Campaign to give San Francisco mayor more power abandoned after spending millions

A San Francisco political advocacy group that has spent millions to get two reform measures on the November ballot announced this week it was pulling one that would have given the city’s next mayor more powers.

TogetherSF Action claimed it could not gain traction on an initiative that would have given the mayor the sole authority to appoint and remove members of most of the city’s commissions as well as create deputy mayor positions and delegate responsibilities to them.