Barbary Coast Consulting has four tickets to the Giants/Phillies game on Thursday, July 30, and we gave them away this morning to a couple of smart cookies who know their city history.  Our question: Who was the last Republican elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and what year did that take place? Thanks to the approximately sixty of you who wrote in with your guesses.  A popular answer was AnneMarie Conroy.  While she was indeed the most recent Republican to serve on the Board, she was not elected to that post.  She was appointed by Mayor Frank Jordan.  Other popular guesses: John Barbelagata, Tony Hall, Bill Maher, Ed Jew, John Bardis.  All good shots, but no - I believe that Hall was an Independent when he was elected, Jew was either an Independent or a Democrat when he was elected, and Bardis and Maher were Democrats.  Barbelagata was indeed a leading Republican voice on the Board of Supervisors - but he was elected years before the gentleman we were looking for.  The elusive name: Supervisor Lee Dolson.  He was elected to two non-consecutive terms, most recently in 1980.  Congratulations to our two scholars who got it right - Sandra Lowe and Alex Lantsberg.

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 6:29 am