Mayor Lee's speech was long pledges, promises, and platitudes, but short of support.
It was maddening to watch Mayor Ed Lee deliver his annual State of the City address this morning. This was pure politics, from the staged backdrop of housing construction at Hunters Point Shipyard to the use of “regular people” props to the slate of vague and contradictory promises he made.
“This place, the shipyard, links our proud past to an even more promising future,” was how Lee began his hour-plus, invite-only address.Read more »