Clint Reilly
Clint Reilly | |
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| Born | January 13, 1947 |
| Occupation(s) | Campaign consultant, downtown office building landlord, mayoral candidate. |
Clinton Thomas (Clint) Reilly (born January 13, 1947) is a political consultant, real estate investor and onetime San Francisco mayoral candidate.
Childhood
Clint Reilly was born in the East Bay in 1947. His father worked as a Milkman and raised Reilly and his 9 siblings.
Education
Reilly received both his high school and college education at the Saint Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park. He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy, but left the seminary three years before he would have been ordained a priest.[1]
Career
After leaving the seminary, Reilly did odd-jobs to make money. Reilly became a campaign manager and successfully spearheaded Richard Hongisto's 1971 campaign for Sheriff of San Francisco. Reilly worked on several congressional campaigns most notably Barbra Boxer's and Dianne Feinstein's in the 1980s.[2]
In 1992 Reilly became a landlord, paying $3.9 million for an office building on Pacific Avenue in North Beach, leading to the purchase of the historic Merchants Exchange Building.[3] In 1993, Reilly was awarded what he says was a $600,000 settlement after San Francisco Examiner Editor Phil Bronstein allegedly broke his ankle in a scuffle that erupted during a meeting with Publisher Will Hearst. In 1995, Reilly ran the failed re-election bid of San Francisco's incumbent Mayor Frank Jordan against the outgoing speaker of the state Assembly, Willie Brown.
Mayoral Race
Reilly ran in San Francisco's 1999 mayoral election as a Democrat against the incumbent Mayor Willie Brown. Reilly came in fourth place at 24,322 votes, garnering 12.49% of the net vote.[4]
Personal life
Reilly married his wife Janet in 1995. They have two children together and live in San Francisco's Sea Cliff neighborhood.
Philanthropy
Reilly has made numerous donations to Catholic Charities over the years and has hosted numerous charitable events at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in his downtown office building.
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