to be so irrelevant that Jane Kim and David Chiu don't give a flying fuck what you have to say, and all you're left with is pining for Chris Daly. Snnniffff. Is that the smell of San Francisco passing you by? Yes, I think it is.

Poverty is not a progressive value. There is a homicide epidemic in our communities of color, not a progressive value. I am at the point where I think we need to be willing to try new approaches to job creation. This is a civil rights issue. I have three children in their twenties, they've all lost peers. This is unacceptable. I do not have the patience to wait for "perfect" solutions, but I know under capitalism it is business that creates jobs. People with good paying jobs spend money on goods and services, it can be a race to the top instead of the bottom!

Isn't good connections the purpose of attempting to elect progressives to city office? Don't progressives get elected promising to do the bidding of the chosen special interests? It's a bit odd to complain that someone else is traveling on connections when that's the goal.

...and that last paragraph, what does that have to do with anything?

And lastly how is Warren Hinkle still alive? I see that guy in north beach and he huffs and puffs up Columbus St like he's going to fall over dead. What a strange career, he edited and wrote for Ramparts and ends up forty years later partaking in second rate SF politics.

There is something about Jane Kim that seems to be both puzzling and ' unctuous ! '
After being newly elected as a city supervisor, she quickly praised interim mayor Ed Lee with ancient root from Asian Law Caucus !?.
And yes, the President Supervisor David Chiu with something that was not quite clear. Why all this sudden embracing to such particular identities ?
David Chiu wanted to cut whistleblower reward payment from $ 500K max to mere $100K for exposing SF property owners' tax evasion,
Jane Kim probably, if not already, will just "concur"
In any ' transaction' $100K is always easier to 'handle' than $500K,
don't you think so? and I m speaking plain English ;)

Neighborhood-specific tax breaks (sometimes called enterprise zones) originate from policies akin to the philosophy of supply-side economics. Examination of the job creation benefits of such tax zoning shows really iffy results (for example: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/entzones.pdf). When you factor that into the revelation that there is an insider landlord who stands to benefit from this legislation, the proposal emits a reek.

Go Giants!

Most disturbing thing about votes like this Twitter thing is that they're going down 11-0. Taxes that should have gone into the general fund to pay for health care and parks and streets now go into the pockets of developers and for-profit businesses who'll move in a heartbeat if they find another town whose politicians will sell out their electorate even more than Kim and Chiu will sell out San Franciscans.

Interesting attack on Guardian in morning Beyond Chron. Number one poverty pimp in town (Randy Shaw) singing the praises of yet another of Willie Brown's clients. Keep in mind that Shaw has had his snout of the behind of every SF mayor for the past 30 years. To say they take care of their boy Randy is putting it mildly. Before Newsom left he made certain to give Shaw an 82 million dollar contract that covers 4 years. It was the first time the THC contract was for longer than a year. Why? Because Shaw feared that a genuinely Progressive mayor might be elected and they just might scrutinize him a bit more. It's noteworthy that the cops and firefighters unions did the same thing. How's Shaw pay back Gavin and Willie and their friends? Read the morning edition of Beyond Chron.

Also, when Shaw attacks the Guardian or, say, Debra Walker, you're paying for it. Oh yeah, Beyond Chron is listed as a non-profit and thus is paid for with THC money which comes from ... you. That's not only sleazy, it's illegal. Laws covering electioneering by non-profits clearly state that they cannot favor a specific candidate or group of candidates yet Shaw sponsored forums (with Kim as their star) that regularly excluded poorer candidates (of which I was one).

I'd say that Shaw needs to change the name of his rag.

Instead of 'Beyond' Chron, it should be called, 'Mini' Chron.

Greed. Threats. Scandal. Dishonesty.

Only a political dung beetle like me could see gold in this environment.

Did I say, Go Giants!

Oh yeah, I did.

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You've never been the factor you thought you were. But when enough elements came together for you (obnoxious dot com noobs, rents/real estate prices skyrocketing 50%/year, George W Bush as president, a wealthy Pac Hts socialite in line for Mayor) you kind of had a role as the counter culture voice.

Now you just whine and lose - always with that ironically pretentious tone to it.

None of your candidates win. You seem to have a knack for taking the wrong side of every local issue (example - Pension Reform/Prop B was the one thing you aligned with Newsom/Democratic Machine on... wow). You're doing a bang up job of alienating the Asian-American contingent from your scene. And finally, this oddball rant against a mere attempt at mid-Market revitalization, where you can't get even a single Supe to take your position??? Not even Avalos is throwing you guys a bone here.

At this point, your paper is basically a printed version of the circular rants that take place in Daly's Dive. Have fun with that, just understand nobody outside your small club cares.

Twitter's a slut,

Just like Bank of America. They shake their metaphorical ass on SF corners looking for the best deal ('Hello, Leland, been on Capp Street lately?) and then run away with the next guy with a bigger, uh, limo ...

This morning's Examiner (Page 12) has an AP story following up on a rumor that Twitter is entertaining offers from Google and Facebook that involve more cocaine and ecstasy and cheaper rent from other plantation owners.

