“I am ready to go forward with this item.”
(Matt Gonzalez re: meters in da park)

“You’re pissing into the wind when you attack Matt.”
(Eileen Left – while painting her toenails)

San Franciscans don’t like it when you fuck with their parks. … Now, there’s a good reason for that. … We are, after all, the second most dense city in the United States after New York. Hell, you need access to the parks to walk your whining, sniveling canine (who loves you more than any human partner ever did) … you don’t have a back yard, do you? … Naw, or front or side or court yard. … Do you? … Unlike your lazy ass, your dog is concerned about his health and likes to run. … Can he, like, really get up a good head of steam in your tiny ass studio apartment? … Doubtful. … He watches you on the treadmill and just assumes you’re brain damaged to be jumping up and down in one spot when you could be out racing up and down the slopes of Delores Park with your tongue hanging out. … He’s right, too.

Now, Willie Brown has made a calculated effort to keep you and your dogs and cats out of the City’s parks. … Why? … Now, paranoid as I am, the best I could come up with is that it has something to do with a combination of squeezing the poor, so they’ll move out of Dodge and … and … I still think they mean to sell sections of not only the Presidio, but also the City parks themselves to the rich for monster homes overlooking Marin and the Bridge and downtown. … Angela Alioto documented the potential for palatial palaces for pontificating pseudo-potentates in the Presidio in her book ‘Straight to the Heart’. Yup, she noted that the pristine paradise … you get the idea.

Anyway, the latest idea forwarded down the pike from da Mayor’s office relating to shutting the poor out of the parks has to do with parking meters in Golden Gate Park. By some method unknown to me, Willie managed to get 5th District Supervisor and Board President, Matt Gonzalez in harness to pull this wagon of horse shit. Willie chose well. … Matt is a great dray horse. Strong, stubborn and full of pride (he’s still my choice for mayor until the August 8th deadline for filing for the office passes) … the odds on this boy admitting he’s becoming one of Willie’s pawns is not good, so he ain’t gonna admit being mistaken (unlike Gerardo Sandoval, who is wavering in his vote) … he (Matt) ain’t gonna admit he’s wrong. … Thus, the above line (“I’m ready to move this item forward”) last night after most of you had given up on watching the Board and switched to ‘reality’ TV (or, the Giants – when is someone going to do a column on how much Jerome Williams is like Juan Marichal?). If Gonzalez had his way, you’d see parking meters sprouting like mushrooms all through the eastern end of the park within a month. … Go figure.

‘Judge’ Keane attacks Hallinan

The Chronicle’s ‘Matier & Ross’ are to reporting, what silicon implants are to real tits. … They sound like the real thing, but … they ain’t. … Nope, they are nothing but condoms for Gordon Getty and Walter Hellman and Donald Fisher, and, especially, … Willie Brown. … Don’t get me wrong. … ‘They’ have lots of contacts (though, I personally, have never known anyone who has actually phoned the Chron and asked for Andy Ross when they had a scoop) … what Matier does, is to massage and manipulate the news to suit his Hearst masters. To make his big ‘knockers’ look real, he has this rolodex of phonies who give him the desired sound byte which he can use to power his particular brand of Hearst power grab (a 24/7 operation). … Lately, a key contributor from that rolodex has been Golden Gate University Law School Dean Peter Keane. … When Matier wants to bludgeon District Attorney Terence Hallinan, he calls Keane and Keane gives him what he wants … with all sorts of ‘credentials’ to back it up. I mean, Keane, after all, worked with Gonzalez and had his support in his (Keane’s) aborted run for mayor (“my wife doesn’t want me to run” ???? … are you buying this?) … Nope. … Eileen Left says that she heard that before Keane withdrew from the mayor’s race, he had a private meal with Governor Gray Davis’ point man for judicial appointments. … Could there be a judgeship in Pete’s future? … Not if I can help it. (Incidentally, the boy must be in a real lather if this is true, since Gray’s chances of survival –and the purported offer of a seat on some bench, somewhere - … are a little less than that of a snowball in a blast furnace) … Soooo, when Phil Matier wants a credible dagger in the back of Terence Hallinan, he immediately calls Peter Keane. The suave assassin pulls forth the dagger and plunges it into the progressive District Attorney: “I’ve never heard of it in my 35 years … I was rocked by it … you may wave goodbye to the prosecution of the three cops entirely” … That strong enough? I’m sure if you threw Pete a really choice judicial appointment, he could come up with stories of Terence and farm animals or whatever the hell Matier wanted. … Just realize this. … Eileen Left says Keane is talking this way, not for cash in the present, but for what they call in the NFL … “future considerations”. … Now, I don’t know if Peter Keane will get a midnight appointment to a plum judgeship, but if he doesn’t … I’ll be very happy. … ‘Et tu, Peter? … Et tu?’ … More Matier scumbag reporting:

