Jane Kim isn't too young ... She's 31 (I think), and Chris Daly was 28 when he was first elected.

Last time the Guardian told a school board member to spend more time on the school board, things didn't work out too well for progressives, so I suggest we all take that advice for its proven worth.

Neither land use guru has demonstrated a record of consolidated accomplishment in bringing equitable land use change to bear yet, our communities remain destabilized, viewed as build out potential and subject to developer mischief.

Fighting the good fight is no substitute for winning the good win, and we've been losing the bad lose exclusively and our communities remain under development siege.

The person who wins D6 will be the one who brings progressive voters to the polls, no easy task in a nominally progressive yet diverse and challenging district.

Do not rule Rob Black or Yarne out. As one wise once said, we've got to fight for D6 like they've stolen it from us, because they have.

-marc

campers,

This will be a fine race if we can keep the Guardian's Redmond from putting Bruce's power behind the wrong candidates again. His boy Campos gave us Bevan Dufty as head of TA this week. And, no Timid, this is not "10's of millions". Learn how to count. The Central City Useless/Rose Pak Subway to Chinatown is over a billion alone. Did you forget Doyle Drive? Dufty and Campos were grinning like Cheshire cats as Campos put Dufty in charge of these projects. He was able to do this because Redmond enabled him with a front page endorsement. Notice that Tim hasn't mentioned that.

Nor, has Timid mentioned the fact that his other 'David' killed Daly's alternative tax proposals to Newsom's cuts. Oh yeah, Chiu provided the swing vote to send the Daly proposal back to committee.

Tim, are you starting to get the idea that these guys are not Progressives and that I was right and you were wrong? Why don't you just get on Maxwell's wagon and declare that we are in a Post Progressive era?

Also, I notice that you came in to defend the cabbies around 5 years late and with bad data. You said that SF medallions could be worth up to
"100,000"? Where the hell did you get that number, out of your ass? NYC medallions are selling as long term investments to corporations for up to $700,000 apiece. As I said (and, you ignored as usual) ... SF medallions will sell for at least a half million apiece at auction. You blew it again, Timid.

I'm sure your piece on cops and steroids is in the works though, right?

h.

h.

Tim,

You don't seem to be offering a very convincing argument as to why Jane shouldn't run for Supervisor now. In fact, as far as I can tell, you don't really offer one at all. We need solid progressive Supervisors with overwhelming support from the progressive community (particularly among younger people, which is pretty important as those are precisely the ones that should be inspired to get involved in politics) and I think that Jane fits these qualifications perhaps better than anyone else. Besides, why should she wait another 10 years to pass up this great opportunity.

Well, Matt, I have a couple of reasons. One is personal: I have two kids in the public schools, and great school board members are hard to find, and Jane Kim is one of them.

Two is that there's already an excellent progressive candidate in the race, Debra Walker.

That said, Jane has ever right to run, and if that's what she wants to do, we'll give her every consideration for endorsement and if she's elected, I'm sure she'll be a great supervisor.

As for my dear friend h, lighten up, camper: In time, David Campos will prove to be an excellent supervisor.

Oh, and h: You may not have been paying attention, but I have been writing about the taxi industry and defending drivers for, oh, about 23 years.

Jane Kim?

She regularly misses school board meeting because she has to study for her law school classes.

Another good citizen trying to use the board as a stepping-stone into politics.

Tim,

You have a great grasp of the School District? Do you forget that Debra Walker backed Heather Hiles for the School Board? Jane Kim rocks? She said that students of color were suspended more because of racism. That's a comment worthy of Amos Brown. Hey, I taught the toughest kids in the District and about 80% of them were black. They were labelled 'Severely Emotionally Disturbed'. Poor people caught in a culture of drugs and violence do a worse job of parenting. That's a hard core fact that Ms. Kim does not understand. She just does a knee-jerk, Tim Redmond type reaction and blames the white teachers. That's utter bullshit. It tells me that she's been sitting on the School Board for several years now and still has no idea as to the realities facing teachers. She attacks them! Now, that truly sucks.

