SF Mayor race heating up
Jul. 9th, 2007 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gordonzolaOk, I know it's early. Other candidates may emerge. But clearly Chicken John* is the only choice for Mayor so far.
Gavin Newsom (Class of '85 ROCKS!) became unbeatable forever in San Francisco the day that he declared gay marriage legal (and according to Democratic apologists, lost the election for Kerry).** No one wants to run against him. Even chief rival and anti-cocaine crusader Chris Daly managed to get his wife pregnant with perfect timing to bow out of the race. Sure, ex-Supervisor Tony Hall is running and he'll get the conservative 20% of the vote, but the anti-Newsom forces were so desperate they were actually talking about ex-Mayor Art Agnos as a possibility. I know there's not a long memory here because of all the short-timers, but he was so unpopular he lost to Frank Jordan. 'nuff said. Might as well throw Ed Jew up there, he'll be out of office by then surely.***
And where is Angela "Heart of San Francisco" Alioto anyways?
Sure, I'm probably down with Josh Wolf's politics more than Chicken John's. But since neither will beat Newsom, we might as well vote for one who will wage the fun campaign. Wolf will wear a webcam while conducting all city business? I can't wait to see the Mayoral bathroom! (Hey Josh, if you track back links, and I'm betting you do, it's Dolores Park, not "Delores Park".)
I thank Chicken John for trying to liven up what could be the most boring SF Mayoral race in my lifetime.
*He has to use his real name thanks to "serious" San Francisco politicians who were horrified at "Sister Mary Boom-Boom and Jello Biafra waging avant-garde populist campaigns in the '70s. Especially when Biafra finished fourth. Jello rightly pointed out at the time that the conservative candidate (who if memory serves finished 2nd to Feinstein) had the absurd (given at birth) name of Quentin Kopp. Vote John Rinaldi!
**I mean sheesh, the guy has an affair with his close friend and campaign organizer's wife, the wife then loses her job in city government, and Newsom admits to an alchohol problem and he's still unbeatable!
***Did you see that headline in whatever free-paper-that-no-one-really-reads? "Supervisor Plays the Race Card". They just couldn't bring themselves to write "Jew Plays the Race Card" could they?
Gavin Newsom (Class of '85 ROCKS!) became unbeatable forever in San Francisco the day that he declared gay marriage legal (and according to Democratic apologists, lost the election for Kerry).** No one wants to run against him. Even chief rival and anti-cocaine crusader Chris Daly managed to get his wife pregnant with perfect timing to bow out of the race. Sure, ex-Supervisor Tony Hall is running and he'll get the conservative 20% of the vote, but the anti-Newsom forces were so desperate they were actually talking about ex-Mayor Art Agnos as a possibility. I know there's not a long memory here because of all the short-timers, but he was so unpopular he lost to Frank Jordan. 'nuff said. Might as well throw Ed Jew up there, he'll be out of office by then surely.***
And where is Angela "Heart of San Francisco" Alioto anyways?
Sure, I'm probably down with Josh Wolf's politics more than Chicken John's. But since neither will beat Newsom, we might as well vote for one who will wage the fun campaign. Wolf will wear a webcam while conducting all city business? I can't wait to see the Mayoral bathroom! (Hey Josh, if you track back links, and I'm betting you do, it's Dolores Park, not "Delores Park".)
I thank Chicken John for trying to liven up what could be the most boring SF Mayoral race in my lifetime.
*He has to use his real name thanks to "serious" San Francisco politicians who were horrified at "Sister Mary Boom-Boom and Jello Biafra waging avant-garde populist campaigns in the '70s. Especially when Biafra finished fourth. Jello rightly pointed out at the time that the conservative candidate (who if memory serves finished 2nd to Feinstein) had the absurd (given at birth) name of Quentin Kopp. Vote John Rinaldi!
**I mean sheesh, the guy has an affair with his close friend and campaign organizer's wife, the wife then loses her job in city government, and Newsom admits to an alchohol problem and he's still unbeatable!
***Did you see that headline in whatever free-paper-that-no-one-really-reads? "Supervisor Plays the Race Card". They just couldn't bring themselves to write "Jew Plays the Race Card" could they?
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Date: 2007-07-09 04:37 pm (UTC)FYI, you might wanna fix the first asterisk. :)
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Date: 2007-07-09 06:30 pm (UTC)I hope not, though.
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Date: 2007-07-09 06:53 pm (UTC)I still have vivid memories of "Chicken George" leading an anti-drug pep rally at my high school, much to the delight of the stoners, who were enjoying his recollections and impersonations.
If Chicken John is elected mayor of San Francisco, one of his first orders of business will be to hold a raffle so that some lucky person wins the chance to drive a truck smack into the gigantic bow-and-arrow sculpture that sits on the Embarcadero.
Destroying a Claus Oldenburg sculpture is a public service. If that's his party platform, y'all have duty to vote for Chicken John!
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Date: 2007-07-10 12:05 am (UTC)I'm a complete and utter tool of the democratic party and I think the folks who try to blame Kerry's loss on gay marriage just plain don't know what they're talking about. None of the polling data supports it. Any pol worth their salt doesn't say shit like that without substantial polling to back it up, ergo, the folks who are saying that are morons.
When I say inflammatory Democratic lackey shit (Like Nader not only causing Gore's loss in 2000, but doing so intentionally), I have polling data and facts to back it up. :)
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Date: 2007-07-10 04:03 am (UTC)You made me LOL with the "Jew Plays the Race Card" comment ;-P
What about Antonio Mims?!
Date: 2007-07-10 08:17 pm (UTC)He also sells photocopied booklets of his slam poetry. (I couldn't find him on line anywhere but I'll pass one on to you next time I see you G.)
Sorry Chicken John, Antonio has my vote.
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