Watching City Hall #461

Watching Krissy run for Kongress #1

(from a seat onstage)

I know you guys. You love nothing more than you like a political surprise. I know that because I’m just like you. Like a multi-player Big League trade, I watched in awe as Newsom traded Annemarie for Tony and put Sean into Tony’s castle on the ocean. I nodded in approval when Gav’s people scooped high talent rookies, Wade Crowfoot and Marshall Foster into the big time locker room where Mike Farrah and Peter Ragone spit tobacco into empty 2lb Folgers coffee tins and say things like: “Let’s get these guys!”.

I saw how far Matt Gonzalez could go before he did. Hell, I still don’t think he’s grasped what he just missed. I was the first to call Gary Delugnuts an asshole. In print, that is. I pointed out the danger of the Newsom policy of ‘clits first’ when appointing the heads of emergency services departments.

I was the first to define Willie Brown’s total career as the self-serving journey of a race-traitor, Uncle Tom whoremonger. First to point out the hypocrisy of a Board of Supervisors and Mayor who feted the butchers of Tianemann while turning a deaf ear to the screams of 110 million Falun Gong whose very organs were being ripped from their living bodies for sale to dipso American millionaires.

I’m the world’s leading advocate of tidal power as the solution to end dependence on Middle East oil. I invented the only viable solution to solving the world’s rich/poor dilemma without more violence (freeze prices, double the money supply and distribute the new cash to the bottom 90% of the population) … I wrote the first rave reviews on EVOC (’East Village Opera Company’ - best band in history - google em).

Well, that shit’s gonna end. You barely listen to me. I can sit for minutes at a time in a bar before someone buys me a drink. Plus, there are these boxes of notes spread around the country that hold the identities of some of the neatest people I’ve ever known who are dead now and thus ghosts and whom I told myself when I got a great report from a physical check-up that I’d go back and dig them out of their decaying records status and make them electronic and put them out there … be honest, if you were in those boxes for 20 or 30 years and no one who loved you and could write was around except for h. brown to bring you back to life … you’d want me to go. Back and get you. Pull you out of that grave and dust you off and give 6 billion people access to the amazing person you were in 1962. Or, 1977. And, 1999. Friends don’t let friends identities’ die.

Anyway, after this election season, I’ll be working on archives for a couple of years and that’s what makes this last candidate (among other things) so special. That would be Krissy Keefer. She’s running for the U.S. Congress. Against Nancy Pelosi. Maybe you’d already heard?

Krissy represents the last Hippies

Freedom of speech too. The freedom to write and produce theatre pieces praising Fidel Castro or the Palestinian cause. Her last authored production was a screaming alarm about Global Warming which predicted the inundation of New Orleans, 6 MONTHS BEFORE IT HAPPENED!

She runs a business that keeps a thousand people a week dancing before mirrors and one another (Dance Mission), heads a personal dance company (Dance Brigade) of international renown, …

Now, Hillary’s ripping her off!

On Meet the Press this morning (6-25-06) they showed a copy of the cover of this month’s Newsweek. It has Hillary Clinton in a pose that’s an exact knock-off of Krissy’s campaign logo. The warrior Queen leaned back into the outline of a sexy capital letter ‘K’, drawing a slingshot faced upward at a huge enemy. A half hour later on Chris Matthews’ ‘Hardball’ Clinton’s supporters described her as the would-be ‘Warrior Queen’. The reporters loved it. But, the ideas were all Krissy Keefer’s. Without credit, they are copying the core of Keefer’s entire campaign. Will we see Nancy Pelosi dancing barefoot with a slingshot next?

Gonzalez had same ‘problem’ today

What’s it like to have a signature idea or dance or song or wardrobe or written word (’Hi to Hank Donat’) usurped by another person or entity? There was another similar co-option of a lefty model this morning but this time, Phil Matier actually gave credit.

Where the hell are you, Angela Alioto?

The power source of the future is tidal. Matt Gonzalez realized this 5 years back and launched a tidal energy project before the County’s Lafco. Speakers from around the world came in. An able engineer named Peter O’Donnell was assigned by Jerrard Blumfield’s Department of the Environment. Willie Brown could have cared less.

Testimony and data suggested that San Francisco could become independent of not only the power generated by the Hetch-Hetchy dams, but from the natural gas lines running 2,000 miles from Texas within 10 years. Through a series of submerged lego-block like cubes with absolutely no moving parts … stacked under the Bay at 5 different locations according to O’Donnell. 2,000 Megawatts of continuous power was possible said the silver-haired Irish-American. The City had never used more than 1,500 megawatts at a time. And, that’s the power available just under the Golden Gate Bridge. There are 5 more spots just inside the Bay where the HydroVenturi cubes can add more power that can be used to power a high speed electric train network running from here to Sacramento and on down to L.A.. With no moving parts and no pollution.

Newsom killed it for PG&E

This morning Phil Matier wrote in his column that the Newsom administration was resurrecting Gonzalez’s tidal energy pilot project (kudos to Phil for crediting Matt) but indicated that the likely source of financing (under 10 million) for the unit would come from PG&E who would then, of course, own the rights. That’s what prompted me to ask Angela where she is on this project.

Angela and Brugmann vs. PG&E

I have a vivid memory of the first thing Angela did when I started hanging around with her. She walked out of the room and returned carrying an antique wooden box emblazoned with the emblem: ‘San Francisco Power Company’. That’s the law and the law is being broken every day that the Raker Act remains unenforced by Dennis Herrera. For decades, Alioto and Brugmann have been the City’s front line in the fight for citizen ownership of Public Power. Unfortunately, you could put the couple’s combined knowledge on tidal power into a thimble. That’s gotta change.

Kids, I gotta go. I’m gonna post this as is … I’ll write more, but the Gay Pride Parade is starting as we speak and I have an appointment at the Luggage Store around the corner to watch Dykes on Bykes drive away the fog.

xoxo,