San Francisco has a lot of problems to deal with already, a broke public transportation system, a broke school system, corruption, a failing downtown, criminal justice problems, homelessness, etc. What the city didn’t need on top of all of that was a very public scandal involving a high-profile progressive in city government. But that’s what SF got in the form of KImberly Ellis, director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women.
Last month Ellis was placed on leave after it was revealed she had a side-gig working for a progressive policy group. She has also handed out contracts to political groups with which she had personal connections, bypassing the normal contracting process.
Ellis, who bills herself as the “most powerful unelected person in California Democratic politics,” has routinely mixed her political interests with her role as a…
