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<\/p>\nLurie says Proposition F would help oust officials accused of wrongdoing. <\/p>\n
Aug 23, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 10:18 am PT<\/p>\n
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Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. Lurie says Proposition F would help oust officials accused of wrongdoing. \u00a0(Gustavo Hernandez\/KQED)<\/p>\n
San Francisco <\/a>Mayor Daniel Lurie is among those saying that recent allegations against a city official are all the more reason to pass a ballot measure that would give the mayor more power to oust commission members.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lurie\u2019s Clean Up City Hall committee said on the heels of allegations against Sheriff\u2019s Office Oversight Board President William Palmer on Friday that the mayor\u2019s proposed Proposition F would mean that officials \u201caren\u2019t shielded from accountability.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n A San Francisco Chronicle report<\/a> detailed allegations of Palmer picking a woman experiencing a mental health crisis up off the street, pressuring her to have sex and giving her drugs. Palmer was not arrested and is not facing charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n Palmer, who was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the body in 2021, has during his term been accused by four women of violence, including a rape allegation. A fifth woman got a restraining order against him. That, the Chronicle reports, is in addition to several traffic violations and almost $10,000 in parking fees in six years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Palmer has denied wrongdoing, and did not respond to KQED\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n To remove him from his position wouldn\u2019t be easy, proponents of Proposition F say. San Francisco\u2019s current charter requires officials to demonstrate the board member engaged in proven official misconduct. Supervisor Stephen Sherrill told the Chronicle that he hopes to begin that process in a few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n It includes \u201ca high threshold\u201d that involves a long process, according to the Clean Up City Hall campaign. After proving official misconduct, for example, three-fourths of the Board of Supervisors would still need to vote in favor of the removal.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s sort of the price you pay to have good government,\u201d said Justin Dolezal, president of Small Business Forward, which opposes the measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Lurie said in a statement released by Clean Up City Hall that the \u201cbroken and corrupt system\u201d was created \u201cby insiders to protect insiders.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSan Franciscans deserve a government where responsibility is clear, accountability is real and the people entrusted to serve this city are held to the highest standards,\u201d Lurie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cProp F lets the Mayor unilaterally remove public servants who\u2019ve done nothing wrong,\u201d the officials and others wrote days ago in an official argument against the measure<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s a recipe for politically-motivated removals of whistleblowers who would expose corruption.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Proposition F is backed by Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some unions. The committee, which is backed in part by tech founder Chris Larsen and The San Francisco Standard chairman Michael Moritz, has so far raised $9.4 million in support of the measures.<\/p>\n Jason McDaniel, a proponent of Proposition F and an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, said that the measure wouldn\u2019t grant unchecked power. Supervisors and the mayor would only be able to remove their own appointees.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t just empower the mayor to remove appointees from commissions, right? It allows the \u2018appointing authority\u2019 to remove commissioners,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cI personally am feeling like the balance has been preserved.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-25-BL_qut.jpg\")
City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 8, 2023. Proposition F would allow the mayor and supervisors to remove commission members they appoint without cause. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/250128-SFImmigration-49-BL.jpg\")
Supervisor Stephen Sherrill speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Sherrill has called for an investigation into Palmer\u2019s alleged conduct.<\/p>\n