A San Francisco Supervisor’s call for a referendum in November on whether San Francisco should bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games has San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom trying to keep a good game face, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
The mayor’s press secretary said, “he (the Supervisor) might have at least waited until we got out of the second round”.
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval needs the backing of a least three other supervisors to get the measure on the ballot and so far he has named two. He said, “and I have one more, but I’m not ready to disclose the name just yet”.
The newspaper says the fear in the mayor’s office is that even going to voters to ask whether the city should spend millions on the Games would reinforce the U.S. Olympic Committee suspicions about the political will to host the event.
