Tim Redmond

Nathan Nayman on the outs?

10.12.06 - 1:52 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

The Committe on JOBS chief may be facing the axe, according to "rumors-a-swirling" reported by Luke Thomas in Fog City Journal. The problem: Nayman is too confrontational, and the downtown forces are sick of getting nothing done.

Dufty's a conservative

10.12.06 - 1:36 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Well, not exactly -- but a fascinating and incredibly detailed analysis of Dufty's voting record, put together by Michael Poremeba in BeyondChron, indicates that he's far more conservative than his district.

And while I'm on ol' BC: I've had a lot of differences with Randy Shaw in the past year, but I must say, Paul Hogarth's coverage of Prop. Read more »

The D6 sleaze reaches high tide

10.12.06 - 1:00 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

For starters, don't the over-funded losers who are attacking Sup. Read more »

Pete Wilson's bizarre homophobia

10.11.06 - 11:50 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

This one's out of right field: Pete Wilson, who has a radio show on KGO, announced yesterday afternoon that Sup. Bevan Dufty and his old friend Rebecca Goldfader, should never have had a child. His argument: Since Dufty is gay and Goldfader is a lesbian, their co-parenting arrangement somehow isn't as good as a "traditional" family in which the two parents are sleeping together. Read more »

The Village Voice gets lamer

10.11.06 - 8:19 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond
Well, I'm a bit late on this, but Gawker had a great little item on how lame the Voice has become under its new management.

EDITOR'S NOTES

10.10.06 - 7:10 pm | Tim Redmond |

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I get a little nervous when I hear prominent Democratic leaders talking about how important it is to elect John Garamendi lieutenant governor. Republican Tom McClintock, his ugly-right Republican foe, is such bad news that he must be stopped; the checkbooks need to come out and the boots need to hit the ground.
I don't disagree on one level — but the prospect of a bad lieutenant governor isn't by any means the scariest thing that could happen in November. In fact, the prospect of another four years of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't the scariest thing. Read more »

Editors notes

The Prop. 90 problem

10.03.06 - 7:03 pm | Tim Redmond |

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There's something scary happening in Bayview–Hunters Point, and it's not the redevelopment bulldozers.
For some reason that I find hard to understand, community leaders like Willie Ratcliff and Marie Harrison, who are opposed to the Redevelopment Agency's plan for that neighborhood, have signed on with a frightening gang of radical right-wing property rights advocates. Read more »

Youth and Dan Kelly

10.03.06 - 8:41 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Peter Lauterborn, former member of the San Francisco Youth Commission, weighs in on the School Board race at BeyondChron. His message: It's time for Dan Kelly to go.

More on Prop. 90

10.03.06 - 8:37 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Interesting item in the Califonria Progress Report about the unsually broad coalition that's come together to oppose prop. 90 -- and the very narrow well-funded interests behind it.

You can find out more about this hideous measure here.

Really scary

09.29.06 - 6:30 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

I had a really scary moment tonight.

it started well -- I was moderating a discussion on immigration politics at New College, featuring Justin Akers Chacon, who has written a new book called "Nobody is Illegal." Renee Saucedo, a longtime advocate for immigrants and day laborers, was on the panel, too, and we had a great discussion -- until the very end, when Saucedo starting talking about how she was trying to build coalitions between immigrants and African Americans in Bayview Hunters Point, organizing around opposition in that neighborhood the the redevelopment plan.

And ou Read more »