Lee appoints Santos, a staunch development advocate, to CCSF board

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/08/21/lee-appoints-santos-staunch-development-advocate-ccsf-board

Rodrigo Santos, a structural engineer who heads the pro-development advocacy group San Francisco Coalition for Responsible Growth, had already raised an unheard of amount of money in his race for the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees, $113,153 in just six months, mostly from real estate and development interests.

Today, he got another big boost when Mayor Ed Lee appointed Santos to fill the vacancy on that board created by the recent death of Milton Marks, giving the ambitious Santos a big advantage in the fall contest and perhaps signaling Lee's support for making deep program cuts to satisfy the accrediting commission's demand that CCSF cut expenditures and beef up its reserves.