And, YOU as a savior of cabbies!?! Give me a break. I don't care what you did for them in the past when they survived 11 attempts to overturn Prop K written by Quentin Kopp to give us the best cab system in the country. I care that when the 12th run at privatizing their medallions came up (last year's Prop A) that you stabbed them in the back to kiss ass on Peskin. Even he admitted he was wrong by not voting for the MTA budget (he was alone, I believe) because they double-crossed him.

Tim, the drivers will not have a slot on SFGTV before their commission now. That's because of YOU! Take responsibility for what you've done. Don't tell me to "lighten up" while you're kicking poor cabbies down on the ground. An equal opportunity cab industry in San Francisco is dead now and the Guardian killed it. And, they killed it because they listened to your sorry ass. The industry is telling senior drivers with no future to lump it or quit. That's gonna give us the kind of drivers you have in NYC.

And, when faced with what you've done, you manipulate the numbers. Recall saying that a medallion in SF was worth "$100,000"? They're easily worth a half million and you know it. You're just trying to downsize the magnitude of your sins. You got snowed and won't admit it.

So Campos will develop into a Progressive supe? Upon what, pray tell, do you base that? Is it his service with Louise Renne (his mentor) at the City Attorney's office? Or perhaps, because of his service at the School Board with Louise Renne, his mentor? Or, was it when he spiked Theresa Sparks' first run for Police Commission president in favor of Louise Renne, his mentor?

Renne has been the point attorney in the battle to stop Public Power for going on 3 decades yet you accept one of her pups as a Progressive?

You're a good writer, Tim. So's Jones. But, you've been manipulated into using your talents to elect and shield Downtown candidates. Chiu's firm (Grassroots Enterprise - made up of Right Wing Christian nutjobs) got a good piece of the 45 million the homophobes spent taking away basic rights from Gay people. You've refused to pursue this. Grassroots says their client list is 'proprietary' information but when you do a little digging you find the Republican National Committee giving them hundreds of thousands and Grassroots donating to the Cheney energy task force to curry favor for the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump.

You don't do open-ended investigative reporting in the area of local politics, Tim. You have led the Guardian into accepting astro-turf Progressives and we're all having to suffer for it.

Doubt it? Look for Lafco to lose funding within the next few months. Barbara Hale from the PUC has them tied in knots with a couple of million in unspent money on their books. They're history and that's on you too.

I'll keep you apprised as what's really happening. If you don't want to hear it, just ask and I'll take everyone at your publication off my blast list.

Truth hurt?

h.

You know, h, one of the problems with supporting candidates for office is that sometimes they get elected, and then are imperfect. If all you do is bitch, it's easy to be right all the time. Cuz nobody in San Francisco politics is going to be the Great Progressive Hero every day.

Not even your pal Matt Gonzalez.

You tell me any candidate you've ever endorsed for anything (yourself excepted, of course -- we know you are perfect) and I can turn around and say why your person fucked up this that or the other thing.

Instead of assuming we're all sellouts or in somebody's pocket, why not accept the fact that you and I have the same goals, and don't always agree how to get there, and quit the personal shit, which is lots of fun, and I could play it too, but it doesn't really get you anywhere.

Tim,

I make mistakes all the time. And, admit them. Your problem is that you make them all the time too but never admit them. Worse yet, you don't give your readers all the facts. As in your last post, you don't say anything about being wrong on Prop A and the effects of your error. You don't admit that Kim is a very beautiful and very shallow lady who plays the race card. You don't address the fact that your candidate, Campos made Dufty head of the TA, nor correct your numbers on projects the TA directly controls. You say "tens of millions" but it's at least 3 billion which makes you off by a factor of hundreds.

That's shit journalism, Tim and I'll hold your feet to the fire when you do shit journalism. And, I don't think you're a sell-out. I think you are smug and self-deluded. You leave out too many facts, guy and that's a disservice to your readers. I'll insert the missing information in my blasts and personally. People need to know.

Good candidates? Gonzalez is definitely the most talented but he got no free ride from me when he fucked up. Daly's the most exciting and bravest. Find something wrong with Mike Hennessey. Nor, have I found a flaw with Jeff Adachi. Marc Salomon totally kicks ass, as does Jim Meko. Krissy Keefer was a great candidate whom you pretty much ignored.

I'm not perfect, Tim but I'm certainly more perfecter than youse guys.

h.