Watching City Hall #407 (1-20-06)

Bulldog Week in Review

Salon News

Tony Hall roared up on a beige Suzuki and parked it under the leafy tree just outside the large windows of the little cafe’ on the corner. He was wearing a classy leather jacket (see pics from Michael Strickland on his site at: sfciviccenter.blogspot.com). Marc Salomon was modestly describing his experience in being interviewed by Arthur Bruzzone on Art’s SFunscripted on cable 11 (Wed-Sat. eves @ various times). A ’source’ (not in photos - tks Michael) was trying to sell me a story charging that Board Prez, Aaron Peskin had been the recipient of a “sweetheart real estate deal” that could bring his integrity into question. Francis Somsel preached the merits of Michael Ege’s ‘Wall’ chat room (I reach it through Clemens’ sfusualsuspects.com) and how their hits are over a hundred a day. I had a half beer & 2 full ones sitting in front of me as gifts. Voices rose and settled in a variety of conversations pulsing along the half dozen or so tables pushed end-to-end in the center of the small taqueria. There were enough techies to start or end a revolution and enough foxy ladies to slap my face red. When conversations flagged, I wandered by and said incendiary things. It was a good gathering. Same time, same place today.

Jackson West joins Kimo Crossman

The most dangerous thing happening in San Francisco at the moment is the Newsom administration’s ‘TechConnect’ plan which is designed, not only to deprive the City of hundreds of millions in revenue possible from a SFMunicipal Wi-Fi, but also to sell the privacy of the citizenry to, not only advertisers, but also to the Department of Homeland Security.

This morning Jackson West relayed a piece through Crossman outlining Newsom’s tentative plans to approach the Bush security system for more cash, in exchange for free access to the email of San Franciscans. I’m told that Aaron Peskin thinks it’s a great idea. Don’t worry your pretty head about it though. There’s nothing you can do. When I contacted Peskin aide, David Owen for a comment, he wrote back that I was a “PG&E corporate whore”. … And, here I didn’t even know PG&E was bidding against Google for the Newsom/Peskin machine’s blessings. It was, nevertheless, an odd statement for a hack like Owen to make. Considering, for instance, that he’s barely a month into his new weekly TV show, paid for by Comcast out of funds intended for you. Oh yeah. Even the Chron’s Rachel Gordon described Owen’s new show as simply insider “spin”. The hypocrisy of a hog with his nose deep in the corporate trough calling me a “whore” is simply shocking to me. What’s next, will he call me an anti-semite? Anything so’s people won’t notice you and your boss’s sellout, huh David? Incidentally, did you notice that Presidio Management who bought the 224/226 Filbert Property and channelled it to Peskin made over 200k in contributions to Bush and other Republicans during the same period they were working out the deal with Peskin?

SFPD mimics ‘Brokeback Mountain’

(term ‘cowboy cop’ takes on new meaning)

Like lonely cowboys up on Brokeback Mountain, sometimes the pressure of riding hour after hour through darkened streets with burning hunks of steroid-inflated manhood sitting next to them can become addictive (no pun) to the hundreds of repressed Irish cops on the SFPD. They can’t help it. They bond and like the gay Salesian warriors whom the Romans defeated by first identifying, then capturing the lovers of troops in the center of the Salesian phalynx … when faced with the spectacle of their lovers being tortured by the Romans, the Salesians broke ranks and the Romans poured in through the gap.

“Just what the hell are you talking about?”

Have you ever seen a San Francisco cop who wasn’t standing within touching distance of his partner? That’s the real reason they won’t give up the privacy of their snug patrol cars to walk beats alone. Why, just 2 days ago, they put a cop on a foot patrol across the street from my SRO @ 7th & Market. Of course, (I watched this) he got his back up against the wall of the donut shop and refused to talk to the thousands of passing citizenry (I believe it was the same guy who literally drove his cruiser through the middle of the Farmers Market when ordered to patrol it) … so, here’s this guy with his back to the wall trying to avoid the public and his compadres drive by to cheer him up. But, while they’re calling out encouragement to him, their attention is distracted and they run over a pedestrian! They’re still laughing about that one down at the locker room.

It’s a ploy, dip shit

There aren’t hundreds of gay male cops on the SFPD. In fact, out of 2,100 officers, there are only 25 ‘out’ gay males. The cops hate gay men or hadn’t you noticed? They sit in their patrol cars because they are fat, lazy cowards hiding behind their union contract. You want to see the solo beat patrols we had when the force was half the size it is now? Get another police force. Every cop who voted for Gary Delugnuts as their union head is a racist homophobe. I’m trying to shame them into walking beats. Everything starts with knowing the public and they don’t. They only know criminals and each other and there ain’t that much difference.

And, yeah, the cops did run over a pedestrian (I missed that part) and even the dailies admit they were distracted talking to a comrade on solo foot patrol. Department sources are now saying that defensive driving doesn’t apply to cops talking to other cops on Brokeback Mountain and that it is the responsibility of pedestrians to stay out from under the wheels of their cruisers. Their solution? Cut back on solo foot patrols. Too distracting for the cops who drive by and see their fellow cowboys in agony.

I wish I could shame these assholes into being half the cops their fathers and grandfathers were but I can’t. This is a new generation and 80% of them aren’t even San Franciscans. That’s by design. They are no better than mercenaries chosen for their disconnect to the local population.

Greenfest starts today!

The Greens haven’t heard I’m persona non grata yet. Perhaps the ‘Hellman Businessman’s Group’ hasn’t reached out to them yet. Anyway, Jens & I have free passes to Gonzo’s Green blast at Slim’s tonight and I’ll see any of you who make that. My last few columns have cost me romance, postings & even a couple of friends. Not bad retribution from a cabal that doesn’t even exist. Nevertheless, I’m on a roll and I’m not going to back off. It’s positively invigorating. Along those lines, anyone got any dirt on how Warren & Mabel Teng are getting along?

is that sunshine I see?

“awoke last night to the sound of thunder … how far off, I thought & wondered”

(Seeger)

who’s your daddy?