Supervisor Daly says Newsom's veto favors his backers in real estate business

uhhh.... yeah... OF COURSE IT DOES! It also favors reasonable people who know the law, who know what's fair, and who know what is reasonable. This is another one that likely wouldn't have stood up in court, anyhow.

From today's Chronicle, "Newsom's veto, the third in his career as mayor, came late Friday and was timed apparently to draw as little publicity as possible. In a letter sent to the Board of Supervisors, Newsom said he was vetoing the legislation sponsored by Supervisor Chris Daly because it is "overly vague and difficult to enforce.""

"I think some folks were hoping that the mayor would not just walk the ideological landlord-Realtor line," Daly said. On a Web log written by Daly, the supervisor accused Newsom of "doing all his dirty work on Friday afternoons."

""Our objection to the legislation dealt principally with the inability of a seller to identify who might be a prospective buyer," said Jim Fabris of the San Francisco Association of Realtors. Fabris noted that under standard disclosure laws, sellers already must answer truthfully any questions about the eviction history of their properties or face legal liabilities. "Realtors support disclosure on all relevant facts," Fabris said."

More importantly, however, "Newsom's late-Friday veto is likely to be followed by another. An accompanying piece of legislation also sponsored by Daly would require hearings by the Planning Commission on all conversions of tenancies-in-common to condominiums. Supervisors are scheduled to make their final vote on that measure today, but Matthew Franklin, head of the mayor's Office of Housing, already has said Newsom will veto it."