Watching City Hall #452 (4-9-06)
Watching City Hall #452
(4-09-06)
“Let me buy you a drink.�
(Ross Mirkarimi wins back my heart)
Ross (and most of the City’s Progressive royalty) were gathered to support a fundraiser for the fledgling San Francisco Peoples Organization.   The place was full of angry, steamy, sexy people covered with goose bumps for this reason or that.   For instance, Jordanna Thigpen is as hot looking in person as she is in her Sentinel pics.   Bruce Livingston screams and walks away when he has no defense to selling out his constituency on Prop D.   300 people watched as I confronted Julian Davis who quickly ran out of words, started playing hand puppets, called me a pimp and invited me outside to fight (he changed his mind halfway to the door).   Cat Rauschuber was the female star of the gathering hands-down on looks, dress and composure.  Her tall guy, Matt could sell ice cubes to Eskimos but didn’t have to.   His artsy-fartsy friends are so talented, the bids came fast and easy.    Chris Daly and gorgeous spouse, Sarah were headed back to son, Jack as my sons & I entered 111 Minna around 9:30pm for the 1st SFPO art auction.   The gathering played against the backdrop of a conniving organization Board who announced 2 weeks ago that they’d be leaving the City’s most vulnerable seniors out on the ice with Mitch Katz who was carrying an ice pick and a straight razor.
We arrived late and missed the contingent of medicine men and women from Laguna Honda who came to lobby the gathering on behalf of their elderly patients who are being assaulted regularly by the crack-head psychos Mitch Katz is sending over there with the blessings of the Mayor, Chris Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, Tom Ammiano, Wade Randlett, Nate Nayman, Jim Sutton, the aforementioned Livingston … what a whacky group.
I was (and remain – even when sober) totally enraged by the sellout of the Board of Supes, the Senior Action Network & SFPO Executive Boards & a range of supposedly ‘Progressive’ personalities from Debra Walker to Robert Haaland to Michael Goldstein … selling out to SEIU’s double-cross of not only the old people, but of their own membership as well.
How about you?
(Will you fight to protect the old people?)
I’m not joking here, folks.   This is the ugliest performance I’ve seen in local politics since Jake McGoldrick hugged Rose Pak 5 years ago and agreed with her that the non-violent Falun Gong were “worse than al Qaeda�.    As the Board at that time turned a deaf ear to the screams (which continue) of the 110 million Falun Gong, they and much of the supposed leadership of the Progressive movement have turned a deaf ear to the cries for help from the patients at Laguna Honda.
“You’ve only got til June to turn this around.�
(Livingston schools me on election schedule)
This is a dirty, nasty battle in defense of a bunch of defenseless old people who have been turned upon by their natural protectors.   Mayor Newsom, Ed Harrington, Mitch Katz, Michael Goldstein, Robert Haaland, Debra Walker, Sophie Maxwell, Aaron Peskin, Leslie Katz, Louise Renne and the lot are no good, rotten, merciless bastards who have sold out to the scum-sucking Josie Mooney and SEIU 790 and their campaign contributions.   These no good sons-a-bitches should be strapped to gurneys at Laguna and abused by the same gang-banging junkies they’ve set loose upon the elderly at this last refuge for the City of Saint Francis’ poor, elderly and infirmed.
I’d say worse about these mother-fuckers, but I try to keep my columns clean.   These assholes are worse than Ronald Reagan when he announced that the insane would do better in community settings, then tossed them out of the nation’s insane asylums without bothering to construct any ‘community settings’.
Bevan Dufty is much worse than Ronald Reagan because Bevan Dufty knows better.   He understands perfectly what he’s doing to these old people.   Oh yeah.   I watched him sit and watch during Board committee hearings as patients, staff and family of the abused elders came to beg the Board for mercy.   I watched while he and the rest of the Board heard the public voice and called upon the sadistic piece of shit, Mitch Katz, to stop sending the gang-banging thugs into the old folks home along with their entourage of crack dealers.
I watched as they nodded when Katz promised he wouldn’t do it anymore.   Then, I watched in amazement as Katz not only refused to cease loading LHH with the predators, but stepped up pressure to drive out the protecting angel doctors and nurses and aides who dared speak out.
This Board of Supervisors is chickenshit.    They can be rolled and no one knows this better than pricks like Jim Sutton who heads the ‘No on D’ campaign.   They gave up when their orders to Mohammed Nuru and Ed Lee and Phil Ginsberg to hire back the DPW whistleblowers were ignored and they’re giving up now when their orders to stop putting deranged crack-heads in with the elderly frail are being ignored.