More Phil Matier scumbag reporting

Did I mention that there was another example of Phil Matier’s scumbag style of reporting? (I gotta admire it) … more of this type of shit in this week’s Chronicle? … Polls. … Polls … Old Phil, he only gives credit to polls financed by Warren Hellman and Donald Fisher and Gordon Getty … do those names sound familiar (oddly, their advertising means major dollars to flunkey Matier’s employers) … anyway, Matier features the current SFSOS financed poll (paid for by Hellman and Fisher and Getty – getting tired?) … Matier says the SFSOS poll which (according to ‘hot mamma’ Savannah Blackwell – Eileen is jealous of her) … which stated … which stated that (Surprise!!) … stated that Gavin Newsom’s lead in their poll for the office of mayor: “is still holding steady at 38 percent” … You believe that, reach in this box of popcorn for a big surprise!

A later (and much more comprehensive poll – covered 50% more voters) … a later poll conducted by the Susan Leal campaign had Newsom plunging to 27% with Ammiano at 21% and Angela Alioto at 19% (she’s the real threat to Newsom if Gonzalez stays hidden under his bed) … did Matier publish this? … Ho … Ho … Ho … Nope, no way, nada, nein, and non. … They all lie.

They all lie, you know

You can skew an entire poll or portions thereof by slanting a question here and there. The David Bender poll that recorded Newsom holding his big lead clearly used these methods to inflate Newsom’s fading star. However, they were smart enough to ask people about a few other questions while they had them on the line. … One of these was about Matt Gonzalez’s initiative to raise the local minimum wage to $8.50 and hour. … Pushed on those results, SFSOS refused to divulge. … Clearly Gonzalez kicked their pampered asses yet again. … Doubt it? … Look what happened within 24 hours.

Newsom sees da light!

After holding a couple of scathing committee hearings (Boyscout Gonzalez acting in his capacity as Board President scheduled the hearings when he didn’t have to and knew they’d bash his initiative) … after dragging out every elitist element he could find to smear the Gonzo initiative and scheduling yet another, … Gavin read the Bender-over poll (Blackwell says Lake, Snell, Perry and Associates did the Leal poll) … after Gavin found just how popular Gonzo’s idea of a raise for the poor was (recall, Newsom voted against pay raises for the supes too – he ain’t just agin’ the poor) … when da ‘Noose’ found out, he turned like a sunflower toward her power source, completely, and not only endorsed a pay raise for the peasants … he sent lap dog Bevan Dufty down to Rules Committee to ‘table’ (means ‘surrender’) … to hand in the Newsom camp’s sword on that particular issue. It was kind of funny, really. There were a few people who didn’t get the news of the Newsom surrender on the minimum wage issue and who had come down at Gavin’s request to fight against a pay raise for dishwashers. … They seemed really surprised when the ever-obsequious Dufty told them they’d just missed their Sun god’s quick flip. … my … my … my

Enuff … gotta nap and go meet Betsey for a marguerita … I wonder what the poor people are doing today?

Gonzo for mayor!