SF Chinatown Power Broker Rose Pak Dead At 68
Breaking news Sunday afternoon is that longtime Chinatown community leader and City Hall power player Rose Pak has died. The Examiner has word via Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was at Pak's home this morning.
As many may have heard, Pak returned to San Francisco in May after about six months in China where she had reportedly been seeking treatment for a kidney problem. And a little over a year ago she told a reporter she was suffering from kidney failure.
Wielding the power of the Chinese-American vote in San Francisco and able to get out the vote for issues and candidates important to her neighborhood, Pak has long had a potent voice in City Hall. She's credited with helping to re-elect Peskin last year, who had previously been a termed-out supervisor in District 3, but returned to run again after a hiatus of several years.
Pak is also credited with aiding the successful mayoral campaigns of Art Agnos and Willie Brown, and helping get Mayor Ed Lee into office, first as the Board of Supervisors-appointed replacement for Gavin Newsom, when he took office as Lieutenant Governor in 2011.
Upon her return to the city in May she was met with a hero's welcome at SFO, with a contingent of multiple supervisors, the mayor, former mayor Willie Brown, and many others.
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