San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly (right), who leads the progressive wing of that city’s politics, posted on his blog an e-mail he said he got from Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius (left):

From: Nevius, CW
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:58:12 -0700
To: Chris Daly
Subject: cwn

Hi Chris,
Just a heads up. I am going to ding you for the zoo hearing yesterday. It didn’t look good to limit the public comment, nor to cut off the first speaker. I understand that you were trying to get to your afternoon session about black flight from the city, but even some of those who spoke said they’d had enough hearings, they wanted some action. While that is an important topic, so is the zoo and disappointed to see you didn’t give it a full hearing, even though it has been discussed before.

Will also mention your call to get Mark Sanchez out of the race. With Sierra Club and Mark Leno endorsements, it seems to me his support is not as feeble as you suggested.

I am sending you this as an effort at responsible journalism. Ethically, you should always give a subject a chance to state his side. I wish you’d done the same before writing that I was a liar.

Chuck

Here’s what Daly said he e-mailed back to Nevius:

From: Chris Daly
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 12:26 PM
To: Nevius, CW
Subject: Re: cwn

Responsible journalism? Go sell crazy somewhere else.

And here is Nevius’s column, headlined, “Zoo hearing brings out the predator in Daly.”