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[[File:San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
[[File:Women's March SF Jan 21 2017 16.jpg|thumb|200px|The Board of Supervisors meets in [[San Francisco City Hall]].]]
[[File:Dianne Feinstein, official Senate photo.jpg|thumb|200px|
[[File:Milk at Moscone desk cropped.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Harvey Milk]], the [[List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year|first openly gay elected public official in California]], served as supervisor in 1978.]]
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From 1977 to 1979, and starting again in 2000, supervisors were elected from eleven single-member districts. Prior to 1977 and from 1980 to 1998, members were elected [[at-large]], all running on one ballot, with the top vote-getters winning office. In 1980, elections shifted from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years, and because of the shift from district to at-large elections, all seats were up for election, with some members winning four-year terms and some winning two-year terms. Similar cases of supervisors elected to truncated terms happened in 1977 and 2000, when elections shifted to district elections.
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==Board presidents==
:{{
The president of the Board of Supervisors presides over all board meetings and appoints members to board committees, among other duties. Board presidents are elected by their colleagues at the beginning of every odd-numbered year, or when a vacancy arises in the office.<ref name="Sec. 2.116">{{cite web
|title = Section 2.116. President of the Board of Supervisors.
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|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110714133409/http://library2.municode.com/4201/home.htm?view=home&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=tocid&doc_key=591a1e3e8829309f551ac9e1da49b67b
|archivedate = July 14, 2011
}}</ref> From 1983 to 2001, the city charter specified that the president would be the highest vote-getter in the previous election, taking the power of electing the board president away from the supervisors themselves, except in the case of a vacancy in the post.<ref name="Jun 1982 Prop L">{{cite web▼
▲}}</ref> From 1983 to 2001, the city charter specified that the president would be the highest vote-getter in the previous election, taking the power of electing the board president away from the supervisors themselves, except in the case of a vacancy in the post.<ref name="Jun 1982 Prop L">{{cite web
|title = Proposition L
|url = https://sfpl.org/pdf/main/gic/elections/June8_1982short.pdf
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|location = [[San Francisco]]
|pages = 50–52
|accessdate = July 30, 2009
}}</ref><ref name="Nov 1996 Prop G">{{cite web
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|location = [[San Francisco]]
|pages = 153–164
|accessdate = July 30, 2009
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bar:Peskin from:01/08/2001 till:01/08/2005 color:supervisor text:"[[Aaron Peskin]]" shift:(-74,-4) fontsize:10
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bar:Peskin from:12/08/2015 till:
bar:Peskin from:01/09/2023 till:$now color:president
bar:Chiu from:01/08/2009 till:12/01/2014 color:president text:"[[David Chiu (politician)|David Chiu]]" shift:(-82,-4) fontsize:10
bar:Tang from:02/27/2013 till:12/01/2014 color:supervisor text:"[[Katy Tang]]" shift:(-48,-4) fontsize:10
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bar:Cohen from:06/26/2018 till:01/07/2019 color:president
bar:Yee2 from:01/08/2013 till:01/08/2019 color:supervisor text:"[[Norman Yee]]" shift:(-88,-4) fontsize:10
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bar:Walton from:01/08/2019 till:01/07/2021 color:supervisor text:"[[Shamann Walton]]" shift:(-70,-4) fontsize:10
bar:Walton from:01/08/2021 till:01/09/2023 color:president
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== Board members ==
No official list of supervisors in office prior to 1906 exists as the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] destroyed all Board of Supervisors records. However, the names of San Francisco supervisors are recorded in many documents and newspapers from the time.
