidating \u2014 personalities in California politics, a perfectionist who made 3 a.m. phone calls, went years without wearing a watch so as not to know when to stop, and demanded the absolute best from his staff at all times.<\/p>\n

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Bess and Joseph Reilly with their first child, Clinton Thomas Reilly, as a baby.<\/p>\n

Courtesy the Clint Reilly Organization Archive<\/p>\n

He did not defend all of it. His straightforward style could be challenging for some, he acknowledged. Mr. Reilly was open about other traits as well: a drinking problem he ended in 1981, followed by counseling he continued for decades and a habit of relentless self-scrutiny that could sound like the confessional he had trained for.<\/p>\n

One of his longest battles was with the Hearst Corporation. The most consequential lawsuit came in 2000, when Hearst moved to buy the\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle\u00a0and dispose of The\u00a0Examiner, its flagship since 1887. Mr. Reilly sued to block the deal in federal court \u2014 granted standing, remarkably, as a simple consumer of news.<\/p>\n

As a former political professional, he argued that news monopolies were poisonous to democracy. He lost, but the trial forced The\u00a0Examiner\u2019s publisher to acknowledge under oath that he had offered favorable editorial treatment to public officials in exchange for support of the sale \u2014 testimony that cost the publisher his job.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly with former President Joe Biden, Jill Reilly, former Vice President Kamala Harris and Janet Reilly at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco in 2023.<\/p>\n

Drew Altizer for Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

Judge\u00a0Vaughn R. Walker, while ruling for Hearst, pronounced the company\u2019s conduct \u201cmalodorous,\u201d called the lawsuit a public service and ordered Hearst to cover Mr. Reilly\u2019s $2 million in out-of-pocket legal fees. The\u00a0Examiner\u00a0\u2014 the survival of which Mr. Reilly counted as the case\u2019s true verdict \u2014 kept publishing.<\/p>\n

He sued again in 2006, when Hearst helped finance MediaNews Group\u2019s acquisition of nearly every other paid daily in the Bay Area and the two companies quietly agreed to explore combining a range of business operations. A federal judge enjoined the arrangement; on the eve of trial, the companies settled, abandoning the cooperation plans, unwinding Hearst\u2019s path to a stake in the Bay Area papers \u2014 and once again paying Mr. Reilly\u2019s costs.<\/p>\n

An additional element of the settlement agreement brought Mr. Reilly into close collaboration with the 11 MediaNews-owned titles. To facilitate an ongoing local voice in each community even as the papers marched inexorably toward consolidation, Mr. Reilly worked with the publishers and opinion-page editors to recruit independent community members from Vacaville to San Jose to serve on the editorial boards of each paper. For three years, a rotating array of teachers, businesspeople, clergy, nonprofit leaders and others served one-year terms in each of the 11 communities served by MediaNews.<\/p>\n

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Governor Gavin Newsom and Clint Reilly in conversation, as they often were over the years of their relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jana A\u0161enbrennerov\u00e1 for Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

One further provision made the settlement a curiosity of American press law: Mr. Reilly received a weekly quarter-page of his own in all 11 newspapers. For three years, he filed a column nearly every week \u2014 156 of them, some 100,000 words in total.<\/p>\n

The columns read like the man: passionate, self-deprecating and unexpectedly devotional. He joked that the \u201cr\u00e9sum\u00e9 police\u201d might object to a columnist no newspaper had hired, and he admitted he broke into a cold sweat wondering whether he had anything to say.<\/p>\n

He did. He reflected on his own seminary classmate, who was named among the church\u2019s pedophile priests, and faulted Pope\u00a0Benedict\u00a0for failing to defrock him when he had been asked to do so in 1985. He argued for ending mandatory celibacy for priests, and he ruthlessly scolded his own class, writing that a culture that deified private wealth worshiped a false god and that men like him should simply be taxed more.<\/p>\n

He expounded on the financial crisis and the Affordable Care Act battles that dominated President\u00a0Barack Obama\u2019s first term, calling for accountability for the big banks and steeling Democrats\u2019 spines on the health-care fight. One of his columns, a paean to the department-store chain Mervyn\u2019s, sundered by its private-equity owners, elicited hundreds of heartfelt comments from throughout the region.<\/p>\n

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The Reilly family \u2014 Clint, Ava, Janet and Jill \u2014 at a Catholic Charities Loaves & Fishes Dinner in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

