What Tune Will Sing Sing?
With her filing last week, Lillian Sing hung up her judicial robe and tossed her name into the ring for the March 5, 2002 election for 12th State Assembly. Although first to file, she s unlikely to be the last. Others expected to join her include Supervisors Leland Yee and Gavin Newsom, and school board member Dan Kelly. Treasure Island Development Authority Director Annemarie Conroy is a possible candidate for the GOP nomination. Yee, Newsom and Conroy are moderate to conservative by San Francisco standards supporting more balance between tenants and landlords on rent control and moderated development, such as the mayor s Proposition K, as opposed to slow growth/no-growth measures, such as last year s Proposition L. With so many candidates, Sing needs to differentiate herself from the others, especially as the district leans moderate to conservative. There s a vacuum on the left, but Sing says that isn t for her to fill. She s not comfortable on the extreme, but rather has mellowed he
