On the morning of December 10, 2003, San Francisco’s newspapers announced a new era in the city’s politics. For mayor, voters had just selected a 36-year-old former head of the city’s traffic and parking commission who was perhaps best known for the copious amount of hair product he used. (The new mayor had actually joked about it in his campaign literature, stressing his qualifications by saying “it’s not what’s on his head.”)
And as the city’s district attorney, voters picked a political newcomer who vowed to be tougher on the city’s drug dealers.
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