Above all, he wrote about newspapers \u2014 his parents had pored over the\u00a0Oakland Tribune\u00a0each evening after work \u2014 and about the working families of the postwar Bay Area, of whom he observed: \u201cInk flowed through the Bay Area\u2019s veins.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final beat of Mr. Reilly\u2019s career had a symmetry no novelist would risk. In 2016, the milkman\u2019s son bought the\u00a0Nob Hill Gazette, the chronicle of The City\u2019s social and philanthropic life. And in late 2020 \u2014 as the pandemic emptied downtown and The City\u2019s monied class decamped to Napa and Lake Tahoe \u2014 he decided to buy the ailing\u00a0San Francisco Examiner\u00a0itself, completing the purchase in 2021.<\/p>\n

The paper upon which\u00a0William Randolph Hearst\u00a0had founded an empire, and whose fate Mr. Reilly had first gone to court over 20 years earlier, now belonged to the consumer of news.<\/p>\n

There was a smaller symmetry, too, which he relished:\u00a0Julia Morgan, Hearst\u2019s architect, had kept her office for 45 years in the Merchants Exchange \u2014 the building Mr. Reilly bought, and the grand ballroom of which he named for her.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly with several of the Bay Scholars his nonprofit organization has supported over the years with scholarships to attend regional Catholic schools.<\/p>\n

Annie Barnett Photo<\/p>\n

Clinton Thomas Reilly was born in Oakland on January 13, 1947, the eldest of the 10 children of\u00a0Joseph\u00a0and\u00a0Bess Reilly. Six days per week, his father drove a Berkeley Farms milk truck through the Berkeley hills, delivering to professors\u2019 houses and sometimes taking his oldest boy along. Mr. Reilly\u2019s mother ran a concession stand at Oakland Coliseum for 24 years, retiring as one of the longest-serving employees in its history.<\/p>\n

The family was poor in the cheerful, crowded way of the postwar East Bay \u2014 his father liked to recall that the house had no curtains, and that strangers knocked to ask whether it was for rent.<\/p>\n

The decisive event of his childhood was a death. His sister\u00a0Jill\u00a0\u2014 his closest companion, who helped propel him to his fifth-grade class presidency with the slogan \u201cTake a hint, vote for Clint\u201d \u2014 died of a brain tumor when Mr. Reilly was 12. Soon after Jill died, his mother recalled, he announced he would become a priest. Forty years later, he gave his first daughter his sister\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

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As The City\u2019s artificial-intelligence startups look to accommodate their burgeoning workforces, they\u2019re putting a premium on move-in-ready spaces<\/p>\n

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Local officials say new delay in federal\u00a0reimbursement funding is a political stunt that\u2019s not driven by legitimate concerns<\/p>\n

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Artificial-intelligence security startup C1 recently leased a new headquarters space in SoMa \u2014 and it\u2019s just one of many companies in the sector that are expanding in The City<\/p>\n

He entered St. Joseph\u2019s Seminary in Mountain View at 14, continuing to St. Patrick\u2019s in Menlo Park, where he took a degree in philosophy \u2014\u00a0Aristotle\u00a0and\u00a0Aquinas\u00a0first, then\u00a0Heidegger\u00a0and the existentialists, whom he mined for years afterward.<\/p>\n

The seminary of his adolescence was a hermetically sealed chamber. Then the Second Vatican Council cracked the windows, and through them streamed the tumultuous 1960s of the Bay Area. Under the Rev.\u00a0Eugene Boyle, the archdiocese\u2019s social-justice firebrand and his lifelong mentor, Mr. Reilly led fellow seminarians in producing their 1968 \u201cLittle Kerner Report,\u201d a 577-page study of race and poverty that accused white San Francisco of sleeping through a revolution. (Mayor\u00a0Joseph Alioto\u00a0dismissed it as the work of cloistered students.)<\/p>\n

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The Reilly family \u2014 Clint, Jill, Ava and Janet \u2014 in their 2015 Christmas photo.<\/p>\n

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He left in 1969, three years short of ordination. That Christmas, he wrote his parents a seven-page letter \u2014 kept ever since \u2014 announcing himself \u201ca restless man\u201d who could not settle for least best, vowing to drain himself in the service of others and promising, since little could be done without money, to make his meager talents pay.<\/p>\n

They paid slowly. He opened a waterfront junk shop called Walls and Corners on the stretch of shoreline where Levi\u2019s Plaza now stands, selling the castoffs of a fading analog age as curios for a modern one: milk cans by the thousands (Macy\u2019s bought them for window displays), wooden Coca-Cola cases and, in one characteristic wager, an entire Benicia warehouse of monolithic foundry patterns \u2014 ship anchors, giant gear wheels \u2014 bought whole and retailed as objets d\u2019art.<\/p>\n

He followed Father Boyle into the farmworker and civil-rights movements, speaking for Boyle in the early 1970s when a coloring book urging children to kill police officers was found in the church basement where the priest had let the Black Panthers run a food program for neighborhood children. The scandal nearly destroyed Boyle before a congressional inquiry established that the FBI had planted it.<\/p>\n

