"He’s with 12 people and to
leave them would be insulting."
(Newsom staffer Cathy Garza shields boss)

Y’all know I always avoid conflict. Yep, ‘Do unto others’ … that’s the rule I’ve always followed. … Then do unto them again … and again … and again. Do it unto them in the morning and at lunch and in the afternoon around siesta time. Do it unto them in the evening and all nite long just to make sure they’re well done. … It would appear to me that the Board of Supervisors’ Rules Committee agrees with me. … Boy, did they do it unto greasy headed rich boy, Gavin Newsom yesterday morning. … And afternoon. … Hell, when I went to bed at midnight they were still doing him, only on tape. … I felt so sorry for him (yep, uh huh) … what in the world did he do to piss them off?

Well, unless ole Gavin was with the 12 apostles or giving blood simultaneously to 12 dying orphans, he insulted 776,000 San Franciscans by scheduling a party, then not showing up. … After months of having his minions harass the supes with thousands of e-mails & phone calls demanding that they move quickly getting the leaky vessel ‘Care not Cash’ out of port and underway, Gavin missed the launching. … More disturbingly, Trent Rohrer (head of Department of Human Services) also was a no show. … No doubt, they realized the SS Care Not would sink as soon as they removed the mooring lines. … She did too … and like momma used to sing: "Oh, it was sad when that great ship went down.".

3 million dollars in lies

Gordon Getty and Donald Fisher and Charlie Schwabb spent millions last year telling the public that Prop ‘N’ (‘Care not Cash) could be funded with money saved from the present ineffective welfare system. They then sent the guy who runs the present lousy system (Trent Rohrer) around to the various newspaper editorial boards with Gavin Newsom repeating the lies in person. They told everyone that Supervisor Tom Ammiano’s prop ‘O’ would cost too much and wasn’t well thought out. … Of course, the opposite was true … as is so often the case at the Williedome. They were lying in their teeth and they knew it. They lied like veteran police brass and you have to respect that. They lied early in the morning. They lied to Barbara Taylor. They lied to Bruce Pettit on his show. … To his face. … They lied on posters and billboards. … They lied at cocktail parties. … They lied in the Tenderloin and out in the Sunset. Rohrer, particularly came of age out there. Someone had told me he was a dummy who only got the job cause Willie was tight with his old man, but he sure didn’t look it yesterday. Sleazy, yeah … sure, I mean … he’s defending a lie and his frequent blushes (visible on even my black and white tv) showed that it occasionally bothers him … but, the kid came through big time for the forces of evil … he didn’t win, but in a way, he did … he deflected the blows meant for Newsom. Willie does have some very good people working for him. As the testosterone rolled down the walls, Rules Chair Tony Hall shook his head and threw up his hands as Chris Daly and Matt Gonzalez and DHS boss, Rohrer simply threw Robert’s Rules out the window and went at it tooth and nail. District 8 supe Bevan Dufty took the brunt of the full frontal assault meant for Newsom and they really and truly kicked the living shit out of the boy. I mean, how do you explain how Newsom is already in charge of the Department of Human Services and can tell not only their Director, but also, all of the staff … to refuse to appear before Hall’s committee? Ooooh, it was pure Willie stuff. They used to do it all the time to Ammiano & Leland Yee. Sure, go ahead and schedule your stupid hearing, no one will show up. … It was that way. … Chris Daly started talking about using the Board’s subpoena power (they have subpoena power!!!??? — I didn’t know that — could I get them to subpoena Salma Hayak?) … So, anyway.

So, anyway

So, anyway … Dufty took his ass kicking like the proud Queen that he is. They kept adjourning the committee to wait for Newsom and Rohrer to show up and Dufty kept throwing his long strapped bag over his shoulder and swishing in and out while muttering, stage-whisper style about how unfair the world had become for his dreamy, ‘Ken doll’ mentor. … Now, you won’t believe this, but I’d been drinking. … OK, so … I’d smoked a little pot too. … Anyway, it was all so surreal. Harvey Rose, the Board Budget Analyst since Moses was a kid in Egypt, sent top aide Deborah Newman (who has the energy of a spring flower — and, looks as good) … Rose sent her out to explain why Newsom and Rohrer’s ‘fuzzy math’ did not work with people who knew how to count. Rohrer, who showed up with ‘Noose-em’ later … Rohrer, he holds to the lies & keeps turning gray on my picture (that’s a blush on black & white tv — I kept adjusting it til I figured out what was happening — if you debate him, look out for that — when he turns gray, he’s lying) … Anyway, Rohrer acquitted himself well. I’d bet it was he who designed ‘Care not’. The whole program is nothing but what supe Tony Hall called: "A shell game." … That’s exactly what it is and Rohrer finally admitted it. It works like this.

The way it works is that people like me who have registered honestly as ‘homeless’ because we couch surf friends’ places … they tell us that they’ll cut our welfare from $100 a week down to $15 a week and put us in a shelter and in the line at the soup kitchen if we don’t get one of our friends to sign a paper saying we stay with them. … Thing is, we were never on the street. … We didn’t use the soup kitchens. … We never slept in the shelters. … Put succinctly, we’re a ‘soft’ number target for Newsom’s think tank. Rohrer must have explained it to them. I can hear it now: "We can get at least a thousand of these people to switch programs and say we took them off the streets. It doesn’t matter that they were never on the street. The voters are too dumb to know that. We’ll say we got a thousand people off the ‘homeless’ rolls and people will think we took them off the streets." It’s a very good plan and I salute Rohrer if it was indeed he who designed it. Director Rohrer finally blurted out: "We’ll come back to you with a request for a supplemental (the hidden extra costs for the program they lied and said would cost nothing) to cover the increased cost to the classification these people move into but, we’ll still keep the $13.9 million they were drawing from in the homeless prop ‘N’ program." Liar, liar … pants on fire.

Newsom was with me

I can’t in good conscience let Gavin continue to take the heat for being 4 hours late to the birth of his little baby, Prop ‘N’. … Until now, no one has said where Newsom was for those hours. All you’ve heard is that Gavin was with a dozen or so people he didn’t want to leave. … Actually, we were at a massage parlor in the Tenderloin (recommended by Buzz Fazio) drinking cheap whiskey, smoking high quality pot & trying to, you know … like … like … bond. We’ve had our troubles and we both realized we needed to take the tension down a notch. So, I used what was left from my welfare check to reserve a massage parlor with 10 hookers from 9:30am til 1pm. Hell, I didn’t know Rules was meeting at 9:30am and Gavin needed to be there! That’s the kind of guy he is. … He never let on that he was supposed to be with Tony Hall. … So, Gavin … he shows up with Trent Rohrer and I threw another $5 in food stamps to the Madame and they let him in too. … Who would have imagined it would cause such a stir? Anyway, that’s the truth. When Gavin said he was with 12 people he didn’t want to leave, he was talking about me, Trent Rohrer and 10 multi-ethnic (mostly registered Republican) hookers. … There, I feel better now that I got Gavin off the hook.

Happy Tuesday;