The Daily Show pokes giant gaping holes in San Francisco’s ban on the Happy Meal. Watch to the end:

The idea for a ban on the Happy Meal, or rather a change in the calorie content and marketing, was led by Supervisor Eric Mar.

He is infamous already, at least locally, for other attempts at behavior regulation:

…ensuring The Richmond District is called The Richmond District or his work introducing a “Resolution endorsing the first World March for Peace and Nonviolence, calling for the end of war and nuclear arms, and the elimination of violence of all kinds.”

The Daily Show report makes San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom sound bitterly opposed to industry regulation, and opposed to working with the Supervisors. Perhaps that is no surprise if you read this morning’s news about his bitter departure from office.

After winning the seat for lieutenant governor in November, Mayor Gavin Newsom told reporters, point blank, that there would be no back room deals or political bargaining when selecting an interim mayor to fill the remainder of his term.

He’s also vowed to steer a clean-cut transition as he assumed his role as state lieutenant governor.

But then it seems Newsom was involved in back room shenanigans late last night when city supervisors took a short break from debating who should be the interim mayor.

And his effort for a smooth city transition? Well, that’s been about as clean as Mission Street sidewalk.

The Mayor in the past, however, has been pro-regulation. He favored the ban on single-serving plastic water bottles. Some even have said he should be given credit for leading regulation of industry for the entire country, such as a reduction of petroleum use with a plastic bag ban (introduced by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and modeled on the regulation in Ireland). Maybe he just really likes the Happy Meal.