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=== San Francisco Common Council ===
The [[San Francisco Common Council]] was the predecessor of the [[San Francisco Board of Supervisors]]. The Common Council was made up of the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Assistant Aldermen, each composed of one member elected from each of the city's eight wards. The first elections to these posts took place on May 1, 1850 (the same day as the vote on the city charter), and the Common Council took office on May 6, 1850.<ref name="SFMuniReports1898-9_EarlyList">{{citation|title=San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1898-99, Ending June 30, 1899|contribution=List of Public Officers of the City and County of San Francisco|date=1899|place=San Francisco|publisher=The Hinton Printing Co.|page=Ap1-640–Ap1-717|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yv01AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA661}}</ref> The Common Council had authority only within the city limits, which stretched west to [[Divisadero Street, San Francisco|Divisadero]] and [[Castro Street, San Francisco|Castro]] streets and south to [[20th Street, San Francisco|20th Street]].<ref name=Scott_1985>{{citation |title=The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective |first=Mel |last=Scott |year=1985 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |edition=2 |location=Berkeley |pages=43–45 |isbn=9780520055124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC&pg
The seventh and last Common Council served until July 1856, when under the Consolidation Act that unified city and county government in San Francisco, the Common Council was replaced by the first Board of Supervisors.<ref name="SFMuniReports1898-9_EarlyList"/>
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| rowspan="2" | [[J.S. Davies]]
| [[W.B. Johnson]]
| rowspan="2" | [[James Otis (
| [[A.G. Randall]]{{ref label|AGRandall|C|C}}
[[John C. Ayres]]{{ref label|JCAyres|D|D}}
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| rowspan="4" | [[E.N. Torrey]]
| rowspan="2" | [[A.H. Cummings]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Michael Cody (politician)|Michael Cody]]
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! 1865<ref name="SFMuniReports1898-9_EarlyList"/>
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*{{note label|CWBond|A|A}} Charles W. Bond resigned April 7, 1858.
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*{{note label|ABMaguire|A|A}} A.B. Maguire resigned some time before June 27, 1900, and died shortly afterwards.
*{{note label|SBraunhart|B|B}} Samuel Braunhart was appointed June 27, 1900 to replace A.B Maguire.
*{{note label|JEAHelms|C|C}} John E.A. Helms died some time before July 26, 1900, while returning from a trip to investigate the possibility of using [[Lake Tahoe]] as a water supply for the city.
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*{{note label|JLGallagher|L|L}} James L. Gallagher was appointed February 11, 1905 to replace Thomas F. Finn. On June 17, 1907, Gallagher was appointed acting mayor by the board of supervisors, to serve in place of [[Eugene E. Schmitz]], who had been arrested on felony charges of extortion. Schmitz protested his removal, but Gallagher continued to serve until the board elected Charles Boxton to fill Schmitz's unexpired term on July 9, 1907.
*{{note label|AMWilsonGFDuffey|M|M}} A.M. Wilson and G.F. Duffey resigned their positions prior to January 17, 1907; Wilson took up the position of state railroad commissioner; Duffey became director of the city's department of public works.{{sfn|Hichborn|1915|p=154}}
*{{note label|JJONeillOATveitmoe|N|N}} J.J. O'Neill and O.A. Tveitmoe were appointed by Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz on January 17, 1907, to succeed A.M. Wilson and G.F. Duffey, who had resigned.
*{{note label|SFGraft|O|O}} On March 18, 1907, as part of the [[San Francisco graft trials]], 16 of the 18 supervisors confessed before a grand jury to receiving money from corrupt political boss [[Abe Ruef]]. In exchange for their testimony, "they were promised complete immunity and would not be forced to resign their offices."
*{{note label|CBoxton|P|P}} Following the conviction of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz for extortion, the board declared the office of the mayor vacant on July 9, 1907. Charles Boxton resigned his position as supervisor the same day and was elected by the board to fill Schmitz's unexpired term. However, testimony in Schmitz's corruption trial soon revealed that Boxton had taken bribes, so he actually served only seven days as mayor, resigning on July 16, 1907, to be replaced by [[Edward Robeson Taylor|Edward R. Taylor]], dean of [[University of California, Hastings College of the Law|Hastings College of the Law]]. On July 29, 1907, Taylor appointed James P. Booth, who had served as a supervisor from 1900 to 1905, to serve Boxton's unexpired term as supervisor.
*{{note label|TaylorPurge1907|Q|Q}} On July 29, 1907, two weeks after [[Edward Robeson Taylor|Edward R. Taylor]]'s appointment as mayor, he conducted a wholesale purge of supervisors connected with the [[San Francisco graft trials|graft scandal]]. Taylor obtained the resignations of 14 supervisors and appointed replacements for all their seats plus the open seat created by the resignation of Charles Boxton. These 15 appointments were protested by supervisors O.A. Tveitmoe and J.J. O'Neill, who had not resigned, on the grounds that Taylor's claim to the mayor's office had not been legally established. On August 26, 1907, P.M. McGushin resigned and Taylor replaced him with former supervisor A. Comte, Jr.
*{{note label|LSachsWGStafford|R|R}} Lippmann Sachs and W.G. Stafford were both elected in November 1907 to continue as supervisors. However, both resigned before May 28, 1908.
*{{note label|GAConnollyAADAncona|S|S}} George A. Connolly and A.A. D'Ancona were appointed as supervisors on May 28, 1908, to replace W.G. Stafford and Lippmann Sachs, respectively.
