"The day after Beya Alcaraz, Mayor Daniel Lurie's pick for District 4 supervisor, resigned from a post she had taken up just seven days earlier, political insiders in San Francisco were unified in their response: How could this happen? And, what happens now? Alcaraz, the only supervisor appointee in modern San Francisco history with zero political experience, was ousted hours after Mission Local found she admitted in writing to paying workers "under the table" and potentially dodging taxes, and just days after the San Francisco Standard found her former pet store was awash in dead animals and a rodent infestation."
""That's just basic competence," political strategist David Ho said of Team Lurie's look into Alcaraz's background. "This is really stunning, given his team inside and outside the City Hall." Background checks are not especially difficult, Ho said. It takes "five minutes, maybe an hour, if you take the N-Judah out in the Outer Sunset," he said, to talk to Alcaraz's associates. "That is Politics 101. Maybe someone forgot to hand in their homework.""
"Lurie's team had considered the appointment carefully in other ways: Lurie said at a press conference on Friday that he had a "good understanding" of what the Sunset needed because of the "house parties that I've been attending and the community meetings that I've been going to the last couple months." The mayor's schedule shows that between Sept. 23 and Oct. 16, Lurie held five meetings on "district issues" at District 4 addresses. Those meetings ended on Oct. 16. Four days later, on Oct. 20, a poll was put out to District 4 residents as a temperature check of a hypothetical candidate named "Sara Reyes" who matched the resume of Alcaraz."
Beya Alcaraz, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s pick for District 4 supervisor, resigned one week after appointment following reports of payroll irregularities and animal-welfare problems at her former pet store. Reporters found admissions of paying workers “under the table” and potential tax avoidance, and inspectors reported dead animals and a rodent infestation. Political insiders and strategists criticized the vetting process, calling basic background checks easy yet apparently overlooked. Lurie said he had a good understanding of district needs based on recent meetings and house parties; a poll later tested a hypothetical candidate matching Alcaraz’s resume.
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