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GJGCA

(283 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 04:15 PM Nov 2025

How a House of Prime Rib cocktail waitress kicked up a political storm in S.F. City Hall

San Francisco Supervisor Beya Alcaraz, appointed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, was resigning after just seven days on the job. Baran was floored.

“Wow,” she texted a reporter. “I did that.”

The 26-year-old was behind a series of revelations, aired in the media and to the mayor’s office, about Alcaraz, a 29-year-old former pet shop owner with no political experience appointed by Lurie to represent the Sunset District. The information Baran brought to light probably catalyzed Alcaraz’s resignation, which political experts have called a major embarrassment for Lurie’s administration.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/julia-baran-beya-alcaraz-21182881.php

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How a House of Prime Rib cocktail waitress kicked up a political storm in S.F. City Hall (Original Post) GJGCA Nov 2025 OP
Paywalled - what did she do? nt Nittersing Nov 2025 #1
!?!! I'm sorry, better link here: GJGCA Nov 2025 #3
Oh Gosh... how awful... TY for the Cha Nov 2025 #5
Her pet store had dead mice all over the place mercuryblues Nov 2025 #4
His name is Alcaraz? lame54 Nov 2025 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Nov 2025 #6

GJGCA

(283 posts)
3. !?!! I'm sorry, better link here:
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 05:07 PM
Nov 2025
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/sf-supervisor-isabella-alcaraz-resigns-21175861.php

I'm not smart enough to figure out when/why articles are free for me but not for thee, I'm not a subscriber anywhere so ¿?

Cha

(319,067 posts)
5. Oh Gosh... how awful... TY for the
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 05:41 PM
Nov 2025

link.. we wanted to know what Julia Baran did after that build up!

mercuryblues

(16,409 posts)
4. Her pet store had dead mice all over the place
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 05:39 PM
Nov 2025

Mounds of trash, rodent feces in pet cages, dead animals in the freezer.

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