In 1971, he won his first campaign:\u00a0Richard Hongisto\u2019s insurgent run for San Francisco sheriff. The education came in 1974, when he persuaded Father Boyle to run for the state assembly and watched a fraudulent last-minute mailer sink him by a few hundred votes. Four years later, he enjoyed a major breakthrough, steering future Congressman\u00a0Robert Matsui\u00a0through a crowded Democratic field and on to a general-election victory.<\/p>\n

In 1979, he ran Supervisor\u00a0Quentin Kopp\u2019s mayoral challenge and forced\u00a0Dianne Feinstein,\u00a0the heavily favored incumbent, into a runoff \u2014 a losing race that ironically brought him closer to Feinstein, who called on Mr. Reilly to fend off a recall attempt in 1983. That commanding victory became the blueprint for winning such campaigns, one that Mr. Reilly deployed nearly 10 years later to save California State Senate leader\u00a0David Roberti\u00a0from a similar attempt.<\/p>\n

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The Reillys with Paul Pelosi and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi at UC Davis\u2019 Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drew Altizer for Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

Clinton Reilly Campaigns opened in 1982, and for 13 years its founder was the biggest gun for hire in California politics. His star-studded roster of candidates grew with each cycle. Statewide initiative campaigns for the insurance industry swelled the firm\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI basically didn\u2019t have to work a day in my life for the rest of my life,\u201d he later told the\u00a0Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n

He helped to elect\u00a0Frank Jordan\u00a0mayor of San Francisco in 1991; two years later, he engineered an upset win for Richard Riordan in his campaign for mayor of Los Angeles. In 1994 came the defeat that trailed him longest \u2014 hired late to rescue\u00a0Kathleen Brown\u2019s foundering run for governor, he served through an Election Day defeat in which\u00a0Pete Wilson\u00a0outspent her by a ratio of more than 2.5 to 1.<\/p>\n

The press and pundits blamed him for weeks. Years later, in a column, he offered his own verdict: The side with superior resources usually wins.<\/p>\n

A last, doomed campaign \u2014 Mayor Jordan\u2019s 1995 reelection, remembered chiefly for the candidate\u2019s ill-advised freelance stunt with two radio shock jocks \u2014 provided a comic punctuation mark on Mr. Reilly\u2019s consulting career.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly with Rita Semel, who passed away in May, at a Catholic Charities event.<\/p>\n

Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

His new life arrived all at once in 1995, when Mr. Reilly bought the Merchants Exchange building, the 16-story landmark at California and Montgomery streets, from\u00a0Walter Shorenstein\u00a0and the\u00a0Swig\u00a0family, then the reigning names of San Francisco real estate. (A smaller building on Pacific Avenue, acquired in 1992, had been the quiet start; the Merchants Exchange was the statement.)<\/p>\n

Over the following decades, the building became less a property than a parish. He poured millions of dollars into the building to restore it as a premium corporate address and made its Julia Morgan Ballroom The City\u2019s ceremonial living room, host over the years to musicians, athletes and politicos \u2014 including Obama,\u00a0Steve Jobs,\u00a0Jane Goodall,\u00a0Jay-Z\u00a0and\u00a0Tom Brady, among countless others \u2014 and to the galas, trade shows and political dinners of a metropolis.<\/p>\n

In 1999, his daughter\u00a0Jill\u00a0was born. That same year, he made his one run for office, spending millions of dollars of his own money in a bruising campaign for mayor of San Francisco that collapsed when two late entries reshaped the race against Mayor\u00a0Willie Brown. Pundits and politicos anticipated an eventual second attempt, but Mr. Reilly turned his attention to other interests: political fundraising, more downtown building acquisitions, art collecting. His second daughter,\u00a0Ava, was born in 2001.<\/p>\n

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The Reilly family with former President Barack Obama and Janet\u2019s mother, Margaret Koewler, in 2012.<\/p>\n

Courtesy Clint Reilly Organization Archive<\/p>\n

A pattern emerged in Mr. Reilly\u2019s second act: He doubled down on The City when confidence in San Francisco was at its lowest. As the nation\u2019s financial system buckled in 2008, he and his wife each launched nonprofit organizations. Hers was Clinic by the Bay, a free clinic for the working uninsured that opened in the Excelsior in 2010; his was Bay Scholars, a scholarship fund for students who could not afford the kind of rigorous Catholic education that had bolstered his own prospects.<\/p>\n

