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in 2012, representing District 5, which consists of Haight-Ashbury, part of

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, the Inner

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, Japantown, and the Western Addition. Olague was appointed to the post by mayor Ed Lee in the wake of her predecessor Ross Mirkarimi's election to be sheriff of San Francisco. However, she was defeated by challenger

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in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections, 2012. She was the first openly bisexual person to serve as a San Francisco Supervisor.

Personal life

Olague grew up in a farm labor camp in California's Central Valley. The injustices she witnessed there drove her to participate in politics as a teenager, when she became involved in matters concerning immigrants, anti-war efforts, and opposition to nuclear energy. Olague is openly

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Political career

Olague was active in the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition in the late 1990s fighting for low income residents of the Mission.(January 12, 2012
"Political Notebook: City gains first bi supervisor."
''SFGate.'' (Retrieved 11-2-2012.) She then worked with Senior Action Network. She worked to defeat Proposition 98 the statewide measure that would have banned rent control. Prior to her appointment to the Board of Supervisors, she served as the president of the San Francisco Planning Commission. As planning commissioner, she worked to pass laws that would stop owner move in evictions of seniors, the disabled or the terminally ill. She lost her seat as a supervisor of a progressive district to

. Her loss was due primarily to her controversial vote to allow Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi to remain in office despite his pleading guilty to a domestic violence charge. She also served on the board of LYRIC, the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center for LGBT youth in the Castro, and was a member of the

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, and the Transit Riders Union. Olague switched from the Green Party to the Democratic Party with the election of Barack Obama.Gordon, Rachel and Knight, Heather (January 10, 2012
"Christina Olague elated as pick for District 5 seat."
''San Francisco Chronicle.'' (Retrieved 7-4-2012.)

References

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