Nonprofit Allegedly Told Staff to Vote for Newsom
SAN FRANCISCO
A city-funded nonprofit organization may lose its contract after an investigation confirmed that the group ordered employees to campaign and vote last year for Mayor Gavin Newsom and Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris.
“The office of the city attorney has provided this office sufficient and compelling evidence that the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners directed some of its employees to campaign and vote for candidates in the election for mayor and district attorney for San Francisco in November and December 2003,” wrote City Controller Ed Harrington in a letter sent to the league’s board of directors Thursday.
By doing so, Harrington wrote, the league at minimum violated a city law prohibiting organizations that receive funds from the city and county of San Francisco from using the funds to support political candidates or ballot measures.
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