*{{note label|AHGianniniWWSanderson|T|T}} William W. Sanderson was appointed June 1, 1909 to replace A.H. Giannini, who had resigned. Attilio Henry Giannini was the brother of [[Amadeo Giannini|A.P. Giannini]], founder of the Bank of America. W.W. Sanderson was a grocery executive with Hooper & Jennings. He served as a supervisor during the period of Abe Ruef's corruption, and gave evidence about the graft schemes.
*{{note label|LPRixfordWEBalcom|U|U}} W.E. Balcom was appointed June 7, 1909 to replace L.P. Rixford, who had resigned.
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*{{note label|1912BOSReelected|A|A}} Four members elected to four-year seats in 1912 served on the previous board: Paul Bancroft, James Emmet Hayden, Oscar Hocks and Charles Albert Murdock.
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*{{note label|MMMorgan|F|F}} Mary Margaret Morgan was the first woman elected as a San Francisco supervisor. She placed seventh of 22 candidates for the nine seats at stake in the November 8, 1921 election.
*{{note label|MMarksSr|G|G}} Milton Marks, Sr. was the father of [[Milton Marks, Jr.]] who became the state assembly member and later state senator representing San Francisco. Milton Marks, Sr. did not stand for re-election in November 1929.
*{{note label|AJRossiJMTonerSTBreyerTPGarrity|H|H}} A.J. Rossi was sworn in as [[mayor of San Francisco]] on January 7, 1931, to fill the vacancy left by the swearing in of [[James Rolph]] as [[governor of California]] the previous day. Rossi had been chosen for the post on January 5 by a 14–2 vote of the Board of Supervisors. At the same time Dr. Joseph M. Toner took up a position as director of institutions for California. On January 20, Rossi's appointees Samuel T. Breyer and Thomas P. Garrity were sworn in to fill the two open supervisor seats.
*{{note label|STBreyer|I|I}} Samuel T. Breyer was the father of Irving Breyer, who later served as legal counsel for the [[San Francisco Board of Education]], and the grandfather of U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Stephen Breyer]] and U.S. District Judge [[Charles R. Breyer|Charles Breyer]].
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| rowspan="9" | [[Marvin E. Lewis]]
| rowspan="7" | [[P. J. McMurray]]
| rowspan="10" | [[George Christopher (mayor)|George Christopher]]
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| rowspan="12" | [[Joseph M. Casey (California politician)|Joseph M. Casey]]
| rowspan="5" | [[James J. Sullivan (California politician)|James J. Sullivan]]
| rowspan="5" | [[Henry Rolph]]
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! 1986
| rowspan="11" | [[Tom Hsieh]]
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| rowspan="3" | [[José Medina (politician)|José Medina]]
| rowspan="4" | [[Leland Yee]]
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| rowspan="4" | [[Sandra Lee Fewer]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Jeff Sheehy]]
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| rowspan="2" | [[Vallie Brown]]
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!2019
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| rowspan="3" |[[Matt Haney]]
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!2020
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| rowspan="2" |[[Matt Dorsey]]
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| rowspan="1" |[[Joel Engardio]]
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bar:Peskin from:12/08/2015 till:01/08/2016 color:d3a
bar:Peskin from:01/08/2016 till:$now color:d3 text:"[[Aaron Peskin]]" fontsize:S
bar:Peskin from:01/09/2023 till:$now color:BoSpresident width:8 fontsize:S
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bar:Yee from:01/08/2001 till:11/29/2002 color:d4 text:"[[Leland Yee]]" fontsize:S
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bar:Mandelman from:07/11/2018 till:$now color:d8 text:"[[Rafael Mandelman]]" fontsize:S
bar:Brown from:07/16/2018 till:12/15/2019 color:d5a text:"[[Vallie Brown]]" fontsize:S
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bar:Haney from:01/08/2019 till:$now color:d6 text:"[[Matt Haney]]" fontsize:S
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bar:Preston from:12/16/2019 till:$now color:d5 text:"[[Dean Preston]]" fontsize:S
bar:Chan from:01/08/2021 till:$now color:d1 text:"[[Connie Chan (politician)|Connie Chan]]" fontsize:S
bar:Melgar from:01/08/2021 till:$now color:d7 text:"[[Myrna Melgar]]" fontsize:S
bar:Engardio from:01/08/2023 till:$now color:d4 text:"[[Joel Engardio]]" fontsize:S
bar:MBrown from:01/01/2000 till:01/08/2004 color:Mayor text:"[[Willie Brown (politician)|Willie Brown]]"
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|1979–1993
|Appointed 1979 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein to succeed Supervisor Harvey Milk. Elected 1980, 1984, and 1988. Did not seek re-election in 1992.
