San Francisco Mayor London Breed was caught Wednesday night at a local jazz club, The Black Cat, maskless.
It’s yet another incident in a long line of California public officials coming under fire for their pandemic-related conduct, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hair appointment and Gov. Gavin Newsom's dinner at The French Laundry.
But former city mayor Willie Brown came to Breed’s defense on KCBS Radio Friday. "I don’t know how you manage to wear a mask and drink anything in any facility in San Francisco," said Brown. "And at some point, if you are an elected official, you get nailed and criticized."
"You gotta live with it," he said.
Brown gets dinner with Breed about once a week, and according to him, she wears a mask until it’s time to sit down to dinner, and did so just Thursday night.
The current city mandate requires people to wear masks at all times while indoors, except for while actively eating or drinking. In the photos, there are drinks on the table, but nobody appears to be actively drinking them.
"Everybody must have been drinking," said Brown. "You put the drinks down for the picture, to take a picture."
Breed might have to pull the same move Newsom did after the French Laundry incident and simply say, "I did not realize I was at the Black Cat. It was a bad idea," Brown said.
KCBS Radio reached out to London Breed's office for comment and did not get a response.
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