The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is presently conducting a wide-ranging corruption investigation into Mayor London Breed’s administration. It would thus be a severe conflict of interest for Breed to select the new city attorney. Dennis Herrera has served as the San Francisco city attorney since 2001 with distinction. He is stepping down to head the Public Utilities Commission. The federal public corruption investigation that began in January 2020 with Mohammed Nuru’s arrest on fraud charges has since widened to implicate 10 other city contractors and city officials. Herrera has been working with the City Controller’s Office on its own investigation of City Hall tied to the scandal. Five department heads within the city government have either been charged or forced to resign because of this investigation. Again, given the depth of the city attorney’s corruption investigation, Breed should not be the one to appoint Herrera’s successor. Just this week, …