Newsom and the chickens
The chickens were back last night, come home to roost in front of Dede Wilsey's (the swell's chicken-in-chief) house, where she helped Mayor Gavin Newsom by hosting a fundraiser to stop Question Time from becoming enforceable law through Prop. E. Fun stuff, but the real fun comes tomorrow night when Newsom tries to shake his chicken image by finally debating the dozen candidates who are running against him, including Chicken John. The League of Women Voters event starts at 6 p.m. in Koret Auditorium at the main library, but seeing as this is the only debate Newsom has agreed to (insert clucking sounds here), attendees are advised to arrive early because it's expected to be a capacity crowd.
Photos by Patrick Roddie, webbery.com
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Comments (6)
I keep leaving comments on Chris' blog asking him questions which he never answers, which is really fucking annoying. The only commenters he responds to are the assholes. He always needs some to fight.
Anyhoo, during blogging question time, I've been trying to get Chris to answer this: what happens if prop. I passes but Gavin still doesn't show up? Does he go to prison? Will he be executed? Does Chris get to bend Gavin over his knee and give him a vociferous spanking? Will they hang Gavin up by his balls? What??!!!
Posted by expatriate | October 10, 2007 09:04 PM
The Mayor serves the people, not the Supervisors. This is just another attempt by Daly to be in the spotlight and create more needless drama. Think about the amount of money that was wasted putting this on the ballot - again - and what better public interests could have been served. Ridiculous.
Posted by Lisa | October 11, 2007 11:43 AM
If the Mayor serves the people, maybe he should listen to the 56.4% of voters who supported Question Time last year instead of raising money to nullify their vote.
And to Lisa's point about the money wasted on this, how much money does it take for six Supervisors to sign a piece of paper? Measure E adds two sentences to the City charter. See for yourself:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/LT_MayorAppearBoard.pdf
Maybe that took 30 minutes of a Deputy City Attorney's time.
As to Expatriate's question, there is no explicit enforcement mechanism, but the Mayor would be in violation of his responsibilities, and I assume the Supervisors could bring misconduct charges against him and possibly remove him from office.
Posted by Yes on E | October 11, 2007 12:08 PM
Think about the amount of money that was wasted putting this on the ballot - again - and what better public interests could have been served.
Think of what could have been done with the money that Gavin raised yesterday rather than spending it on fighting a ballot measure that obligates him to show up at the BoS every month.
Posted by bob | October 11, 2007 08:26 PM
Think about the amount of money that was wasted putting this on the ballot - again - and what better public interests could have been served.
think about what could have been done with all the money raised by Gavin yesterday insteading of fighting a ballot measure that obligates him to go to a BoS meeting every month.
Posted by bob | October 11, 2007 08:29 PM
Does anyone really believe that 'question time' will be anything other than a platform for gratuitous showboating by Chris Daly? I know I don't.
Posted by jeff | October 11, 2007 08:39 PM