Worse yet, they’ve joined the no-conscience shitheads on the other side in opening the gates to the barbarians who should be in the psych ward at SF General that Katz closed 2 years back.
How you can help
Never vote for a Democrat again in your life.    Virtually, every single dickhead involved in this disaster is a Democrat.   It is their one, unifying scab.    Don’t vote for Robert Haaland or Debra Walker or Michael Goldstein for second assistant to the back-up driver of a cesspool sucking truck.   Or, anything else.
‘D’ is for Defense of the old
Support Prop D in June and tell everyone you know to vote for it.  Toss your vote into the face of the traitorous unions and politicians.   ‘D’ is for the defense of the old and a society that does not respect or defend their elderly is not worthy of survival.   No political party either.  No politician.   No union hack.   No bottom-dwelling non-profit chief.  This issue is as clear as a bell.   Those who oppose D are evil or ignorant or stupid.   These are not the attributes you want in your leaders.   You know better.   …  Hey, you can’t end the war in Iraq with a vote in June.   You can’t get rid of Bush with a vote in June.   But, there’s one June vote that can make a difference.   Vote ‘Yes on D’ … keep the wolves away from the sheep.
A Barry McGee piece sold for 3k
A work by Debra Walker went for almost 2 thousand.  The McGee piece was smaller than a cereal box.   Mishana Hossenioun invested a lot of money for a 21 year-old in a piece of art.   The checkbooks were out.   Daly told me that SFPO wouldn’t use the proceeds to oppose Gonzo on D as long as Jane Kim was their president.  We’ll see about that one.
Pat Murphy let me hug him in his thousand dollar tweed overcoat.   He was looking amazingly dapper with his bowtie just a tad stylishly askew.   Rich Hillis wore paint splattered jeans (or, was that baby vomit?) and towed a slightly tipsy Derek Jagger to view the spectacle.
I planted a wet one on Bruce Wolfe, who probably did more to found SFPO than anyone as he quietly sold ‘T’ shirts in a corner.   Nia Crowder chatted up David Ho and Lori Laser and Krissy Keefer at the front door.   Michelle Mongan took 40 years off my clock with one hug. Several people came over to offer whiskey in exchange for being left out of this column.   Thanks (hic!).
Missing were Marc Salomon and Richard Marquez and Chris Finn and Joe O’Donoghue and Rob Anderson and Randy Knox and Whitney Leigh.   Marc Powell brought his mom and his roomie, Julian to capture the experience.   David Grennel of Jerry Brown’s office drew a crowd.   Mike Denny and Phil Berg of the Libertarians tested the water.   Sue Vaughan kicked me for no apparent reason but I probably deserved it (I usually do).   Susan King found the elite of the local Progressive male herd lacking and went home early to her apolitical boyfriend.    Savannah Blackwell was stunning and everyone said so.  I didn’t see Steven Hill or Rob Arnow.   Nor, Francis Somsel.   Angela Alioto got in late from her big trial in Fresno and couldn’t make it but would have.   Michael O’Connor was there with his usual big ole smile, trading views from rock to politics.
In the end, it was Matt & Cat’s show
Cat held up her end of a strapless white silk kinda looking short evening gown while gliding like the ballerina she is on heels from one work of art to another to present them to the throng as Matt spoke of the work and artist.   David Ho, Julian Davis and Jane Kim shared the duties and looked great doing it.  John Ragano & his Code Pink sweetheart, Vicki Leidner worked the door and carried art and bids for art and on and on.   Jonathan Richman nodded agreeably and pointed to his hearing aid when I said bad things.   Mesha Stelly paused to watch my act.   Krissy Keefer kept asking me: “What are you doing to yourself?�.
I don’t know how much they made.   Despite my best efforts, levity and rationality ruled and a good time was had by all.   I hope Luke’s pictures came out OK and he and Pat have them up on the Sentinel by the time you read this.   It was a hell of a party.
Let me close by saying that while I don’t back down an inch from the vicious counter-attacks I’ve made upon the anti-D butts, that mostly, I love them all.  As Livingston pointed out: “We agree on 95% of the issues.� and Gonzalez added: “Let’s see how it plays out.  I’m on the side of those people outside with the signs (the LHH staffers).�   Just being controversial and drawing this kind of a crowd bodes well for SFPO.   And, what other group has this much fun fighting and painting and singing and friggin’?
it’s raining again,
