Alioto-Pier Wins in Court, Now Need Votes

 A San Francisco Superior Court judge today ruled in favor of  Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier in her bid to be allowed to run for  re-election in November.
     
Alioto-Pier was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to replace him as  District 2 supervisor in 2004 after his election as mayor.
     
She then won an election in November 2004 to serve out the  remaining two years of the four-year term, and was re-elected to another  four-year term in 2006.
     
The city charter limits supervisors to two successive four-year  terms.
     
Alioto-Pier, whose current term expires in January, challenged a  city attorney's office ruling that she could not run for an additional term,  and today Judge Peter Busch ruled in her favor.
     
District 2 includes the Marina, Pacific Heights and Russian Hill  neighborhoods in the northern part of the city.