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2010, into the teeth of the recession, he opened Credo, an Italian restaurant, on the ground floor of his Pine Street building with Father Boyle, then 88, on hand to bless the room and then-Mayor\u00a0Gavin Newsom\u00a0proclaiming \u201cCredo Day\u201d in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Credo \u2014 Latin for \u201cI believe\u201d \u2014 was Mr. Reilly\u2019s creative ode to the competition of ideas that underpinned American democracy. When a\u00a0Chronicle\u00a0critic dismissed the food with a single star, the owner professed serenity: He had sued the paper\u2019s parent company multiple times, he noted, and saw no reason they would turn the other cheek.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam Randolph Hearst didn\u2019t,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Bay Scholars became, by his own reckoning, the point of the whole sprawling enterprise. Beginning with 10 scholarships in 2008, the program grew to underwrite 508 students in the 2025-26 school year, carried through 18 college-preparatory high schools around the Bay on more than $16 million in aid. Roughly 60 percent became the first in their families to earn college degrees, and nearly all enrolled.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly, Caitlin Curran Kavanagh (far right) and the Bay Scholars team, along with students in the program.<\/p>\n

CLINT REILLY ORGANIZATION ARCHIVE<\/p>\n

The hardscrabble East Bay kid whose own path had run through a Catholic seminary was buying the same passage, at scale, for children like he had been. He read every application himself each winter, pressing the program to take more students than it had the year before. He routinely pressed staff in his businesses to succeed because their success would ultimately translate to additional support for Bay Scholars, and he regularly brought staff members to school luncheons and events to speak to students.<\/p>\n

The giving ran wide as well as deep. In 2001 Archbishop\u00a0William Levada\u00a0made him the first lay chairman of Catholic Charities CYO, the region\u2019s largest social-service agency, where he and his wife founded the Archbishop\u2019s Loaves & Fishes Dinner, which raised more than $6 million during his tenure alongside more than $1 million of the couple\u2019s own giving.<\/p>\n

A serious art collector since his consulting days \u2014 heavily concentrated on Bay Area abstract expressionists and figurative artists \u2014 he was, with his wife, a major donor to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and to the Asian Art Museum, whose $52 million bond campaign for a new Civic Center home he had managed pro bono in 1994.<\/p>\n

His board service and patronage reached from the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis to the Presidio Tunnel Tops park and the Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service at UC Berkeley \u2014 the latter named for the congressman whose 1978 campaign had first carried Mr. Reilly into the political big leagues, making one of the consultant\u2019s earliest clients, a half-century on, a cause.<\/p>\n

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Former Mayor Willie Brown joined Mr. Reilly and the Nob Hill Gazette\u2019s 45th anniversary celebration in 2024 in the Banking Hall of the Merchants Exchange.<\/p>\n

Jessica Monroy for Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

The portfolio thinned gracefully at the end. In 2024 he sold the Little Fox Theatre building at 535 Pacific Ave. to LoveFrom, the design collective of Sir\u00a0Jony Ive, Apple\u2019s former design chief. Credo closed the same year, after a 15-year run. In January, the Bay Area Council inducted him into its Business Hall of Fame \u2014 jointly, fittingly, with his wife, Janet.<\/p>\n

In addition to Janet Reilly, who serves on the University of California Board of Regents and as chair of Clinic by the Bay, Mr. Reilly\u2019s survivors include their daughters, Jill and Ava Reilly; his mother, Bess Reilly (age 101); seven brothers and one sister; and numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

He had, in a way, already written the eulogy that fit him. In 2010, Mr. Reilly used one of his columns to bury two friends: a doctor who lived next door and never sought the limelight, and a seminary classmate who, dying of cancer, spent one of his last afternoons arranging a wheelchair for a neighbor sicker than himself.<\/p>\n

Such people, Mr. Reilly wrote, were the quiet heroes who transform the world by leaving \u201ctheir own small corner of the universe\u201d better than they found it. Then he reached for\u00a0T.S. Eliot\u2019s question \u2014 \u201cDo I dare disturb the universe?\u201d \u2014 and rendered his verdict. Both men, he wrote, had.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Reilly with Rachel Teagle, the founding director of the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis.<\/p>\n

Drew Altizer Photography<\/p>\n

He used his final column, nearly a year later, the way he had used campaigns, courtrooms, buildings and scholarship checks for a half-century: to argue that cynicism about public life was the one indulgence a citizen could not afford, and to ask his readers to volunteer for a candidate or a cause \u2014 any candidate, any cause \u2014 and to believe that great things could still be achieved.<\/p>\n

Over and over, Mr. Reilly dared. The universe was disturbed.<\/p>\n

Frank Holland is the principal of ORSO Creative and Strategic, a Washington, D.C.-area public-affairs firm. He served as an executive within the Clint Reilly Organization and as strategic partner to Clint Reilly for 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clint Reilly at the San Francisco Examiner\u2019s and Nob Hill Gazette\u2019s San Franciscan of the Year Awards, held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,15820],"class_list":["post-412815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-the-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}