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|John Bardis
|1980–1981
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|[[Michela Alioto-Pier]]
|2004–2011
|Appointed 2004 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Newsom on the Board of Supervisors. Elected 2004 and 2006. Ruled ineligible by the San Francisco Department of Elections, citing an opinion by City Attorney [[Dennis Herrera]], to seek re-election in 2010. Alioto-Pier filed lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court asserting that, under the term limits law, she was eligible to seek re-election in 2010, and if re-elected, would be termed out as of the 2014 election instead. A [[Superior Courts of California|Superior Court]] judge ruled in her favor,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=68850 | work=
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|[[Sean Elsbernd]]
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|[[Ed Jew]]
|2006–2007
|Elected 2006. Appointed post-election 2006 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Supervisor Fiona Ma. Suspended by Mayor Newsom on September 25, 2007, pending the outcome of a formal process to remove him from the board. A separate civil suit was initiated by the city to remove him as well. Resigned on January 11, 2008, prior to the completion of the removal process and the civil lawsuit, and agreed not to seek public office for five years.<ref name="sfgate1">{{cite news |author1=Wyatt Buchanan |author2=Cecilia M. Vega |date=January 11, 2008 |title=Ed Jew tenders resignation from S.F. Board of Supervisors |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ed-Jew-tenders-resignation-from-S-F-Board-of-3232910.php}}</ref>
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|[[Carmen Chu]]
|2007–2008, 2008–2013
|Appointed 2007 by Mayor Gavin Newsom to succeed Supervisor Ed Jew, after his suspension, pending final action by the Board of Supervisors on the question of whether to remove Jew from office. Jew resigned from office 2008, prior to the completion of the removal process, ending Chu's interim term. Under the charter, the seat became vacant<ref name="sfgate2">
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|[[David Campos]]
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|[[Malia Cohen]]*
|2011–2019
|Elected 2010 and 2014. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2018. Resigned 2019 after election to the [[State Board of Equalization (California)|State Board of Equalization]].<ref>{{cite press release |date=January 7, 2019 |title=Board of Equalization Announces New Members |publisher=State Board of Equalization |url=http://www.boe.ca.gov/news/2019/Jan2019-newmembers.pdf}}</ref>
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|[[Scott Wiener]]
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|[[Norman Yee]]*
|2013–2021
|Elected 2012 and 2016. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2020.
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|[[Sandra Lee Fewer]]
|2017–2021
|Elected 2016. Did not seek re-election in 2020.
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Catherine Stefani]]
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|2018–present
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Appointed 2018 by Mayor Mark Farrell to succeed Farrell on the Board of Supervisors. Elected 2018 and 2022. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2026.
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Rafael Mandelman]]
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|2018–present
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Elected June 2018
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|[[Vallie Brown]]
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|Appointed 2018 by Mayor London Breed to succeed Breed on the Board of Supervisors. Defeated for first election in 2019.
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|2019–2023
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|2019–present▼
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|2019–2022
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|2019–present▼
|Elected 2018. Resigned 2022 after election to the California State Assembly.
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Elected 2018.▼
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Shamann Walton]]*
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|2019–present
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Elected 2018 and 2022. Ineligible to seek re-election in 2026.
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Dean Preston]]
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Connie Chan (politician)|Connie Chan]]
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Elected 2020.
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Myrna Melgar]]
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Elected 2020.
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Matt Dorsey]]
|bgcolor="ffffcc"|Appointed 2022 to succeed Supervisor Matt Haney. Elected 2022.
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|bgcolor="ffffcc"|[[Joel Engardio]]
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Current members shaded in yellow. Members who served as president of the Board of Supervisors during part of their tenure on the board are denoted with an asterisk (*).
== Nonpartisanship ==
Supervisors are elected on non-partisan ballots, but all current members of the Board of Supervisors are registered Democrats. Supervisor Jane Kim was previously a member of the Green Party, but switched her registration to Democratic before running for supervisor.<ref>{{cite web |author=Steven T. Jones |date=March 11, 2010 |title=The Green Party's nadir |work=San Francisco Bay Guardian <!-- |url=http://www.sfbg.com/2010/03/11/green-partys-nadir --> |url=https://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/sfbgarchive/2010/03/11/green-partys-nadir/ |via=48hills}}</ref>
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