Screw em! Let's see the Mart turned into a school of ... ? ... music, cooking, art, disaster masters?

SF has over 100,000 students and if we had 200,000 we wouldn't have to lube up and bend over for Ellison and his ilk ...

Face it SF, if you want a sustainable economy you don't plant your pillars in things like office space and tourism. One car bomb wrecks your economy. Or, one better 'ho' with bigger boobs for Silicon whoremongers.

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Notice in this article that Jane claims she "has very little contact with Willie Brown." Ahem. This assertion is pure garbage. As recently as the months leading up to the November election, Jane was meeting with Willie Brown frequently -- roughly once a week -- to get tips and pointers. Willie knew it would be worth his while to cultivate her. Like David Chiu (who Rose Pak went to work on), Jane has that combination of vanity, insecurity, and ambition that makes her easily manipulable by the likes of a wily ol' puppeteer like Willie Brown. Willie's done this many, many time before -- seized upon an attractive face, even better -- an attractive face of color -- to move his agenda along. It's is an old story with him. What's particularly troublesome is that unlike most of the people Willie has done this with, Jane does have a brain. So it's troubling that the flattery Willie lavished (and continues to lavish) upon her has blinded her to the ethical pitfalls that she should realize go hand in hand with getting involved with him in this manner. Or perhaps she has decided that we were all wrong about Willie's corruption. Or maybe she has convinced herself that Willie is never going to ask or subtly influence her to do something not-so-commendable. Most likely, it's some sort of combination of conscious and subconscious self-delusion.

The length of the period of time in which Chiu and Kim have been involved in SF politics if pretty short. It basically does not precede Gavin Newsom's mayorship. And apparently, since they didn't personally experience what life in SF under the Willie Brown administration was like for anyone who was not a Willie Brown loyalist and/or generous campaign donor, they can't seem to grasp that the problem was a huge one, that the level of his corruption was overwhelming (indeed these are the things that paved the way for the progressive sweep of the board in 2000) and that this is not a politician you want to (figuratively) jump in bed with nor regard as your "political mentor." Which, I'm afraid, is how Jane refers to Willie in private circles. Yech.

The other thing that I had to come to accept about Jane, in watching her deal with issues as a school board member, is that lies slip from her lips with alarming effortlessness. This tends to happen when honesty would put her in a position where she would be openly attacked or criticized.

Well, apparently Jane doesn't consider it incendiary among those she considers loyal and supportive of her.

Re: meeting with Willie weekly for tips and pointers; Willie = "political mentor."

This information came directly from the mouth of Jane Kim herself. She has been open about it in private conversations with folks whom she thinks will not judge her critically upon hearing it. That is why it is foolish on her part to offer up a complete denial when confronted by those whom she is certain would find the info appalling, i.e., SFBG reporter and editorial staff and many of the paper's readers. It also is indicative of her naivete. This is a small town. The circle of the politically active in the city is even smaller. This stuff gets around. Given that, it's not a good idea to go for a blatant denial.

This is not the first time that "mug wumping" -- i.e., having your mug on one side of the fence while your wumpus is on the other -- (or if you will, saying one thing to one group of people and a completely different thing to another) -- has bitten her in the ass. If she wants to work both sides of the fence, she needs to wise up about how to do it in a way that doesn't risk destruction of her credibility.

For example, it would have been smarter to say something along the lines of..."Willie Brown sought me out and offered encouragement in my campaign efforts. I believe this is solely because he recognized that I could offer a fresh, unique perspective and approach. I am keenly aware of the problems that stemmed from his administration and would never lose sight of that, but I have found that sitting down with and hearing from people with other points of view, especially from those who've been around for as long as Willie Brown, can be a useful and at times instructive practice. That said, he has never tried to influence my vote on an issue, and I never would allow him to do so."

The fact that she isn't able to say something like that could indicate that she feels some level of guilt or conflict about her relationship with Willie -- which would be more likely if she really is letting him influence her in significant ways. Being as young and "green" (haha) as she is, she probably hasn't developed the level of compartmentalization that more experienced politicians have developed.

Matt Gonzalez has seen fit to meet with Willie and hear what he has to say, here and there over the years, and he never denied it. Though clearly, there's going to be a different sort of dynamic going on when Willie's dealing with someone who exudes the level of independence, resolve about his own set of political beliefs and ideology, and resistance to Willie-meddling that Matt naturally gives off. Part of Willie's brilliance is his ability to read people and, should he discern some value in the effort for himself, figuring out how best to handle them (again, always with an eye on his own interests). If he knows the chance of deriving some value for himself from engaging with the person or interest is low, he's simply dismissive. i.e, "I don't want to talk to the Bay Guardian ever in my life. Goodbye." That's very similar to what he had to say back in the late 1990s when the BG was regularly giving over large numbers of pages to coverage of Willie corruption and scandals: He said something along the lines of, "There's absolutely nothing in that paper worth reading." The BG even used the quote in advertising the paper. Classic Willie.