If you go up the Grand Staircase to the second floor of San Francisco City Hall and then make a right, you will find a graveyard outside the office of District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan. Each tombstone is marked with a Halloweeny riff on the name of a former district supervisor.

Is it an homage? Is it a threat?

“There’s a lot of stuff going on, so it’s nice to have a little levity,” said Robyn Burke , one of Chan’s legislative aides. Another aide, Frances Hsieh, came up with the project, Burke said. Devising spooky nicknames for the graveyard of former supervisors, though? That was a team effort.

If you’ve seen the credits to one of The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror Halloween episodes, you’re familiar with the genre. Among the names: Sean Elsbernd ( District 7 supervisor from 2004 to

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